# BlazeMeter vs vegeta

| Attribute | BlazeMeter | vegeta |
|---|---|---|
| **vioscaleAI score** | 44.1 (57% (medium)) | 43.8 (35% (low)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | - | 0 |
| adoption.dependent_repos | - | 1,221 |
| adoption.github_stars | - | 25,222 |
| content.faq | `[{"answer":"A cloud-based performance testing platform that enables teams to generate simulated user load against applications to identify bottlenecks and ensure applications remain stable during traffic spikes. It supports testing across web applications, mobile apps, APIs, and microservices. It is indexed under Load Testing.","source":"https://www.blazemeter.com","question":"What is BlazeMeter?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"BlazeMeter offers a free tier, so you can start without paying. Paid plans start at $79 per month. Prices are published openly on the vendor's own pricing page. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://www.blazemeter.com/pricing","question":"Is BlazeMeter free?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed browser-based access to BlazeMeter. That is the extent of what we could verify from public sources, so it may well offer desktop or mobile clients we have not indexed.","source":"https://www.blazemeter.com","question":"What platforms does BlazeMeter support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. BlazeMeter can be deployed cloud / SaaS, hybrid, on-premise and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://www.blazemeter.com","question":"Can BlazeMeter be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 14 integrations for BlazeMeter, including Jenkins, GitHub, GitLab, CircleCI, Slack, DataDog, PagerDuty and New Relic, plus 6 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://www.blazemeter.com","question":"What does BlazeMeter integrate with?","confidence":0.6}]` | `[{"answer":"An open-source load testing utility that sends traffic to HTTP endpoints and measures response times, error rates, and other performance metrics. It provides CLI commands for running attacks, encoding results in multiple formats, and generating visualizations. It is indexed under Load Testing.","source":"https://github.com/pricing","question":"What is vegeta?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"vegeta 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://github.com/pricing","question":"Is vegeta free to use?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"vegeta supports Windows, macOS, Linux and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://github.com/pricing","question":"What platforms does vegeta support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. vegeta can be deployed on-premise and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://github.com/pricing","question":"Can vegeta be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. vegeta 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/tsenart/vegeta","question":"Is vegeta open source?","confidence":0.95}]` |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true,"hybrid":true,"self_hosted":true}` | `{"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | BlazeMeter is a cloud-based testing platform using AI to automate performance, API, and functional testing. It eliminates complex scripting through natural language workflow definitions and supports integration with 20+ open-source frameworks, enabling load testing at scale across global infrastructure. | An open-source tool for generating HTTP requests at scale to test application performance, with support for multiple result encodings and interactive visualization of request latency patterns. |
| features.capabilities | `{"open_source":false,"ci_cd_native":true,"apm_observability_output":true,"recording_scriptless_creation":true}` | `{"open_source":true,"ci_cd_native":true,"apm_observability_output":true}` |
| integrations.count | 13 | 1 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"Jenkins"},{"name":"GitHub"},{"name":"GitLab"},{"name":"CircleCI"},{"name":"Slack"},{"name":"DataDog"},{"name":"PagerDuty"},{"name":"New Relic"},{"name":"Splunk"},{"name":"AWS"},{"name":"Postman"},{"name":"Swagger/OpenAPI"},{"name":"JMeter"},{"name":"Perfecto","native":true,"category":"mobile_testing"},{"name":"Swagger","native":true,"category":"api_framework","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Selenium","native":true,"category":"functional_testing","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Playwright","native":true,"category":"functional_testing","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Atlassian","native":false,"category":"software","direction":"bidirectional"}]` | `[{"name":"Prometheus"},{"name":"Grafana","native":false,"direction":"outbound"}]` |
| language.primary | - | Go |
| license.spdx | - | MIT |
| market.availability | `{"primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | - |
| platform.support | `{"web":true}` | `{"cli":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"subscription","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Free (Performance)","summary":"Free plan","features":["50 concurrent users","10 tests/month","Unlimited test duration","Tier 2 support"],"contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"tests_per_month":"10","max_test_duration":"Unlimited","max_virtual_users":"50"}},{"free":false,"name":"Basic (Performance)","summary":"$99/year","features":["1,000 concurrent users","200 tests/year","1 virtual service","1 hour max duration"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":99,"period":"year","currency":"USD"}],"contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"tests_per_year":"200","virtual_services":"1","max_test_duration":"1 hour","max_virtual_users":"1,000"}},{"free":false,"name":"Pro (Performance)","summary":"$499/year or $149/month","features":["5,000 concurrent users","80,000 VUH/year","2 virtual services","5 hour max duration","Tier 1 support"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":499,"period":"year","currency":"USD"},{"kind":"fixed","amount":149,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"vuh_per_year":"80,000","virtual_services":"2","max_test_duration":"5 hours","max_virtual_users":"5,000"}},{"free":false,"name":"Unleashed (Performance)","summary":"Custom pricing