---
id: locust-cloud
version: "1.30.0"
license: MIT
license_treatment: permissive
maintenance: aging
---

# locust-cloud — Locust Cloud

License: permissive · Maintenance: aging · Downloads: 2.7M/mo

## What it is and what it does

Locust Cloud is a Python client for the Locust Cloud load-testing service. It abstracts away the complexity of setting up and coordinating distributed load tests by providing a library interface to the cloud-hosted testing platform. The package depends on gevent for concurrent request handling, python-socketio and python-engineio for real-time communication with the cloud backend, and configargparse for configuration management.

You install it to programmatically define and execute load tests against web applications without managing your own test infrastructure. It's intended for teams that want to run load tests at scale but prefer not to host and maintain their own Locust coordinator and worker nodes.

Use it for:

- Run distributed load tests against a staging or production API without provisioning your own test infrastructure
- Integrate load testing into CI/CD pipelines via the Locust Cloud API client
- Coordinate concurrent load generation across multiple geographic regions or test scenarios
- Monitor application performance under sustained or spike load patterns in real time

## Worth the install?

AI-flagged interpretation of the facts above — verify before relying.

Locust Cloud is a client library for running distributed load tests against web applications via the Locust Cloud service, using gevent-based concurrency and WebSocket communication.

Yes, if you have a Locust Cloud account and want a Python client to drive tests programmatically. The low install friction and permissive license make adoption straightforward. However, the aging maintenance status and lack of public documentation in the fact sheet suggest you should verify current support and feature stability before committing to production use.

## Install

pip install locust-cloud
uv add locust-cloud
poetry add locust-cloud

## Installing locust-cloud

Before you install: Low install friction with a pure-Python wheel and six runtime dependencies. Maintenance status is aging—last commit was 2026-01-03 and the package has been released for about a year, so expect slower response to issues.

License in practice: MIT license is permissive; you can use this package freely in commercial and private projects with minimal restrictions.

Quickstart:

pip install locust-cloud

import locust_cloud
# Configure and connect to Locust Cloud service via the client library

Requires Python 3.10 or later; also requires network access to the Locust Cloud service.

Verify before relying:

- What specific load-testing scenarios or workload patterns this client is optimized for
- Whether this is a standalone tool or requires a separate Locust Cloud account/subscription
- Performance characteristics and scalability limits when running distributed tests

## Package facts

- License: MIT (permissive)
- Python support: supports_current
- Install friction: low
- Maintenance: aging
- Downloads: 2.7M/month (top 5,000 on PyPI)
- Known vulnerabilities: none known

## Tags

load testing cloud service, distributed load testing, locust cloud client, web application stress testing, performance testing as a service, gevent-based load testing, cloud-hosted load tests, load-testing, cloud-service-client, performance-testing

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