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k6
An open-source JavaScript-based tool and hosted service for performance and reliability testing of web applications, APIs, and cloud infrastructure.

k6 provides a developer-friendly CLI and scripting API (JavaScript) to create reproducible performance tests that run locally, on Kubernetes, or in a hosted cloud environment. Tests use the same script across environments so teams can shift testing left and scale from single developers to enterprise workloads.

It covers a broad set of use cases — stress, spike, soak and smoke tests — and extends to end-to-end browser interactions, synthetic monitoring, fault injection for resilience testing, and infrastructure capacity validation. Results include threshold-based pass/fail checks suitable for CI/CD pipelines.

The platform integrates with common observability and dev tools (Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, OpenTelemetry, Postman, CI systems) and offers distributed load generation from multiple global zones to simulate real traffic patterns and diagnose bottlenecks.

You can learn more about pricing for k6 at its pricing page.

k6 can be categorized under Performance Optimization Toolss, which is commonly listed under Performance tools.

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