# Artillery vs Nightwatch

**Leader by vioscaleAI score:** Artillery

| Attribute | Artillery | Nightwatch |
|---|---|---|
| **vioscaleAI score** | 67.1 (73% (medium)) | 57 (76% (high)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | - | 0 |
| adoption.dependent_repos | - | 36,492 |
| adoption.github_stars | - | 11,950 |
| adoption.package_downloads_weekly | - | 107,766 |
| content.faq | `[{"answer":"A load testing framework that enables testing of HTTP APIs, GraphQL, WebSocket endpoints, and browser-based applications using Playwright. Scales horizontally via AWS Lambda or Fargate with support for custom code and Node.js modules. It is indexed under Testing Tools.","source":"https://www.artillery.io","question":"What is Artillery?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Artillery offers a free tier, so you can start without paying. Paid plans are also available: Team, Business and Enterprise. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://www.artillery.io","question":"Is Artillery free?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Artillery supports the web and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://www.artillery.io","question":"What platforms does Artillery support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Artillery can be deployed cloud / SaaS and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://www.artillery.io","question":"Can Artillery be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 12 integrations for Artillery, including Slack, AWS Lambda, AWS Fargate, Azure ACI, Playwright, OpenTelemetry, Kinesis and GraphQL, plus 4 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://www.artillery.io","question":"What does Artillery integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Artillery is available worldwide. Its primary market is the United States.","source":"https://www.artillery.io/pricing","question":"Where is Artillery available?","confidence":0.5}]` | `[{"answer":"A comprehensive testing framework that supports unit, integration, and end-to-end testing across web browsers, mobile web, and native iOS and Android applications with built-in debugging tools, visual regression testing, and API testing capabilities. It is indexed under Testing Tools.","source":"https://nightwatchjs.org","question":"What is Nightwatch?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Nightwatch is open source, so it can be self-hosted and used at no licence cost. It is released under the MIT licence. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://nightwatchjs.org","question":"Is Nightwatch free to use?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Nightwatch supports the web, iOS and Android. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://nightwatchjs.org","question":"What platforms does Nightwatch support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have only confirmed a cloud / SaaS deployment for Nightwatch, so it appears to be vendor-hosted. If a self-hosted option exists we have not found it documented publicly.","source":"https://nightwatchjs.org","question":"Can Nightwatch be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 13 integrations for Nightwatch, including BrowserStack, Jenkins, Chrome, Mocha, Chai, Sinon, Express and Supertest, plus 5 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://nightwatchjs.org","question":"What does Nightwatch integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Nightwatch is published under the MIT licence, a permissive licence that generally allows commercial use and modification. Licence terms can change between releases, so verify against the repository for the version you intend to use.","source":"https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch","question":"Is Nightwatch open source?","confidence":0.99}]` |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true}` | `{"cloud":true}` |
| description.long | A distributed load testing platform for production use, supporting real browser testing via Playwright alongside API testing, deployable on AWS Lambda or Fargate. | An integrated testing framework built on Node.js that enables automated testing of web applications and websites using the W3C Webdriver standard. Supports end-to-end, unit, component, mobile, and API testing with plugins for React, Vue, and cloud platforms. |
| features.capabilities | `{"languages":"JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js","assertions":true,"ci_integration":true,"browser_automation":true,"parallel_execution":true}` | `{"mocking":true,"coverage":false,"protocol":"w3c_webdriver","languages":"JavaScript/Node.js","assertions":true,"open_source":true,"local_tunnel":true,"ci_integration":true,"auto_wait_retry":true,"no_code_recorder":true,"snapshot_testing":true,"cloud_grid_hosted":true,"real_device_cloud":true,"visual_regression":"pixel-diff","browser_automation":true,"parallel_execution":true,"network_interception":true,"ci_cd_integration_breadth":"moderate"}` |
| integrations.count | 20 | 9 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"Slack"},{"name":"AWS Lambda"},{"name":"AWS Fargate"},{"name":"Azure ACI"},{"name":"Playwright"},{"name":"OpenTelemetry"},{"name":"Kinesis"},{"name":"GraphQL"},{"name":"WebSocket"},{"name":"gRPC"},{"name":"Socket.io"},{"name":"CloudWatch Logs","native":true,"category":"monitoring"}]` | `[{"name":"BrowserStack"},{"name":"Jenkins"},{"name":"Chrome"},{"name":"Mocha"},{"name":"Chai"},{"name":"Sinon"},{"name":"Express"},{"name":"Supertest"},{"name":"Axe"},{"name":"JIMP"},{"name":"Microsoft Edge"},{"name":"Percy"},{"name":"Drupal"},{"name":"React","native":true},{"name":"Vue","native":true}]` |
