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	73276	4900	80912
86%	Hyper Express	62712	3756	66751
37%	Node (Default)	27117	7718	50480
32%	Fastify	23651	6858	36552
29%	Hono	20977	5721	30615
26%	Koa	18835	7038	62017
11%	Carbon	8282	1437	10392
9%	Express	6509	1071	8483

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      8793.33    4427.39   56424.96
    Latency        5.68ms     4.15ms   361.25ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 94059, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 5941
    Errors:
      dial tcp 127.0.0.1:3000: connect: connection refused - 5941
    Throughput:     1.88MB/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      7004.22    4226.60   48046.58
    Latency        7.13ms     3.95ms   359.96ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 91794, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 8206
    Errors:
      dial tcp 127.0.0.1:3000: connect: connection refused - 8206
    Throughput:     1.84MB/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     25583.44    7782.31   38282.55
    Latency        1.95ms     1.86ms   170.70ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 100000, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 0
    Throughput:     5.81MB/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     21337.50    5807.94   30999.04
    Latency        2.34ms     1.97ms   176.31ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 100000, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 0
    Throughput:     4.82MB/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     63650.65    3652.76   69984.53
    Latency      783.40us    70.06us     3.12ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 100000, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 0
    Throughput:     9.04MB/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     18537.46    6733.23   52971.15
    Latency        2.69ms     2.34ms   204.68ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 93150, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 6850
    Errors:
      dial tcp 127.0.0.1:3000: connect: connection refused - 6850
    Throughput:     3.91MB/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     27485.84    8408.47   60434.50
    Latency        1.82ms     1.89ms   163.93ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 96679, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 3321
    Errors:
      dial tcp 127.0.0.1:3000: connect: connection refused - 3321
    Throughput:     6.08MB/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     75745.51    6612.05   87957.21
    Latency      658.04us   181.02us     8.53ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 98130, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 1870
    Errors:
      dial tcp 127.0.0.1:3000: connect: connection refused - 1870
    Throughput:    11.76MB/s