# vegeta vs wrk

| Attribute | vegeta | wrk |
|---|---|---|
| **Vioscale score** | 35.9 (26% (low)) | 36.2 (17% (low)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | 0 | 0 |
| adoption.dependent_repos | - | 77 |
| adoption.github_stars | 25,166 | 40,394 |
| deployment.options | `{"on_prem":true,"self_hosted":true}` | `{"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | 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. | 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. |
| integrations.count | 1 | - |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"Prometheus"}]` | - |
| language.primary | Go | C |
| license.spdx | MIT | - |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true,"mac":true,"linux":true,"windows":true}` | `{"cli":true,"mac":true,"linux":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"open_source","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://github.com/pricing","retrievedAt":"2026-08-19T13:41:05.659Z"}` | `{"type":"open_source","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://github.com/pricing","retrievedAt":"2026-08-19T13:39:54.867Z"}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | commercial | commercial |
| pricing.price_level | free | free |
| release.cadence_days | 37 | - |
| release.history | `[{"url":"https://github.com/tsenart/vegeta/releases/tag/v12.13.0","date":"2025-10-31T11:34:10Z","type":"stable","version":"v12.13.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/tsenart/vegeta/releases/tag/v12.12.0","date":"2024-07-29T17:37:17Z","type":"stable","version":"v12.12.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/tsenart/vegeta/releases/tag/v12.11.3","date":"2024-07-27T18:18:27Z","type":"stable","version":"v12.11.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/tsenart/vegeta/releases/tag/v12.11.2","date":"2024-07-27T12:27:25Z","type":"stable","version":"v12.11.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/tsenart/vegeta/releases/tag/v12.11.1","date":"2023-10-02T09:08:28Z","type":"stable","version":"v12.11.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/tsenart/vegeta/releases/tag/v12.11.0","date":"2023-07-24T19:18:40Z","type":"stable","version":"v12.11.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/tsenart/vegeta/releases/tag/v12.10.0","date":"2023-07-16T17:25:26Z","type":"stable","version":"v12.10.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/tsenart/vegeta/releases/tag/v12.9.0","date":"2023-07-14T16:49:22Z","type":"stable","version":"v12.9.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/tsenart/vegeta/releases/tag/v12.8.4","date":"2020-10-11T10:41:06Z","type":"stable","version":"v12.8.4"},{"url":"https://github.com/tsenart/vegeta/releases/tag/v12.8.3","date":"2020-03-25T11:04:07Z","type":"stable","version":"v12.8.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/tsenart/vegeta/releases/tag/v12.8.2","date":"2020-03-24T14:16:40Z","type":"stable","version":"v12.8.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/tsenart/vegeta/releases/tag/v12.8.0","date":"2020-02-16T13:32:01Z","type":"stable","version":"v12.8.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/tsenart/vegeta/releases/tag/v12.7.0","date":"2019-07-21T12:38:28Z","type":"stable","version":"v12.7.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/tsenart/vegeta/releases/tag/v12.6.0","date":"2019-07-19T14:00:11Z","type":"stable","version":"v12.6.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/tsenart/vegeta/releases/tag/cli/v12.5.1","date":"2019-05-12T14:54:18Z","type":"stable","version":"cli/v12.5.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/tsenart/vegeta/releases/tag/cli/v12.5.0","date":"2019-05-12T12:05:37Z","type":"stable","version":"cli/v12.5.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/tsenart/vegeta/releases/tag/cli/v12.4.0","date":"2019-05-05T11:57:47Z","type":"stable","version":"cli/v12.4.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/tsenart/vegeta/releases/tag/cli/v12.3.0","date":"2019-04-14T13:30:10Z","type":"stable","version":"cli/v12.3.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/tsenart/vegeta/releases/tag/cli/v12.2.1","date":"2019-03-05T20:19:09Z","type":"stable","version":"cli/v12.2.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/tsenart/vegeta/releases/tag/cli/v12.2.0","date":"2019-01-04T11:33:46Z","type":"stable","version":"cli/v12.2.0"}]` | - |
| security.scorecard | 3.6 | - |
| security.vulnerabilities | - | `{"count":0,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=homebrew&package_name=wrk&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":null}` |

## Capabilities (Load Testing)

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

*Source: Vioscale. Generated 2026-09-01T16:51:04.807Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*