“mini” in the sense that it doesn’t do everything that curl does. curl does a whole lot. this tool focuses on more common use cases and makes them friendlier. plus with request waterfalls and assertions it does things curl can’t do.

the number of packages is a bit of a misnomer anyway. Artillery Probe is part of Artillery which does load testing, with multiple protocols, support for multi-step scenarios, publishing to a variety of monitoring systems (Datadog, Prometheus etc) and more. That’s what most of those packages enable.