Hono vs Express: Performance Benchmarks on Cloudflare Workers and Node

Hono vs Express: Performance Benchmarks on Cloudflare Workers and Node Hono has been eating Express's lunch for new TypeScript projects for the past 18 months, but most of the "comparisons" you'll find are either synthetic benchmarks that favor Hono by design or opinion pieces without numbers. Here's what we measured running both on real workloads, plus the architectural differences that actually matter. Benchmark Setup All tests run with wrk : 12 threads, 400 connections, 30-second duration. Sa