Sharkbench

Benchmarking programming languages and web frameworks

Shelf (Dart)

Shelf is a modular Dart web server middleware framework inspired by Rack (Ruby) and Connect (Node.js). It allows developers to create and compose web servers from small pieces of middleware and handlers. Shelf is designed to be simple and flexible, offering high customizability for building web applications in Dart.

This benchmark tests how fast a framework can perform concurrent HTTP requests, I/O operations, and JSON de/serialization.

OS: Linux/DockerCPU: Ryzen 7 7800X3DLast Updated: 2025-05-04

MedianP99

Framework	Requests per second Indicates how many requests per second the framework can handle. (higher is better)	Latency Indicates how long it takes to process a request. (lower is better)	Stability Indicates how stable the framework is under load: median / P99 latency (higher is better)	Memory Indicates how much memory (RAM) the framework uses. (lower is better)
Dart (AOT v3.4) / Shelf v1	9045	3.5 ms	76.52 %	14.8 MB
Dart (AOT v3.2) / Shelf v1	8124	3.9 ms	74.47 %	14.5 MB
Dart (AOT v3.0) / Shelf v1	7763	4.0 ms	75.40 %	18.5 MB
Dart (AOT v2.19) / Shelf v1	7585	4.1 ms	76.39 %	18.4 MB
Dart (AOT v2.18) / Shelf v1	7607	4.2 ms	75.44 %	18.4 MB
Dart (AOT v2.16) / Shelf v1	7488	4.2 ms	75.82 %	43.2 MB
Dart (AOT v2.14) / Shelf v1	7442	4.3 ms	77.92 %	43.1 MB

About Dart

Paradigm

Object-Oriented, Functional, Imperative

Execution

JIT, AOT

Typing

Static

Null Safety

YES

Memory Management

Garbage Collection

Dart is a client-optimized programming language developed by Google for building user interfaces with event-driven programming. It supports both just-in-time and ahead-of-time compilation for development flexibility and deployment performance. Dart is the programming language behind Flutter, Google's UI toolkit for building applications across multiple platforms.

Dart web frameworks

How does Shelf compare other Dart frameworks?

MedianP99

Framework	Requests per second Indicates how many requests per second the framework can handle. (higher is better)	Latency Indicates how long it takes to process a request. (lower is better)	Stability Indicates how stable the framework is under load: median / P99 latency (higher is better)	Memory Indicates how much memory (RAM) the framework uses. (lower is better)
Dart (AOT) / HttpServer STD Part of the standard library	11605	2.7 ms	75.15 %	14.0 MB
Dart (AOT) / Pharaoh	10423	3.0 ms	76.67 %	14.6 MB
Dart (AOT) / Serinus	9591	3.3 ms	76.37 %	15.1 MB
Dart (AOT) / Serverpod (Relic)	9433	3.4 ms	77.61 %	14.8 MB
Dart (AOT) / Vania	9387	3.3 ms	77.44 %	16.8 MB
Dart (AOT) / Shelf	9045	3.5 ms	76.52 %	14.8 MB
Dart (AOT) / Dart Frog	8034	3.9 ms	74.72 %	14.9 MB

Popular web frameworks

How does Shelf compare to other popular frameworks?

MedianP99

Framework	Requests per second Indicates how many requests per second the framework can handle. (higher is better)	Latency Indicates how long it takes to process a request. (lower is better)	Stability Indicates how stable the framework is under load: median / P99 latency (higher is better)	Memory Indicates how much memory (RAM) the framework uses. (lower is better)
Rust / Axum	21030	1.6 ms	71.96 %	8.5 MB
C# (.NET) / ASP.NET Core	14707	1.2 ms	2.64 %	136.5 MB
Dart (AOT) / Shelf	9045	3.5 ms	76.52 %	14.8 MB
JavaScript (Node.js) / Express	5766	5.5 ms	64.50 %	82.5 MB
Go / Gin	3546	1.0 ms	1.14 %	16.7 MB
Python / FastAPI (Uvicorn)	1185	21.0 ms	21.21 %	41.2 MB
Java (Temurin) / Spring Boot (MVC)	1105	1.7 ms	1.67 %	596.8 MB
Python / Flask (Gunicorn)	1092	7.7 ms	9.22 %	90.3 MB
Python / Django (Gunicorn)	950	8.8 ms	10.33 %	130.1 MB
PHP / Laravel	299	101.7 ms	56.47 %	84.2 MB