Artillery vs Cypress
No clear leader: Cypress (70.6) and Artillery (67.1) are within the 5-point margin; treat as a tie. The attribute-by-attribute breakdown below, with a source and date on every value, is the honest way to compare them.
Capabilities
Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for testing tools. “-” means undocumented, not absent.
What each one is
The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.
Artillery
A distributed load testing platform for production use, supporting real browser testing via Playwright alongside API testing, deployable on AWS Lambda or Fargate.
Cypress
A testing platform combining an open-source desktop application with a cloud service for managing test execution, scaling tests across CI environments, and providing real-time insights into test results and application quality.
Pricing
List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.
Artillery
Free tier available. Paid plans include Team, Business, and Enterprise.
- Team-
- Business-
- Enterprise-
Cypress
Free tier for open-source projects; paid plans from $799/year billed annually
- FreeFree
- Basic test execution and storage
- Starter$799/year
- Business$3,199/year
- EnterpriseContact sales
- Unlock all features
Platform & deployment
Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.
Integrations
What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.
- Slack
Artillery
- AWS Lambda
- AWS Fargate
- Azure ACI
- Playwright
- OpenTelemetry
- Kinesis
- GraphQL
- WebSocket
- gRPC
- Socket.io
- CloudWatch Logs
Cypress
- Jira
- GitHub Enterprise
- GitLab Enterprise
- GitHub
- GitLab
- Okta
- Azure AD
- Microsoft Teams
Artillery or Cypress: which one depends on you
A composite score cannot know your constraints. Describe them and both get re-weighted against what you actually need, with the evidence behind every position.
Free to run, no account needed to start. How the evaluation works
Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.