Comparison

vegeta vs wrk

No leader: the top candidate wrk has only 0.17 confidence (low), below the 0.35 needed to declare a winner. The attribute-by-attribute breakdown below, with a source and date on every value, is the honest way to compare them.

Machine formatsJSONMarkdownGraphQLor send Accept: application/json
vegeta36
wrk36
Score
Vioscale score
vegeta36 / 100low · 26%
wrk36 / 100low · 17%
Pricing
Free tier
vegeta
wrk
Model
Price level
vegetafree
wrkfree
Integrations
Count
vegeta1
wrk
Adoption
Dependent repos
vegeta
wrk77
Github stars
vegeta25,166
Activity
Commits last 30d
vegeta0
wrk0
Release
Cadence days
vegeta37
wrk
History
vegeta20 items
wrk
License
Spdx
vegetaMIT
wrk
Language
Primary
vegetaGo
wrkC

Capabilities

Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for load testing. “-” means undocumented, not absent.

Capabilities
Browser based load
vegeta-
wrk-
Ci cd native
vegeta-
wrk-
Apm observability output
vegeta-
wrk-
Correlation parameterization
vegeta-
wrk-
Recording scriptless creation
vegeta-
wrk-
Realtime dashboard
vegeta-
wrk-
Open source
vegeta-
wrk-

What each one is

The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.

vegeta

An open-source load testing utility that sends traffic to HTTP endpoints and measures response times, error rates, and other performance metrics. It provides CLI commands for running attacks, encoding results in multiple formats, and generating visualizations.

Independently observed

wrk

An open-source HTTP load testing utility designed to generate significant network traffic from a single multi-core machine. It uses multithreaded design with scalable event notification systems and supports custom scripting via LuaJIT for request generation and response processing.

Independently observed

Pricing

List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.

vegeta

Open sourceFree tier
as of verify ↗

wrk

Open sourceFree tier
as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.

Platforms
macOS
vegeta
wrk
Windows
vegeta
wrk
Linux
vegeta
wrk
CLI
vegeta
wrk
Deployment
Self-hosted
vegeta
wrk
On-premise
vegeta
wrk

Integrations

What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.

vegeta

1 total
  • Prometheus
Independently observed

wrk

Not documented yet.

Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.