Sharkbench

Benchmarking programming languages and web frameworks

Rust web frameworks

About Rust

Paradigm

Imperative, Functional, Concurrent

Execution

Compiled

Typing

Static

Null Safety

YES

Memory Management

Ownership System

Rust is a modern, systems-level programming language focused on safety, speed, and concurrency sponsored by Mozilla Research. It provides memory safety without garbage collection through its unique ownership system with compile-time checks. Rust is designed for creating high-performance applications with strict control over system resources.

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)
Rust / Hyper	27307	1.2 ms	69.38 %	8.3 MB	21.37 s
Rust / Axum	26670	1.2 ms	74.13 %	16.5 MB	26.69 s
Rust / Actix	23631	1.3 ms	69.61 %	17.8 MB	33.59 s
Rust / Rama	22793	1.4 ms	77.68 %	11.4 MB	79.30 s
Rust / Rocket	21427	1.5 ms	64.25 %	19.1 MB	38.60 s

Popular web frameworks

How does Rust 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 / Hyper	27307	1.2 ms	69.38 %	8.3 MB	21.37 s
Rust / Axum	26670	1.2 ms	74.13 %	16.5 MB	26.69 s
Rust / Actix	23631	1.3 ms	69.61 %	17.8 MB	33.59 s
Rust / Rama	22793	1.4 ms	77.68 %	11.4 MB	79.30 s
Rust / Rocket	21427	1.5 ms	64.25 %	19.1 MB	38.60 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
Python / Flask (Gunicorn)	320	99.9 ms	56.36 %	110.2 MB	8.94 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