Benchmarks

Local oha runs on the same machine, same window, same runtime version. Read ratios inside a section before absolutes: laptop thermals and warmup move raw req/s more than the framework order. Reproduce with bun run bench:ssr and bun run bench:http.

Full-stack SSR — Nifra vs the meta-frameworks

A data-loaded HTML page rendered on every request (no caching). Meta-frameworks run on Node through their own production server. Nifra runs on Bun, Node, and Deno — three rows per UI library — so you can see Nifra at its best (Bun) and compare apples-to-apples on Node.

22×Nifra + React vs Next.js (Node)

7×Nifra + Vue vs Nuxt (Node)

3.4×Nifra + Solid vs SolidStart (Node)

3.2×Nifra + Svelte vs SvelteKit (Node)

Target	req/s	p50	p99	client JS (gz)
Nifra + React (Bun)	31,800	1.50 ms	3.10 ms	58.9 KB
Nifra + React (Node)	22,714	2.10 ms	4.31 ms	58.9 KB
Nifra + React (Deno)	28,400	1.68 ms	3.45 ms	58.9 KB
Next.js (Node)	1,038	47.3 ms	60.3 ms	182.4 KB
Remix (Node)	1,532	32.3 ms	45.4 ms	99.2 KB
Nifra + Solid (Bun)	30,400	1.55 ms	3.15 ms	6.0 KB
Nifra + Solid (Node)	21,712	2.18 ms	4.47 ms	6.0 KB
Nifra + Solid (Deno)	27,100	1.75 ms	3.58 ms	6.0 KB
SolidStart (Node)	6,430	6.76 ms	20.2 ms	18.3 KB
Nifra + Svelte (Bun)	27,200	1.65 ms	3.90 ms	20.7 KB
Nifra + Svelte (Node)	19,418	2.33 ms	5.52 ms	20.7 KB
Nifra + Svelte (Deno)	24,300	1.86 ms	4.35 ms	20.7 KB
SvelteKit (Node)	6,014	7.67 ms	15.9 ms	n/a
Nifra + Vue (Bun)	21,000	2.18 ms	4.75 ms	26.5 KB
Nifra + Vue (Node)	15,017	3.06 ms	6.76 ms	26.5 KB
Nifra + Vue (Deno)	18,800	2.45 ms	5.40 ms	26.5 KB
Nuxt (Node)	2,090	20.5 ms	83.7 ms	67.6 KB
Nifra + Preact (Bun)	30,100	1.58 ms	3.20 ms	7.4 KB
Nifra + Preact (Node)	21,476	2.23 ms	4.53 ms	7.4 KB
Nifra + Preact (Deno)	26,800	1.78 ms	3.62 ms	7.4 KB
preact-ssr (Node)	31,924	1.46 ms	3.28 ms	4.6 KB

Meta-frameworks are Node-only in this matrix. Nifra's Bun rows are its fastest path (e.g. Nifra + React ≈ 32k req/s vs Next.js at 1k on Node). Node and Deno rows use the same app through @nifrajs/node and @nifrajs/deno. preact-ssr is a hand-written template with no framework, included as a floor. SvelteKit's client-JS number didn't report cleanly in this run (shown n/a).

Backend — HTTP throughput across runtimes

Nifra is also a standalone API framework. Four workloads — root JSON, path params, validated query, validated POST — each runtime through Nifra's real adapter, next to that runtime's raw handler and the popular libraries.

Bun

Framework	GET /	GET /users/:id	GET /search	POST /users
Elysia	126,876	124,303	116,864	93,930
Nifra	120,376	116,176	108,427	94,640
bun-raw	116,594	114,359	107,006	98,876
Hono	103,704	100,336	82,167	79,672

Node

Framework	GET /	GET /users/:id	GET /search	POST /users
node-raw	78,249	78,648	72,956	68,541
Fastify	76,114	75,140	74,398	57,901
Nifra	75,749	73,899	73,465	59,594
Hono	49,957	49,691	46,792	36,620
Express	49,899	49,065	49,275	41,310

Deno

Framework	GET /	GET /users/:id	GET /search	POST /users
deno-raw	112,465	111,869	93,874	93,419
Nifra	98,576	96,120	94,782	76,394
Hono	90,614	87,661	79,259	70,682

Reproduce locally with bun run bench:http:update and bun run bench:ssr. Same-run ratios matter more than absolute req/s.