Artillery vs NeoLoad

Free and open source

Quote on request

Open source and free, including distributed runs on your own AWS account. You pay AWS, not Artillery.

Enterprise licensing by peak virtual users, negotiated annually.

Everything, self-hosted

Free edition limited to a small number of virtual users.

Widely used

Artillery Software · since 2015

Established

Tricentis · since 2005

• Distributed load on your own AWS account, so no per-virtual-user vendor pricing at all.
• Reuses Playwright scripts for browser-level load without rewriting journeys.
• YAML for simple scenarios, JavaScript when you need real logic.

• Handles enterprise protocols such as SAP GUI and Citrix that open-source tools cannot.
• APM correlation makes root-cause analysis much faster than latency graphs alone.
• Both GUI design and as-code authoring, so mixed-skill teams can share a suite.

• Serverless distribution requires AWS knowledge and IAM setup.
• Reporting is basic without exporting to an observability platform.
• Smaller community than k6 or JMeter.

• Expensive, with a procurement-scale sales process.
• Overkill for a straightforward web or API workload.
• Proprietary scripts do not port to other tools.

AWS-native teams that want large-scale load tests without vendor VU pricing.

Large enterprises performance-testing SAP, Citrix or Oracle estates.