Artillery vs StresStimulus
Artillery
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| Figure | Artillery | StresStimulus |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $199/mo | Free |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | — |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| Linux | Yes | — |
| API | Yes | — |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 4 | 4 |
| Spec score · Performance Testing Software | 8.6 (#5) | 7.7 (#25) |
| Headquarters | New York, New York, United States | Red Bank, New Jersey, United States |
| Integrations | Listed integrations include Datadog, OpenTelemetry, New Relic, Splunk, Honeycomb, AWS CloudWatch, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, CircleCI, and Azure DevOps. | The vendor lists Microsoft Dynamics CRM, SharePoint, and Salesforce as supported complex web applications, and describes StresStimulus as a Fiddler add-on. |
| Protocols | Built-in protocol support includes HTTP, WebSocket, and Socket.IO, with other protocols available through plugins. | The product supports HTTP, HTTPS, AJAX, SOAP, WCF, binary WCF, and XML over HTTP. |
| Support | The pricing page lists email support and Slack Connect, with Slack Connect available with an annual subscription. | Support options include searchable online documentation, email and phone support, a forum, and real-time WebEx assistance; phone hours are Monday through Friday, 7 AM–7 PM ET. |
Plans
Artillery
- Team$199 a month
- Business$499 a month
- Enterprise add-ons$1,199 a month
- FreePrice not published
StresStimulus
- FreeFree
- Pro$880, paid once
- Enterprise$3,450, paid once
- Service Provider (SP)$4,450, paid once
In their own words
Artillery
Artillery combines load testing, scalable Playwright end-to-end testing, and production monitoring in one toolkit. It supports load, stress, and soak tests, including distributed runs across AWS Lambda, AWS Fargate, and Azure Container Instances. HTTP, WebSocket, and Socket.IO are built in, with other protocols available through plugins. Playwright scripts can run as load tests or synthetic checks; the homepage also describes a Turbo runner beta for splitting large Playwright suites into parallel work. Listed integrations include Datadog, OpenTelemetry, New Relic, Splunk, Honeycomb, AWS CloudWatch, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, CircleCI, and Azure DevOps. Artillery says its typical users include application developers, test and QA engineers, and operations or SRE teams responsible for production backend systems. Cloud reporting is opt-in per test run, while tests run in the user's own environment even when reports are sent to Artillery Cloud. The Free plan lists 30 reports per month; Team costs $199 a month and includes 1,000 reports per month. Continued overages may degrade service or lead to read-only mode.
StresStimulus
StresStimulus has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.