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	71053	4635	81830
82%	Hyper Express	58433	3526	73530
36%	Node (Default)	25445	9093	69346
32%	Fastify	22903	7346	33350
25%	Hono	17734	5019	28213
25%	Koa	17714	8117	75658
11%	Carbon	7597	1410	10569
9%	Express	6087	987	8240

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      8281.83    5236.41   69435.84
    Latency        6.02ms     4.51ms   386.43ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 92458, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 7542
    Errors:
      dial tcp 127.0.0.1:3000: connect: connection refused - 7542
    Throughput:     1.74MB/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      5964.27     882.55    8164.01
    Latency        8.38ms     3.75ms   360.56ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 100000, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 0
    Throughput:     1.71MB/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     24145.20    8548.11   35690.62
    Latency        2.07ms     2.25ms   198.83ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 100000, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 0
    Throughput:     5.47MB/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     18400.91    5427.80   28073.12
    Latency        2.72ms     2.02ms   186.82ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 100000, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 0
    Throughput:     4.15MB/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     58135.51    3555.32   64149.91
    Latency        0.86ms   120.71us     4.79ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 100000, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 0
    Throughput:     8.25MB/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     18292.17   10588.76   80111.29
    Latency        2.72ms     2.52ms   217.60ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 87795, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 12205
    Errors:
      dial tcp 127.0.0.1:3000: connect: connection refused - 12205
    Throughput:     3.63MB/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     25891.22    8975.07   72354.02
    Latency        1.92ms     2.02ms   174.23ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 96735, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 3265
    Errors:
      dial tcp 127.0.0.1:3000: connect: connection refused - 3265
    Throughput:     5.74MB/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     70460.47    4310.53   83097.66
    Latency      706.88us   165.49us     8.47ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 97142, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 2858
    Errors:
      dial tcp 127.0.0.1:3000: connect: connection refused - 2858
    Throughput:    10.83MB/s