Command-line tool

wrk

brew/wrk

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HTTP benchmarking tool

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Type

Command-line tool

Install on

macOS, Linux

Last checked

25 Oct 2026, 21:09 UTC

Install it

macOS

brew install wrk

Linux

brew install wrk

Run a benchmark for `30` seconds, using `12` threads, and keeping `400` HTTP connections open

wrk -t 12 -c 400 -d 30s "http://127.0.0.1:8080/index.html"

Run a benchmark with a custom header

wrk -t 2 -c 5 -d 5s -H "Host: example.com" "http://example.com/index.html"

Run a benchmark with a request timeout of `2` seconds

wrk -t 2 -c 5 -d 5s --timeout 2s "http://example.com/index.html"

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