Overview
Summary
The useful answer before the supporting detail.
Gatling is a load testing platform that helps developers and teams create, run, and analyze performance tests S7. It solves the problem of load testing being hard to scale, disconnected from workflows, and limited by outdated tools S7. The platform offers code-based and no-code test creation, CI/CD integration, and AI-powered analysis to help teams shift from reactive firefighting to predictive performance engineering S7.
Product identity and positioning
Name, category, positioning, audience, and first-party claims.
- Identity: Gatling is a load testing platform from Gatling Corp, evolving from an open-source project into a global platform S1.
- Core purpose: It solves the problem of load testing being hard to scale, disconnected from workflows, and limited by outdated tools S7.
- Intended users: Developers, QA teams, and enterprises S1.
- Product scope: It is a full platform, not a single app, including Enterprise Edition, MCP Server, SLOs, AI Analysis, and automation features S1 S17 S23 S30 S39.
- Positioning: Gatling positions itself as a platform that makes load testing smarter, more accessible, and fully integrated into software delivery S7.
- Claimed distinction: It claims to shift teams from reactive firefighting to predictive performance engineering S7.
Use cases and audiences
Who the product serves and the jobs it is designed to handle.
| Audience | Practical use case |
|---|---|
| Developers | Create and run load tests as code, integrated into CI/CD pipelines S7 S39. |
| QA teams | Use no-code tools and visual editors to create and manage load tests S7. |
| Engineering managers | Define and track SLOs to ensure performance compliance S23. |
| DevOps teams | Automate load testing infrastructure and integrate with monitoring tools S39 S7. |
Features
Features and capabilities
Core functions and evidence-backed product capabilities.
| Capability | What it does |
|---|---|
| Code-based test creation | Create load tests using Java, Kotlin, JavaScript, TypeScript, or Scala SDKs S7 S39. |
| No-code test creation | Use Recorder, Postman imports, or Gatling Studio to create tests visually S7 S159. |
| CI/CD integration | Integrate load testing into CI/CD pipelines to run tests automatically as part of builds S39. |
| AI-powered analysis | Get AI-generated insights, trend analysis, and recommendations from test results S30. |
| SLO tracking | Define and track Service Level Objectives (e.g., p95, p99, error ratio) on load test runs S23. |
| MCP Server | Connect coding agents like AI modelCode or Cursor to Gatling Enterprise Edition to manage tests via natural language S17. |
| Automated infrastructure provisioning | Provision load testing infrastructure using Terraform, Helm, AWS CloudFormation, and AWS CDK S39. |
| Observability integrations | Connect load tests to OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Datadog, Dynatrace, New Relic, and InfluxDB S7 S39. |
Integrations and ecosystem
Connected products, exports, APIs, and workflow compatibility.
| Integration or interface | Type | What it enables |
|---|---|---|
| CI/CD pipelines | Integration | Run load tests automatically as part of builds S39. |
| Terraform, Helm, AWS CloudFormation, AWS CDK | Integration | Provision load testing infrastructure as code S39. |
| Datadog, Dynatrace, New Relic, InfluxDB | Integration | Send load test data to monitoring tools S39. |
| OpenTelemetry, Prometheus | Integration | Connect load tests to observability stacks S7. |
| Slack, Microsoft Teams, webhooks | Integration | Send automated notifications about test results S39. |
| Public APIs | API | Trigger downstream actions and manage simulations programmatically S39. |
| MCP Server | AI interface | Connect coding agents like AI modelCode and Cursor to Gatling Enterprise Edition S17. |
| SDKs (Java, Scala, Kotlin, JavaScript, TypeScript) | SDK | Create and manage load tests programmatically S39. |
Pricing
Pricing and plans
Published plans, free access, trials, credits, and pricing limitations.
| Plan or offer | Verified price and billing | Included | Limits |
|---|---|---|---|
| Basic | €89 per month billed annually, or €99 monthly S1 | Up to 60,000 VUs; 1 hour of testing S1 | Starter pack S1 |
| Team | €356 per month billed annually S1 | Up to 180,000 VUs; 5 hours of testing S1 | Distributed testing, CI/CD S1 |
| Enterprise | On request S1 | Custom VUs and hours S1 | Premium support S1 |
| Free trial | Free trial S1 | Not established | Not established |
Trust and proof
Customers, proof, and reviews
Published proof, customer signals, and review evidence.
