Free iPerf3 Alternatives for Windows

There are many alternatives to iPerf3 for Windows if you are looking for a replacement. The best free Windows alternative is Speedtest by Ookla. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to iPerf3 and 14 are free and available for Windows so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free Windows alternatives to iPerf3 are Tessabyte, Trippy, PPerf and netperf.

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  1. Speedtest by Ookla icon

    Speedtest by Ookla

     742 likes

    Tests download, upload, and ping speeds with a global server network for accuracy worldwide. Offers real-time consistency graphs, street-level carrier coverage maps, VPN for privacy, premium ad-free VPN option, detailed reports, and easy result sharing.

    53 Speedtest by Ookla alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Google Chrome
    • Apple TV
    • Kindle Fire
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    Comments about Speedtest by Ookla as an Alternative to iPerf3
    Guest
    Negative
    6

    Tests for internet speed, iperf is mainly used for testing in internal networks.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    Taurolyon
    Negative
    1

    Not for LAN speed/performance testing

    Guest
    Negative
    3

    Speedtest.net is only used as an Internet speed test, while iperf is mainly used for LAN speedtesting

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Speedtest by Ookla is Freemium and ProprietaryiPerf3 is Free and Open Source
  2. Tessabyte icon

    Tessabyte

     1 like

    An advanced network throughput testing utility for LAN, WLAN, and WAN: TCP/UDP, QoS, custom payloads, reporting, and scheduling.

    6 Tessabyte alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  4. Trippy icon

    Trippy

     2 likes

    Trippy combines the functionality of traceroute and ping and is designed to assist with the analysis of networking issues.

    36 Trippy alternatives

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Snapcraft
    • Homebrew
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  5. PPerf

     2 likes

    PowerShell Iperf GUI - A PowerShell script to start iperf and show the output (similar to Jperf).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  6. netperf

     1 like

    Netperf is a benchmark that can be used to measure the performance of many different types of networking. It provides tests for both unidirectional throughput, and end-to-end latency.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • VMware vSphere Hypervisor
    • Solaris
    • IBM AIX
    • HP-UX
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  7. LANBench icon

    LANBench

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    LANBench is a simple LAN / TCP Network benchmark utility. It is designed for testing network performance between two computers and is based on Winsock 2.2. LANBench tests TCP performance only and is designed for minimal CPU usage so that the pure performance of your network...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  9. TamoSoft Throughput Test

     2 likes

    A utility for testing the performance of a wireless or wired network that sends TCP and UDP data streams and computes important metrics: upstream and downstream throughput values, packet loss, and round-trip time, etc. It supports both IPv4 and IPv6 connections.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
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  10. nuttcp

     1 like

    nuttcp is a network performance measurement tool intended for use by network and system managers. Its most basic usage is to determine the raw TCP (or UDP) network layer throughput by transferring memory buffers from a source system across an interconnecting network to a...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Solaris
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  11. goben

     1 like

    goben is a golang tool to measure TCP/UDP transport layer throughput between hosts.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • FreeBSD
    • NetBSD
    • OpenBSD
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  12. NetStress icon

    NetStress

     1 like

    Tool that allows you to generate network traffic and analyze the network's throughput performance.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  13. pingb

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    Ping like tool that relies on the common ICMP echo mechanism to determine the bandwidth between your computer and a remote host.

    3 pingb alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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  14. Ethr

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    Ethr is a Comprehensive Network Measurement Tool for TCP, UDP & ICMP.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
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