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	72632	4822	78637
86%	Hyper Express	62316	3859	69488
36%	Node (Default)	26206	7457	57680
34%	Fastify	24788	7630	37521
30%	Hono	21950	6293	30648
25%	Koa	18507	6669	57678
11%	Carbon	8133	1369	10410
9%	Express	6511	1059	8454

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      8864.36    4558.26   55454.04
    Latency        5.63ms     4.21ms   364.76ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 93656, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 6344
    Errors:
      dial tcp 127.0.0.1:3000: connect: connection refused - 6344
    Throughput:     1.88MB/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      6394.47     994.02    8475.24
    Latency        7.82ms     3.63ms   349.40ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 100000, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 0
    Throughput:     1.83MB/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     23872.39    6928.68   36208.52
    Latency        2.09ms     2.07ms   183.27ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 100000, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 0
    Throughput:     5.42MB/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     20862.92    5734.85   30004.24
    Latency        2.39ms     1.95ms   175.37ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 100000, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 0
    Throughput:     4.71MB/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     62838.84    3484.19   70777.54
    Latency      793.77us    76.29us     3.50ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 100000, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 0
    Throughput:     8.92MB/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     19179.91    6925.21   62767.43
    Latency        2.60ms     2.35ms   203.63ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 93436, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 6564
    Errors:
      dial tcp 127.0.0.1:3000: connect: connection refused - 6564
    Throughput:     4.06MB/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     26392.52    7620.74   54798.22
    Latency        1.89ms     1.81ms   155.16ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 97284, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 2716
    Errors:
      dial tcp 127.0.0.1:3000: connect: connection refused - 2716
    Throughput:     5.88MB/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     74303.75    5343.64   89002.70
    Latency      670.85us   177.67us     9.27ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 96879, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 3121
    Errors:
      dial tcp 127.0.0.1:3000: connect: connection refused - 3121
    Throughput:    11.38MB/s