locust VS siege

Compare locust vs siege and see what are their differences.

siege

Siege is an http load tester and benchmarking utility (by JoeDog)
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locust siege
58 11
23,403 5,771
1.7% -
9.8 6.7
7 days ago 3 months ago
Python C
MIT License GNU General Public License v3.0 only
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

locust

Posts with mentions or reviews of locust. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-17.

siege

Posts with mentions or reviews of siege. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-27.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing locust and siege you can also consider the following projects:

Selenium WebDriver - A browser automation framework and ecosystem.

PyAutoGUI - A cross-platform GUI automation Python module for human beings. Used to programmatically control the mouse & keyboard.

Gatling - Modern Load Testing as Code

aiounittest - Test python asyncio-based code with ease.

splinter - splinter - python test framework for web applications

wrk - Modern HTTP benchmarking tool

PyRestTest - Python Rest Testing

Hey - HTTP load generator, ApacheBench (ab) replacement

ddosify - Effortless Kubernetes Monitoring and Performance Testing. Available on CLI, Self-Hosted, and Cloud

wrk2 - A constant throughput, correct latency recording variant of wrk

Selenium Wire - Extends Selenium's Python bindings to give you the ability to inspect requests made by the browser.

puppeteer - Node.js API for Chrome