This comparison only involves entirely free and open source software.
   Feature curl wget wget2 fetch lftp aria2 HTTrack HTTPie xh
   .netrc yes yes yes yes yes yes no yes yes
   Bandwidth Limiting yes yes yes no yes yes yes no no
   Commercial support yes no no no no no no no no
   DNS-over-HTTPS yes no no no no no no no no
   FTP 3rd Party Transfer no no no no yes no no no no
   FTP Active Mode yes yes yes yes yes yes no no no
   FTP Connection Re-use yes no no yes yes yes no no no
   FTP Kerberos yes no no no no no no no no
   FTP Ranges yes no no no no no no no no
   FTP Resume yes yes yes yes yes yes no no no
   FTP Upload yes no no no yes no no no no
   FTPS yes no no no yes no no no no
   GOPHER yes no no no yes no no no no
   GOPHERS yes no no no no no no no no
   H2/H3 Happy Eyeballs yes no no no no no no no no
   Happy Eyeballs yes no no no no no no no no
   HSTS yes yes yes no no no no no no
   HTTP alt-svc yes no no no no no no no no
   HTTP brotli yes no yes no no no no no yes
   HTTP Cookies yes yes yes no yes yes yes yes yes
   HTTP Digest Auth yes yes yes yes no no no yes yes
   HTTP etags yes no no no no no no no no
   HTTP gzip yes no yes no no yes yes yes yes
   HTTP Multipart POST yes no no no no no no yes yes
   HTTP Negotiate Auth yes no no no no no no yes no
   HTTP NTLM Auth yes yes yes no no no no yes no
   HTTP Persistent Conns yes yes yes no yes yes no no no
   HTTP POST yes yes yes no yes no no yes yes
   HTTP POST Chunked yes no no no no no no no no
   HTTP Proxy yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes
   HTTP PUT yes no no no yes no no no yes
   HTTP Ranges yes no no no no no no no no
   HTTP Redirects yes yes yes yes no yes no yes yes
   HTTP Resume yes yes yes yes yes yes no yes yes
   HTTP time conditions yes yes yes no no no no no no
   HTTP zstd yes no yes no no no no no no
   HTTP/1.1 yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes
   HTTP/2 ALPN yes no yes no no no no no yes
   HTTP/2 h2c upgrade yes no yes no no no no no no
   HTTP/2 to proxy yes no no no no no no no no
   HTTP/3 yes no no no no no no no no
   HTTPS yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes
   HTTPS Proxy yes no no no no no no no yes
   IDN hostnames yes yes yes no no no no yes no
   IMAP yes no no no no no no no no
   In development yes yes yes no no yes no yes yes
   IPv6 yes yes yes yes yes yes* yes yes yes
   LDAP yes no no no no no no no no
   library / API yes no yes no no no no no no
   Metalink no yes yes no no yes no no no
   MQTT yes no no no no no no no no
   Multilingual Messages no yes yes no yes yes no no no
   Multiple URLs yes yes yes yes yes yes no no no
   Parallel transfers yes no no no yes yes yes no no
   POP3 yes no no no no no no no no
   Recursive downloads no yes yes no yes no yes no no
   Retry failed downloads yes yes yes yes yes yes yes no no
   RTMP yes no no no no no no no no
   RTSP yes no no no no no no no no
   Same file multi connect no no yes no yes yes no no no
   SCP yes no no no no no no no no
   SFTP yes no no no yes yes no no no
   SMB yes no no no no no no no no
   SMTP yes no no no no no no no no
   SOCKS4 yes no no no yes no no no no
   SOCKS5 yes no no no yes no no yes no
   SOCKS5 proxy resolve yes no no no no no no no no
   TELNET yes no no no no no no no no
   TFTP yes no no no no no no no no
   Tiny Executable no no no yes no no no no no
   TLS: BearSSL yes no no no no no no no no
   TLS: Client certs yes yes yes no no no no no yes
   TLS: GnuTLS yes yes yes no yes yes no yes* no
   TLS: mbedTLS yes no no no no no no no no
   TLS: OpenSSL yes yes no yes yes yes yes yes yes
   TLS: rustls yes no no no no no no no yes
   TLS: Schannel yes no no no no no no yes* no
   TLS: Secure Transport yes no no no no no no yes* no
   TLS: Session ID cache yes no yes no no no no no no
   TLS: WolfSSL yes no yes no no no no no no
   Unix domain socket yes no no no no no no no no
   URL globbing/sequences yes yes yes no no yes no no no
   Username/Password yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes
   Windows Port yes yes yes no no yes yes yes* yes
   WebSocket yes no no no no no no no no
   License MIT GPL GPL BSD GPL GPL GPL BSD MIT
   Version 8.4.0 1.21 1.99.2 4.7 3.5.0 1.8.3 3.43 3.2.2 0.18.0

   The mentioned tools: [1]wget, [2]wget2, [3]lftp, [4]aria2, [5]httrack,
   [6]HTTPie, [7]xh

   'Fetch' is an integral part of the [8]FreeBSD operating system.

   * aria2 supports IPv6 only in HTTP(S) download

   * HTTPie is written in Python + Requests and thus carry their
   portability and features

   "In development" - releases or new things done to the project within
   the last couple of years.

   Please file [9]a bug report if this table is incorrect, or tell us
   other features we should compare!

References

   1. https://www.gnu.org/software/wget/
   2. https://gitlab.com/gnuwget/wget2
   3. https://lftp.yar.ru/
   4. https://aria2.github.io/
   5. https://www.httrack.com/
   6. https://httpie.org/
   7. https://github.com/ducaale/xh
   8. https://www.freebsd.org/
   9. https://github.com/curl/curl-www/issues