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HTTP framework benchmark platform.
29 test profiles. 64-core dedicated hardware. Same conditions for every framework.
View Leaderboard | Documentation | Add a Framework
| Command | Description |
|---|---|
/benchmark -f <framework> |
Run every test the framework subscribes to |
/benchmark -f <framework> -t <test> |
Run one test only |
/benchmark -f <framework> --save |
Run and save results (updates the leaderboard on merge) |
/benchmark -f <framework> -t <test> --save |
Run one test and save results |
/benchmark -f <framework> --compare <other> |
Measure the deltas against another framework instead of this one |
Always specify -f <framework>; the flags combine in any order. Results come back as a comment with a per-profile table of RPS, p99, CPU and memory.
What the deltas are measured against. By default, this framework's own results published on main - answering "did this change help?". When you are tuning a variant or a successor entry, --compare re-bases them on another entry instead:
/benchmark -f genhttp-11 --compare genhttp
The reply states which baseline it used, and profiles the other framework does not run show n/a rather than a delta.
| Category | Profiles | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Connection | baseline, pipelined, limited-conn |
Mixed GET/POST with query parsing (512/4K conns), 16× batched pipelining, short-lived connections that close after 10 requests |
| Workload | json, json-comp, json-tls, upload, static |
JSON serialization, gzip/brotli compression, HTTP/1.1 over TLS, 20 MB body ingestion, 20-file static asset serving |
| Database | async-db, crud |
Async Postgres sequential scan; realistic REST API with cached reads, list, upsert, update, and optional Redis cache |
| Templates | fortunes * |
DB query + HTML template render (TechEmpower-style Fortunes). Reference-only — measures template-engine throughput, not part of the composite score |
| Multi-endpoint | api-4, api-16 |
Mixed baseline + JSON + async-db at CPU-budget cliffs (4 and 16 logical CPUs, i.e. 2 and 8 full SMT cores) |
| H/2 | baseline-h2, static-h2, baseline-h2c, json-h2c |
Baseline + static over TLS with h2 stream multiplexing; baseline + JSON over cleartext h2 (prior-knowledge, port 8082) |
| H/3 | baseline-h3, static-h3 |
Baseline and static over QUIC with TLS 1.3 |
| gRPC | unary-grpc, unary-grpc-tls, stream-grpc, stream-grpc-tls |
Unary and server-streaming gRPC over plaintext HTTP/2 and TLS |
| Gateway | gateway-64, gateway-h3 |
Reverse proxy + server stack over HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 with mixed workload |
| Production Stack | production-stack |
Four-service architecture: edge + Redis + JWT auth sidecar + server, 10K-item cache-aside, concurrent reads + writes |
| WebSocket | echo-ws, echo-ws-pipeline, echo-ws-limited |
Echo throughput across connection counts; 16x batched echo; echo with each connection closed after 10 messages (upgrade-handshake cost) |
git clone https://github.com/MDA2AV/HttpArena.git
cd HttpArena
./scripts/validate.sh <framework> # correctness check
./scripts/benchmark.sh <framework> # all profiles
./scripts/benchmark.sh <framework> baseline # specific profile
./scripts/benchmark.sh <framework> --save # save results- Add a new framework
- Improve an existing implementation — open a PR modifying files under
frameworks/<name>/ - Open an issue
- Comment on any open issue or PR
Add your GitHub username to the maintainers array in your framework's meta.json to get notified when someone opens a PR that touches your framework:
"maintainers": ["your-github-username"]Benchmarked on HttpArena? Add the badge to your project's README — it links to the live leaderboard and adapts to light & dark themes automatically.
[](https://www.http-arena.com/)Prefer HTML, e.g. to set the size:
<a href="https://www.http-arena.com/">
<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/MDA2AV/httparena-badge/wordmark.svg" alt="Benchmarked by HttpArena" height="44">
</a>Another badge variants:
- Http/1.1:
https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/MDA2AV/httparena-badge/httparena-badge-h1.svg - Http/2:
https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/MDA2AV/httparena-badge/httparena-badge-h2.svg - Http/3:
https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/MDA2AV/httparena-badge/httparena-badge-h3.svg - Gateway:
https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/MDA2AV/httparena-badge/httparena-badge-gateway.svg - WebSocket:
https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/MDA2AV/httparena-badge/httparena-badge-websocket.svg - gRPC:
https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/MDA2AV/httparena-badge/httparena-badge-grpc.svg
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