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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 74036 5505 82590
86% Hyper Express 63418 2964 67126
37% Node (Default) 27275 7882 51754
33% Fastify 24470 7163 36126
28% Hono 20804 6007 30479
25% Koa 18212 5998 48618
11% Carbon 8248 1369 10324
9% Express 6421 1020 8442

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      8681.33    4333.09   59801.34
      Latency        5.74ms     4.29ms   371.29ms
      HTTP codes:
        1xx - 0, 2xx - 94034, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
        others - 5966
      Errors:
        dial tcp 127.0.0.1:3000: connect: connection refused - 5966
      Throughput:     1.86MB/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      6522.26    1052.92    8395.78
      Latency        7.66ms     3.66ms   348.16ms
      HTTP codes:
        1xx - 0, 2xx - 100000, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
        others - 0
      Throughput:     1.87MB/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     25030.48    7666.59   37032.30
      Latency        2.00ms     2.03ms   184.73ms
      HTTP codes:
        1xx - 0, 2xx - 100000, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
        others - 0
      Throughput:     5.68MB/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     21722.45    6294.64   30018.85
      Latency        2.30ms     2.02ms   181.69ms
      HTTP codes:
        1xx - 0, 2xx - 100000, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
        others - 0
      Throughput:     4.91MB/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     63469.85    4151.42   71137.01
      Latency      785.56us    72.93us     2.94ms
      HTTP codes:
        1xx - 0, 2xx - 100000, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
        others - 0
      Throughput:     9.02MB/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     19481.55    7894.14   64516.00
      Latency        2.56ms     2.34ms   202.35ms
      HTTP codes:
        1xx - 0, 2xx - 92364, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
        others - 7636
      Errors:
        dial tcp 127.0.0.1:3000: connect: connection refused - 7636
      Throughput:     4.07MB/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     26740.56    8268.06   60127.09
      Latency        1.87ms     1.75ms   150.79ms
      HTTP codes:
        1xx - 0, 2xx - 96351, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
        others - 3649
      Errors:
        dial tcp 127.0.0.1:3000: connect: connection refused - 3649
      Throughput:     5.90MB/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     72510.39    3791.38   81226.59
      Latency      686.07us   190.25us     9.90ms
      HTTP codes:
        1xx - 0, 2xx - 96306, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
        others - 3694
      Errors:
        dial tcp 127.0.0.1:3000: connect: connection refused - 3694
      Throughput:    11.05MB/s