HTTP server & framework benchmarks

play benchmark results

play 3.0 is a scala web framework. At concurrency 64 it serves 74 628 requests per second with a P50 latency of 2414.93 ms, ranking 216 of 387 overall and 4 of 5 among scala frameworks.

Language: scala 3.9
Framework version: 3.0
Website: https://playframework.com
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Throughput, latency & reliability

All measured metrics for play 3.0, by concurrency level.
Metric	Concurrency 64	Concurrency 256	Concurrency 512
Requests / second	74 628	71 829	69 619
P50 latency	2414.93 ms	2435.41 ms	2278.57 ms
P75 latency	4637.35 ms	4574.55 ms	4387.50 ms
P90 latency	6084.61 ms	5939.88 ms	5800.62 ms
P99 latency	6981.63 ms	7064.92 ms	7796.74 ms
P99.999 latency	7133.18 ms	7473.15 ms	8792.06 ms
Average latency	2741.09 ms	2719.78 ms	2645.44 ms
Minimum latency	0.09 ms	0.09 ms	0.09 ms
Standard deviation	2220.40 ms	2183.42 ms	2235.38 ms
Total requests	1 050 297	962 042	921 124
Bytes received	329.87 MB	302.15 MB	289.30 MB
HTTP errors	0	0	0
Request timeouts	0	0	0
Socket connection errors	0	0	0
Socket read errors	0	0	0
Socket write errors	0	0	0

Position in this benchmark

Position of play on requests per second.
Concurrency	Overall	Among scala frameworks
64	216 of 387	4 of 5
256	213 of 387	4 of 5
512	217 of 387	4 of 5

Explore scala frameworks

Fastest scala frameworks at concurrency 64.
#	Framework	Requests / second	P50 latency	P99 latency
1	zio-http 3.11	108 419	1509.55 ms	5386.92 ms
2	cask 0.11	103 966	1766.57 ms	5748.74 ms
3	pekkohttp 1.7	87 643	2147.50 ms	6472.36 ms
5	http4s 0.23	66 705	2763.09 ms	7437.65 ms

All 5 scala frameworks