# BlazeMeter vs wrk

| Attribute | BlazeMeter | wrk |
|---|---|---|
| **vioscaleAI score** | 44.1 (57% (medium)) | 41.3 (31% (low)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | - | 0 |
| adoption.dependent_repos | - | 77 |
| adoption.github_stars | - | 40,416 |
| 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 HTTP load testing utility designed to generate significant network traffic from a single multi-core machine. It uses multithreaded design with scalable event notification systems and supports custom scripting via LuaJIT for request generation and response processing. It is indexed under Load Testing.","source":"https://github.com/pricing","question":"What is wrk?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"wrk is open source, so it can be self-hosted and used at no licence cost. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://github.com/pricing","question":"Is wrk free to use?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"wrk supports 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 wrk support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. wrk can be deployed self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://github.com/pricing","question":"Can wrk be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6}]` |
| 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. | A lightweight benchmarking tool that generates high-volume network traffic to measure HTTP server performance, using multithreaded design and efficient event notification mechanisms |
| features.capabilities | `{"open_source":false,"ci_cd_native":true,"apm_observability_output":true,"recording_scriptless_creation":true}` | `{"open_source":true,"ci_cd_native":true,"browser_based_load":true}` |
| integrations.count | 13 | 18 |
| 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":"CircleCI","native":false,"category":"ci_cd","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Azure Pipelines","native":false,"category":"ci_cd","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Codemagic CI/CD","native":false,"category":"ci_cd","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Render","native":false,"category":"ci_cd","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Mergify","native":false,"category":"devops","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Zenhub","native":false,"category":"project_management","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Zube","native":false,"category":"project_management","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Linear Code","native":false,"category":"project_management","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Rollbar","native":false,"category":"monitoring","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Codacy","native":false,"category":"code_quality","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"CodeFactor","native":false,"category":"code_quality","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"DeepScan","native":false,"category":"code_quality","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"GuardRails","native":false,"category":"security","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"WakaTime","native":false,"category":"metrics","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"PullRequest","native":false,"category":"code_quality","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"POEditor","native":false,"category":"localization","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Qlty Cloud","native":false,"category":"backup","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"OpenCode","native":false,"category":"development","direction":"inbound"}]` |
| language.primary | - | C |
| market.availability | `{"primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | `{"primaryMarkets":["US"],"availabilityScope":"regional","availableCountries":["US","EU","AU"],"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":"hybrid","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Free","features":["Public repositories","2000 CI/CD minutes/month","Community support","Dependabot security updates"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":0,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Public repositories with basic features","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"ci_cd_minutes":"2000/mo"}},{"free":false,"name":"Pro","features":["Private repositories","3000 CI/CD minutes/month","Web-based support"],"minSeats":1,"components":[{"kind":"per_unit","unit":"user","amount":4,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Private repositories and advanced features","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"ci_cd_minutes":"3000/mo"}},{"free":false,"name":"Team","features":["Team collaboration","3000 CI/CD minutes/month","Advanced project management"],"components":[{"kind":"per_unit","unit":"user","amount":4,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Collaboration features for small teams","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"ci_cd_minutes":"3000/mo"}},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise Cloud","features":["50000 CI/CD minutes/month","SAML SSO","Audit log API","Enterprise account with multi-org management","SOC2 Type II compliance","Premium support with 30-min SLA on urgent tickets","24/7 web and phone support","Customer Reliability Engineer option"],"description":"Multi-organization management, SSO, audit logs, SLA support","contactSales":true,"includedLimits":{"ci_cd_minutes":"50000/mo"}}],"addOns":[{"name":"GitHub Copilot","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":10,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Copilot Pro","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":20,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Codespaces","components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"core-hour"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.18,"currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"GB"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.07,"currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Advanced Security"},{"name":"Code Quality","components":[{"kind":"per_unit","unit":"committer","amount":10,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}]}],"summary":"Free tier available. Pro starts at $4/user/month. Enterprise Cloud and add-ons available on contact.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://github.com/pricing","retrievedAt":"2026-09-14T15:33:32.082Z","freeTrialDays":30,"startingPrice":{"unit":"user","amount":4,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month"]}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | freemium | open_source |
| pricing.price_level | high | free |
| pricing.starting_price | `{"amount":79,"currency":"USD"}` | `{"amount":4,"currency":"USD"}` |
| pricing.transparent | yes | yes |
| security.certifications | - | `[{"name":"SOC 2 Type II","level":"Type II","status":"active"}]` |
| security.pci | yes | - |
| security.soc2 | - | yes |
| security.trust_center | - | https://github.com/security |
| security.vulnerabilities | - | `{"count":0,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=homebrew&package_name=wrk&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":null}` |

## Capabilities (Load Testing)

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

*Source: vioscaleAI. Generated 2026-10-16T19:02:07.931Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*