# http-packages-benchmark **Repository Path**: mirrors_coolaj86/http-packages-benchmark ## Basic Information - **Project Name**: http-packages-benchmark - **Description**: 🌎 HTTP clients research for TypeScript Node.js applications - **Primary Language**: Unknown - **License**: Not specified - **Default Branch**: master - **Homepage**: None - **GVP Project**: No ## Statistics - **Stars**: 0 - **Forks**: 0 - **Created**: 2020-11-23 - **Last Updated**: 2026-05-17 ## Categories & Tags **Categories**: Uncategorized **Tags**: None ## README # 🌎 HTTP Clients benchmark ## Libraries - [got](https://github.com/sindresorhus/got): Human-friendly and powerful HTTP request library for Node.js. - [request-promise](https://github.com/request/request-promise): Simplified HTTP request client 'request' with Promise support. Powered by Bluebird. _DEPRECATED_. - [node-fetch](https://github.com/bitinn/node-fetch): A light-weight module that brings window.fetch to Node.js. - [axios](https://github.com/axios/axios): Promise based HTTP client for the browser and Node.js. - [bent](https://github.com/mikeal/bent): Functional HTTP client for Node.js and Browsers w/ async/await. - [apisauce](https://github.com/infinitered/apisauce): Axios + standardized errors + request/response transforms. ## Packages comparison
request-promise node-fetch axios got bent apisauce
Downloads 2M/month 11M/month 6M/month 34M/month 5K/month 54K/month
Dependencies 7 0 3 15 3 2
Minzipped size 246.4KB * 282B 4.3KB 18.4KB 805B 9.5KB
Created at Oct 4, 2013 Jan 26, 2015 Aug 18, 2014 Mar 27, 2014 Nov 7, 2017 Apr 9, 2016
_* **Note:** request-promise has [request](https://github.com/request/request) as peer dependency. So this is the summatory of both packages sizes: 179.8KB + 66.6KB_ ## Features
request-promise node-fetch axios got bent apisauce
HTTP/2 support ❌ ❌ ❌ ❌ ❌ ❌
Instances creation ❌ ❌ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅
Promise API ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅
Stream API ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅
Request cancelation ❌ ✅ ❌ ✅ ❌ ❌
RFC compliant caching ❌ ❌ ❌ ✅ ❌ ❌
Cookies (out-of-box) ✅ ❌ ❌ ✅ ❌ ❌
Follows redirects ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅
Retries on failure ❌ ❌ ❌ ✅ ❌ ❌
Handles gzip/deflate ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅
Advanced timeouts ❌ ❌ ❌ ✅ ❌ ❌
JSON mode ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅
Composable ❌ ❌ ❌ ✅ ✅ ❌
Hooks ❌ ❌ ✅ ✅ ❌ ❌
* _Based on table from [got repository](https://github.com/sindresorhus/got#comparison)._ ## Performance Use autocannon for stress tests: ```bash autocannon -c 100 -d 20 -m \"GET\" --json 'localhost:8080/' ``` You can also run several tests using: ```bash for i in {1..10}; do t -- 'localhost:8080/axios' >> ./benchmark_results/axios.json; sleep 5; done \ for i in {1..10}; do t -- 'localhost:8080/apisauce' >> ./benchmark_results/apisauce.json; sleep 5; done \ && for i in {1..10}; do t -- 'localhost:8080/fetch' >> ./benchmark_results/fetch.json; sleep 5; done \ && for i in {1..10}; do t -- 'localhost:8080/got' >> ./benchmark_results/got.json; sleep 5; done \ && for i in {1..10}; do t -- 'localhost:8080/rp' >> ./benchmark_results/rp.json; sleep 5; done \ && for i in {1..10}; do t -- 'localhost:8080/bent' >> ./benchmark_results/bent.json; sleep 5; done ``` ### Requests
Package AVG Req/Sec MIN Req/Sec MAX Req/Sec Total Req
BENT 356.26 150.45 531.73 7125.09
AXIOS 245.76 162.18 318.18 4915.27
FETCH 333.62 134.27 524.18 6672.45
GOT 328.77 156.09 475.73 6575.36
RP 266.63 197.27 319.27 5332.64
APISAUCE 253.05 167.55 321.55 5061.09
### Latency
Package Latency AVG (ms) Latency MIN (ms) Latency MAX (ms)
BENT 291.89 21.45 5386.92
AXIOS 401.57 23.09 7887.79
FETCH 305.73 21.45 6512.33
GOT 314.17 28.45 6127.15
RP 355.15 26.45 7946.91
APISAUCE 371.74 24.64 7714.74
### Throughput
Package Throughput AVG (bytes/sec) Throughput MIN (bytes/sec) Throughput MAX (bytes/sec) Throughput total (bytes)
BENT 2546458.76 1075449.09 3800786.55 50930149.82
AXIOS 1756666.76 1159275.64 2274363.64 35134369.45
FETCH 2384680.15 959781.45 3746851.64 47694705.09
GOT 2350034.62 1115737.82 3400498.55 47000699.27
RP 1905893.82 1410105.45 2282161.45 38117684.73
APISAUCE 1808838.69 1197614.91 2298406.91 36176677.82