alt Hacker News> Globalping is an open-source, community-powered project that allows users to self-host container-based probes. These probes then become part of our public network, which allows anyone to use them to run network testing tools such as ping and traceroute.
How's this different from RIPE ATLAS?
Atlas is great but it is focused more on academic research and professional use.
Globalping offers real-time result streaming and a simpler user experience with focus on integrations https://globalping.io/integrations
For example you can use the CLI as if you were running a traceroute locally, without even having to register.
And if you need more credits you can simply donate via GitHub Sponsors starting from $1
They are similar with an overlapping audience yet have different goals