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	74182	5568	83122
84%	Hyper Express	62003	3301	64336
34%	Node (Default)	25195	6530	46058
32%	Fastify	23998	7073	36535
29%	Hono	21150	6036	30823
26%	Koa	19187	6803	55754
11%	Carbon	8206	1359	10327
9%	Express	6629	1097	8567

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      8901.88    4392.23   54797.92
    Latency        5.61ms     4.22ms   365.61ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 93694, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 6306
    Errors:
      dial tcp 127.0.0.1:3000: connect: connection refused - 6306
    Throughput:     1.89MB/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      6516.12    1038.50    8440.17
    Latency        7.67ms     3.68ms   350.56ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 100000, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 0
    Throughput:     1.86MB/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     24610.51    7430.86   37023.28
    Latency        2.03ms     2.05ms   183.22ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 100000, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 0
    Throughput:     5.59MB/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     21958.89    6115.17   30173.22
    Latency        2.27ms     2.00ms   179.77ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 100000, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 0
    Throughput:     4.96MB/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     62642.69    3773.37   67192.45
    Latency      796.11us    67.19us     3.41ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 100000, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 0
    Throughput:     8.90MB/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     18515.14    6549.76   51363.53
    Latency        2.69ms     2.38ms   207.05ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 94335, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 5665
    Errors:
      dial tcp 127.0.0.1:3000: connect: connection refused - 5665
    Throughput:     3.95MB/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     27676.28    8906.38   59521.73
    Latency        1.80ms     1.95ms   164.96ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 96085, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 3915
    Errors:
      dial tcp 127.0.0.1:3000: connect: connection refused - 3915
    Throughput:     6.10MB/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     74334.48    5479.87   83396.07
    Latency      669.31us   194.11us     9.31ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 96796, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 3204
    Errors:
      dial tcp 127.0.0.1:3000: connect: connection refused - 3204
    Throughput:    11.39MB/s