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Load testing software, on your machine or your cloud. No SaaS markup.

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.

Free, no signup or credit card
Flat license, no per-VU-hour
Bring your own AI key + cloud account
Trusted since 1999 · Durham, NC
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Why WPLoadTester

What makes WPLoadTester 7 different

WPLoadTester 7 AI Assistant identifying an OAuth2/OIDC + PKCE authentication pattern in a pre-configured stock trading test case. Six pages configured, all returning 200 status codes.
New in 7.0

AI configures your tests

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.

  • Use your own AI accounts: no SaaS markup
  • Complicated workflows are configured in hours, not days
  • Tricky variable correlation, session state, tokens, all handled for you
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WPLoadTester 7 Load Test Analytics Report tab with AI-written narrative analysis of performance degradation by page
New in 7.0

AI writes the performance report

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.

  • Professional report distilled from 27 years of performance-engineering practice
  • Identifies the inflection point where performance breaks
  • Critical / Warning severity based on real numbers, not guesses
  • Root-cause hypotheses and recommended next steps

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How AI works Download WPLoadTester
10,000 virtual users · 2-hour run · 20,000 VU-hours
Per-VU-hour SaaS WPLoadTester
PricingPer-VU-hour, meteredFlat license
ComputeBundled into the rateYour AWS or Azure VMs, at cost
AI featuresVendor-hosted surchargeYour own AI key
Bottom line *~$3,000 / runlicense + ~$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.

Your cloud

Runs in your AWS or Azure account

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.

  • Flat license, no per-VU-hour markup, no SaaS compute premium
  • One button load generation: Installs and configures every load generator automatically
  • Distributes per-user datasets (logins, search terms, etc.) across engines
  • Load-balances virtual users by each engine's real capacity, so generators don't distort their own measurements
  • Terminates instances when the test ends, so you pay only for the minutes you ran
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Your keys, your boundary
Anthropic
OpenAI
AWS Bedrock
No new vendor review · no AI markup
Your Keys

Bring your own AI

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.

  • Anthropic, OpenAI, AWS Bedrock (all models)
  • No new vendor security review
  • No markup on AI tokens
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Everything else

Plus everything else you need

Mobile, APIs, CI/CD, and the reporting depth you'd expect from 27 years of load testing experience.

No SaaS markup

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

Your AI, your data, your boundary

Use your Anthropic, OpenAI, or AWS Bedrock key. Your vendor contract, your approvals, your data path. Nothing new for security to review. Learn more

CI/CD ready

Command-line runner with JUnit output and pass/fail thresholds. Drop into GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or your pipeline of choice. See examples

Mobile & API testing

Mobile-web and hybrid apps via Chrome's device emulation, plus REST, GraphQL, and microservice APIs across the full protocol surface.

1M+Concurrent users
27Years of practice
~$4EC2, not $3,000
1999Founded · Durham, NC
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Consulting services

When you need a person, not a product

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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