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	74266	3118	86448
82%	Hyper Express	60957	5695	79649
34%	Node (Default)	25547	8429	73344
31%	Fastify	22656	6651	35180
29%	Hono	21167	6376	30046
26%	Koa	18941	9136	73354
11%	Carbon	8079	1453	10332
8%	Express	6178	1022	8241

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      8746.97    6428.38   77892.51
    Latency        5.70ms     4.42ms   380.16ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 90389, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 9611
    Errors:
      dial tcp 127.0.0.1:3000: connect: connection refused - 9611
    Throughput:     1.80MB/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      6372.98    1147.12    8355.08
    Latency        7.84ms     3.90ms   371.80ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 100000, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 0
    Throughput:     1.82MB/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     23972.31    7568.58   35323.59
    Latency        2.08ms     2.09ms   185.85ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 100000, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 0
    Throughput:     5.44MB/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     20254.66    5890.18   29399.78
    Latency        2.47ms     2.08ms   187.35ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 100000, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 0
    Throughput:     4.57MB/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     61048.38    3981.61   63755.60
    Latency      817.09us    86.12us     3.93ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 100000, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 0
    Throughput:     8.67MB/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     19164.71    9636.90   78374.27
    Latency        2.60ms     2.47ms   217.18ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 90190, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 9810
    Errors:
      dial tcp 127.0.0.1:3000: connect: connection refused - 9810
    Throughput:     3.91MB/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     25748.82    7920.10   61961.41
    Latency        1.94ms     2.00ms   172.07ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 97401, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 2599
    Errors:
      dial tcp 127.0.0.1:3000: connect: connection refused - 2599
    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     73689.23    2526.56   78756.04
    Latency      675.03us   177.88us    10.73ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 96381, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 3619
    Errors:
      dial tcp 127.0.0.1:3000: connect: connection refused - 3619
    Throughput:    11.24MB/s