Independent reviews
| Platform | Page | How it was found | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Software Advice | Gatling Enterprise Software Reviews, Demo & Pricing - 2026 | Grounded web search | Ratings Breakdown - 4.50 Ease of use - 5.0 Value for money - 4.0 Customer support - 4.50 Functionality ... ## Gatling Enterprise User Reviews Overall Rating 5.0 ... - Gatling dedicated language provides convenient way to implement load test scenarios - The ability to choose and mix the injector locations (AWS EC2 regions) is really great when it deals with a product used world wide. - Great real-time reporting The tests must be implemented in Scala using the Gatling SDL language. Sometimes the s |
Customer proof
| Proof type | Named customer or source | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Testimonial | Criteo | testimonial — Our job has been to ensure a high level of performance from Criteo’s tech stack and that’s why we chose Gatling. (Gatling — Continuous Performance Intelligence, powered by AI) |
| Case study | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | customer case study — and maintain tests. (Gatling customer story: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) |
| Case study | Intuit | customer case study — If you wanted to drive hundreds of thousands of transactions per second, it's not a hard thing to achieve in Gatling. (How Intuit runs 80,000+ load tests a year, without a specialist team / Gatling) |
Independent mentions
- Ask HN: Which load testing tool do you use? Any recommendations? / Hacker News — I like to use https://gatling.io/ for my load testing. It's super easy and you get pretty charts you can hand off to management. willejs on Nov 19, 2017 / parent / next – ... Gatling is great, and the best thing to use if you want performance and fine grained analysis. It's easy to use, great html output with graphs. You can also output to a bunch of other formats, and easily break out into scala. Don't let the scala put you off though, its mostly a really simple and clean dsl. The docs are go
- Companies that trust Gatling — ### 4,3/5 on G2 Rated by verified users for reliability, scalability, and ease of integration, proving Gatling’s ability to deliver enterprise-grade load testing at massive scale. ... testing in JS. It gave us visibility into key metrics we can
- Load Testing: An Unorthodox Guide / Hacker News — I am also ... https://gatling.io/ Gatling is one among the load test tools people need to give a shot. It uses akka for generating asynchronous loads. And it's good from a programmer standpoint since load test scripts can be programmed and maintained as any other script.
- Gatling customer stories: TUI — can now monitor the performance of their services continuously. This allows for quick identification and resolution of any ... - Scalability: Gatling’s ability to generate high loads (over 100,000 requests per second) has proven crucial for stress
- Gatling customer stories: LoginRadius — - P95 latency reduced from 500ms to under 250ms - Confidence in each release with tests baked into CI/CD - Failures surfaced ... - Reduced performance regression issues in production by over 80% - Performance testing became part of the sprint, not
- Gatling customer stories: InPost — moving from checkout to locker pickup—often within a day in Poland ... > “Observability is a culture here. If you want to ship code, you need to understand performance and how your services behave.” Mateusz Piasta, Site Reliability Engineer, InPost
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 | What started as an open-source project in 2011 is now a global platform trusted by 300,000+ organizations. And at the heart of it all is our team: ambitious, collaborative, and driven to make performance testing accessib | source |
| Contact and support | Please, contact our sales team. Each plan comes with a base amount of consumption (minutes of testing, load generators, users...) included in the price. Your account will not be blocked if you go over that base consumpti | source |
| Legal and privacy | They help us understand how you use our site so we can make it better, and they let us remember your preferences. For details, see our Privacy Policy. | source |
| Security and compliance | New: pilot Gatling Enterprise Edition from your coding agent with the MCP Server. Learn more Live session: register for the next Gatling Enterprise demo Save my seat New: Distributed tracing is now available | source |
| Uptime and status page | Not published on the collected pages. | — |
Not found on the collected pages: uptime and status page. This only means Scout did not find it on the pages it read; it says nothing about the company itself.
