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	73068	4883	83899
84%	Hyper Express	61331	3264	68712
37%	Node (Default)	26904	7658	50874
32%	Fastify	23331	6820	36802
30%	Hono	22087	6352	30524
26%	Koa	19259	6524	49815
11%	Carbon	8244	1354	10212
9%	Express	6363	975	8375

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      8747.18    4337.19   52029.74
    Latency        5.71ms     4.32ms   369.90ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 94059, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 5941
    Errors:
      dial tcp 127.0.0.1:3000: connect: connection refused - 5941
    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      6879.96    4254.17   52626.73
    Latency        7.26ms     3.92ms   358.11ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 92577, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 7423
    Errors:
      dial tcp 127.0.0.1:3000: connect: connection refused - 7423
    Throughput:     1.82MB/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     24393.68    6842.22   36158.93
    Latency        2.05ms     2.01ms   179.56ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 100000, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 0
    Throughput:     5.54MB/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     20926.01    5931.89   29892.76
    Latency        2.39ms     2.03ms   184.03ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 100000, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 0
    Throughput:     4.73MB/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     63692.65    4077.60   71394.45
    Latency      782.78us    70.71us     3.42ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 100000, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 0
    Throughput:     9.04MB/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     18824.85    6491.84   51141.42
    Latency        2.65ms     2.35ms   206.85ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 94003, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 5997
    Errors:
      dial tcp 127.0.0.1:3000: connect: connection refused - 5997
    Throughput:     4.00MB/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     26706.36    7356.41   50415.73
    Latency        1.87ms     1.85ms   158.71ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 98048, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 1952
    Errors:
      dial tcp 127.0.0.1:3000: connect: connection refused - 1952
    Throughput:     5.99MB/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     72965.86    4706.60   78990.02
    Latency      682.59us   184.12us     8.67ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 96948, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 3052
    Errors:
      dial tcp 127.0.0.1:3000: connect: connection refused - 3052
    Throughput:    11.19MB/s