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: LinuxCPU: Intel Core Ultra 5 325Last Updated: 2026-10-14

MedianP99

Framework	Requests per second How many requests per second can the framework handle? (higher is better)	Latency How long does it take to process a request? (lower is better)	Stability How stable is the framework under load? (median / P99 latency) (higher is better)	Memory How much memory (RAM) does the framework use? (lower is better)	Build Time Fetching dependencies + compiling, excluding SDK setup (lower is better)
PHP / Nette	333	98.7 ms	56.83 %	62.8 MB	43.46 s
PHP / Symfony	290	102.6 ms	56.83 %	70.2 MB	46.96 s
PHP / Laravel	92	319.0 ms	80.90 %	80.4 MB	95.22 s

Popular web frameworks

How does PHP compare to other languages?

MedianP99

Framework	Requests per second How many requests per second can the framework handle? (higher is better)	Latency How long does it take to process a request? (lower is better)	Stability How stable is the framework under load? (median / P99 latency) (higher is better)	Memory How much memory (RAM) does the framework use? (lower is better)	Build Time Fetching dependencies + compiling, excluding SDK setup (lower is better)
Rust / Axum	26670	1.2 ms	74.13 %	16.5 MB	26.69 s
C# (.NET) / ASP.NET Core	17041	1.5 ms	23.04 %	101.8 MB	6.09 s
JavaScript (Node.js) / Express	15270	2.0 ms	29.45 %	228.4 MB	4.92 s
Java (Temurin) / Spring Boot (MVC)	2962	1.6 ms	1.86 %	286.4 MB	37.73 s
Go / Gin	1640	3.4 ms	3.65 %	23.1 MB	32.20 s
Python / FastAPI (Uvicorn)	792	32.9 ms	20.81 %	63.3 MB	8.55 s
PHP / Nette	333	98.7 ms	56.83 %	62.8 MB	43.46 s
Python / Flask (Gunicorn)	320	99.9 ms	56.36 %	110.2 MB	8.94 s
PHP / Symfony	290	102.6 ms	56.83 %	70.2 MB	46.96 s
Python / Django (Gunicorn)	279	103.8 ms	57.16 %	151.9 MB	10.29 s
PHP / Laravel	92	319.0 ms	80.90 %	80.4 MB	95.22 s