Vegeta

HTTP load testing tool and library. It's over 9000!

oha, autocannon, bombardier and more. 4 alternatives to Vegeta, in Rust, JavaScript, Go. Compare fit, licence, stars and the latest signed release.

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4 open source alternatives to Vegeta
Tool	Fit	Stars	Licence	Terms	Self-hosted	Language	Latest	Last push
oha	Partial	11k	MIT	Open source	No	Rust	v1.16.0	2026-10-18
autocannon	Partial	8.5k	MIT	Open source	No	JavaScript	v8.0.0	2026-05-16
bombardier	Partial	6.8k	MIT	Open source	No	Go	v2.0.2	2026-10-10
Fortio	Partial	3.7k	Apache-2.0	Open source	No	Go	v1.76.0	2026-10-11

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4 alternatives

oha Partial

Ohayou(おはよう), HTTP load generator, inspired by rakyll/hey with tui animation.

HTTP load generator with a live terminal dashboard, in Rust.

Language: Rust
Licence: MIT
Stars: 11k
Latest: v1.16.0
Last push: 2026-10-18

autocannon Partial

fast HTTP/1.1 benchmarking tool written in Node.js

HTTP/1.1 load generator for the command line or as a Node.js library, with pipelining.

Language: JavaScript
Licence: MIT
Stars: 8.5k
Latest: v8.0.0
Last push: 2026-05-16

bombardier Partial

Fast cross-platform HTTP benchmarking tool written in Go

HTTP benchmarking from a single Go binary with a fixed request rate or connection count.

Language: Go
Licence: MIT
Stars: 6.8k
Latest: v2.0.2
Last push: 2026-10-10

Fortio Partial

Fortio load testing library, command line tool, advanced echo server and web UI in go (golang). Allows to specify a set query-per-second load and record latency histograms and other useful stats.

Constant requests-per-second load for HTTP and gRPC with latency histograms, plus a web UI.

Language: Go
Licence: Apache-2.0
Stars: 3.7k
Latest: v1.76.0
Last push: 2026-10-11

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Language: Go
Licence: MIT
Stars: 25k
Last push: 2026-09-24

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