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	76389	4068	87025
82%	Hyper Express	62572	3265	65446
32%	Node (Default)	24697	7475	60731
31%	Fastify	23692	7156	35247
26%	Hono	19652	5180	29671
24%	Koa	18072	7402	64203
11%	Carbon	8150	1437	10792
8%	Express	6364	981	8582

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      8700.56    5790.18   71556.52
    Latency        5.72ms     4.22ms   366.38ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 91711, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 8289
    Errors:
      dial tcp 127.0.0.1:3000: connect: connection refused - 8289
    Throughput:     1.82MB/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      6454.21    1046.68    8653.97
    Latency        7.75ms     3.52ms   338.45ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 100000, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 0
    Throughput:     1.85MB/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     23448.81    7130.79   36820.42
    Latency        2.13ms     1.97ms   178.26ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 100000, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 0
    Throughput:     5.31MB/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     21083.77    6245.39   30377.34
    Latency        2.37ms     1.93ms   171.18ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 100000, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 0
    Throughput:     4.76MB/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     62419.60    3519.87   68835.98
    Latency      799.63us    65.91us     2.98ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 100000, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 0
    Throughput:     8.86MB/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     18620.17    8670.22   76728.37
    Latency        2.68ms     2.38ms   206.35ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 91385, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 8615
    Errors:
      dial tcp 127.0.0.1:3000: connect: connection refused - 8615
    Throughput:     3.85MB/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     25277.84    7849.57   73710.95
    Latency        1.97ms     1.86ms   158.90ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 97253, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 2747
    Errors:
      dial tcp 127.0.0.1:3000: connect: connection refused - 2747
    Throughput:     5.63MB/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     76081.75    5675.32  102452.15
    Latency      656.64us   240.33us    17.29ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 96711, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 3289
    Errors:
      dial tcp 127.0.0.1:3000: connect: connection refused - 3289
    Throughput:    11.59MB/s