Overview
Summary
The useful answer before the supporting detail.
Artillery is a platform for browser rendering E2E testing, scalable load testing, and synthetic monitoring with browser rendering S1. It helps developers, QA engineers, and SREs continuously check and improve the quality of their apps and APIs S1. The platform provides a central dashboard for test reports, automatic Web Vitals tracking, and out-of-the-box CI/CD and monitoring integrations [S3](https://www.artillery.io/docs/get-started/browser rendering-e2e) S22.
Product identity and positioning
Name, category, positioning, audience, and first-party claims.
- Identity: Artillery is a performance and reliability testing platform for load testing, browser rendering E2E testing, and synthetic monitoring S1.
- Core purpose: It helps teams keep production reliable and catch performance issues before they affect users S22.
- Intended users: Developers, QA engineers, and SREs who need to test and monitor app and API quality S1.
- Product scope: A platform combining a CLI, cloud dashboard, and monitoring capabilities; not just a single tool S72.
- Positioning: Artillery positions itself as a full-stack solution for performance and reliability testing S22.
- Claimed distinction: It claims to combine load testing, scalable browser rendering E2E testing, and production monitoring in one toolkit S149.
Use cases and audiences
Who the product serves and the jobs it is designed to handle.
| Audience | Practical use case |
|---|---|
| Developers | Run and debug browser rendering E2E tests faster S22. |
| QA engineers | Integrate existing browser rendering test suites with Artillery Cloud for reporting and debugging [S3](https://www.artillery.io/docs/get-started/browser rendering-e2e). |
| SREs | Continuously monitor key user journeys with browser-based or API checks S22. |
| Scale-ups and enterprises | Ship with performance and reliability S22. |
Features
Features and capabilities
Core functions and evidence-backed product capabilities.
| Capability | What it does |
|---|---|
| Load testing | Run scalable load tests against HTTP APIs, GraphQL services, Socket.IO apps, and more S22. |
| browser rendering E2E testing | Integrate existing browser rendering test suites with Artillery Cloud for reporting and debugging [S3](https://www.artillery.io/docs/get-started/browser rendering-e2e). |
| Synthetic monitoring | Monitor key user journeys with browser-based or API checks S22. |
| Web Vitals tracking | Automatically track LCP, CLS, FCP, TTFB, and INP for every page in browser rendering tests [S3](https://www.artillery.io/docs/get-started/browser rendering-e2e). |
| Reporting dashboard | Central dashboard for all browser rendering test results with real-time updates [S3](https://www.artillery.io/docs/get-started/browser rendering-e2e). |
| CI/CD integrations | Out-of-the-box integrations for CI/CD and monitoring with OpenTelemetry S22. |
| Cost reporting | Built-in cost reporting for all tests S22. |
Integrations and ecosystem
Connected products, exports, APIs, and workflow compatibility.
| Integration or interface | Type | What it enables |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub Actions | Integration | Post test results as PR comments [S3](https://www.artillery.io/docs/get-started/browser rendering-e2e). |
| OpenTelemetry | Integration | Export metrics to external monitoring systems S22. |
| Datadog, New Relic, Splunk, Honeycomb, etc. | Integration | Send load test metrics to popular observability platforms S70. |
| Azure load testing | Integration | Run load tests on Azure infrastructure S81. |
| Stash API | API | Persistent key-value store for sharing data between virtual users S81. |
| VS Code extension | Extension | Provides a VS Code extension for Artillery S70. |
Pricing
Pricing and plans
Published plans, free access, trials, credits, and pricing limitations.
| Plan or offer | Verified price and billing | Included | Limits |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 per month S72 | CLI and dashboard S72 | 30 reports a month; 1 month retention S72 |
| Team | $199 per month S72 | 1,000 reports a month; 6 months retention S72 | Up to 5 workers per test S72 |
| Business | $499 per month S72 | 2,500 reports a month; 18 months retention S72 | Up to 25 workers per test S72 |
| Enterprise add-ons | From $1,199 per month S72 | SSO, audit logs, SLAs S72 | Custom S72 |
Trust and proof
Customers, proof, and reviews
Published proof, customer signals, and review evidence.
