About Stack Off
A competitive load testing platform for engineers who want real answers about their stack.
Why this exists
Most performance benchmarks are either synthetic, self-reported, or impossible to reproduce. "My server handles 10k req/s" means nothing without knowing the hardware, the workload, or whether the numbers were measured under any real pressure.
Stack Off is an attempt to fix that. Every submission runs on the same bare t3.medium, gets hammered by the same k6 load profile, and is scored against the same rubric. The leaderboard is the truth.
The goal isn't to crown a winner — it's to give engineers a concrete, public, reproducible answer to a question they've always wondered: how does my stack actually hold up?
Public goals
Stack Off is being built in public. The target is a full public launch in Q2 2026, and the milestones, priorities, and progress are tracked openly so anyone can follow along.
Read the public goals doc →Get involved
The best way to support the project right now is to run a submission, share your results, and tell other engineers about it.