Artillery
When performance & reliability are not optional
artillery.io Source★ 568ISCSoftware Development / Testing & Code Quality
- Monthly visits
- 9.2K
- Down60.5%MoMOct 2026
- Public revenue
- Undisclosed
- No public revenue evidence yet
- Entry price
- $199/mo
- Higher than 91% of peersNiche median $20/mo
- Launched
- 10y ago
- 2016-03-02 · Est.
Traffic
Marketing moves
Launches, search & content, referrals, promotionsLaunched on Show HN (12 pts · 2 comments)Launch
Open-source load testing on AWS Lambda. With built-in cost reporting — Hiya HN! tldr: Artillery is an open-source load testing toolkit. It's cloud-native, i.e. you can scale out your test with AWS Lambda (othe…
Nov 9, 2022 · 4y agoLaunch page
Launched on Show HN (110 pts · 42 comments)Launch
A Swiss army knife for testing HTTP from the terminal — Hiya HN! Just released Artillery Probe - a Swiss army knife for testing HTTP from the CLI. Think mini-curl with better UX for common use-c…
May 10, 2022 · 4y agoLaunch page
Launched on Show HN (8 pts)Launch
Artillery: multi-protocol load-testing tool written in Node.js
Mar 2, 2016 · 10y agoLaunch page
Third-party reviews & case dossiers
Acquisition breakdowns, engineer reviews & open-source metrics- Post excerpt:
- Hiya HN! Just released Artillery Probe - a Swiss army knife for testing HTTP from the CLI. Think mini-curl with better UX for common use-cases, plus a couple of extra features. Would love for you to try it and give some feedback! https://www.artillery.io/blog/swiss-army-knife-for-http-testing and: npm install artillery@latest What does it do? - First of all,
- Post excerpt:
- Hiya HN! tldr: Artillery is an open-source load testing toolkit. It's cloud-native, i.e. you can scale out your test with AWS Lambda (other runtimes coming soon). There's no infra to set up or manage - you give Artillery an AWS account, and it takes care of the rest. We just released an update which includes cost reporting. Every time you run a load test, Ar
- What engineers like:
- Supports load testing and functional (assert) testing of APIs, message brokers, ecommerce systems, etc. Supports HTTP, WebSockets, Socket.io, HLS, file uploads, and other protocols via plugins. Reports p50, p95, p99, min and max. CI/CD runners to conduct continuous testing. Test scenarios written in code. Open source + cloud platform for distributed tests.
- Trade-offs & limitations:
- Can integrate with Playwright for headless browser testing, but this is experimental and the primary use case is backend testing.
- Best suited for:
- Developers of APIs, message brokers, ecommerce systems, etc. should consider Artillery for load testing
Open Source & Agent Ecosystem
- GitHub Stars
- ★ 568
- Forks
- 32
- License
- ISC
- Primary language
- JavaScript
Agent, MCP & Developer Integration
CLI / SDK- Ecosystem & integrations:
- PlaywrightGitHub ActionsGitHubOpenTelemetryAzure
- Exposed tool capabilities:
- Load TestingBrowser TestingScalable Playwright E2E testingLoad testing
Traffic sources
Traffic breakdown
Channels
- Direct40%
- Organic Search34%
- Referrals10%
- Social6%
- Other10%
Countries
- United States55%
- Russia28%
- India12%
- Brazil4%
Search
Domain authority —Domain registered 2013-09-12
| Keyword | Monthly volume |
|---|---|
| artillery | 34.2K |
| artillery load testing | 190 |
| artillery バージョン | 130 |
| artillery load test | 60 |
| artillery.io | 50 |
Traffic data: Vaneform
Pricing
Trial: None · Free tier included · 2 paid tiers ($199–$499) · Observed 2026-11-09 · Pricing page
Entry price $199/mo, Higher than 91% of peers; “Testing & Code Quality” median is $20/mo.View pricing benchmark
Pages & changes
Key pages
Weekly snapshots- Homewww.artillery.io/
- Pricingwww.artillery.io/pricing Snapshot 2026-11-09
Changes
Questions & evidence
- How much does Artillery cost?
- Free: Free; Team: $199/mo; Business: $499/mo. Observed 2026-11-09. Check the source for current billing terms, usage limits and taxes.Source
- How much website traffic does Artillery get?
- Vaneform estimates 9.2K website visits in 2026-10. Visits can include repeat visits; this estimate measures web traffic separately from paying customers or revenue.Source
- What is Artillery and what platforms does it support?
- Artillery is catalogued under Testing & Code Quality: When performance & reliability are not optional. Supported platforms: CLI / SDK.
- Is Artillery open source?
- Artillery has a public repository (https://github.com/artilleryio/artillery) under the ISC license, recording 568 GitHub stars.Source
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