Sharkbench

Benchmarking programming languages and web frameworks

Laravel (PHP)

Laravel is a PHP web framework designed for building modern, full-featured web applications with elegant syntax and expressive design. It provides a comprehensive ecosystem for web development including authentication, routing, sessions, and caching. Laravel emphasizes developer productivity through convention over configuration and helpful tooling.

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: 2026-10-05

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 v8.3 / Laravel v11	91	384.1 ms	97.03 %	54.8 MB	95.24 s

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.

PHP web frameworks

How does Laravel compare to other PHP frameworks?

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	326	99.3 ms	56.50 %	35.3 MB	41.58 s
PHP / Symfony	281	103.6 ms	57.02 %	42.7 MB	45.83 s
PHP / Laravel	91	384.1 ms	97.03 %	54.8 MB	95.24 s

Popular web frameworks

How does Laravel compare to other popular frameworks?

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	26909	1.2 ms	74.55 %	5.7 MB	18.83 s
C# (.NET) / ASP.NET Core	17561	1.5 ms	22.99 %	46.6 MB	4.51 s
JavaScript (Node.js) / Express	7670	3.7 ms	18.58 %	84.8 MB	3.56 s
Java (Temurin) / Spring Boot (MVC)	3316	1.6 ms	1.83 %	244.5 MB	37.74 s
Go / Gin	1652	3.3 ms	3.59 %	13.5 MB	34.62 s
Python / FastAPI (Uvicorn)	800	30.8 ms	21.33 %	38.8 MB	7.28 s
Python / Flask (Gunicorn)	324	99.7 ms	56.19 %	95.1 MB	6.60 s
Python / Django (Gunicorn)	281	103.6 ms	57.04 %	133.1 MB	9.04 s
PHP / Laravel	91	384.1 ms	97.03 %	54.8 MB	95.24 s