for enterprise scale","features":["Volume discounts","Unlimited fixed-cost plans","Test data","Dedicated IPs","On-premise options","Priority support"],"contactSales":true},{"free":false,"name":"AWS Marketplace","summary":"Customizable pricing via AWS Marketplace","features":["Customizable tests/VUH","Load generators","API monitoring & functional testing"],"contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Small (APIs)","summary":"$79/month","features":["250K requests/month","5 team members","Standard email support","19 global locations","1-minute min schedules","Email & webhook alerts","Slack/DataDog/PagerDuty integrations","Daily reports","On-premise agent","OpenAPI & Postman import","CI/CD support","Data-driven testing"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":79,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"team_members":"5","requests_per_month":"250K"}},{"free":false,"name":"Medium (APIs)","summary":"$199/month","features":["1M requests/month","40 team members","Custom script libraries","All Small plan features"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":199,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"team_members":"40","requests_per_month":"1M"}},{"free":false,"name":"Large (APIs)","summary":"$599/month","features":["5M requests/month","50 team members","SAML SSO","Client certificates","Splunk integrations","Secrets management","RBAC support","SLA included","File uploads","Dedicated success manager","Premium support","All Medium features"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":599,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"team_members":"50","requests_per_month":"5M"}}],"summary":"From $99/year (Performance) or $79/month (APIs). Free tier available.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.blazemeter.com/pricing","retrievedAt":"2026-09-28T13:14:47.569Z","startingPrice":{"amount":79,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month","year"]}` | `{"type":"open_source","summary":"Open source and free","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://github.com/pricing","retrievedAt":"2026-09-14T15:35:12.478Z"}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | freemium | commercial |
| pricing.price_level | high | free |
| pricing.starting_price | `{"amount":79,"currency":"USD"}` | - |
| pricing.transparent | yes | yes |
| release.cadence_days | - | 37 |
| release.history | - | `[{"url":"https://github.com/tsenart/vegeta/releases/tag/v12.13.0","date":"2025-10-31T11:34:10Z","type":"stable","version":"v12.13.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/tsenart/vegeta/releases/tag/v12.12.0","date":"2024-07-29T17:37:17Z","type":"stable","version":"v12.12.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/tsenart/vegeta/releases/tag/v12.11.3","date":"2024-07-27T18:18:27Z","type":"stable","version":"v12.11.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/tsenart/vegeta/releases/tag/v12.11.2","date":"2024-07-27T12:27:25Z","type":"stable","version":"v12.11.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/tsenart/vegeta/releases/tag/v12.11.1","date":"2023-10-02T09:08:28Z","type":"stable","version":"v12.11.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/tsenart/vegeta/releases/tag/v12.11.0","date":"2023-07-24T19:18:40Z","type":"stable","version":"v12.11.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/tsenart/vegeta/releases/tag/v12.10.0","date":"2023-07-16T17:25:26Z","type":"stable","version":"v12.10.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/tsenart/vegeta/releases/tag/v12.9.0","date":"2023-07-14T16:49:22Z","type":"stable","version":"v12.9.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/tsenart/vegeta/releases/tag/v12.8.4","date":"2020-10-11T10:41:06Z","type":"stable","version":"v12.8.4"},{"url":"https://github.com/tsenart/vegeta/releases/tag/v12.8.3","date":"2020-03-25T11:04:07Z","type":"stable","version":"v12.8.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/tsenart/vegeta/releases/tag/v12.8.2","date":"2020-03-24T14:16:40Z","type":"stable","version":"v12.8.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/tsenart/vegeta/releases/tag/v12.8.0","date":"2020-02-16T13:32:01Z","type":"stable","version":"v12.8.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/tsenart/vegeta/releases/tag/v12.7.0","date":"2019-07-21T12:38:28Z","type":"stable","version":"v12.7.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/tsenart/vegeta/releases/tag/v12.6.0","date":"2019-07-19T14:00:11Z","type":"stable","version":"v12.6.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/tsenart/vegeta/releases/tag/cli/v12.5.1","date":"2019-05-12T14:54:18Z","type":"stable","version":"cli/v12.5.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/tsenart/vegeta/releases/tag/cli/v12.5.0","date":"2019-05-12T12:05:37Z","type":"stable","version":"cli/v12.5.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/tsenart/vegeta/releases/tag/cli/v12.4.0","date":"2019-05-05T11:57:47Z","type":"stable","version":"cli/v12.4.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/tsenart/vegeta/releases/tag/cli/v12.3.0","date":"2019-04-14T13:30:10Z","type":"stable","version":"cli/v12.3.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/tsenart/vegeta/releases/tag/cli/v12.2.1","date":"2019-03-05T20:19:09Z","type":"stable","version":"cli/v12.2.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/tsenart/vegeta/releases/tag/cli/v12.2.0","date":"2019-01-04T11:33:46Z","type":"stable","version":"cli/v12.2.0"}]` |
| security.pci | yes | - |
| security.scorecard | - | 3.6 |
| security.trust_center | - | https://github.com/security |
| security.vulnerabilities | - | `{"count":0,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=go&package_name=github.com%2Ftsenart%2Fvegeta%2Fv12&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":null}` |

## Capabilities (Load Testing)

| Capability | BlazeMeter | vegeta |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Capabilities** |  |  |
| Browser based load | - | - |
| Ci cd native | ✓ | ✓ |
| Apm observability output | ✓ | ✓ |
| Correlation parameterization | - | - |
| Recording scriptless creation | ✓ | - |
| Realtime dashboard | - | - |
| Open source | ✗ | ✓ |

*Source: vioscaleAI. Generated 2026-10-16T08:22:39.303Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*