swap_horiz ApacheBench (ab) Alternatives

1

OpenText LoadRunner

OpenText LoadRunner is a comprehensive load testing tool designed for enterprise environments. It simulates numerous use...

Performance Legacy Enterprise Stress Test

8.7 Great

2

wrk

wrk is a command-line load testing tool designed to assess web server performance. It simulates multiple concurrent user...

Open Source CLI Benchmark WebPageTest

8.7 Great

3

wrk2

Wrk2 is an open source command-line application used for load testing websites and web applications. It measures key met...

Open Source Load Testing CLI Benchmark

8.7 Great

4

Load Impact / k6

k6 is an open source load testing tool designed for developers and DevOps engineers. It uses JavaScript scripts to simul...

Performance Open Source Load Testing Web

8.5 Great

5

Vegeta

Vegeta is an open source command-line tool written in Go for simulating user load on websites. It utilizes the Web Page...

Open Source CLI Go WebPageTest

8.5 Great

6

Grafana k6 Cloud

Grafana k6 Cloud provides a managed environment for running k6, an open-source load testing tool. It simplifies performa...

Cloud Performance Load Testing Grafana

8.5 Great

7

sysbench

Sysbench is an open source command-line tool designed for evaluating database server performance. It simulates diverse w...

Open Source Mysql CLI Database

8.5 Great

8

Tricentis NeoLoad

NeoLoad is a comprehensive load testing tool used by IT professionals and development teams. It simulates realistic user...

Performance Enterprise Continuous Stress Test

8.3 Great

9

autocannon

Autocannon is a command-line tool designed for simulating heavy HTTP traffic against web applications. It generates nume...

Load Testing CLI Benchmark Node

8.1 Great

10

ghz

Ghz is an open source command-line tool written in Go used for simulating user traffic to evaluate system performance. I...

Open Source Grpc CLI Benchmark

8.1 Great

11

h2load

h2load is an open-source command-line benchmarking tool included in the nghttp2 project for testing HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 se...

Open Source Http2 CLI Benchmark

7.7 Good

12

Yandex.Tank

Yandex.Tank is an automated tool developed by Yandex that analyzes website performance by simulating real user connectio...

Performance Open Source Load Testing CLI

7.5 Good

13

tcpkali

tcpkali is an open-source command-line load generator for testing TCP and WebSocket servers. It can create large numbers...

Open Source Websocket CLI Benchmark

7.3 Good

14

httperf

httperf is a command-line tool for simulating multiple concurrent HTTP requests to a web server, allowing developers and...

Legacy Open Source Load Testing CLI

7.2 Good

15

ApacheBench

ApacheBench, commonly invoked with the command "ab," is a command-line program for measuring the performance of HTTP web...

Open Source CLI Benchmark Apache

7.2 Good

16

slowhttptest

slowhttptest is an open-source command-line program for testing how web servers behave under several forms of slow HTTP...

Open Source CLI Dos HTTP

6.8 Fair

17

Ddosify

DDoSify is a tool that simulates Distributed Denial of Service attacks against websites to assess their resilience and i...

Performance Open Source Load Testing CLI

6.6 Fair

18

Boom

Boom is a tool that analyzes websites to identify and quantify performance bottlenecks, primarily focusing on metrics li...

Performance Legacy Load Testing CLI

6.6 Fair

19

OpenWebLoad

OpenWebLoad is an open-source performance testing platform designed to simulate heavy user traffic and analyze web appli...

Legacy Open Source CLI Benchmark

5.7 Mediocre

20

Apache Flood

Apache Flood is an open-source load-testing tool from the Apache Software Foundation. It generates HTTP requests against...

Legacy Open Source Benchmark Apache

5.7 Mediocre