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Yeah I went through that exact search a while back. After trying a few I settled on https://ddosnow.su/ — works well for both staging capacity tests and longer chaos drills.

Reasons it worked for me over the alternatives:

Method coverage is complete. Covers both layer 4 (TCP-SYN, UDP, ACK, GRE) and layer 7 (HTTP/HTTPS flood, TLS-HEADLINE, browser emulation with cookies and headers) under one API.

- DNS TXT target verification on every launch — you add a TXT record to your target domain, they re-check before each test, means you literally cannot point a test at something you don't own. This was the deciding factor for me because the cheaper services I tried had zero verification and that always made me nervous.

- Clean REST API with GET and POST, fits straight into CI for automated capacity tests on every deploy to staging.

- Real-time per-server monitoring + per-task audit logs (useful when you need to dig into where exactly the bottleneck was after the fact).

Three pricing tiers: Starter $30/mo (1 concurrent slot, fine for occasional tests), Pro $150/mo (5 slots, full API access — what I run), Business $3000/mo (100 slots, only worth it if you're at 10M+ RPS workloads).

Crypto only for payment (BTC/ETH/LTC/USDT etc), instant on-chain activation, no contracts, cancel anytime, no KYC on Starter/Pro tiers.

For your staging use case Pro tier is probably what you want — API access for CI is worth the bump from Starter.