Sharkbench

Benchmarking programming languages and web frameworks

PHP web frameworks

About PHP

Paradigm

Imperative, Object-Oriented, Reflective

Execution

Interpreted

Typing

Dynamic

Null Safety

NO

Memory Management

Garbage Collection

PHP is a popular general-purpose scripting language especially suited for web development. It integrates well with HTML and databases as part of the LAMP stack for hosting websites. PHP is powerful enough to drive complex websites like Facebook and WordPress while remaining accessible to beginners.

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)
PHP / Symfony	941	8.7 ms	10.28 %	55.4 MB
PHP / Laravel	299	101.7 ms	56.47 %	84.2 MB

Popular web frameworks

How does PHP 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
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 / Symfony	941	8.7 ms	10.28 %	55.4 MB
PHP / Laravel	299	101.7 ms	56.47 %	84.2 MB