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	77030	3301	87713
85%	Hyper Express	65729	4505	81894
33%	Node (Default)	25596	8930	96345
31%	Fastify	24115	7429	36370
27%	Hono	21166	6063	30007
23%	Koa	17945	6077	52497
11%	Carbon	8215	1422	10379
8%	Express	6461	1022	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      8644.85    6059.47   81137.93
    Latency        5.75ms     4.17ms   362.75ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 91336, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 8664
    Errors:
      dial tcp 127.0.0.1:3000: connect: connection refused - 8664
    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      6586.80    1017.54    8569.49
    Latency        7.59ms     3.50ms   337.21ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 100000, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 0
    Throughput:     1.88MB/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     24368.84    7390.88   36761.35
    Latency        2.05ms     1.95ms   175.41ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 100000, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 0
    Throughput:     5.53MB/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     21121.33    5644.26   30230.37
    Latency        2.37ms     1.82ms   166.93ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 100000, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 0
    Throughput:     4.77MB/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     65102.94    4137.12   70818.38
    Latency      765.70us    68.49us     3.33ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 100000, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 0
    Throughput:     9.25MB/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     18606.36    8850.34   79322.07
    Latency        2.68ms     2.33ms   202.24ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 90989, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 9011
    Errors:
      dial tcp 127.0.0.1:3000: connect: connection refused - 9011
    Throughput:     3.83MB/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     26479.55    8540.71   81789.58
    Latency        1.88ms     1.87ms   160.41ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 96666, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 3334
    Errors:
      dial tcp 127.0.0.1:3000: connect: connection refused - 3334
    Throughput:     5.86MB/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     76145.60    5045.91   88279.39
    Latency      654.31us   242.56us    15.22ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 96542, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 3458
    Errors:
      dial tcp 127.0.0.1:3000: connect: connection refused - 3458
    Throughput:    11.62MB/s