Benchmarks: Laravel vs. Other Frameworks

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How fast is Laravel compared to other PHP frameworks? Following frameworks have been compared:

• Laravel vs. Lucinda
• Laravel vs. Symfony
• Laravel vs. CodeIgniter

A series of ApacheBench stress tests were conducted on my machine, reproductible on your own if you follow methodology page. Subject of testing is raw MVC performance (routing, controlling, templating), as detailed here:

1. speed of answering to requests for HTML resources using framework's native templating engine (eg: )
2. speed of answering to requests for JSON resources using framework's native JSON renderer

Laravel vs. Lucinda

Based on raw ApacheBench results obtained here, it is clear that Lucinda is times faster on all criteria measured.

• Requests per second:
  

  Rendering	Laravel Framework 8.5.16	Lucinda Framework 3.2.0
  HTML	346.78	12510.76
  JSON	153.22	13830.21

  Results show that Lucinda is 36.1 times faster in answering to HTML requests and 90.3 times faster in answering to JSON requests

• Average response time in ms by probability percentile:
  

  %	Laravel Framework 8.5.16		Lucinda Framework 3.2.0
  	HTML	JSON	HTML	JSON
  50	11	11	1	1
  66	14	13	1	1
  75	17	16	1	1
  80	19	19	1	1
  90	22	22	1	1
  95	29	30	1	1
  98	47	1337	1	1
  99	768	2547	1	1
  100	1986	3973	13	19

  Results show that in 95% of cases Lucinda is 29 times faster answering to HTML requests and 30 times faster for JSON requests

Laravel vs. Symfony

Based on raw ApacheBench results obtained here, it is clear that Symfony is times faster on all criteria measured.

• Requests per second:
  

  Rendering	Laravel Framework 8.5.16	Symfony Framework 5.2.99
  HTML	346.78	3175.6
  JSON	153.22	3499.42

  Results show that Symfony is 9.2 times faster in answering to HTML requests and 22.8 times faster in answering to JSON requests

• Average response time in ms by probability percentile:
  

  %	Laravel Framework 8.5.16		Symfony Framework 5.2.99
  	HTML	JSON	HTML	JSON
  50	11	11	3	2
  66	14	13	3	3
  75	17	16	4	3
  80	19	19	4	4
  90	22	22	5	4
  95	29	30	5	5
  98	47	1337	7	6
  99	768	2547	8	7
  100	1986	3973	26	23

  Results show that in 95% of cases Symfony is 5.8 times faster answering to HTML requests and 6 times faster for JSON requests

Laravel vs. CodeIgniter

Based on raw ApacheBench results obtained here, it is clear that CodeIgniter is times faster on all criteria measured.

• Requests per second:
  

  Rendering	Laravel Framework 8.5.16	CodeIgniter Framework 4.1.1
  HTML	346.78	1419.98
  JSON	153.22	1389.03

  Results show that CodeIgniter is 4.1 times faster in answering to HTML requests and 9.1 times faster in answering to JSON requests

• Average response time in ms by probability percentile:
  

  %	Laravel Framework 8.5.16		CodeIgniter Framework 4.1.1
  	HTML	JSON	HTML	JSON
  50	11	11	6	6
  66	14	13	6	6
  75	17	16	7	7
  80	19	19	9	9
  90	22	22	11	11
  95	29	30	12	13
  98	47	1337	16	17
  99	768	2547	17	18
  100	1986	3973	44	54

  Results show that in 95% of cases CodeIgniter is 2.4 times faster answering to HTML requests and 2.3 times faster for JSON requests