speedtest Command Examples

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}}