Loadster changelog

https://loadster.com/llms.txt

− - [AI Load Testing](https://loadster.com/ai-load-testing/): Overview of load testing with AI assistants — connect Claude, ChatGPT, or Cursor to Loadster over MCP and let them write scripts, build scenarios, and analyze results, and, at the "Read+Write+Execute" access level, launch and watch the tests too.− - [Loadster MCP Tool Reference: All MCP Tools and Classes](https://loadster.com/manual/mcp-tools/index.md): Every tool the Loadster MCP server offers AI assistants, with its Read, Write, Sensitive Write, or Execute class, behavior hints, parameters, and limits.+ - [AI Load Testing](https://loadster.com/ai-load-testing/): Overview of load testing with AI assistants — connect Claude, ChatGPT, or Cursor to Loadster over MCP and let them write scripts, build scenarios, and analyze results, and, at the "Launch" access level, launch and watch the tests too.+ - [Loadster MCP Tool Reference: All MCP Tools and Classes](https://loadster.com/manual/mcp-tools/index.md): Every tool the Loadster MCP server offers AI assistants, with its Read, Write, Sensitive Write, or Launch class, behavior hints, parameters, and limits.

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2.0.1 → 2.2.1

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− Loadster has three plans. Loadster Fuel is pay-as-you-go: bots burn fuel while they run, and fuel comes in one-time packs ($97–$997 for 1K–20K units) that never expire, with bulk pricing on request; Protocol Bots burn 1 unit per bot-hour and Browser Bots and Playwright burn 4. Loadster Team is a flat $499/month billed annually ($699 billed monthly) with tests of up to 1,000 Browser Bots and 10,000 Protocol Bots, 240 test hours a year (20 a month billed monthly), monitoring included, 25 team memb− - [AI Load Testing](https://loadster.com/ai-load-testing/): Overview of load testing with AI assistants — connect Claude, ChatGPT, or Cursor to Loadster over MCP and let them write scripts, build scenarios, and analyze results, while you launch the tests.− - [Loadster MCP Tool Reference: All MCP Tools and Classes](https://loadster.com/manual/mcp-tools/index.md): Every tool the Loadster MCP server offers AI assistants, with its Read, Write, or Sensitive write class, behavior hints, parameters, and limits.− - [Can AI Run Load Tests and Set Up Monitors?](https://loadster.com/faqs/ai-assistant-run-load-tests/index.md): An AI assistant can write and play scripts, build load test scenarios, and set up monitors in Loadster, but launching a full load test stays your call.− - [Load Testing with Claude, ChatGPT, and AI Assistants](https://loadster.com/faqs/using-ai-for-load-testing/index.md): Yes. Connect Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, or another AI assistant to Loadster over MCP, and it can write scripts, build load tests, and read your results.+ Loadster has three plans. Loadster Fuel is pay-as-you-go: bots burn fuel while they run, and fuel comes in one-time packs ($97–$997 for 1K–20K units) that never expire, with bulk pricing on request; Protocol Bots burn 1 unit per bot-hour and Browser Bots and Playwright burn 4. Loadster Team is a flat $499/month billed annually ($699 billed monthly) with tests of up to 1,000 Browser Bots and 10,000 Protocol Bots, 240 test hours a year (20 a month billed monthly), monitoring included, 25 team memb+ - [AI Load Testing](https://loadster.com/ai-load-testing/): Overview of load testing with AI assistants — connect Claude, ChatGPT, or Cursor to Loadster over MCP and let them write scripts, build scenarios, and analyze results, and, at the "Read+Write+Execute" access level, launch and watch the tests too.+ - [Loadster MCP Tool Reference: All MCP Tools and Classes](https://loadster.com/manual/mcp-tools/index.md): Every tool the Loadster MCP server offers AI assistants, with its Read, Write, Sensitive Write, or Execute class, behavior hints, parameters, and limits.+ - [Can AI Run Load Tests and Set Up Monitors?](https://loadster.com/faqs/ai-assistant-run-load-tests/index.md): Yes. Your AI assistant can write scripts, build scenarios, launch load tests, and enable monitors in Loadster, at the access level you choose.+ - [Load Testing with Claude, ChatGPT, and AI Assistants](https://loadster.com/faqs/using-ai-for-load-testing/index.md): Yes. Connect Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, or another AI assistant to Loadster over MCP, and it can write scripts, run load tests, and read your results.+ - [When do load tests and monitors burn Loadster Fuel?](https://loadster.com/faqs/plan-or-fuel/index.md): On Loadster Fuel, every load test and monitor cycle burns fuel. On the Team, Enterprise, or a monitoring plan, the plan covers them first.

