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24 alternatives to Artillery: multi-protocol load-testing tool written in Node.js
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Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Artillery: multi-protocol load-testing tool written in Node.js launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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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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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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Atomus▲68A utility library for testing client-side code in Node.js
2014 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hiya HN! tldr: Artillery is an open-source load testing toolkit. It's cloud-native, i.e. you can scale out your test with AWS Lambda (other runtimes coming soon). There's no infra to set up or manage - you give Artillery an AWS account, and it takes care of the rest. We just released an update which includes cost reporting. Every time you run a load test, Artillery will show how much that cost in AWS Lambda fees. Blog post with a demo here: https://www.artillery.io/blog/this-load-test-cost-us-how-much The demo shows a distributed load test running in us-east-1 at 100k+…
2022 · its alternatives →
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High performance secure & portable Rust functions in Node.js
2020 · secondstate.io · its alternatives →
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Minecraft server discovery, analytics, & spoof detection.
14d ago · newminecraftservers.net · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, I wanted a better load testing solution – so I built one with my team at Multiple. We just opened early access and would love to get your feedback. We created Multiple to solve three challenges with existing tools: 1. Limited scripting capabilities. XML or GUI-based scripting can only test basic scenarios. Existing code-based tools struggle with auth, generating synthetic data, and testing anything other than HTTP requests. We went with JavaScript for ease of use, versatility, and integration with existing developer workflows. 2. Cannot use existing libraries or code. Instead of…
2023 · app.multiple.dev · its alternatives →
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Slapp▲28An open-source node.js library for creating Slack Apps
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN fam! Hassy from Artillery (YC S21) here. Playwright got a lot of love on HN today [1] - rightfully so, it's an incredible project! - so I thought I'd resubmit [2] an open-source project that lets you run load tests with existing Playwright scripts. GitHub link: https://github.com/artilleryio/artillery-engine-playwright The basic motivation for creating the project is that load testing complex web apps is a real pain in the ass. It takes ages to build out test scripts for a non-trivial web app with traditional API-oriented tools. If you've ever had to do it, you know…
2022 · 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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a Node.js library for kickstarting real-time apps at scale
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Faultsense JS agent — source-available browser instrumentation - Faultsense/faultsense-agent
Jul 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Rust based load testing tool using js for scripting
Jul 2026 · fusillade.io · its alternatives →
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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!
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Blast is a simple tool for API load testing and batch jobs - dave/blast
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2020 · npmjs.com · its alternatives →
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