What Artillery.io does

Artillery.io is a performance testing platform that helps engineering teams keep production systems fast and reliable. The platform combines three core product surfaces delivered through an open-source CLI and a paid cloud service: load testing for HTTP APIs, GraphQL services, Socket.IO, and WebSocket connections; scalable Playwright end-to-end testing with automatic Web Vitals tracking and AI-assisted debugging; and synthetic monitoring from 12 global regions. Underlying technology is Node.js-based, cloud-native by design, and executes distributed tests on customers' own AWS Lambda, AWS Fargate, or Azure Container Instances using pay-as-you-go serverless infrastructure. The product ships with extensive integrations including OpenTelemetry support, native CI/CD connectors (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, CircleCI, Azure DevOps, Jenkins), observability exporters (Datadog, New Relic, Splunk, Honeycomb, Grafana, Prometheus, AWS CloudWatch), a VS Code extension, and a Kubernetes operator.

Artillery Software Inc, the legal entity behind Artillery, was founded in 2021 by Hassy Veldstra, joined Y Combinator's S21 batch, and is registered in Delaware with principal operations in Killaloe, Ireland and a US mailing address in New York. Revenue is generated through a freemium model where the open-source CLI is free and Artillery Cloud is sold on tiered annual subscriptions (Team, Business, Enterprise) with an Artillery Pro enterprise add-on; usage-based fees apply when customers run tests on their own cloud infrastructure. Go-to-market is product-led and community-led: developers discover and adopt the CLI through GitHub (8.9K stars), npm, and documentation, then upgrade to paid cloud features for distributed execution, collaboration, reporting, and AI-assisted debugging. Named customers include Heroic Labs (gaming), Okta Fine Grained Authorization (identity), and Evervault (encryption/security), with the primary user persona being developers, QA engineers, and SREs at scale-ups and enterprises shipping systems that need to handle production traffic at scale.

Name

Artillery.io

Legal name

Artillery Software Inc

Website

https://artillery.io

Company type

Private

Founded year

2021

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Artillery.io is a cloud-native performance testing platform offering load testing, scalable Playwright E2E testing, and synthetic monitoring through an open-source CLI and paid Cloud subscription, targeting developers, QA engineers, and SREs at scale-ups and enterprises.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

New York

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Artillery Cloud Subscription: Cloud-based analytics and collaboration service with different pricing plans. Subscription-based cloud service with fees based on product tier selected at account creation. 30-day payment period from end of subscription period.
2. Open Source CLI (Freemium): Free open-source Artillery CLI available for download. Provides core load testing functionality. Cloud features (reporting, collaboration, distributed execution) require paid subscription.
3. Usage-based Infrastructure: Run tests from own AWS or Azure account using pay-as-you-go serverless infrastructure. Built-in cost reporting for all tests. Separate from subscription fees.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels6 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Artillery is a full-stack performance and reliability testing platform sold primarily to engineering teams. It bundles three capabilities — load testing of HTTP/GraphQL/Socket.IO/WebSocket endpoints, scalable Playwright end-to-end testing, and synthetic monitoring of key user journeys — delivered through a free open-source CLI and a paid Artillery Cloud subscription that adds distributed execution, reporting and team collaboration.

Product overview

Artillery is a unified full-stack performance and reliability testing platform combining three core products: Artillery Cloud (cloud-based analytics and collaboration service), Artillery CLI (command-line application for test execution), and three main testing capabilities (Load Testing, Playwright E2E Testing, and Synthetic Monitoring). The platform is open-source and cloud-native, enabling engineers to load test HTTP APIs, GraphQL services, Socket.IO apps, and WebSocket connections at scale using AWS Lambda, AWS Fargate, or Azure infrastructure. Playwright E2E testing is integrated natively with automatic Web Vitals tracking, AI-assisted debugging, and real-time reporting. Additional offerings include VS Code Extension for test script development, Artillery Operator for Kubernetes, Stash API for test data sharing, Artillery Probe for HTTP client functionality, and Artillery Pro as an enterprise tier. The platform integrates extensively with CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, CircleCI, Azure DevOps, Jenkins) and observability tools (Datadog, New Relic, Splunk, Grafana, OpenTelemetry).

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Artillery Cloud Cloud-based analytics and collaboration dashboard for Artillery: central reporting on load tests and Playwright end-to-end runs, real-time streaming of test results, team collaboration, AI-assisted debugging, performance trends, and distributed execution on AWS or Azure infrastructure; sold to engineering teams on annual subscription tiers.
• Artillery CLI Free, open-source command-line interface for running load tests and Playwright end-to-end tests locally, on cloud infrastructure, or from CI/CD pipelines; supports HTTP, GraphQL, Socket.IO, WebSocket and Playwright engines with TypeScript, distributed execution via Lambda/Fargate/Azure, and OpenTelemetry-native metrics export.
• Artillery Pro Enterprise tier extension of Artillery Cloud providing additional AWS regions, advanced features and priority support for large-scale production testing environments.
• Artillery VS Code Extension Official Visual Studio Code extension providing context-aware autocomplete, inline documentation, and IntelliSense support for authoring Artillery test scripts.
• Artillery Operator for Kubernetes Kubernetes operator and kubectl plugin enabling self-service distributed load testing workflows on Kubernetes clusters, with scaffolding support for Artillery tests via kubectl.

Quantifiable outcome

• 10x faster Playwright test execution with Turbo Runner
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration31 records

AI capability3 records

Feature7 records

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Gatling: Developer-focused load testing platform with an open-source core (Java/JavaScript/TypeScript) and paid Enterprise tier, overlapping directly with Artillery's developer persona and load-testing-as-a-service positioning.
• Grafana k6: Open-source (now Grafana Labs) load and performance testing tool with a SaaS cloud offering — the most direct open-source and cloud-native competitor to Artillery across protocol coverage and developer-led adoption.
• Locust: Open-source Python-based load testing tool that, like Artillery, targets developers with code-first scripts and supports distributed execution — a direct open-source competitor in the developer-led testing niche.
• BlazeMeter: Cloud-based continuous testing platform (Perforce) for load and performance testing with broad protocol support — a direct paid-SaaS competitor in cloud load testing that also complements JMeter-style workflows.
• OctoPerf: SaaS load testing platform built on JMeter, offering a browser-based test designer and cloud execution — a direct SaaS competitor in the same mid-market/enterprise browser-driven load testing category.
• Flood: Cloud load and performance testing service (now part of Tricentis) that runs JMeter, Gatling, and Selenium-style tests at scale — directly overlapping Artillery's distributed cloud-execution value proposition.

Broad incumbents

• Apache JMeter: Long-standing open-source performance/load testing project widely used for HTTP, API, and protocol testing — the incumbent OSS baseline against which Artillery positions its cloud-native, scripting-friendly alternative.
• OpenText LoadRunner (Micro Focus LoadRunner): Enterprise incumbent for performance/load testing under OpenText — represents the legacy on-prem equivalent against which Artillery pitches its cloud-native, developer-friendly alternative to large enterprises.
• Datadog: Major observability vendor with synthetic monitoring, RUM, and APM that already integrates with Artillery — a broader incumbent whose suite could absorb load and synthetic testing use cases for existing enterprise customers.

Emerging players

• Checkly: API and browser synthetic monitoring platform using Playwright, targeting developer and SRE teams — a newer, more developer-centric peer that overlaps with Artillery's synthetic monitoring and Playwright-native E2E capabilities.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/artilleryio
• GitHubgithub.com/artilleryio/artillery
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/artillery-io

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds2 records

Investors1 record

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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