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1.6.0 → 2.0.1

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1.5.0 → 1.6.0

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1.4.0 → 1.5.0

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https://loadster.com/manual/ai-agents/ → https://loadster.com/manual/mcp/

https://loadster.com/llms.txt

− Loadster is powered by Fuel, a unified currency for load testing and monitoring. Bots burn fuel when they run. Every account starts with 50 free units. Monthly Fuel Plans (1K–20K units, $77–$797/month) offer a discount and unused fuel rolls over. Pay-as-you-go fuel ($97–$997 per 1K–20K units) never expires. Monitoring Plans start at $29/month. Protocol Bots burn 1x fuel; Browser Bots and Playwright scripts burn 4x. Custom, annual, and bring-your-own-cloud plans are also available.− - [Code Blocks for Advanced Scripting](https://loadster.com/manual/code-blocks/index.md): JavaScript code blocks in Loadster. Use code blocks in Protocol Scripts and Browser Scripts for function reuse, looping, and conditional logic.− - [Loadster Single Sign-On Guide](https://loadster.com/manual/sso/index.md): Loadster offers SSO with SAMLv2 with certain annual and custom plans. Setting up Single Sign-On is generally fairly straightforward.− - [Single Sign On (SSO) Support](https://loadster.com/faqs/sso-saml-single-sign-on/index.md): Loadster supports SAML2 for Single Sign-On (SSO). This is available with annual plans and custom plans upon request and we'd be happy to help you set it up.− - [What is Loadster Fuel? Usage, VU-hours, and bot types](https://loadster.com/faqs/what-is-loadster-fuel/index.md): Loadster Fuel is usage-based pricing for load tests and monitoring. Usage is duration × launched bots × bot type. Protocol is 1x; real browsers are 4x.+ Loadster has three plans. Loadster Fuel is pay-as-you-go: bots burn fuel while they run, and fuel comes in one-time packs ($97–$997 for 1K–20K units) that never expire, with bulk pricing on request; Protocol Bots burn 1 unit per bot-hour and Browser Bots and Playwright burn 4. Loadster Team is a flat $499/month billed annually ($699 billed monthly) with tests of up to 1,000 Browser Bots and 10,000 Protocol Bots, 240 test hours a year (20 a month billed monthly), monitoring included, 25 team memb+ - [Synthetic monitoring pricing](https://loadster.com/pricing/monitoring/): Monitoring-only plans from $29/month, what every monitoring plan includes, and how they compare with fuel and the Team plan.+ - [How Loadster Fuel works](https://loadster.com/pricing/fuel/): The fuel formula, fuel prices, how much fuel monitors use, and a fuel calculator.+ - [Import JMeter, k6, and Locust Scripts](https://loadster.com/manual/protocol-scripts/importing-scripts/index.md): Convert JMeter test plans, k6 scripts, and Locust locustfiles into Loadster protocol scripts, with a report of anything that needs review.+ - [Loadster MCP Tool Reference: All MCP Tools and Classes](https://loadster.com/manual/mcp-tools/index.md): Every tool the Loadster MCP server offers AI assistants, with its Read, Write, or Sensitive write class, behavior hints, parameters, and limits.+ - [Code Blocks for Advanced Scripting](https://loadster.com/manual/code-blocks/index.md): JavaScript Code Blocks in Loadster. Use code blocks in Protocol Scripts and Browser Scripts for function reuse, looping, and conditional logic.+ - [Loadster Single Sign-On Guide](https://loadster.com/manual/sso/index.md): Loadster offers SSO with SAML 2 on the Team and Enterprise plans. Setting up Single Sign-On is generally fairly straightforward.+ - [Import JMeter, k6, and Locust Scripts](https://loadster.com/manual/protocol-scripts/importing-scripts/index.md): Import JMeter test plans (.jmx), k6 scripts (.js), and Locust locustfiles (.py) as Loadster Protocol Bot scripts, and review what didn't translate.+ - [Load Testing Behind Cloudflare, a CDN, or a WAF](https://loadster.com/guides/load-testing-behind-a-cdn-or-waf/index.md): Why Cloudflare, AWS WAF, and other CDNs block load tests, how to let a planned test through safely, and whether to test through the CDN or the origin.+ - [Ecommerce Load Testing: How to Prepare for Black Friday](https://loadster.com/guides/ecommerce-load-testing/index.md): How to load test an ecommerce site before Black Friday or Cyber Monday: estimate peak traffic, script cart and checkout, and follow a practical timeline.+ - [Why Websites Crash Under Traffic and How to Prevent It](https://loadster.com/guides/why-websites-crash-under-traffic/index.md): Why do websites crash when traffic spikes? The common causes, from exhausted pools to slow databases, and how to find and fix yours before the next peak.+ - [Single Sign On (SSO) Support](https://loadster.com/faqs/sso-saml-single-sign-on/index.md): Loadster supports SAML2 Single Sign-On (SSO) on the Team and Enterprise plans. A team admin sets it up from the Team page of your Loadster settings.+ - [What is Loadster Fuel? Usage, VU-hours, and bot types](https://loadster.com/faqs/what-is-loadster-fuel/index.md): Loadster Fuel is usage-based pricing for load tests and monitoring. Usage is duration × bots × rate. Protocol is 1x; real browsers are 4x.+ - [Why Use Loadster If AI Can Write a k6 or JMeter Script?](https://loadster.com/faqs/ai-written-load-test-scripts/index.md): AI can write a k6, JMeter, or Locust script in a minute, but running it at scale is the hard part. When open source is enough, and what Loadster adds.

