⚡ API Benchmark

Benchmark your APIs with confidence. A lightweight, serverless-ready, and stateless tool built with Next.js 15+ and Autocannon to measure and compare API performance in real-time.

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✨ Features

• 🚀 Instant Execution: Run load tests immediately from your browser using Bun's fast runtime.
• 📊 Visual Analytics: Beautiful, interactive charts for latency, throughput, and error rates using Recharts.
• 🔄 Side-by-Side Comparison: Compare up to 5 APIs sequentially to ensure accuracy and performance parity.
• 🔒 Secure & Stateless: Zero data persistence. Built-in SSRF protection blocks internal network requests.
• 📥 Export Results: Download your benchmark results as CSV for further analysis.
• 🎨 Modern UI: Sleek, responsive design built with Tailwind CSS 4 and Geist font.

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🛠️ Tech Stack

• Framework: Next.js 16 (App Router)
• Runtime: Bun
• Benchmarking Engine: Autocannon
• Styling: Tailwind CSS 4
• Components: Base UI, Shadcn UI
• Charts: Recharts
• Icons: Tabler Icons
• Validation: Zod

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🚀 Getting Started

Prerequisites

• Bun installed on your machine.

Installation

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/farhan-nahid/api-benchmark
   cd api-benchmark

2. Install dependencies:

   bun install

3. Run the development server:

   bun dev

Open http://localhost:3000 with your browser to see the result.

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📖 Usage

Single API Test

1. Navigate to /test.
2. Enter your API endpoint URL.
3. Configure duration, connections, headers, and body (optional).
4. Click Start Benchmarking.

Side-by-Side Comparison

1. Navigate to /compare.
2. Add up to 5 API endpoints.
3. Configure the common test parameters.
4. Click Compare APIs to run them sequentially.

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🛡️ Security

This tool implements strict URL validation to prevent Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF).

• Blocked: Internal hostnames (localhost, 127.0.0.1), private IP ranges, and cloud metadata endpoints.
• Allowed: Publicly accessible http and https URLs.

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🛠️ Development

Available scripts:

• bun dev: Starts the development server.
• bun build: Builds the application for production.
• bun start: Starts the production server.
• bun lint: Runs ESLint.
• bun format: Formats code with Prettier.
• bun typecheck: Runs TypeScript type checking.

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📄 License

This project is open-source and available under the MIT License.