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Life & fun · July 30, 2026

Pulse

Free latency & health test for any live HLS/DASH/WHEP stream

Pulse launched on July 30, 2026 with 2 votes.

What it does

Free online tool to test your live stream's latency, buffering and quality the way viewers actually see it from a few regions (EU, US, India, Asia). Paste an HLS, DASH or WHEP URL and get an instant A–F grade — live-edge latency, rebuffering, bitrate ladder. No SDK, no signup.

Free online tool to test your live stream

Paste a stream URL — HLS, DASH or WHEP — and Pulse plays it and grades real delivery quality: latency, buffering risk, quality ladder. No SDK, nothing to embed. Your streams stay private to you. Pulse checks how your live stream really performs — the way a viewer sees it, not the way your encoder reports it. Paste any HLS ( .m3u8 ), DASH ( .mpd ) or WHEP URL and it plays the stream, measures live-edge latency , throughput, buffering risk and the bitrate ladder, then grades it A–F. No SDK, no signup. Paste your stream URL into the box above and press Grade my stream . Pulse connects as a real viewer, reads the manifest, downloads live segments and derives live-edge latency from the stream's…from pulse.beon.live

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