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	75333	3183	79736
84%	Hyper Express	63261	3372	70665
36%	Node (Default)	27336	8837	77194
31%	Fastify	23534	6825	36230
29%	Hono	21821	6406	31569
26%	Koa	19834	8899	72481
11%	Carbon	8472	1498	10463
9%	Express	6538	1136	8492

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      9086.03    5654.91   73153.84
    Latency        5.49ms     4.21ms   362.71ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 92620, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 7380
    Errors:
      dial tcp 127.0.0.1:3000: connect: connection refused - 7380
    Throughput:     1.91MB/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      7236.76    5862.23   77074.29
    Latency        6.90ms     3.82ms   351.51ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 90503, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 9497
    Errors:
      dial tcp 127.0.0.1:3000: connect: connection refused - 9497
    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     23916.21    6868.63   37116.00
    Latency        2.09ms     1.95ms   177.83ms
    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     22028.58    6155.06   30941.63
    Latency        2.27ms     1.98ms   178.32ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 100000, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 0
    Throughput:     4.98MB/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     63118.92    3826.97   65500.27
    Latency      789.16us    75.56us     3.22ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 100000, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 0
    Throughput:     8.97MB/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     19293.50    9651.05   81591.80
    Latency        2.58ms     2.33ms   204.23ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 90326, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 9674
    Errors:
      dial tcp 127.0.0.1:3000: connect: connection refused - 9674
    Throughput:     3.94MB/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     27949.89   10534.18   83686.17
    Latency        1.79ms     1.88ms   163.60ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 95501, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 4499
    Errors:
      dial tcp 127.0.0.1:3000: connect: connection refused - 4499
    Throughput:     6.11MB/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     75550.78    1936.22   77698.39
    Latency      659.06us   131.24us     6.20ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 97244, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 2756
    Errors:
      dial tcp 127.0.0.1:3000: connect: connection refused - 2756
    Throughput:    11.63MB/s