speedtest

Official command-line interface for testing internet bandwidth using https://speedtest.net. Note: some platforms link speedtest to speedtest-cli or other tools like librespeed, which can also be installed as speedtest on certain Linux distributions. These command examples apply only to the official client. More information: https://www.speedtest.net/apps/cli.

• Run a speed test:

speedtest

• Run a speed test and specify the unit of the output:

speedtest --unit=auto-decimal-bits|auto-decimal-bytes|auto-binary-bits|auto-binary-bytes

• Run a speed test and specify the output format:

speedtest --format=human-readable|csv|tsv|json|jsonl|json-pretty

• Run a speed test and specify the number of decimal points to use (0 to 8, defaults to 2):

speedtest --precision=precision

• Run a speed test and print its progress (only available for output format human-readable and json):

speedtest --progress=yes|no

• List all speedtest.net servers, sorted by distance:

speedtest --servers

• Run a speed test to a specific speedtest.net server:

speedtest --server-id=server_id