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	113761	5449	123180
80%	Hyper Express	90964	5865	94502
32%	Node (Default)	36270	10615	93402
30%	Fastify	34115	7813	45560
26%	Hono	29720	7672	45716
26%	Koa	29497	13404	98751
10%	Carbon	11546	2271	15827
7%	Express	8139	1540	11421

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     12877.18   11458.06  114530.53
    Latency        3.87ms     4.12ms   341.80ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 86937, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 13063
    Errors:
      dial tcp 127.0.0.1:3000: connect: connection refused - 13063
    Throughput:     2.54MB/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      9323.00    9751.23   97125.44
    Latency        5.35ms     3.49ms   320.54ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 86746, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 13254
    Errors:
      dial tcp 127.0.0.1:3000: connect: connection refused - 13238
      dial tcp 127.0.0.1:3000: connect: connection reset by peer - 16
    Throughput:     2.32MB/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     38371.02   17628.04  112966.77
    Latency        1.30ms     1.65ms   132.19ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 79476, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 20524
    Errors:
      dial tcp 127.0.0.1:3000: connect: connection refused - 20493
      dial tcp 127.0.0.1:3000: connect: connection reset by peer - 31
    Throughput:     6.92MB/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     33119.23   17240.72  117183.76
    Latency        1.51ms     1.80ms   156.17ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 84956, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 15044
    Errors:
      dial tcp 127.0.0.1:3000: connect: connection refused - 15044
    Throughput:     6.37MB/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     93129.22    6824.52  121490.86
    Latency      532.88us   230.03us     8.96ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 89365, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 10635
    Errors:
      dial tcp 127.0.0.1:3000: connect: connection refused - 10635
    Throughput:    11.83MB/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     31487.30   15334.44  121113.61
    Latency        1.58ms     1.81ms   152.87ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 88280, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 11720
    Errors:
      dial tcp 127.0.0.1:3000: connect: connection refused - 11720
    Throughput:     6.28MB/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     36197.69   10179.30   97852.10
    Latency        1.38ms     1.51ms   126.71ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 96274, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 3726
    Errors:
      dial tcp 127.0.0.1:3000: connect: connection refused - 3726
    Throughput:     7.98MB/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    112572.79    5526.85  122505.95
    Latency      441.45us   159.83us     8.03ms
    HTTP codes:
      1xx - 0, 2xx - 95535, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
      others - 4465
    Errors:
      dial tcp 127.0.0.1:3000: connect: connection refused - 4465
    Throughput:    17.01MB/s