| language.primary | - | JavaScript |
| license.spdx | - | MIT |
| market.availability | `{"primaryMarkets":["US"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | - |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` | `{"ios":true,"web":true,"android":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"hybrid","plans":[{"free":false,"name":"Team","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Business","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","contactSales":false}],"summary":"Free tier available. Paid plans include Team, Business, and Enterprise.","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.artillery.io","retrievedAt":"2026-09-03T22:14:37.082Z"}` | `{"type":"open_source","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://nightwatchjs.org","retrievedAt":"2026-08-24T22:39:51.928Z"}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | free | open_source |
| pricing.price_level | free | free |
| pricing.transparent | yes | - |
| release.cadence_days | - | 19 |
| release.history | - | `[{"url":"https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/releases/tag/v3.16.0","date":"2026-05-25T14:52:04Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.16.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/releases/tag/v3.15.0","date":"2026-01-21T16:03:35Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.15.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/releases/tag/v3.14.0","date":"2025-12-23T12:45:27Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.14.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/releases/tag/v3.13.0","date":"2025-12-09T14:25:04Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.13.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/releases/tag/v3.12.3","date":"2025-10-28T10:33:32Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.12.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/releases/tag/v3.12.2","date":"2025-06-06T10:37:24Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.12.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/releases/tag/v3.12.1","date":"2025-03-18T20:52:32Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.12.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/releases/tag/v3.12.0","date":"2025-03-06T19:06:20Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.12.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/releases/tag/v3.11.1","date":"2025-02-15T18:07:13Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.11.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/releases/tag/v3.11.0","date":"2025-01-16T18:45:31Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.11.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/releases/tag/v3.10.2","date":"2025-01-07T13:31:44Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.10.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/releases/tag/v3.10.1","date":"2025-01-06T10:52:31Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.10.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/releases/tag/v3.10.0","date":"2025-01-01T14:25:46Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.10.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/releases/tag/v3.9.0","date":"2024-11-11T18:42:17Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.9.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/releases/tag/v3.8.1","date":"2024-10-25T19:00:49Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.8.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/releases/tag/v3.8.0","date":"2024-10-22T16:48:09Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.8.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/releases/tag/v3.7.0","date":"2024-07-24T10:00:14Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.7.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/releases/tag/v3.6.4","date":"2024-07-09T09:47:09Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.6.4"},{"url":"https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/releases/tag/v3.6.3","date":"2024-05-22T10:52:39Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.6.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/releases/tag/v3.6.2","date":"2024-05-10T11:51:25Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.6.2"}]` |
| reliability.status_page | yes | yes |
| security.disclosure_policy | yes | - |
| security.scorecard | - | 3.7 |
| security.vulnerabilities | - | `{"count":0,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=npm&package_name=nightwatch&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":null}` |

## Capabilities (Testing Tools)

| Capability | Artillery | Nightwatch |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Core** |  |  |
| Test types | - | - |
| Browser automation | ✓ | ✓ |
| Built-in assertion library | ✓ | ✓ |
| Languages | JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js | JavaScript/Node.js |
| **Isolation** |  |  |
| Mocking / stubbing | - | ✓ |
| **Techniques** |  |  |
| Snapshot testing | - | ✓ |
| **Performance** |  |  |
| Parallel execution | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Insight** |  |  |
| Code coverage | - | ✗ |
| **DX** |  |  |
| Watch mode | - | - |
| **Ops** |  |  |
| CI integration | ✓ | ✓ |

*Source: vioscaleAI. Generated 2026-10-16T18:57:32.639Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*