Hono vs Express vs Fastify (and NestJS) in 2026: Real Benchmarks on Node 24, Node 26 and Bun

TL;DR On Node 24, Hono (73,067 req/s) and Fastify (71,786) tie on JSON and are both about 1.4× faster than Express 5 (50,744). Fastify wins route parameters and POST bodies, Hono wins plain JSON. Nest