Instead of Artillery
Artillery alternatives
Artillery brings load, stress, and soak testing together with scalable Playwright end-to-end tests and production monitoring. It supports HTTP, WebSocket, and Socket.IO, distributes tests across cloud services, and runs across API, Linux, macOS, self-hosted, web, and Windows environments. A free plan is available, with paid plans from $199/mo, but the free tier limits reports, retention, team members, workers, test duration, and E2E cases. Continued overages may degrade service or put an account in read-only mode.
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Fortio
Free plan APILinuxMac+3Free HTTP and gRPC load testing with latency analysis — Fortio focuses on HTTP and gRPC load testing, with a web UI, REST API, and Go libraries rather than Artillery’s Playwright testing and production monitoring.
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Locust
Free plan APILinuxMac+3Python-authored load scenarios and adjustable distributed tests — Locust lets you write scenarios in Python and adjust load during a run, while Artillery adds Playwright testing and production monitoring.
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Speedscale
Free plan APILinuxMac+3Production-traffic replay and service virtualization — Speedscale captures and replays Kubernetes production traffic, mocks dependencies, and can run its stack in your cloud account; Artillery combines load, Playwright, and monitoring tools.
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Taurus
Free plan LinuxMacSelf-hosted+1Free continuous testing across multiple underlying tools — Taurus wraps performance and functional testing tools and supports YAML or JSON scripts, while Artillery provides its own load, Playwright, and monitoring toolkit.
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Tricentis Testim
Free plan AndroidAPIExtension+3Visual web and mobile test automation — Testim focuses on visual test authoring for web, Salesforce, and mobile apps, unlike Artillery’s load testing and production monitoring focus.
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Apache JMeter
Free plan LinuxMacSelf-hosted+1Free, extensible load tests across many protocols — JMeter supports a broad range of protocols and pluggable samplers, while Artillery adds Playwright load tests and production monitoring.
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HammerDB
Free plan LinuxSelf-hostedWeb+1Database workload benchmarking and pipeline automation — HammerDB benchmarks database workloads and captures database metrics, while Artillery targets backend load, Playwright testing, and production monitoring.
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Avidemux
Free plan Open source LinuxMacWeb+1 - 9
Blackfire.io
Free plan APIExtensionLinux+3 - 10
BlazeMeter
Free plan APIExtensionLinux+2 - 11
Gatling
Free plan APILinuxMac+3 - 12
Loadster Synthetic Monitoring
Free plan APIExtensionLinux+4 - 13
LoadFocus
Free plan APIExtensionWeb - 14
OctoPerf
Free plan APILinuxSelf-hosted+1 - 15
Loader.io
Free plan APIWeb - 16
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LoadStrike
Free plan APISelf-hosted - 18
Tsung
Free plan LinuxMacSelf-hosted+1 - 19
Vegeta
Free plan APILinuxMac+2 - 20
Xceptance LoadTest
Free plan APILinuxMac+2 - 21
StresStimulus
Free plan Self-hostedWindows - 22
Goose
Free plan Self-hosted - 23
Apica LoadTest
Free trial AndroidAPIiPhone+3 - 24
Keysight Eggplant Test
Free trial AndroidAPIExtension+6 - 25
OpenText Core Performance Engineering
Free trial APILinuxMac+3
Those constraints can make a focused or differently authored testing tool a better fit. Some alternatives are free and open source; others center on replaying production traffic, database benchmarks, or visual web and mobile automation. Compare whether you need Artillery’s Playwright load testing and production monitoring, or would trade those for another tool’s protocol coverage, scenario authoring, traffic handling, or app coverage. Deployment, reporting, integrations, and the cost of scaling also matter when choosing a replacement.
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