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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 54

  4. pact_broker pact_broker Public

    Enables your consumer driven contracts workflow

    Ruby 745 192

  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 356

Repositories

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  • pact-plugins Public

    🏰 Architecture to support Plugins 🔌 with Pact 🔗

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    Rust 20 MIT 17 10 0 Updated Sep 30, 2026
  • jest-pact Public

    A Pact adaptor for to allow you to easily run tests with Jest

    pact-foundation/jest-pact's past year of commit activity
    TypeScript 83 MIT 12 4 5 Updated Sep 29, 2026
  • pact_broker Public

    Enables your consumer driven contracts workflow

    pact-foundation/pact_broker's past year of commit activity
    Ruby 745 MIT 192 98 (1 issue needs help) 22 Updated Sep 29, 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) 9 Updated Sep 29, 2026
  • pact-php Public

    PHP 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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    PHP 303 Apache-2.0 90 1 10 Updated Sep 30, 2026
  • pact-broker-docker Public

    Dockerized Pact Broker

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    Ruby 115 MIT 112 2 12 Updated Sep 30, 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 3 MIT 1 3 5 Updated Sep 30, 2026
  • pact-broker-cli Public

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

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    Rust 3 MIT 1 4 10 Updated Sep 29, 2026
  • pact-foundation/pact-event-bot's past year of commit activity
    TypeScript 2 MIT 1 1 19 Updated Sep 29, 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 1,818 356 88 (9 issues need help) 11 Updated Sep 29, 2026