Best Load Testing · FREE
Best free Load Testing (2026)
7 load testing that offer a genuine free plan, ranked by entry price. Every figure links to the public page it was captured from — the vendor's own wherever the vendor publishes the number, otherwise the named public source — with the date we captured it.
Key takeaways
- Cheapest: Artillery at $0/mo.
- Qualifying: Artillery, BlazeMeter, Grafana k6 Cloud, Loader.io, LoadNinja, OctoPerf, Gatling Enterprise.
- Data current through: 2026-11-01. STALE marks a row whose price we have not re-checked at its source in over 30 days; a vendor with no published price is marked when any of its plans is. 3 of 7 rows below are marked.
Comparison
| # | Load Testing | Entry price | Free | HIPAA | SOC 2 | Best for | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Artillery | $0/mo | Yes | — | — | Node.js and JavaScript-native teams | artillery.io |
| 2 | BlazeMeter STALE · 2026-09-02 | $0/mo | Yes | — | — | enterprises standardizing on JMeter at scale | blazemeter.com |
| 3 | Grafana k6 Cloud | $0/mo | Yes | No | Yes | DevOps teams already on Grafana stack | grafana.com |
| 4 | Loader.io | $0/mo | Yes | — | — | small teams needing quick API endpoint load checks | loader.io |
| 5 | LoadNinja STALE · 2026-09-02 | $0/mo | No | — | — | QA teams testing modern SPAs and JavaScript-heavy apps | loadninja.com |
| 6 | OctoPerf | $0/mo | Yes | — | — | teams requiring on-premise or hybrid deployment | octoperf.com |
| 7 | Gatling Enterprise STALE · 2026-09-02 | — | Yes | No | — | developer-centric teams preferring code-first test definitions | gatling.io |