specification: API Commons Rate Limits
specificationVersion: '0.1'
schema: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/interface-research/main/schema/api-commons.yml#/$defs/RateLimits
provider: Artillery
providerId: artillery
created: '2026-05-04'
modified: '2026-09-07'
generated: '2026-09-07'
method: searched
source: https://www.artillery.io/pricing
note: >-
  REPLACES a 2026-05-04 bulk-sweep scaffold that asserted 10/100/1000 requests-per-minute tiers,
  X-RateLimit-* response headers and 429 semantics that Artillery has never published. NONE of
  that was real. Artillery publishes NO HTTP rate limits, NO rate-limit response headers and NO
  documented 429 behaviour for the Artillery Cloud API — that API is undocumented and returns 401
  to every anonymous request. What Artillery DOES publish are plan-level usage quotas metered in
  test reports, plus per-plan ceilings on distributed workers and test duration. Those are
  recorded below as the real published limits.
tags:
- Load Testing
- Performance Testing
- Quotas
- Rate Limiting
description: >-
  Published Artillery Cloud usage limits. The metering unit is the test report, not the API
  request. Concurrency ceilings are expressed as distributed workers per test and maximum test
  duration.
headers:
  limit: null
  remaining: null
  reset: null
  retryAfter: null
  policy: null
  observed: []
  note: >-
    No X-RateLimit-*, RateLimit-* or Retry-After headers were returned on a live anonymous
    request to https://app.artillery.io/api (HTTP 401, application/json, 2026-09-07).
responseCodes:
  throttled: null
  quotaExceeded: null
  serviceUnavailable: null
  note: >-
    Artillery publishes no status code for quota exhaustion. Its stated behaviour is degradation
    and read-only mode, not a throttling response.
limit_count: 12
limits:
- tier: free
  name: Test volume
  scope: per-account
  metric: test_reports
  limit: 30
  timeFrame: month
  applies: [Artillery Cloud]
- tier: free
  name: Distributed workers per test
  scope: per-test
  metric: workers
  limit: 5
  applies: [AWS Lambda, AWS Fargate, Azure ACI]
- tier: free
  name: Maximum test duration
  scope: per-test
  metric: minutes
  limit: 30
  applies: [Artillery CLI, Artillery Cloud]
- tier: free
  name: E2E test cases per report
  scope: per-report
  metric: cases
  limit: 25
  applies: [Playwright E2E testing]
- tier: team
  name: Test volume
  scope: per-account
  metric: test_reports
  limit: 1000
  timeFrame: month
  applies: [Artillery Cloud]
- tier: team
  name: Distributed workers per test
  scope: per-test
  metric: workers
  limit: 25
  applies: [AWS Lambda, AWS Fargate, Azure ACI]
- tier: team
  name: Maximum test duration
  scope: per-test
  metric: hours
  limit: 2
  applies: [Artillery CLI, Artillery Cloud]
- tier: team
  name: E2E test cases per report
  scope: per-report
  metric: cases
  limit: 50
  applies: [Playwright E2E testing]
- tier: business
  name: Test volume
  scope: per-account
  metric: test_reports
  limit: 2500
  timeFrame: month
  applies: [Artillery Cloud]
- tier: business
  name: Distributed workers per test
  scope: per-test
  metric: workers
  limit: -1
  note: no limit
  applies: [AWS Lambda, AWS Fargate, Azure ACI]
- tier: business
  name: Maximum test duration
  scope: per-test
  metric: minutes
  limit: -1
  note: no limit
  applies: [Artillery CLI, Artillery Cloud]
- tier: business
  name: E2E test cases per report
  scope: per-report
  metric: cases
  limit: -1
  note: no limit
  applies: [Playwright E2E testing]
policies:
- name: What counts as a test report
  description: >-
    Each distinct load test or E2E test recorded to Artillery Cloud counts as one test report.
    The limit includes reports from tests stopped early and reports that are later deleted.
  source: https://www.artillery.io/pricing
- name: Exceeding a limit
  description: >-
    Artillery Cloud continues working as normal if limits are exceeded sporadically. If limits
    are exceeded continuously, service may be degraded to prioritize other users and the account
    may be placed in read-only mode.
  source: https://www.artillery.io/pricing
- name: Spend and volume controls
  description: Spend & volume controls are a Business-tier feature.
  source: https://www.artillery.io/pricing
- name: Data retention
  description: >-
    Reports and assets such as trace recordings are queryable for 1 month (Free), 6 months
    (Team) or 18 months (Business); outside that window they can no longer be viewed or queried.
  source: https://www.artillery.io/pricing
x-evidence:
  fetched: '2026-09-07'
  probes:
  - {url: 'https://www.artillery.io/pricing', status: 200}
  - {url: 'https://app.artillery.io/api/openapi.json', status: 401, note: 'no rate-limit headers on the response'}
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com