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	74793	5510	85583
83%	Hyper Express	62074	4240	71703
35%	Node (Default)	26037	7358	55138
32%	Fastify	24235	7339	34950
28%	Hono	21030	5806	29422
24%	Koa	18183	6339	48083
11%	Carbon	8219	1361	10529
9%	Express	6637	1039	8659

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      8743.29    4560.44   70122.08
    Latency        5.71ms     4.19ms   360.22ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 93231, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 6769
    Errors:
      dial tcp 127.0.0.1:3000: connect: connection refused - 6769
    Throughput:     1.85MB/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      6603.77    1101.01    8627.59
    Latency        7.57ms     3.54ms   337.12ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 100000, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 0
    Throughput:     1.89MB/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     24611.67    7610.16   36002.80
    Latency        2.03ms     2.03ms   183.52ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 100000, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 0
    Throughput:     5.58MB/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     19995.01    4601.79   28912.43
    Latency        2.50ms     1.93ms   177.38ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 100000, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 0
    Throughput:     4.51MB/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     62367.88    3661.15   70354.65
    Latency      800.41us    64.26us     3.00ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 100000, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 0
    Throughput:     8.85MB/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     18920.05    7631.88   55130.59
    Latency        2.64ms     2.29ms   198.52ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 90591, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 9409
    Errors:
      dial tcp 127.0.0.1:3000: connect: connection refused - 9409
    Throughput:     3.88MB/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     25829.39    7640.13   48109.75
    Latency        1.93ms     1.88ms   163.14ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 97507, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 2493
    Errors:
      dial tcp 127.0.0.1:3000: connect: connection refused - 2493
    Throughput:     5.77MB/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     74875.44    6427.97   93708.14
    Latency      665.16us   185.13us     9.54ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 97712, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 2288
    Errors:
      dial tcp 127.0.0.1:3000: connect: connection refused - 2288
    Throughput:    11.58MB/s