WCat Alternatives

WCat is described as 'Web Capacity Analysis Tool (WCAT) is a lightweight HTTP load generation tool primarily designed to measure the performance of a web server within a controlled environment. WCAT can simulate thousands of concurrent users making requests to a single web site or multiple web sites' and is an app. There are more than 10 alternatives to WCat for a variety of platforms, including Web-based, Windows, Linux, Mac and Self-Hosted apps. The best WCat alternative is locust, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like WCat are Loadster, Low Orbit Ion Cannon, Loader.io and blitz.io.

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  1. locust icon
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    An open source load testing tool written in Python. Locust allows you to define user behaviour with Python code, and swarm your system with millions of simultaneous users.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Python
     
    • locust is the most popular Windows, Mac, Linux & Self-Hosted alternative to WCat.

    • locust is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to WCat.

    • locust is Free and Open SourceWCat is Free and Proprietary
  2. Loadster icon
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    Loadster is a full-featured load testing solution for websites, web apps, and web services. It's built for real web apps and effortlessly handles cookies, user sessions, custom headers, dynamic form data and more.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
    • Loadster is the most popular Web-based alternative to WCat.

    • Loadster is Freemium and ProprietaryWCat is Free and Proprietary
  3. Loader.io icon
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    Loader.io is a simple cloud-based load testing service that allows you to stress test your web-apps & apis with thousands of concurrent connections. Made by the team behind SendGrid.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  4. blitz.io icon
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    Blitz makes load and performance testing of your web site, API, iPhone and Android and Facebook apps a fun sport.

    41 blitz.io alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Online
     
    • blitz.io is the most popular commercial alternative to WCat.

    • blitz.io is Paid and ProprietaryWCat is Free and Proprietary
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    Managed load testing platform built on k6, integrating performance testing into CI/CD pipelines, supporting frontend and backend scenarios, GUI test builder, browser recorder, and JavaScript scripting. Free tier offers virtual user hours, metrics, logs, traces, and observability.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  6. StresStimulus icon
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    Load testing tool for websites and mobile that works with hard-to-test applications.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    Despite its name, Fast DDoS Attack Cmd is just a portable ping tool based on Windows command-line (cmd) aimed to be used by casual\non-advanced Windows OS Users!

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. SmartMeter.io icon
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    SmartMeter.io is a load and performance testing tool based on JMeter that is fixing its drawbacks while adding enterprise-level load testing features.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    PurpleStrike Real Time (RT) load tester is a turnkey performance testing services on the cloud with intuitive user interface. You can automate real applications and run web applications from real browsers to generate real time load scenarios.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  10. LoadFocus icon
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    Free Cloud Load Testing Service, Speed Testing for Websites, Applications and APIs. Helps you run load and performance tests from within browsers in minutes.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  11. Loadium icon
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    Software Performance & Load Testing Platform.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once or Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
    • Loadium is the most popular SaaS alternative to WCat.

    • Loadium is Paid and ProprietaryWCat is Free and Proprietary
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