Independent reviews
| Platform | Page | How it was found | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| InfoWorld | Artillery: Finding open source success between dev and ops / InfoWorld | Grounded web search | Today Artillery sees several hundred thousand downloads each month, growing 15 percent month over month. What Veldstra started as a solo project in 2016 now attracts dozens of contributors and users from pretty much every industry you can think of—even a forestry service, Veldstra notes. |
| Medium | My Load Testing Journey: Why Artillery Won over JMeter and K6 / by Janahan Sivananthamoorthy / Javarevisited | Grounded web search | Then I found Artillery, and I loved this simplicity and extendability. You want something simple? Run artillery run my-test.yml locally on your laptop — done. Need more complex scenarios? Switch to artillery run-fargate — region eu-west-1 my-test.yml and it automatically spins up ECS Fargate containers in that region. ... But what really sold me was the monitoring simplicity. The moment you run a test, Artillery automatically prints real-time reports to your console every 10 seconds — scenarios |
Customer proof
| Proof type | Named customer or source | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Case study | readysetlaunch.ai | customer case study — coordination overhead and blind spots. (Artillery: Success Case Study / ReadySetLaunch) |
Independent mentions
- Show HN: Open-source load testing on AWS Lambda. With built-in cost reporting / Hacker News — an update which includes cost reporting. Every time you run a load test, Artillery will show how much that cost in AWS Lambda fees. ... The demo shows a distributed load test running in us-east-1 at 100k+ RPS for about 10 minutes. Total cost is $1.23.
- Show HN: Load Testing with browser rendering / Hacker News — Hi HN fam! Hassy from Artillery (YC S21) here. browser rendering got a lot of love on HN today 1 - rightfully so, it's an incredible project! - so I thought I'd resubmit 2 an open-source project that lets you run load tests with existing browser rendering scripts.
- I've never done load testing before, but would it be hard to write a script in p... / Hacker News — Artillery takes care of spinning up and down all of the infra. It will also ... grab and report Core Web Vitals for you from all those browser sessions, and we just released ... tracing so you can dig into the details of each session if you want to (
- Artillery · Full-stack performance & reliability testing — your apps fast & reliable - load testing, scalable browser rendering E2E testing, and production monitoring in one toolkit. Incrementally adoptable, and built to work with coding agents. ... Labs’ Nakama to two million concurrent players with Artillery and AWS.
- artilleryio/artillery — . 20+ integrations for monitoring, observability, and CICD. - Test anything. HTTP, WebSocket, Socket.io, gRPC, Kinesis, and more. - ... Powerful workload modeling. Emulate complex user behavior with request chains, multiple steps, transactions,
- Launching thousands of browsers for fun and profit · Blog · Artillery — thousands of browsers with zero infrastructure setup, and they run from your own AWS account - not a hosted cloud service ... cross your mind? — so efficient you could run these tests in CICD multiple times a day. All sorts of nice security
External links were grounded in one live web search. Search snippets are leads, not independently scraped page content; rejected links remain available in Review evidence.
Company, security, and trust
Ownership, policies, security signals, and public trust evidence.
| Signal | Finding | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Company and ownership | We use cookies to help improve your experience of artillery.io. This cookie policy is part of Artillery Software Inc's privacy policy, and covers the use of cookies between your device and our site. We also provide basic | source |
| Contact and support | Start a new GitHub DiscussionEmail support@artillery.io | source |
| Legal and privacy | We use cookies to help improve your experience of artillery.io. This cookie policy is part of Artillery Software Inc's privacy policy, and covers the use of cookies between your device and our site. We also provide basic | source |
| Security and compliance | Evervault’s high-performance encryption engine is tested for performance and reliability with Artillery. | source |
| Uptime and status page | Track performance & uptime of your web app or API over time | source |
Every trust signal above is backed by a collected page or a registration record.
Documentation and product updates
Help resources, product guidance, and visible changes over time.
| Resource or update | Type | What is available | Date or freshness |
|---|---|---|---|
| Welcome · Artillery | Documentation | Learn how to get up and running with Artillery with reference docs, guides, tutorials and other resources (source) | Not dated |
| browser rendering E2E testing · Artillery | Documentation | Send browser rendering test results to Artillery Cloud ([source](https://www.artillery.io/docs/get-started/browser rendering-e2e)) | Not dated |
| Integrations · Artillery | Documentation | Artillery works with most popular monitoring, observability, and CI/CD systems. (source) | Not dated |
| Changelog · Artillery | Changelog | Feature updates and improvements to Artillery. (source) | Not dated |
| Contact and support | Support | Public contact and support channel. (source) | Not dated |
Not found in the collected public sources: public roadmap, status page, separate help center or knowledge base.
