Alternatives to Speedtest CLI
Official Ookla speed test for the command line. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Speedtest CLI
Official Ookla speed test for the command line.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Speedtest CLI.
Cloudflare Speed Test
A browser-based internet speed test that measures throughput, latency, jitter and packet loss.
Cloudflare Speed Test runs in a browser and adds jitter, packet loss and quality scores, measuring the path to Cloudflare's network instead of Ookla servers.
FAST.com
A minimal browser speed test that estimates your download speed in a few seconds.
FAST.com is a minimal browser test giving a quick download figure, with upload and latency hidden by default and no JSON or CSV output.
LibreSpeed
Self-hostable speed test with no Flash, Java or Websocket.
LibreSpeed is an open-source LGPL-3.0 speed test you host yourself and use from a browser, so results reflect your own server rather than Ookla's.
OpenSpeedTest
HTML5 speed test that can be self-hosted from a Docker image.
OpenSpeedTest is an open-source HTML5 test self-hostable from a Docker image, suited to internal LAN testing, but browser-based and without command-line output.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
iPerf3
Measures how fast a network link really is between two machines you control, which a speed test cannot.
nuttcp
Command-line tool for measuring TCP and UDP network throughput.
Downdetector
A website that shows whether online services, networks and games are down, based on real-time user reports.
gping
Ping with a live graph, so you can see latency spikes and packet loss instead of reading a column of numbers.
