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	71276	4627	80322
86%	Hyper Express	61057	4642	70769
30%	Hono	21532	6335	29430
30%	Node (Default)	21369	6249	65808
29%	Fastify	20449	4755	33436
27%	Koa	19402	8314	62076
10%	Carbon	7304	1263	10017
8%	Express	5894	992	8474

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      8058.09    6379.90   70012.21
    Latency        6.20ms     4.62ms   395.13ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 89786, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 10214
    Errors:
      dial tcp 127.0.0.1:3000: connect: connection refused - 10214
    Throughput:     1.64MB/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      6008.24    1035.91    9341.93
    Latency        8.32ms     3.99ms   380.89ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 100000, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 0
    Throughput:     1.72MB/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     20950.06    6018.14   36721.94
    Latency        2.39ms     2.19ms   193.74ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 100000, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 0
    Throughput:     4.74MB/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     21686.29    6447.76   29466.31
    Latency        2.30ms     2.21ms   194.71ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 100000, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 0
    Throughput:     4.90MB/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     61328.10    4340.03   70822.48
    Latency      813.10us    96.32us     4.63ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 100000, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 0
    Throughput:     8.71MB/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     20401.70    8841.46   65436.07
    Latency        2.44ms     2.53ms   216.88ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 92365, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 7635
    Errors:
      dial tcp 127.0.0.1:3000: connect: connection refused - 7635
    Throughput:     4.26MB/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     21228.95    5770.22   66446.14
    Latency        2.35ms     2.14ms   189.56ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 96711, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 3289
    Errors:
      dial tcp 127.0.0.1:3000: connect: connection refused - 3289
    Throughput:     4.71MB/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     73358.37    4048.84   81094.77
    Latency      678.94us   198.42us    10.35ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 94620, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 5380
    Errors:
      dial tcp 127.0.0.1:3000: connect: connection refused - 5380
    Throughput:    10.98MB/s