Benchmarks: Symfony vs. Other Frameworks

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

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

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

Symfony 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	Symfony Framework 5.2.99	Lucinda Framework 3.2.0
  HTML	3175.6	12510.76
  JSON	3499.42	13830.21

  Results show that Lucinda is 3.9 times faster in answering to HTML requests and 4 times faster in answering to JSON requests

• Average response time in ms by probability percentile:
  

  %	Symfony Framework 5.2.99		Lucinda Framework 3.2.0
  	HTML	JSON	HTML	JSON
  50	3	2	1	1
  66	3	3	1	1
  75	4	3	1	1
  80	4	4	1	1
  90	5	4	1	1
  95	5	5	1	1
  98	7	6	1	1
  99	8	7	1	1
  100	26	23	13	19

  Results show that in 95% of cases Lucinda is 5 times faster answering to HTML requests and 5 times faster for JSON requests

Symfony vs. CodeIgniter

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

• Requests per second:
  

  Rendering	Symfony Framework 5.2.99	CodeIgniter Framework 4.1.1
  HTML	3175.6	1419.98
  JSON	3499.42	1389.03

  Results show that CodeIgniter is 2.2 times slower in answering to HTML requests and 2.5 times slower in answering to JSON requests

• Average response time in ms by probability percentile:
  

  %	Symfony Framework 5.2.99		CodeIgniter Framework 4.1.1
  	HTML	JSON	HTML	JSON
  50	3	2	6	6
  66	3	3	6	6
  75	4	3	7	7
  80	4	4	9	9
  90	5	4	11	11
  95	5	5	12	13
  98	7	6	16	17
  99	8	7	17	18
  100	26	23	44	54

  Results show that in 95% of cases CodeIgniter is 2.4 times slower answering to HTML requests and 2.6 times slower for JSON requests

Symfony vs. Laravel

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

• Requests per second:
  

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

  Results show that Laravel is 9.2 times slower in answering to HTML requests and 22.8 times slower in answering to JSON requests

• Average response time in ms by probability percentile:
  

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

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