// benchmarks
Benchmarks
Machines matter, but so does the framework overhead. Fastify was engineered from the ground up to add as little as possible on top of Node.js.
Requests per second
Node.js · single instance · updated August 17, 202688,171
Fastify req/s
1.5×
faster than Express
Fastify5.11.3
88,171
H32.0.1-rc.26
82,683
Hono4.13.1
82,371
Hapi21.4.10
59,754
Express5.2.1
57,936
Koa3.2.1
57,214
req/s · higher is better · illustrative comparison
Latency
Node.js · single instance · updated August 17, 202610.84
Fastify ms
1.5×
lower than Express
Koa3.2.1
17.02
Express5.2.1
16.73
Hapi21.4.10
16.26
Hono4.13.1
11.62
H32.0.1-rc.26
11.56
Fastify5.11.3
10.84
ms · lower is better · illustrative comparison
Throughput
Node.js · single instance · updated August 17, 202615.81
Fastify MB/s
1.5×
faster than Express
Fastify5.11.3
15.81
H32.0.1-rc.26
14.51
Hono4.13.1
13.51
Hapi21.4.10
10.66
Express5.2.1
10.33
Koa3.2.1
10.20
MB/s · higher is better · illustrative comparison
These figures are illustrative. Real-world results depend on your hardware, Node.js version, and workload. Reproduce them yourself with the official fastify/benchmarks suite and measure against your own routes.