http-benchmark

This repository compares the performance of some of the most popular web frameworks for Node.js against node:http using bombardier.

bombardier -n 100000 -c 50 -p r http://127.0.0.1:3000

Summary

RELATIVE	FRAMEWORK	AVG	STDDEV	MAX
100%	uWS	77890	3527	84602
87%	Hyper Express	67838	3875	72772
46%	Node (Default)	35951	11425	82835
41%	Fastify	31577	9095	50575
38%	Koa	29934	13892	77229
36%	Hono	28281	7963	46589
12%	Carbon	9262	2311	13304
9%	Express	7106	1593	10116

In Detail

• Carbon

  NPM | GitHub

  import { listen } from '@sinclair/carbon/http'
  
  listen({
    hostname: '127.0.0.1',
    port: 3000
  }, () => {
    return new Response('Hello World', {
      status: 200,
      headers: {
        'content-type': 'text/plain'
      }
    })
  })

  Statistics        Avg      Stdev        Max
    Reqs/sec     10527.32    7912.28   84224.35
    Latency        4.75ms     4.46ms   379.53ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 89695, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 10305
    Errors:
      dial tcp 127.0.0.1:3000: connect: connection refused - 10305
    Throughput:     2.14MB/s
  

• Express

  NPM | GitHub

  import express from 'express'
  
  const app = express()
  
  app.get('/', function (req, res) {
    res.send('Hello World')
  })
  
  app.listen(3000)

  Statistics        Avg      Stdev        Max
    Reqs/sec      8295.38    7398.93   73755.86
    Latency        6.02ms     3.80ms   348.45ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 88074, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 11926
    Errors:
      dial tcp 127.0.0.1:3000: connect: connection refused - 11926
    Throughput:     2.09MB/s
  

• Fastify

  NPM | GitHub

  import fastify from 'fastify'
  
  const app = fastify({
    logger: false
  })
  
  app.get('/', (req, res) => {
    res.send('Hello World')
  })
  
  app.listen({ port: 3000 }, (err) => {
    if (err) throw err
  })

  Statistics        Avg      Stdev        Max
    Reqs/sec     32811.84    9510.78   50905.40
    Latency        1.52ms     1.80ms   159.87ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 100000, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 0
    Throughput:     7.43MB/s
  

• Hono

  NPM | GitHub

  import { serve } from '@hono/node-server'
  import { Hono } from 'hono'
  
  const app = new Hono()
  
  app.get('/', (c) => c.text('Hello World'))
  
  serve(app)

  Statistics        Avg      Stdev        Max
    Reqs/sec     29100.90    8679.88   45941.78
    Latency        1.72ms     2.19ms   190.16ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 100000, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 0
    Throughput:     6.57MB/s
  

• Hyper Express

  NPM | GitHub

  import HyperExpress from 'hyper-express'
  
  const server = new HyperExpress.Server()
  
  server.get('/', (req, res) => {
    res.send('Hello World')
  })
  
  server.listen(3000)

  Statistics        Avg      Stdev        Max
    Reqs/sec     68704.39    3382.42   72264.43
    Latency      726.10us    77.55us     2.65ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 100000, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 0
    Throughput:     9.76MB/s
  

• Koa

  NPM | GitHub

  import Koa from 'koa'
  
  const app = new Koa()
  
  app.use(ctx => {
    ctx.body = 'Hello World'
  })
  
  app.listen(3000)

  Statistics        Avg      Stdev        Max
    Reqs/sec     31104.96   13519.37   83958.33
    Latency        1.60ms     2.26ms   198.29ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 91409, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 8591
    Errors:
      dial tcp 127.0.0.1:3000: connect: connection refused - 8591
    Throughput:     6.43MB/s
  

• Node (Default)

  Website

  import { createServer } from 'node:http'
  
  const server = createServer((req, res) => {
    res.writeHead(200, {
      'content-type': 'text/plain'
    })
  
    res.write('Hello World')
  
    res.end()
  })
  
  server.listen(3000, '127.0.0.1')

  Statistics        Avg      Stdev        Max
    Reqs/sec     33897.48    9193.92   72761.26
    Latency        1.47ms     1.73ms   141.67ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 96749, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 3251
    Errors:
      dial tcp 127.0.0.1:3000: connect: connection refused - 3251
    Throughput:     7.52MB/s
  

• uWS

  GitHub

  import { App } from 'uWebSockets.js'
  
  const app = App()
  
  app.get('/', (res, req) => {
    res.end('Hello World')
  })
  
  app.listen(3000, () => {})

  Statistics        Avg      Stdev        Max
    Reqs/sec     78371.35    2797.64   82941.13
    Latency      635.64us   142.49us     7.00ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 96820, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 3180
    Errors:
      dial tcp 127.0.0.1:3000: connect: connection refused - 3180
    Throughput:    12.01MB/s