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24 alternatives to A Simple Load Testing CLI Built in Go
There are plenty of good tools for load testing such as JMeter, Minigun, and plenty more - but they all have their own set of options to learn. I built this one to support a simpler workflow where you just paste your curl request (or other cli command) after your `spam` config (literally just `spam -r 2 -- curl www.google.com). It's pretty barebones but I'm 100% going to use it in my day to day - figured I'd share it here if it helped anyone else!
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. A Simple Load Testing CLI Built in Go launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Clobbr▲444Easy API endpoint load testing without breaking the bank
2023 · clobbr.app · its alternatives →
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speed-test-cli▲315Test your download speed using SpeedTest on the command-line
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi everyone, I recently published a small open-source project. It’s a minimal network packet analyzer written in Go — designed more like a learning toy than a replacement for Wireshark. It currently supports parsing basic protocols like TLS, DNS, and HTTP, and includes a tiny fuzzing engine to test payload responses. You can inspect raw packet content directly from the terminal. The output is colored for readability, and the code structure is kept simple and clear. The entire program is very small — just about 400 lines of Go code. I know it’s not anywhere near Wireshark’s level, and I still…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hurl, run and test HTTP requests with plain text and curl. Hurl can run fast automated integration tests.
2021 · hurl.dev · its alternatives →
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Hiya HN! Just released Artillery Probe - a Swiss army knife for testing HTTP from the CLI. Think mini-curl with better UX for common use-cases, plus a couple of extra features. Would love for you to try it and give some feedback! https://www.artillery.io/blog/swiss-army-knife-for-http-testing and: npm install artillery@latest What does it do? - First of all, it's a HTTP client! It does all the usual stuff you'd expect from a HTTP client... HTTP methods, request bodies, custom headers, forms, Basic Auth etc. - Got some JSON or XML back? It'll pretty-print it, and syntax…
2022 · its alternatives →
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Please meet Loadjitsu, my weekend project, years in the making. Over the years while building different apps and sites, I always felt that I need a modern load testing software.Tools like JMeter, ab are not very easy to use and it seems innovation in load testing which is a crucial part of any software release cycle has been ignored. This is my third attempt at making Loadjitsu, I am so glad that I can finaly release this. A bit more about the software 1. Powered by golang you can run load tests for tens of thousands of connections per second on very average hardware. 2. Cross platform, run…
2022 · loadjitsu.com · its alternatives →
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k6 is an open-source tool and cloud service that makes load testing easy for developers and QA engineers.
2017 · k6.io · its alternatives →
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Pingy CLI▲140The simple frontend build tool. No config. No plugins
2017 · pin.gy · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I wanted to share my very first (insignificant) project written in Go: a little CLI tool that displays messages with an animated bunny holding a sign. I wanted to learn Go and needed a small, fun project to get my hands dirty with the language and the process of building and distributing a CLI. I've built a similar tool in JavaScript before so I thought porting it would be a great learning exercise. This was a dive into Go's basics for me, from package structure and CLI flag parsing to building binaries for different platforms (never did that on my JS projects). I'm starting to…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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First HTTP programming language
2025 · httl.dev · its alternatives →
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I built BuzzBench because I was frustrated with how complex performance testing tools have become. And I was ending up writing my own scripts to test endpoints and manually check out resource usage at the time of testing. Checkout demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAnbZMoQvmQ
2025 · buzzbench.io · its alternatives →
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Simple Load Balancer. Contribute to JackyChiu/slb development by creating an account on GitHub.
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi, this is my first npm package that is getting a couple of hundreds downloads. It's a super simple CLI time tracker, mostly suitable for 9 to 5 jobs I hope you check it out and tell me what you think. Demo and etc. https://github.com/omidfi/moro
2017 · its alternatives →
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A command-line tool for interacting with Github API with some specialized features oriented around Checks - raine/ghtool
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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It's quite limited but does the job, I invite anybody not aware of what cram tests are to give them a try, being on Unix with the original cram or Windows with this one ;)
Nov 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I've been having a lot of issues with my upload speed and wanted a cli tool to run in a cron job and couldn't quite find one to suit my needs. Sharing here in case others find it useful.
Jan 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Keep production reliable, customers happy, and pagers silent.
2016 · artillery.io · its alternatives →
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Dozens of CLI tools executed by curl, no signup required
Jul 2026 · curlhub.sh · its alternatives →
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Dev's offline page is fun and we did implement it with Rust and WebAssembly. Go is simple. Can we d... Tagged with go, webassembly, showdev.
2019 · dev.to · its alternatives →
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The easiest JMeter & k6 alternative for API load testing. No scripting required. Test REST APIs and get p90/p95/p99 metrics. Import Postman collections.
Dec 2025 · apiloadtest.com · its alternatives →
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2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I've created this library to make usage of Cobra (the famous Go CLI lib) more fluent and also make better use of Go generics when registering command flags. I'd appreciate feedback on the README and if you'd consider using such a wrapper. Also tell me if you think that fluent API reads well. If everything goes well, I'm planning to release a v1 soon! This depends on if I can implement a missing feature of elegantly defining mutually exclusive flags.
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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