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Apache JMeter

Load testing tool.

  • Completely free
  • Linux
  • Open source

Overview

Features described in its GitHub repository and on its official website: debugging, statistics and charts.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information
  • “Full featured Test IDE that allows fast Test Plan recording (from Browsers or native applications), building and debugging .” — official website, 10 November 2026
  • “Several load statistics may be chosen with pluggable timers .” — official website, 10 November 2026

At a glance

All of Apache JMeter is free: no feature is locked behind a paid plan, and its code is open.

Its licence (Apache-2.0) is a permissive open source licence: use, modification and redistribution are allowed, including in commercial projects.

Strengths

  • Open source code
  • Commercial use allowed

About

Apache JMeter may be used to test performance both on static and dynamic resources, Web dynamic applications. It can be used to simulate a heavy load on a server, group of servers, network or object to test its strength or to analyze overall performance under different load types. Flatpak version have this changes: Open and save JMX files: the user Documents folder (use Flatseal to allow acces to other folders) Plugins directory: ~/.var/app/org.apache.jmeter/data/jmeter/lib/ext/ User configuration: ~/.var/app/org.apache.jmeter/config/jmeter/user.properties Application log: ~/.var/app/org.apache.jmeter/.local/state/jmeter/jmeter.log

Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from Flathub (credit card, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
  • Facts collected from Official plan pages (pricing, licence, terms) (commercial use) —
  • Last technical check: 8 November 2026
  • Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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