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	75547	4319	81073
84%	Hyper Express	63526	4664	66504
35%	Node (Default)	26242	8699	80703
31%	Fastify	23744	7648	35651
26%	Hono	19868	5673	30641
24%	Koa	18321	8042	71214
11%	Carbon	8051	1324	10314
9%	Express	6600	1044	8458

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      9337.47    8076.53   85159.38
    Latency        5.34ms     4.14ms   357.74ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 87932, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 12068
    Errors:
      dial tcp 127.0.0.1:3000: connect: connection refused - 12068
    Throughput:     1.87MB/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      7162.75    5463.19   66369.55
    Latency        6.97ms     3.85ms   352.49ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 91054, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 8946
    Errors:
      dial tcp 127.0.0.1:3000: connect: connection refused - 8946
    Throughput:     1.87MB/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     24915.80    7968.37   36473.34
    Latency        2.00ms     2.04ms   181.70ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 100000, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 0
    Throughput:     5.66MB/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     21374.90    6401.06   29982.11
    Latency        2.34ms     1.99ms   181.25ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 100000, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 0
    Throughput:     4.83MB/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     63546.45    3329.02   68020.89
    Latency      784.44us    61.75us     2.85ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 100000, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 0
    Throughput:     9.03MB/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     18431.12    8525.84   79085.47
    Latency        2.71ms     2.33ms   205.25ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 92130, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 7870
    Errors:
      dial tcp 127.0.0.1:3000: connect: connection refused - 7870
    Throughput:     3.84MB/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     26324.18    8052.10   56497.92
    Latency        1.89ms     1.91ms   165.09ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 97781, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 2219
    Errors:
      dial tcp 127.0.0.1:3000: connect: connection refused - 2219
    Throughput:     5.90MB/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     76950.79    4343.54   90822.31
    Latency      647.99us   198.72us    10.46ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 96580, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 3420
    Errors:
      dial tcp 127.0.0.1:3000: connect: connection refused - 3420
    Throughput:    11.74MB/s