Performance comparison of the most popular tween libraries for Unity.

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Performance comparison of the most popular tween libraries for Unity.

All benchmarks in this article are performed with the official Performance testing API and can be easily replicated by cloning the Benchmarks repo. For a detailed comparison of PrimeTween vs. DOTween, please visit the dedicated article.

Runtime Performance

Test environment: Unity 2022.3.9, Macbook Pro M1 32GB, IL2CPP build, 100.000 iterations per test, average frame time in milliseconds (lower numbers are better).

	DOTween 1.2.745	LeanTween 2.51	UnityTweens 3.2.0	PrimeTween 1.0.10	PrimeTween vs second best
Animation start	33.54 ms	15.00 ms	43.18 ms	5.76 ms	2.6x
Animation start (all params)	38.01 ms	24.68 ms	39.73 ms	6.72 ms	3.67x
Position animation	8.91 ms	12.54 ms	7.88 ms	4.34 ms	1.82x
Rotation animation	9.74 ms	16.28 ms	9.49 ms	6.79 ms	1.4x
Custom animation	4.93 ms	4.45 ms	4.78 ms	3.28 ms	1.36x
Custom animation curve	12.11 ms	9.90 ms	14.01 ms	4.84 ms	2.04x
Delay	4.17 ms	4.26 ms	1.99 ms	2.07 ms	0.96x
Delay start	15.37 ms	13.07 ms	38.52 ms	7.32 ms	1.79x
Sequence with 3 tweens	9.36 ms	9.49 ms	-	2.83 ms	3.31x
Sequence start	45.59 ms	49963.62 ms	-	8.83 ms	5.16x

GC Memory Allocations

The amount of GCAlloc per one iteration, lower numbers are better.

	DOTween 1.2.745	LeanTween 2.51	UnityTweens 3.2.0	PrimeTween 1.0.10
Animation	734 B	292 B	878 B	0 B
Delay	584 B	146 B	944 B	0 B
Sequence	2846 B	877 B	-	0 B