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Run Benchmark

Has the node download a 100 MB test file from the internet and measures the speed. The result shows on the marketplace and counts toward the node's health score.

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Benchmark → node downloads a 100 MB test file
  ↓ 940 Mbps · first byte 18 ms
Shown on the marketplace as "↓ 940 Mbps"

Benchmark asks the node's agent to download a 100 MB test file from a public CDN and reports how fast it came in. It measures the node's own connection to the internet, the leg every user's traffic takes to reach sites.

What is measured

  • Download speed in Mbps.
  • Latency: the time until the test server answered.
  • Upload is not measured; it shows as 0.

When it runs

  • Every active node is benchmarked automatically once a day.
  • You can run it from the dashboard on an active node, at most once a minute. It costs nothing but about 100 MB of the node's bandwidth.

Where it shows

  • On the marketplace, as a "↓ N Mbps" badge on exit nodes.
  • In the node's health score: download speed is 25% of it.
Run it after a change that affects speed (a new host or plan, WARP on or off) so the number users see is current. Users on 2-hop routes can also test the speed of the entry-to-exit tunnel from their dashboard.