Alternatives to wrk
Other tools in this directory that do similar work, with a verified install command for each. wrk itself: install wrk.
autocannon
fast HTTP/1.1 benchmarking tool written in Node.js
hey
HTTP load generator, ApacheBench (ab) replacement
chisel-tunnel
A fast TCP/UDP tunnel over HTTP
oha
HTTP load generator · inspired by rakyll/hey with tui animation
miniserve
🌟 For when you really just want to serve some files over HTTP right now!
ali
Generate HTTP load and plot the results in real-time
pgrok
Poor man's ngrok - a multi-tenant HTTP/TCP reverse tunnel solution through SSH remote port forwarding
drill
Drill is an HTTP load testing application written in Rust
gradle-profiler
A tool for gathering profiling and benchmarking information for Gradle builds
memtier_benchmark
NoSQL Redis and Memcache traffic generation and benchmarking tool
scrcpy
Display and control your Android device
go
The Go programming language
node
Node.js JavaScript runtime ✨🐢🚀✨
rust
Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software
typescript
TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript that compiles to clean JavaScript output
openai-whisper
Robust Speech Recognition via Large-Scale Weak Supervision
deno
A modern runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript
neovim
Vim-fork focused on extensibility and usability
nvm
Node Version Manager - POSIX-compliant bash script to manage multiple active node.js versions
uv
An extremely fast Python package and project manager, written in Rust
Syncthing
Open Source Continuous File Synchronization
ripgrep
ripgrep recursively searches directories for a regex pattern while respecting your gitignore
ffmpeg
Mirror of https://git.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git
git
Git Source Code Mirror - This is a publish-only repository but pull requests can be turned into patches to the mailing list via GitGitGadget (https://
How we picked these
We match on what the tool does and how it installs, then order by how widely each project is used. We're not saying these are better or worse than wrk — that depends on what you're building. We're saying they're the projects people reach for in the same situations, and each one has an install command we checked against its documentation.
wrk is developed by its own authors and this page is an independent reference; we are not affiliated with or sponsored by any project listed, and nothing here is a paid placement.