BlazeMeter vs Artillery

From $149 per month (indicative entry plan)

Free and open source

Priced by concurrent virtual users. Large enterprise tests are a substantial annual commitment.

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

Free tier with a small virtual-user cap and limited test duration.

Everything, self-hosted

Widely used

Broadcom · since 2011

Widely used

Artillery Software · since 2015

• Runs your existing open-source scripts unchanged — no migration cost.
• Global load generation from many regions without owning infrastructure.
• Reporting and trend analysis suited to handing results to management.

• 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.

• Expensive relative to running the same open-source scripts on your own machines.
• Virtual-user pricing makes frequent large tests costly.
• Adds a vendor to a workflow that can function entirely on open source.

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

Enterprises with existing JMeter estates that need scale and reporting without building it.

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