WPLoadTester 7 is free and permanent on one Windows or macOS computer: generate as much load as your own machine can sustain, no time bomb, no credit card, with the AI Assistant running on your own Anthropic, OpenAI, or Bedrock key. A flat license adds cloud load generation in your own AWS or Azure account and AI-written bottleneck reports, billed straight to you with no per-VU-hour and no SaaS markup.
Paste a URL. WPLoadTester 7's AI figures out the auth flow (PKCE, OAuth, form login), writes the test, and runs it. What used to take days of variable-correlation work now takes hours.
Built on 27 years of professional performance-engineering methodology, the AI produces the same analysis a senior performance engineer would, in hours, not days. It pinpoints bottlenecks, ranks them by severity, and explains the root cause in plain English.
| Per-VU-hour SaaS | WPLoadTester | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Per-VU-hour, metered | Flat license |
| Compute | Bundled into the rate | Your AWS or Azure VMs, at cost |
| AI features | Vendor-hosted surcharge | Your own AI key |
| Bottom line * | ~$3,000 / run | license + ~$4 / run |
* Per-VU-hour SaaS at a ~$0.15 list rate is about $3,000 for 20,000 VU-hours; even at half off it is ~$1,500. WPLoadTester is a flat annual license ($4,990/yr for 5,000 VU, $9,500 for 10,000) plus the compute each run uses, about $4 of EC2 on ~20 m5.large instances in your own cloud account. The license pays for itself after roughly three runs a year; every run after that is ~$4 instead of metered VU-hours.
Load engines spin up inside your own AWS or Azure account, fully orchestrated end-to-end. As easy as SaaS, without the SaaS markup. Test traffic never leaves your cloud boundary and compute costs flow directly to your account.
WPLoadTester 7 uses your Anthropic, OpenAI, or AWS Bedrock key. Your enterprise contract already covers it. Your security team already approved it. Your data stays within your boundary.
Mobile, APIs, CI/CD, and the reporting depth you'd expect from 27 years of load testing experience.
Flat license, EC2 at cost. A 10k-user, 2-hour test bills ~$3,000 of metered VU-hours on SaaS; WPLoadTester runs it on ~$4 of EC2 in your own account. See the math
Use your Anthropic, OpenAI, or AWS Bedrock key. Your vendor contract, your approvals, your data path. Nothing new for security to review. Learn more
Command-line runner with JUnit output and pass/fail thresholds. Drop into GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or your pipeline of choice. See examples
Mobile-web and hybrid apps via Chrome's device emulation, plus REST, GraphQL, and microservice APIs across the full protocol surface.
Our US-based performance engineers do comprehensive performance and scalability testing, bottleneck analysis, and architecture reviews. Same engineers who wrote the tool, working on your stack.
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