HTTP Framework Benchmark Arena

An open benchmarking platform that measures HTTP framework performance under realistic workloads using io_uring-based load generation. Add your framework, get results automatically.

Leaderboard

See which frameworks handle the most requests per second, ranked by throughput.

Compliance & Security

HTTP/1.1 compliance testing — RFC conformance, request smuggling vectors, and malformed input handling.

Run Locally

Set up and run the full benchmark suite on your own machine with Docker and gcannon.

Add a Framework

Add your framework with a Dockerfile and open a PR. Three steps to join the arena.

12 Test Profiles Across HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2 and HTTP/3

Every framework is tested under diverse, realistic workloads — from raw throughput to compression, caching, and file serving.

HTTP/1.1

Baseline

Mixed GET/POST with keep-alive connections, query parsing, and chunked encoding.

GET/POST /baseline11

Short-lived Connection

Connections closed after 10 requests — measures TCP handshake overhead.

GET/POST /baseline11 (10 req/conn)

JSON Processing

Load dataset, compute derived fields, serialize ~10 KB JSON response.

GET /json

Upload (20 MB)

Ingest a 20 MB binary payload and return its CRC32 checksum.

POST /upload

Compression

Serve ~1 MB JSON with gzip compression. Bandwidth-adjusted scoring.

GET /compression (gzip)

Noisy (Resilience)

Valid requests mixed with malformed noise — bad paths, bad content-length, binary. Only 2xx count.

GET/POST /baseline11 + noise

Mixed Workload

Realistic mix of baseline, JSON, DB, upload, and compression requests with weighted scoring.

GET/POST mixed endpoints (100 req/conn)

Pipelined (16x)

16 requests sent back-to-back per connection. Tests pipeline batching.

GET /pipeline

HTTP/2

Baseline

Multiplexed HTTP/2 streams over TLS with 100 concurrent streams per connection.

GET /baseline2 (h2)

Static Files

Round-robin across 20 pre-loaded static files — CSS, JS, HTML, fonts, images.

GET /static/* (h2)

HTTP/3

Baseline

HTTP/3 over QUIC — measures framework performance with UDP-based transport.

GET /baseline2 (h3)

Static Files

Multi-URI static file serving over QUIC with parallel streams.

GET /static/* (h3)