Flent Alternatives

Flent is described as 'The FLExible Network Tester' and is a Benchmark tool in the network & admin category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Flent for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Docker and Oracle Solaris apps. The best Flent alternative is iPerf3, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Flent are SmokePing, PPerf, nuttcp and netperf.

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Flent alternatives page was last updated Apr 3, 2025

iPerf3
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The iperf series of tools perform active measurements to determine the maximum achievable bandwidth on IP networks. It supports tuning of various parameters related to timing, protocols, and buffers. For each test it reports the measured throughput, loss, and other parameters.
26 iPerf3 alternatives
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Application type
Internet Speed Test App
Origin
United States
Platforms
Mac
Windows
Linux
Android
Android Tablet
Wine
FreeBSD
Docker
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Is iPerf3 a good alternative to Flent?
iPerf3 is the most popular Windows, Android, Mac & Linux alternative to Flent.
iPerf3 is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Flent.
iPerf3 is Free and Open SourceFlent is also Free and Open Source
SmokePing
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SmokePing is a deluxe latency measurement tool. It can measure, store and display latency, latency distribution and packet loss. SmokePing uses RRDtool to maintain a longterm data-store and to draw pretty graphs, giving up to the minute information on the state of each network...
29 SmokePing alternatives
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Application type
Network Monitor
Platforms
Linux
BSD
+2
Is SmokePing a good alternative to Flent?
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
Is PPerf a good alternative to Flent?
nuttcp
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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
Internet Speed Test App
Platforms
Windows
Linux
Solaris
Is nuttcp a good alternative to Flent?
netperf
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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
Origin
United States
Platforms
Mac
Windows
Linux
VMware vSphere Hypervisor
Solaris
IBM AIX
HP-UX
Is netperf a good alternative to Flent?
NetStress
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Tool that allows you to generate network traffic and analyze the network's throughput performance.
Cost / License
Free
Proprietary
Origin
United States
Platforms
Windows
Is NetStress a good alternative to Flent?
Netalyzr
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Netalyzr is a free tool that analyzes your network for possible problems large and small helping you determine your overall network health. When the tests are complete, youll see an exhaustive rundown of all the...
Cost / License
Free
Proprietary
Origin
United States
Alerts
Discontinued
Platforms
Online
Is Netalyzr a good alternative to Flent?
Netalyzr is the most popular Web-based alternative to Flent.
Netalyzr is Free and ProprietaryFlent is Free and Open Source
TamoSoft Throughput Test
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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
Benchmark Tool
Origin
New Zealand
Platforms
Mac
Windows
Is this a good alternative to Flent?
Ethr
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Ethr is a Comprehensive Network Measurement Tool for TCP, UDP & ICMP.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Application type
Internet Speed Test App
Origin
United States
Platforms
Windows
Mac
Linux
Is Ethr a good alternative to Flent?
OpenSpeedTest-Server
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Launch a Network Speed Test Server. Without using any commands, test and fix your local network before pointing fingers towards your ISP for slow and sluggish Internet.
Cost / License
Free
Proprietary
Application type
Internet Speed Test App
Platforms
Mac
Windows
Linux
Online
Self-Hosted
Software as a Service (SaaS)
Docker
Is OpenSpeedTest-Server a good alternative to Flent?
OpenSpeedTest-Server is the most popular SaaS & Self-Hosted alternative to Flent.
OpenSpeedTest-Server is Free and ProprietaryFlent is Free and Open Source