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	74667	5352	85423
85%	Hyper Express	63504	3020	66417
34%	Node (Default)	25640	7000	58086
34%	Fastify	25173	7543	37750
29%	Hono	21819	6118	30603
25%	Koa	19022	7290	56137
11%	Carbon	8447	1501	10551
9%	Express	6514	1066	8525

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      9020.13    5176.15   55841.52
    Latency        5.53ms     4.19ms   362.65ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 92468, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 7532
    Errors:
      dial tcp 127.0.0.1:3000: connect: connection refused - 7532
    Throughput:     1.89MB/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      6926.47    4450.11   50629.50
    Latency        7.21ms     3.82ms   350.86ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 91863, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 8137
    Errors:
      dial tcp 127.0.0.1:3000: connect: connection refused - 8137
    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     24526.19    7513.25   36625.13
    Latency        2.04ms     1.95ms   179.38ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 100000, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 0
    Throughput:     5.56MB/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     21576.89    6209.03   30258.72
    Latency        2.31ms     2.07ms   184.56ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 100000, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 0
    Throughput:     4.88MB/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     64636.10    4120.54   70173.52
    Latency      771.45us    69.32us     2.86ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 100000, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 0
    Throughput:     9.18MB/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     19395.53    6990.17   59215.15
    Latency        2.57ms     2.27ms   198.21ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 93156, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 6844
    Errors:
      dial tcp 127.0.0.1:3000: connect: connection refused - 6844
    Throughput:     4.09MB/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     27146.31    8387.67   61071.38
    Latency        1.84ms     1.92ms   156.45ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 96639, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 3361
    Errors:
      dial tcp 127.0.0.1:3000: connect: connection refused - 3361
    Throughput:     6.01MB/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     74946.52    6015.76   84317.44
    Latency      664.15us   176.27us     6.38ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 96943, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 3057
    Errors:
      dial tcp 127.0.0.1:3000: connect: connection refused - 3057
    Throughput:    11.50MB/s