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Beacon

Last updated 2026-08-17 · benchmark measured 2026-08-17 — deterministic & reproducible

Beacon is a free macOS API client that sends requests directly to your chosen API.

Is Beacon production-ready?

Legit.Show scores Beacon 96 out of 100 — the simple average of its 7 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on Beacon (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Privacy; its weakest is Security. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.

The 7 Frames

• Performance — 98/100
• Accessibility — 92/100
• Security — 80/100
• Privacy — 100/100
• Reliability — 100/100
• Standards — 100/100
• Discoverability — 100/100

What we measured

• Security headers present: HSTS, X-Frame-Options, X-Content-Type-Options, Referrer-Policy.
• No Content-Security-Policy.
• Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
• Real Lighthouse performance run — 156 ms to first byte.
• Returns a proper 404 for unknown routes.
• 3 of 3 sampled routes reachable.
• Has a reachable privacy policy.
• Sets cookies / loads scripts with no consent prompt.

Who it's for

API developers · Backend engineers · REST API testers · Postman/Insomnia users

Pricing

Free to download and use; pro tier planned but nothing free today will move behind paywall

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