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🌎 HTTP clients research for TypeScript Node.js applications
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# 🌎 HTTP Clients benchmark



## Libraries



- [got](https://github.com/sindresorhus/got): Human-friendly and powerful HTTP request library for Node.js.



- [request-promise](https://github.com/request/request-promise): Simplified HTTP request client 'request' with Promise support. Powered by Bluebird. _DEPRECATED_.



- [node-fetch](https://github.com/bitinn/node-fetch): A light-weight module that brings window.fetch to Node.js.



- [axios](https://github.com/axios/axios): Promise based HTTP client for the browser and Node.js.



- [bent](https://github.com/mikeal/bent): Functional HTTP client for Node.js and Browsers w/ async/await.



- [apisauce](https://github.com/infinitered/apisauce): Axios + standardized errors + request/response transforms.



## Packages comparison



  

    

    request-promise

    node-fetch

    axios

    got

    bent

    apisauce

  

  

    Downloads

    2M/month

    11M/month

    6M/month

    34M/month

    5K/month

    54K/month

  

  

    Dependencies

    7

    0

    3

    15

    3

    2

  

  

    Minzipped size

    246.4KB *

    282B

    4.3KB

    18.4KB

    805B

    9.5KB

  

  

    Created at

    Oct 4, 2013

    Jan 26, 2015

    Aug 18, 2014

    Mar 27, 2014

    Nov 7, 2017

    Apr 9, 2016

  



_* **Note:** request-promise has [request](https://github.com/request/request) as peer dependency. So this is the summatory of both packages sizes: 179.8KB + 66.6KB_



## Features



  

    

    request-promise

    node-fetch

    axios

    got

    bent

    apisauce

  

  

    HTTP/2 support

    ❌

    ❌

    ❌

    ❌

    ❌

    ❌

  

  

    Instances creation

    ❌

    ❌

    ✅

    ✅

    ✅

    ✅

  

  

    Promise API

    ✅

    ✅

    ✅

    ✅

    ✅

    ✅

  

  

    Stream API

    ✅

    ✅

    ✅

    ✅

    ✅

    ✅

  

  

    Request cancelation

    ❌

    ✅

    ❌

    ✅

    ❌

    ❌

  

  

    RFC compliant caching

    ❌

    ❌

    ❌

    ✅

    ❌

    ❌

  

  

    Cookies (out-of-box)

    ✅

    ❌

    ❌

    ✅

    ❌

    ❌

  

  

    Follows redirects

    ✅

    ✅

    ✅

    ✅

    ✅

    ✅

  

  

    Retries on failure

    ❌

    ❌

    ❌

    ✅

    ❌

    ❌

  

  

    Handles gzip/deflate

    ✅

    ✅

    ✅

    ✅

    ✅

    ✅

  

  

    Advanced timeouts

    ❌

    ❌

    ❌

    ✅

    ❌

    ❌

  

  

    JSON mode

    ✅

    ✅

    ✅

    ✅

    ✅

    ✅

  

  

    Composable

    ❌

    ❌

    ❌

    ✅

    ✅

    ❌

  

  

    Hooks

    ❌

    ❌

    ✅

    ✅

    ❌

    ❌

  



* _Based on table from [got repository](https://github.com/sindresorhus/got#comparison)._



## Performance



Use autocannon for stress tests:



```bash

autocannon -c 100 -d 20 -m \"GET\" --json 'localhost:8080/'

```



You can also run several tests using:



```bash

for i in {1..10}; do t -- 'localhost:8080/axios' >> ./benchmark_results/axios.json; sleep 5; done \

for i in {1..10}; do t -- 'localhost:8080/apisauce' >> ./benchmark_results/apisauce.json; sleep 5; done \

&& for i in {1..10}; do t -- 'localhost:8080/fetch' >> ./benchmark_results/fetch.json; sleep 5; done \

&& for i in {1..10}; do t -- 'localhost:8080/got' >> ./benchmark_results/got.json; sleep 5; done \

&& for i in {1..10}; do t -- 'localhost:8080/rp' >> ./benchmark_results/rp.json; sleep 5; done \

&& for i in {1..10}; do t -- 'localhost:8080/bent' >> ./benchmark_results/bent.json; sleep 5; done

```



### Requests



Package

AVG Req/Sec

MIN Req/Sec

MAX Req/Sec

Total Req



BENT

356.26

150.45

531.73

7125.09



AXIOS

245.76

162.18

318.18

4915.27



FETCH

333.62

134.27

524.18

6672.45



GOT

328.77

156.09

475.73

6575.36



RP

266.63

197.27

319.27

5332.64



APISAUCE

253.05

167.55

321.55

5061.09






### Latency



Package

Latency AVG (ms)

Latency MIN (ms)

Latency MAX (ms)



BENT

291.89

21.45

5386.92



AXIOS

401.57

23.09

7887.79



FETCH

305.73

21.45

6512.33



GOT

314.17

28.45

6127.15



RP

355.15

26.45

7946.91



APISAUCE

371.74

24.64

7714.74






### Throughput



Package

Throughput AVG (bytes/sec)

Throughput MIN (bytes/sec)

Throughput MAX (bytes/sec)

Throughput total (bytes)



BENT

2546458.76

1075449.09

3800786.55

50930149.82



AXIOS

1756666.76

1159275.64

2274363.64

35134369.45



FETCH

2384680.15

959781.45

3746851.64

47694705.09



GOT

2350034.62

1115737.82

3400498.55

47000699.27



RP

1905893.82

1410105.45

2282161.45

38117684.73



APISAUCE

1808838.69

1197614.91

2298406.91

36176677.82