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Artillery load testing alternative

Artillery is a load and end-to-end testing system with distributed workers and a reporting platform. A test report, its retention period and the machine that generated it are different resources. Compare Artillery with Sandbox0 only where you need the execution layer behind an agent or custom testing workflow.

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Reviewed 2026-10-18 · Published by the Sandbox0 team

When Artillery fits

Keep Artillery when the primary task is generating load, authoring test scenarios, recording test results and tracking performance across releases. Sandbox0 does not supply that testing and reporting application automatically.

When to consider Sandbox0

Consider Sandbox0 for an agent’s returning Linux environment, including installed test tools, system configuration and accumulating outputs. You still choose and integrate a load generator, assertions, reports and distributed-test coordination.

Capabilities

Artillery and Sandbox0: what persists?

Feature comparison with documentation and verification status
Capability	Artillery	Sandbox0
Environment and runtime lifetime	ArtilleryFree 30-minute and Team 2-hour test caps differ from Business plan rows with no listed limit.View evidence ↗	Sandbox0ttl and hard_ttl default to 0 (disabled). Configure idle pause and deletion policies for the same persistent sandbox identity; an idle running sandbox still accrues compute charges.Read documentation →
Persistent files	ArtilleryReport/trace retention does not establish worker-filesystem persistence across tasks.View evidence ↗	Sandbox0The writable RootFS survives successful checkpoints, including software, system configuration, dependencies, and user data.Read documentation →
Whole RootFS	ArtilleryTask ephemeral storage is documented; a managed durable whole-RootFS lifecycle is not established.View evidence ↗	Sandbox0Persistence extends beyond /workspace to paths such as /usr/local, /etc, and /home. Runtime tmpfs and virtual filesystems are excluded.Read documentation →
Release compute, keep state	ArtilleryStopping or recording a test is not evidence of arbitrary-process pause/resume.View evidence ↗	Sandbox0Pause compute between tasks; resume on available capacity. Default resume starts fresh processes from the saved filesystem.Read documentation →
Memory and process state	ArtilleryNot established in this review	Sandbox0Experimental memory checkpoints can preserve compatible process state. Use memory: true on both pause and resume on a compatible deployment. A filesystem checkpoint alone does not preserve running processes.Read documentation →

Online RootFS growth

On growth-enabled images, Sandbox0 automatically expands the writable RootFS as free space runs low, within a configured sparse logical ceiling up to 64 TiB. Agent processes keep running. Growth is enabled in the qualified Cloud region; confirm activation for other regions. Existing images and snapshots retain their captured storage geometry. The ceiling is logical capacity, not preallocated host disk.

Artillery’s Fargate reference exposes task ephemeral storage from 20 to 200 GB. That is configuration for a test worker, not a documented automatically expanding durable RootFS for one returning agent. Keep accumulated agent tools and outputs in a separately defined durable environment.

Files while compute is paused

Sandbox0's Files API reads persistent files without resuming compute. Filesystem-only pauses also permit edits; retained-memory pauses are read-only and reject mutations with 409. SSH, SFTP, file watching, and runtime-only mounts require running compute.

The reviewed reporting and worker documentation does not establish complete RootFS file operations while a guest remains paused. Retrieving an existing report is an application-data operation, distinct from accessing an installed Linux environment.

See paused file operations →

Test quotas are measured in recorded reports

Each recorded load or E2E test counts as one report, including a test stopped early or a report later deleted. Free, Team and Business allow 30, 1,000 and 2,500 reports a month. Retention applies to reports and assets such as traces; it does not establish that the worker’s complete writable filesystem remains available for future agent tasks.

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Worker capacity and test duration depend on the plan

Free lists up to five workers and 30 minutes per test; Team lists 25 workers and two hours. Business lists no limit in those plan rows. Those are testing-plan limits, not an independently verified unlimited-compute guarantee. Fargate tasks have explicit CPU, memory and ephemeral-storage settings.

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A subscription is different from a raw compute quote

The subscription covers CLI and Cloud services for load and E2E testing. The Fargate guide deploys workers into an AWS account you configure. Budget the chosen execution backend as well as platform features; a report allowance is not an equivalent vCPU-hour allowance or a returning Linux machine.

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Pricing

Compare billing models, then price your workload

CPU allocation, memory, billing minimums, disk, plan fees, and supported workload differ. These meters are not equal-performance machine quotes. Confirm region, resource units, and included allowances before estimating a total.

Artillery

Pricing reviewed 2026-10-18

Free: $0/month; 30 reports/month, one-month report retention, two members; worker and test-duration limits apply.; Rate source ↗
Team: $199/month; 1,000 reports/month, six-month retention and eight members; up to 25 workers and two hours per test.; Rate source ↗
Business: $499/month; 2,500 reports/month and 18-month retention; no listed member/worker/test-duration cap in the current plan table.; Rate source ↗
Enterprise add-ons: Starting at $1,199/month; SSO, audit, custom agreement and support SLA scope; confirm the effective quote.; Rate source ↗

These are monthly subscription amounts. Annual subscription links advertise a 20% discount, which is not applied to the monthly rows here. Sporadic quota overruns may continue, while persistent overruns can degrade service or make the account read-only. Resource-backend charges and managed BYOC terms need their own review; no equal-throughput or universal cost-saving claim follows.

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Sandbox0

$0.015/GiB-hour compute (billed by the second at approximately $0.000004167/GiB-second), plus $0.02/GiB-month of retained incremental RootFS and memory checkpoint data. Shared base images and platform recovery retention are excluded; paused sandboxes accrue storage charges only.

Compute / GiB-hour: $0.015
Retained data / GiB-month: $0.02
Paused compute: $0.00

A 4 GiB agent, 100 running hours

$6.00 compute

4 GiB × 100 hours, billed by the second. Keeping 20 GiB of billable incremental data for a full billing month adds $0.40. CPU is derived from memory by the platform; choose a tier that fits your workload.

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Before migrating from Artillery

Inventory load scenarios, plugins, worker backend, reports and required plan limits; retain Artillery where those testing features are needed.
Place compatible custom agent tools in a Sandbox0 template and integrate the chosen test/reporting system explicitly.
Verify system-package retention, growing outputs, paused file access and both execution-resource and testing-subscription costs.

Common questions

Is Sandbox0 a drop-in Artillery replacement?

Evaluate API compatibility and product scope. These products serve different core workflows, so a change may require a different architecture.

Does keeping files also keep a running agent?

Filesystem state and volatile process state are separate. Sandbox0 requires explicit compatible memory checkpoints to preserve running processes; its default filesystem resume starts fresh processes.

Sources and review scope

The Boat team's Battleships directory is the discovery source. References below describe the product and plan discussed on this page. Check current availability, regional terms and billing units before migrating. Where the cited material does not establish a capability or price, the comparison identifies that uncertainty.

Battleships research record ↗www.artillery.io/pricing ↗www.artillery.io/docs/reference/cli/run-fargate ↗www.artillery.io/docs/load-testing-at-scale/aws-fargate ↗Sandbox0 RootFS capacity →

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