Sharkbench

Benchmarking programming languages and web frameworks

Zig web frameworks

About Zig

Paradigm

Imperative, Procedural

Execution

Compiled

Typing

Static

Null Safety

YES

Memory Management

Manual

Zig is a modern systems programming language designed to be robust, optimal, and maintainable, created by Andrew Kelley in 2016. It prioritizes simplicity and debuggability while offering powerful compile-time code execution and C interoperability. Zig aims to replace C with better tooling while maintaining performance suitable for low-level systems programming.

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: 2026-10-05

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)
Zig / httpz	4279	1.1 ms	1.26 %	19.1 MB	54.73 s

Popular web frameworks

How does Zig 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	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
Zig / httpz	4279	1.1 ms	1.26 %	19.1 MB	54.73 s
Java (Temurin) / Spring Boot (MVC)	3059	1.8 ms	2.05 %	248.1 MB	20.71 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