Open source alternatives to ApacheBench

One project on starwire does the same job. Ranked by how much of what ApacheBench does each one covers, read from its README and website. Ties go to the most active.

What ApacheBench does

Send many HTTP requests to measure loadcore
Requests per second and latency statscore
Concurrency settings
Keep-alive and POST requests
Quick command-line benchmarks

Each dot in the table is one job, in this order. Square dots are core jobs and count double. Full means yes, half means partly. "See the evidence" under a project shows the line behind each one. Coverage is what a project documents, not how well it works or how hard it is to move to. How we score this

Project	Covers	Stars	Commits, 12 weeks	Last release	Closed vs opened	Setup	License
heyHTTP load generator that replaces ApacheBench	Replaces it100%	21k+13	0	10 months ago	Too few	Uses the terminal	Apache-2.0
Covers everything on the checklist.See the evidence Send many HTTP requests to measure loadcoreYessends some load to a web application Requests per second and latency statscoreYesprovided concurrency level and prints stats Concurrency settingsYesNumber of workers to run concurrently Keep-alive and POST requestsYes-disable-keepalive Disable keep-alive Quick command-line benchmarksYeshey -n 1000 -c 100

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