Bencher
Bencher provides continuous benchmarking as a service to track and visualize software performance regressions. · Bencher · Observability
Overview
Bencher is a benchmarking-as-a-service platform for tracking, visualizing, and sharing software performance metrics, with free unlimited public projects and limited private projects.
Good fit
Use Bencher to continuously monitor and visualize software performance for public/open-source projects, especially in CI pipelines.
- open source projects
- small teams
- performance-focused development
Not a fit
Avoid if you need private projects (paid-only) or on-premise deployment without a Bencher Self-Hosted license.
- need private projects
- require self-hosting without Pro license
- handle sensitive data
Quickstart · 4 steps
- Sign up for a free Bencher account at https://bencher.dev/.
- Create a new public project (private projects need a paid plan).
- Integrate Bencher CLI into your CI workflow to submit benchmarks.
- View and analyze performance trends on the Bencher dashboard.
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