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	73945	5184	80395
86%	Hyper Express	63536	3943	67015
37%	Node (Default)	27386	8442	51989
34%	Fastify	25490	7919	37458
29%	Hono	21474	5998	30221
26%	Koa	19045	6937	52875
11%	Carbon	8239	1352	10287
9%	Express	6520	1028	8482

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      8648.78    4291.52   56666.17
    Latency        5.77ms     4.25ms   367.79ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 94141, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 5859
    Errors:
      dial tcp 127.0.0.1:3000: connect: connection refused - 5859
    Throughput:     1.85MB/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      7083.02    4890.96   54510.40
    Latency        7.05ms     3.90ms   355.54ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 91128, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 8872
    Errors:
      dial tcp 127.0.0.1:3000: connect: connection refused - 8872
    Throughput:     1.85MB/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     24685.86    7163.94   37489.13
    Latency        2.02ms     1.91ms   173.39ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 100000, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 0
    Throughput:     5.60MB/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     21048.07    5897.93   31143.56
    Latency        2.38ms     1.98ms   179.11ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 100000, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 0
    Throughput:     4.75MB/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     64793.88    4093.50   72551.14
    Latency      770.49us    72.55us     3.07ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 100000, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 0
    Throughput:     9.19MB/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     19247.43    7063.13   59458.50
    Latency        2.59ms     2.37ms   207.40ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 92559, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 7441
    Errors:
      dial tcp 127.0.0.1:3000: connect: connection refused - 7441
    Throughput:     4.03MB/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     27612.20    8645.18   49666.83
    Latency        1.81ms     1.89ms   160.66ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 97758, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 2242
    Errors:
      dial tcp 127.0.0.1:3000: connect: connection refused - 2242
    Throughput:     6.18MB/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     74441.58    5034.10   84789.93
    Latency      668.82us   152.77us     5.28ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 96942, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 3058
    Errors:
      dial tcp 127.0.0.1:3000: connect: connection refused - 3058
    Throughput:    11.43MB/s