Documentation and product updates
Help resources, product guidance, and visible changes over time.
| Resource or update | Type | What is available | Date or freshness |
|---|---|---|---|
| Session - How to plan high-scale load testing | Guide | Access our session on the topic: How to plan high-scale load testing (source) | Not dated |
| Gatling pricing: Flexible plans for scalable load testing | Roadmap | Public product roadmap. (source) | Not dated |
| Private Packages / Gatling Blog | Product update | Product update is publicly available. (source) | November 2022 |
Not found in the collected public sources: changelog or release notes, 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) | Gatling Enterprise Edition can be deployed in the cloud, on your cloud, or on your own servers S159. | S159 |
| Platforms and apps | Gatling is a web-based platform; no desktop or mobile apps are mentioned S7. | S7 |
| API and extensibility (API, SDK, webhooks, MCP, plugins) | Provides public APIs, SDKs for Java, Scala, Kotlin, JavaScript, TypeScript, webhooks, and an MCP server S39 S17. | S39 S17 |
| Data ownership and export | Not published on the collected pages. | — |
| Performance and reliability claims | Claims to generate millions of virtual users and scale tests globally or privately S159. | S159 |
| Release activity | Not published on the collected pages. | — |
Measured infrastructure
Domain, certificate, and hosting signals, measured directly.
| Signal | Finding |
|---|---|
| First archived | 2014-08-03 — web archive |
| TLS certificate | Google Trust Services, valid, expires 2026-11-27 |
| Security headers | HSTS |
| Headers not served | CSP, X-Content-Type-Options, X-Frame-Options, Referrer-Policy |
| Server header | cloudflare |
| Mail handled by | aspmx.l.google.com, alt2.aspmx.l.google.com |
| Nameservers | ns-211-c.gandi.net, ns-29-a.gandi.net |
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 pages do not mention specific competitors. Evidence gaps include lack of detailed security certifications, uptime guarantees, and data export options. Pricing details for the Enterprise plan are not published. The free tier is not offered, only a free trial S1.
Sources, method, and limitations
Evidence inventory, collection method, provider use, and constraints.
This report is based on 15 collected pages from gatling.io, including product pages, about page, and pricing page. The evidence catalog includes static and rendered pages, with external proof search used for verification. Limitations: some pages may not have been fully captured, and external search results were not used as primary evidence.
- Official Websitehttps://gatling.io/Verified
- Official Websitehttps://gatling.io/aboutVerified
- Official Websitehttps://gatling.io/platformVerified
- Official Websitehttps://gatling.io/product/mcpVerified
- Official Websitehttps://gatling.io/product/sloVerified
- Pricing Pagehttps://gatling.io/pricingVerified
- Pricing Pagehttps://gatling.io/blog/private-packages-is-now-available-for-gatling-enterprise-cloudVerified
- Pricing Pagehttps://gatling.io/sessions/how-to-plan-high-scale-load-testingVerified
- Official Websitehttps://gatling.io/blog/http2-features-that-can-improve-application-performanceVerified
- Official Websitehttps://gatling.io/blog/platform-engineeringVerified
- Official Websitehttps://gatling.io/content/build-or-buy-your-load-testing-solutionVerified
- Official Websitehttps://gatling.io/content/product-spotlight-insights-and-analysisVerified
- Official Websitehttps://gatling.io/product/ai-analysisVerified
- Official Websitehttps://gatling.io/product/automationVerified
- Official Websitehttps://gatling.io/product/campaignsVerified
- Review Sitehttps://www.softwareadvice.com/automation-testing/gatling-enterprise-profile/Verified
- Articlehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15733910Verified
- Articlehttps://gatling.io/?from_theconsensus=1Verified
- Articlehttps://gatling.io/customers/houghton-mifflin-harcourtVerified
- Articlehttps://gatling.io/intuitVerified
- Articlehttps://gatling.io/customersVerified
- Articlehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32960566Verified
- Articlehttps://gatling.io/customers/tuiVerified
- Articlehttps://gatling.io/customers/loginradiusVerified
- Articlehttps://gatling.io/customers/inpostVerified