# BlazeMeter vs wrk

**Leader by Vioscale score:** BlazeMeter

| Attribute | BlazeMeter | wrk |
|---|---|---|
| **Vioscale score** | 48.6 (43% (low)) | 36.2 (17% (low)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | - | 0 |
| adoption.dependent_repos | - | 77 |
| adoption.github_stars | - | 40,394 |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true,"hybrid":true,"on_prem":true}` | `{"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | A comprehensive continuous testing platform that unifies performance, API, functional testing, and service virtualization with AI-driven test data generation. It enables teams to automate testing throughout the software delivery lifecycle, supports 20+ open-source frameworks, and scales to millions of concurrent virtual users across global locations. | 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. |
| integrations.count | 13 | - |
| 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"}]` | - |
| language.primary | - | C |
| market.availability | `{"primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | - |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` | `{"cli":true,"mac":true,"linux":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"subscription","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Free Starter","summary":"Free","features":["50 concurrent users","10 tests per month","2 hour max test duration","Basic support"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":0,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"test_duration":"2 hours","tests_per_month":"10","concurrent_users":"50","api_monitoring_per_month":"1000"}},{"free":false,"name":"Performance Basic","summary":"$149/month or $99/year","features":["1,000 concurrent users","200 tests/year","1 virtual service","1 hour max test duration"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":149,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},{"kind":"fixed","amount":99,"period":"year","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Ideal for small teams","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"test_duration":"1 hour","tests_per_year":"200","concurrent_users":"1000","virtual_services":"1"}},{"free":false,"name":"Performance Pro","summary":"$649/month or $499/year","features":["5,000 concurrent users","80,000 VUH/year","2 virtual services","5 hour max test duration"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":649,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},{"kind":"fixed","amount":499,"period":"year","currency":"USD"}],"description":"For growing businesses","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"vuh_per_year":"80000","test_duration":"5 hours","concurrent_users":"5000","virtual_services":"2"}},{"free":false,"name":"Performance Unleashed","summary":"Custom pricing","features":["Volume discounts","Fixed cost unlimited plans","Test data","Dedicated IPs","On-premise options","Priority support"],"description":"Ideal for large organizations","contactSales":true},{"free":false,"name":"APIs Small","summary":"$79/month","features":["250K requests","5 team members","Standard email support","19 global locations","Up to 1-minute schedules","Email & webhook alerts","Slack, DataDog, PagerDuty integrations","Daily performance report","On-premise agent","Open API import","Postman import","CI support","Data-driven testing"],"minSeats":5,"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":79,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"requests":"250K","team_members":"5"}},{"free":false,"name":"APIs Medium","summary":"$199/month","features":["1M requests","40 team members","Custom script libraries"],"minSeats":40,"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":199,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"requests":"1M","team_members":"40"}},{"free":false,"name":"APIs Large","summary":"$599/month","features":["5M requests","50 team members","Reusable script snippets","Response timing enhancements","SAML SSO","Client certificates","Premium support","Splunk integrations","Secrets management","RBAC support","Service level agreement","File uploads","Higher request volumes","Dedicated success manager"],"minSeats":50,"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":599,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"requests":"5M","team_members":"50"}}],"summary":"From $79/month for API testing, $149/month for performance testing. Free tier available.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.blazemeter.com/pricing","retrievedAt":"2026-08-19T13:39:30.076Z","startingPrice":{"amount":79,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month","year"]}` | `{"type":"open_source","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://github.com/pricing","retrievedAt":"2026-08-19T13:39:54.867Z"}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | freemium | commercial |
| pricing.price_level | high | free |
| pricing.starting_price | `{"amount":79,"currency":"USD"}` | - |
| pricing.transparent | yes | - |
| security.pci | yes | - |
| 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: Vioscale. Generated 2026-09-01T16:46:12.227Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*