Technical
Technical and delivery signals
Delivery model, platforms, API, data ownership, reliability claims and release activity.
| Signal | Finding | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Delivery model (cloud, self-hosted, desktop, browser extension) | Artillery Cloud is a web-based dashboard; CLI is available for local use S72. | S72 |
| Platforms and apps | CLI supports Node.js v22.13.0 LTS S81. | S81 |
| API and extensibility (API, SDK, webhooks, MCP, plugins) | Custom Extension APIs and plugins are supported S1. | S1 |
| Data ownership and export | Test reports can be exported as PDF S81. | S81 |
| Performance and reliability claims | Improved performance of load test reports for tests with many distinct metrics S81. | S81 |
| Release activity | Regular CLI releases, e.g., v2.0.34 S81. | S81 |
Measured infrastructure
Domain, certificate, and hosting signals, measured directly.
| Signal | Finding |
|---|---|
| First archived | 2013-10-31 — web archive |
| TLS certificate | Amazon, valid, expires 2027-02-25 |
| Security headers | HSTS |
| Headers not served | CSP, X-Content-Type-Options, X-Frame-Options, Referrer-Policy |
| Server header | Vercel |
| Mail handled by | aspmx.l.google.com, alt1.aspmx.l.google.com |
| Nameservers | ns-791.awsdns-34.net, ns-1416.awsdns-49.org |
Not measurable: rdap: no RDAP server published for .io; rdap: exceeded the overall budget; wayback: exceeded the overall budget; tls: exceeded the overall budget; dns: exceeded the overall budget; headers: exceeded the overall budget. A gap here means the lookup was unavailable, not that the finding is negative.
Limits and method
Limitations and open questions
Known constraints and missing evidence from the collected pages.
The collected sources do not mention any competitors by name. Evidence gaps include lack of detailed pricing for enterprise add-ons beyond starting price, no explicit uptime or status page information, and no independent review ratings or detailed customer outcomes beyond the named case studies.
Sources, method, and limitations
Evidence inventory, collection method, provider use, and constraints.
This report is based on 14 collected pages from artillery.io, including documentation, pricing, changelog, and homepage. Evidence was gathered via static and browser rendering rendering; external proof search was used but no external reviews were scraped. Limitations: some pages may have been missed, and external search results were not used as primary evidence.
- Official Websitehttps://www.artillery.io/Verified
- Documentationhttps://www.artillery.io/docsVerified
- Pricing Pagehttps://www.artillery.io/pricingVerified
- Documentationhttps://www.artillery.io/docs/get-started/playwright-e2eVerified
- Documentationhttps://www.artillery.io/docs/resources/integrationsVerified
- Official Websitehttps://www.artillery.io/changelogVerified
- Official Websitehttps://www.artillery.io/terms/cookiesVerified
- Official Websitehttps://www.artillery.io/terms/privacyVerified
- Official Websitehttps://www.artillery.io/terms/securityVerified
- Official Websitehttps://www.artillery.io/terms/tosVerified
- Official Websitehttps://www.artillery.io/contactVerified
- Official Websitehttps://www.artillery.io/blogVerified
- Official Websitehttps://www.artillery.io/llms.txtVerified
- Articlehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33533774Verified
- Review Sitehttps://www.infoworld.com/article/2263841/artillery-finding-open-source-success-between-dev-and-ops.htmlVerified
- Articlehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30114252Verified
- Review Sitehttps://medium.com/javarevisited/my-load-testing-journey-why-artillery-won-over-jmeter-and-k6-c14de3f5943aVerified
- Articlehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39138096Verified
- Articlehttps://readysetlaunch.ai/cases/successes/artillery/Verified
- Articlehttps://github.com/artilleryio/artilleryVerified
- Documentationhttps://worldmetrics.org/best/load-test-software/Verified
- Articlehttps://www.artillery.io/blog/load-testing-with-real-browsersVerified