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1.3.0 → 1.4.0

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1.2.0 → 1.3.0

https://loadster.com/llms.txt

+ - [Loadster Facts for AI Assistants](https://loadster.com/ai-info/): What Loadster is, who it's for, what it does and doesn't do, pricing, scale, and what AI assistants can do in it, on one page.

https://loadster.com/llms.txt

− - [Loadster MCP Server](https://loadster.com/manual/ai-agents/index.md): Built-in Model Context Protocol (MCP) server at https://api.loadster.com/mcp, so AI assistants like Claude can write and play scripts, build load test scenarios, set up monitors, and analyze test results. Connects with OAuth, or with a personal access token from the dashboard for headless clients.− - [Connecting AI Agents to Loadster](https://loadster.com/manual/ai-agents/index.md): Connect AI agents like Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and Codex to Loadster so they can write and play scripts, build load tests, and analyze results.− - [Connecting an AI Agent to the Loadster MCP Server](https://loadster.com/faqs/connect-to-loadster-mcp-server/index.md): Point your AI agent at the Loadster MCP server at api.loadster.com/mcp and connect with OAuth or a token. Setup steps for Claude, ChatGPT, and more.+ - [Loadster MCP Server](https://loadster.com/manual/mcp/index.md): Built-in Model Context Protocol (MCP) server at https://api.loadster.com/mcp, so AI assistants like Claude can write and play scripts, build load test scenarios, set up monitors, and analyze test results. Connects with OAuth, or with a personal access token from the dashboard for headless clients.+ - [Connecting AI Assistants to Loadster (MCP)](https://loadster.com/manual/mcp/index.md): Connect Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Codex, and other AI assistants to the Loadster MCP server to write and play scripts, build load tests, and read results.+ - [API Monitoring: Uptime, Response Time, and Correctness](https://loadster.com/guides/api-monitoring/index.md): API monitoring checks your endpoints on a schedule for uptime, response time, and correct responses. What to monitor, how to script it, and how to alert.+ - [Synthetic Monitoring vs Real User Monitoring (RUM)](https://loadster.com/guides/synthetic-monitoring-vs-real-user-monitoring/index.md): Synthetic monitoring runs scripted checks on a schedule; real user monitoring (RUM) measures actual visitors. How they differ and why most teams use both.+ - [Synthetic Transaction Monitoring: Watching User Journeys](https://loadster.com/guides/synthetic-transaction-monitoring/index.md): Synthetic transaction monitoring scripts multi-step user journeys like login and checkout, then runs them on a schedule to catch broken flows early.+ - [Best Synthetic Monitoring Tools Compared (2026)](https://loadster.com/compare/synthetic-monitoring-tools/index.md): Compare the best synthetic monitoring tools for 2026: Datadog, Checkly, Loadster, Grafana Cloud, Dynatrace, Pingdom, and more. Features, pricing, and fit.+ - [Best Pingdom Alternatives for Synthetic Monitoring (2026)](https://loadster.com/compare/pingdom-alternatives/index.md): The best Pingdom alternatives in 2026: Loadster, Checkly, Better Stack, Site24x7, Datadog, and Uptime Kuma, with Pingdom pricing changes explained.+ - [Datadog Synthetic Monitoring: Pricing & Alternatives (2026)](https://loadster.com/compare/datadog-synthetic-monitoring-alternatives/index.md): How Datadog Synthetics pricing works in 2026, with worked cost examples, plus the best Datadog Synthetic Monitoring alternatives and how they're priced.+ - [UptimeRobot Alternatives with Transaction Checks (2026)](https://loadster.com/compare/uptimerobot-alternatives/index.md): Outgrown UptimeRobot? The best UptimeRobot alternatives for browser and API transaction checks: Loadster, Checkly, Better Stack, Grafana Cloud, Pingdom.+ - [Connecting an AI Assistant to the Loadster MCP Server](https://loadster.com/faqs/connect-to-loadster-mcp-server/index.md): Point your AI assistant at the Loadster MCP server at api.loadster.com/mcp and connect with OAuth or a token. Setup steps for Claude, ChatGPT, and more.