CATALOG HISTORY / FIRST RELEASES

Tool timeline

A historical view of the catalog, ordered by each tool's earliest verified release year.

35 tools without a verified first release are omitted

1990s

2000s

2000

Siege

Joe Dog Software

Micro-benchmark CLI

2001

OpenSTA

OpenSTA community

Load Testing
DISCONTINUED

2001

Tsung

Tsung community

Protocol/API Load

2005

NeoLoad

Neotys / Tricentis

Enterprise Suite

2005

Enterprise Suite
DISCONTINUED

→ successor: Azure Load Testing and other Microsoft-recommended alternatives

2007

Pylot

Corey Goldberg

Load Testing
DISCONTINUED

2009

weighttp

lighttpd project

Micro-benchmark CLI

2010s

2010

YCSB

Yahoo Research

Database Benchmarking

2011

Locust

Locust authors

Load Testing

2012

apib

Google Apigee

Micro-benchmark CLI
DISCONTINUED

2012

wrk

wg / community

Micro-benchmark CLI

2013

go-wrk

tsliwowicz

Micro-benchmark CLI

2013

JMH

OpenJDK

Code Benchmarking

2013

loadtest

Alex Fernández

Micro-benchmark CLI

2013

MZBench

Machine Zone

Load Testing
DISCONTINUED

2013

Netling

hallatore

Load Testing
DISCONTINUED

2014

h2load

nghttp2 project

Micro-benchmark CLI

2014

Vegeta

tsenart

Micro-benchmark CLI

2015

Baton

American Express

Micro-benchmark CLI
DISCONTINUED

2015

BenchBase

Carnegie Mellon Database Group

Database Benchmarking

2015

Drill

Ferran Basora

Protocol/API Load

2015

pewpew

bengadbois

Micro-benchmark CLI

2015

tcpkali

Machine Zone

Protocol/API Load
DISCONTINUED

2016

Goad

Goad

Cloud Load Testing
DISCONTINUED

2016

hey

rakyll / community

Micro-benchmark CLI

2017

Fortio

Fortio project

Protocol/API Load

2017

Molotov

Tarek Ziadé

Protocol/API Load

2018

ali

nakabonne

Micro-benchmark CLI

2018

ghz

Bojan Djurkovic

Protocol/API Load

2019

plow

six-ddc

Micro-benchmark CLI

2020s

2020

Goose

Tag1 Consulting

Load Testing

2020

oha

hatoo

Micro-benchmark CLI

2021

Anteon

Anteon

Load Testing

→ successor: Anteon (renamed from Ddosify)

2021

rewrk

ChillFish8

Micro-benchmark CLI