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Plow vs autocannon: catalog facts
Plow	autocannon
Free Free and open source under the Apache 2.0 licence.	Free Free and open source.
Windows, Command line	Command line
Real-time metrics in both terminal and browser Uses fasthttp for high request rates	Quick to run from the command line against any URL Can also be used programmatically from Node.js
Tests HTTP endpoints only Should only be pointed at servers you are allowed to load test	Tests HTTP/1.1 only Requires Node.js to be installed
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: Apache-2.0	License: MIT
No account needed	No account needed
Not stated if it works offline	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 1, 2026

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