Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Plow
High-perf HTTP benchmarking CLI with Real-Time Web UI
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Plow launched in 2021; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Browser Arena▲175Open-source benchmarks for cloud browser infrastructure
Apr 2026 · browserarena.ai · its alternatives →
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Hey Folks! I've been building an open source benchmark for measuring local LLM performance on your own hardware. The benchmarking tool is a CLI written on top of Llamafile to allow for portability across different hardware setups and operating systems. The website is a database of results from the benchmark, allowing you to explore the performance of different models and hardware configurations. Please give it a try! Any feedback and contribution is much appreciated. I'd love for this to serve as a helpful resource for the local AI community. For more check out: - Website:…
2025 · localscore.ai · its alternatives →
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Hey HN. We’re Jay and Vadim from Highlight.io (https://highlight.io). We’re building an open source [1] monitoring platform for web applications. Today we’re excited to be sharing a performance tool we’ve been working on, which helps you inspect the latency of code execution from the client to the server. As engineers at past startups, we often had to debug slow queries, poor load times, inconsistent errors, etc... While tools like Jaegar [2] helped us inspect server-side performance, we had no way to tie user events to the traces we were inspecting. In other words, although we had…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A few months ago, I benchmarked FastAPI on an i9 MacBook Pro. I couldn't believe my eyes. A primary REST endpoint to `sum` two integers took 6 milliseconds to evaluate. It is okay if you are targeting a server in another city, but it should be less when your client and server apps are running on the same machine. FastAPI would have bottleneck-ed the inference of our lightweight UForm neural networks recently trending on HN under the title "Beating OpenAI CLIP with 100x less data and compute". (Thank you all for the kind words!) So I wrote another library. It has been a while since I have…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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First HTTP programming language
2025 · httl.dev · 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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Speedometer 3.0▲131Benchmarking app performance on the modern web
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Benchi is a CLI tool for running benchmarks and collecting metrics. It's using Docker Compose to orchestrate the infrastructure and tools being benchmarked, making it repeatable and runnable on different machines. It allows you to run the same benchmark for different tools and compare the collected results. The repository contains a simple example. For a more elaborate example see how we use Benchi to compare data pipelines running on Conduit and Kafka Connect, two data streaming tools (still work in progress): https://github.com/ConduitIO/streaming-benchmarks
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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I built a CLI to benchmark DNS resolvers after discovering DNS was adding 300ms to my API requests. v0.3.0 just released with new features: compare: Test single domain across all resolvers top: Rank resolvers by latency/reliability/balanced monitor: Continuous tracking with threshold alerts 1,400+ downloads in first week. Quick start: pip install dns-benchmark-tool dns-benchmark compare --domain google.com CLI stays free forever. Hosted version (multi-region, historical tracking, alerts) coming Q1 2026. GitHub: https://github.com/frankovo/dns-benchmark-tool…
Nov 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Drogon: A C++14/17/20 based HTTP web application framework running on Linux/macOS/Unix/Windows - drogonframework/drogon
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Scalable open source pub/sub SDK with support for RPC, JWT authentication and Kubernetes — optimized for async/await
2016 · socketcluster.io · its alternatives →
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A command-line benchmarking tool. Contribute to sharkdp/hyperfine development by creating an account on GitHub.
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A command-line benchmarking tool. Contribute to sharkdp/hyperfine development by creating an account on GitHub.
2019 · github.com · 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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DEPRECATED StackImpact Python Profiler - Production-Grade Performance Profiler: CPU, memory allocations, blocking calls, exceptions, metrics, and more - stackimpact/stackimpact-python
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A high performance, middleware oriented C++14 http web framework please use matt-42/lithium instead - matt-42/silicon
2015 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I recently built a small open-source tool to benchmark different LLM API endpoints — including OpenAI, Claude, and self-hosted models (like llama.cpp). It runs a configurable number of test requests and reports two key metrics: • First-token latency (ms): How long it takes for the first token to appear • Output speed (tokens/sec): Overall output fluency Demo: https://llmapitest.com/ Code: https://github.com/qjr87/llm-api-test The goal is to provide a simple, visual, and reproducible way to evaluate performance across different LLM providers, including…
2025 · llmapitest.com · its alternatives →
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Speedometer▲70Browser benchmark for measures web app responsiveness
2014 · browserbench.org · its alternatives →
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Perf Track▲87Analyze performance of sites that use JavaScript frameworks
2020 · perf-track.web.app · its alternatives →
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Go HTTP request router and web framework benchmark - julienschmidt/go-http-routing-benchmark
2014 · github.com · its alternatives →
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tquic_client▲92A high-performance CLI to benchmark HTTP/3 servers
2024 · crates.io · its alternatives →
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