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	74127	6471	93116
85%	Hyper Express	63150	3783	73425
37%	Node (Default)	27519	7861	53892
35%	Fastify	25884	7869	37594
26%	Koa	19563	7408	55713
23%	Hono	17099	7946	29891
11%	Carbon	8298	1411	10477
9%	Express	6347	1007	9760

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      8679.34    4881.43   60495.29
    Latency        5.75ms     4.24ms   366.09ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 92894, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 7106
    Errors:
      dial tcp 127.0.0.1:3000: connect: connection refused - 7106
    Throughput:     1.83MB/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      7047.12    4081.02   52841.97
    Latency        7.09ms     4.02ms   366.26ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 93110, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 6890
    Errors:
      dial tcp 127.0.0.1:3000: connect: connection refused - 6890
    Throughput:     1.88MB/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     23756.53    7116.76   36332.85
    Latency        2.10ms     2.02ms   179.22ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 100000, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 0
    Throughput:     5.39MB/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     21605.15    5956.16   30601.42
    Latency        2.31ms     2.05ms   182.80ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 100000, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 0
    Throughput:     4.88MB/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     65071.81    4553.04   75108.56
    Latency      766.19us    72.44us     2.82ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 100000, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 0
    Throughput:     9.24MB/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     18678.77    7056.42   58021.60
    Latency        2.67ms     2.36ms   203.15ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 93502, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 6498
    Errors:
      dial tcp 127.0.0.1:3000: connect: connection refused - 6498
    Throughput:     3.95MB/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     27392.02    8883.23   62025.54
    Latency        1.82ms     1.97ms   167.29ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 96713, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 3287
    Errors:
      dial tcp 127.0.0.1:3000: connect: connection refused - 3287
    Throughput:     6.06MB/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     72218.55    7419.60   85584.06
    Latency      688.78us   193.70us     7.00ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 98135, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 1865
    Errors:
      dial tcp 127.0.0.1:3000: connect: connection refused - 1865
    Throughput:    11.23MB/s