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	74301	5435	85504
84%	Hyper Express	62703	3975	84099
36%	Node (Default)	26676	7537	45295
33%	Fastify	24218	7696	36248
28%	Hono	20435	5576	29413
25%	Koa	18626	6770	53436
11%	Carbon	8297	1449	10385
9%	Express	6444	1060	8340

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      8755.77    5130.21   62565.21
    Latency        5.70ms     4.31ms   373.56ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 92523, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 7477
    Errors:
      dial tcp 127.0.0.1:3000: connect: connection refused - 7477
    Throughput:     1.84MB/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      6244.88     996.55    8054.54
    Latency        8.00ms     3.73ms   357.50ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 100000, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 0
    Throughput:     1.79MB/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     24255.35    7534.67   36162.58
    Latency        2.06ms     2.04ms   185.51ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 100000, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 0
    Throughput:     5.50MB/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     20887.41    5227.88   29274.29
    Latency        2.39ms     2.01ms   182.74ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 100000, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 0
    Throughput:     4.72MB/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     63369.48    4181.54   75237.41
    Latency      786.77us    69.24us     3.27ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 100000, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 0
    Throughput:     9.00MB/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     18598.54    6591.52   56067.95
    Latency        2.68ms     2.37ms   208.91ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 94268, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 5732
    Errors:
      dial tcp 127.0.0.1:3000: connect: connection refused - 5732
    Throughput:     3.97MB/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     26751.17    7727.95   51996.50
    Latency        1.87ms     1.86ms   161.53ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 97714, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 2286
    Errors:
      dial tcp 127.0.0.1:3000: connect: connection refused - 2286
    Throughput:     5.98MB/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     73990.64    7163.27   85181.53
    Latency      673.74us   214.79us     9.80ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 98129, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 1871
    Errors:
      dial tcp 127.0.0.1:3000: connect: connection refused - 1871
    Throughput:    11.48MB/s