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Siege

Siege is an http load tester and benchmarking utility.

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Introduction

WHAT IS IT? ———– Siege is an open source regression test and benchmark utility. It can stress test a single URL with a user defined number of simulated users, or it can read many URLs into memory and stress them simultaneously. The program reports the total number of hits recorded, bytes transferred, response time, concurrency, and return status. Siege supports HTTP/1.0 and 1.1 protocols, the GET and POST directives, cookies, transaction logging, and basic authentication. Its features are configurable on a per user basis.

The latest GitHub release listed on 25 Oct 2026 was v.2.4.0, published 2026-08-18.

Features

The pages fetched on 25 Oct 2026 did not include a feature list. The public description was: “Siege is an http load tester and benchmarking utility.”

Pros

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  1. Published license: The GitHub repository lists GNU General Public License v3.0 (GPL-3.0).

Cons

The pages fetched on 25 Oct 2026 do not publish a limitations list. That absence is not evidence that the tool has no drawbacks. Current issues are tracked at https://github.com/JoeDog/siege/issues.

The fetched README did not include a fenced code example. Use the official documentation linked below.

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Pricing

The fetched text says:

———– Siege is an open source regression test and benchmark utility.

No separate price list was found on 25 Oct 2026.

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Conclusion

Siege is summarized by its public description as: “Siege is an http load tester and benchmarking utility.”.

The latest GitHub release listed was v.2.4.0, published 2026-08-18.

This page was rebuilt on 25 Oct 2026 from www.joedog.org, github.com. It keeps only what those pages stated. Confirm the current product, license, and price on the official site before you adopt it.