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Benchmark HTTP and HTTPS endpoints with Plow, which displays results in a web UI or terminal.
About Plow
Plow is an open-source tool for benchmarking HTTP and HTTPS endpoints. It sends concurrent requests to a URL and records summary statistics, a latency histogram, and percentiles, showing them in the terminal and on a web UI. It can run for a fixed number of requests, a set duration, or until interrupted with Ctrl-C. It supports settings for concurrency, request rate, method, headers, body, timeouts, proxies, and TLS options, and is available via Go, Homebrew, Docker, and release binaries.
Key features
- Benchmark HTTP and HTTPS URLs with configurable concurrent connections
- Show summary statistics, latency histogram and percentiles in terminal
- Serve real-time charts on web UI at configurable listen address
- Limit tests by request count, duration, or stop with Ctrl-C
- Set request rate, method, headers, body file, and content type
- Support TLS client certs, insecure mode, SOCKS5 and HTTP proxies
Best for: Developers who need to benchmark HTTP(S) endpoints from the command line.
Good for
- Displays results in both terminal and real-time web UI
- Installable via Go, Homebrew, Docker, or release binaries
- Supports request-count, duration, and until-interrupted test modes
Plow at a glance
- Website
- github.com/six-ddc/plow
- Category
- Development › Network Tools
- Type
- Open-source project
- Pricing
- Not confirmed. Check the site
- Open source
- Yes · Source code
- Language
- English
- Last checked
- Oct 6, 2026 · Online when checked
- Listed
- Oct 5, 2026
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Plow FAQ
How can Plow be installed?
With Go using go install github.com/six-ddc/plow@latest, with Homebrew using brew install plow, with Docker using docker run --rm --net=host ghcr.io/six-ddc/plow, or from binaries on the releases assets page.
How is a benchmark run limited or stopped?
Use -n for a fixed number of requests, -d for a test duration such as 10s or 3m, or stop it with Ctrl-C.
Where is the web UI served?
It listens on :18888 by default, which can be changed with the --listen flag.
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