Sharkbench

Benchmarking programming languages and web frameworks

Elixir web frameworks

About Elixir

Paradigm

Functional, Concurrent

Execution

Interpreted

Typing

Dynamic

Null Safety

YES

Memory Management

Garbage Collection

Elixir is a functional, concurrent programming language built on the Erlang VM created by José Valim in 2011. It combines Erlang's fault-tolerance and distributed capabilities with a Ruby-inspired syntax. Elixir features immutable data structures and actor-based concurrency through lightweight processes.

Benchmarks

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)
Elixir / Phoenix (Bandit)	4375	7.3 ms	84.94 %	145.5 MB

Popular web frameworks

How does Elixir compare to other languages?

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
JavaScript (Node.js) / Express	5766	5.5 ms	64.50 %	82.5 MB
Elixir / Phoenix (Bandit)	4375	7.3 ms	84.94 %	145.5 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