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The cross-language distributed contract testing framework.

Pact

Pact is the de-facto API contract testing tool. Replace expensive and brittle end-to-end integration tests with fast, reliable and easy to debug unit tests.
  • ⚡ Lightning fast
  • 🎈 Effortless full-stack integration testing - from the front-end to the back-end
  • 🔌 Supports HTTP/REST and event-driven systems
  • 🛠️ Configurable mock server
  • 😌 Powerful matching rules prevents brittle tests
  • 🤝 Integrates with Pact Broker / PactFlow for powerful CI/CD workflows
  • 🔡 Supports 12+ languages

Why use Pact? Contract testing with Pact lets you:

  • ⚡ Test locally
  • 🚀 Deploy faster
  • ⬇️ Reduce the lead time for change
  • 💰 Reduce the cost of API integration testing
  • 💥 Prevent breaking changes
  • 🔎 Understand your system usage
  • 📃 Document your APIs for free
  • 🗄 Remove the need for complex data fixtures
  • 🤷‍♂️ Reduce the reliance on complex test environments

Watch our series on the problems with end-to-end integrated tests, and how contract testing can help.

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  1. roadmap roadmap Public

    Developer Relations @ Pact - Your map to the Pact landscape for all-comers (maintainers, contributors, users, newbies)

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  2. pact-specification pact-specification Public

    Describes the pact format and verification specifications

    317 30

  3. pact-reference pact-reference Public

    Reference implementations for the pact specifications

    Rust 106 53

  4. pact_broker pact_broker Public

    Enables your consumer driven contracts workflow

    Ruby 745 191

  5. pact-core-mock-server pact-core-mock-server Public

    In-process mock server for matching HTTP requests and generating responses from a pact file

    Rust 10 2

  6. pact-js pact-js Public

    JS version of Pact. Pact is a contract testing framework for HTTP APIs and non-HTTP asynchronous messaging systems.

    TypeScript 1.8k 355

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  • pact_broker Public

    Enables your consumer driven contracts workflow

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    Ruby 745 MIT 191 100 (1 issue needs help) 20 Updated Sep 11, 2026
  • pact-cli Public

    🔗 Pact in a single binary - Mock/Stub Server, Provider Verifier, Broker Client & Plugin CLI

    pact-foundation/pact-cli's past year of commit activity
    Rust 2 MIT 1 3 6 Updated Sep 11, 2026
  • pact-broker-cli Public

    A CLI client for the Pact Broker. Publish/retrieve pacts and verification results.

    pact-foundation/pact-broker-cli's past year of commit activity
    Rust 3 MIT 1 5 8 Updated Sep 11, 2026
  • pact-js Public

    JS version of Pact. Pact is a contract testing framework for HTTP APIs and non-HTTP asynchronous messaging systems.

    pact-foundation/pact-js's past year of commit activity
    TypeScript 1,814 355 90 (9 issues need help) 10 Updated Sep 11, 2026
  • pact-broker-docker Public

    Dockerized Pact Broker

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    Ruby 115 MIT 112 3 8 Updated Sep 11, 2026
  • pact-js-core Public

    Core binaries for pact-js, a Contract Testing Framework. NOTE: If you are looking to do Pact contract testing in node, you almost certainly want pact-js, not pact-node.

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    TypeScript 153 MIT 79 5 (1 issue needs help) 3 Updated Sep 11, 2026
  • pact-python Public

    Python version of Pact. Enables consumer driven contract testing, providing a mock service and DSL for the consumer project, and interaction playback and verification for the service provider project.

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    Python 684 MIT 147 11 (1 issue needs help) 7 Updated Sep 11, 2026
  • pact-reference Public

    Reference implementations for the pact specifications

    pact-foundation/pact-reference's past year of commit activity
    Rust 106 MIT 53 47 (2 issues need help) 3 Updated Sep 10, 2026
  • pact-foundation/pact-event-bot's past year of commit activity
    TypeScript 2 MIT 1 1 11 Updated Sep 10, 2026
  • pact-workshop-message Public

    collection of pact message workshops in various languages

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    Rust 0 1 3 10 Updated Sep 10, 2026