Maravel Framework v20.0.0-RC Joins the PHP API Giants

Maravel 20.0.0-RC Architectural Highlights:

• Core: Bumped to PHP 8.2 minimum and Symfony 7.4 LTS.


• Boot Speeds: Improved caching for autowiring and resolving events.


• Request Capture: Rewrote the HTTP Request capture to bypass Symfony global overhead, targeting php://input directly for JSON payloads.


• Response Lifecycle: Streamlined the response preparation and pipeline execution.

To see exactly how these architectural changes translate to raw performance, here are the latest benchmarking results run on PHP 8.3.6 with OPcache enabled:

|----------------------|-------------------------:|-------------:|------------:|-------------:|
| framework            | requests per second (rps)|relative (rps)| peak memory |relative (mem)|
|----------------------|-------------------------:|-------------:|------------:|-------------:|
| pure-php             |             7,252.48 (-) |         24.9 |    0.34 (-) |          1.0 |
| kumbia-1.2           |             5,629.16 (-) |         19.3 |    0.36 (-) |          1.1 |
| phroute-2.2          |             5,511.67 (-) |         18.9 |    0.34 (-) |          1.0 |
| fastroute-1.3        |             5,484.38 (-) |         18.8 |    0.34 (-) |          1.0 |
| fatfree-3.9          |             3,622.95 (-) |         12.4 |    0.39 (-) |          1.1 |
| maravel-20RC         |          2,255.17 (0.0%) |          7.7 |   0.37 (0%) |          1.1 |
| yii-2.0-basic        |             2,230.80 (-) |          7.6 |    0.69 (-) |          2.0 |
| maravel-10.52        |          2,126.32 (1.0%) |          7.3 |   0.37 (0%) |          1.1 |
| lumen-10.0           |               966.49 (-) |          3.3 |    0.38 (-) |          1.1 |
| maravelith-10.52-api |               583.21 (-) |          2.0 |    0.62 (-) |          1.8 |
| maravelith-20RC-api  |               580.16 (-) |          2.0 |    0.60 (-) |          1.8 |
| laravel-10.3-api     |               387.59 (-) |          1.3 |    0.63 (-) |          1.9 |
| maravelith-10.52     |               301.03 (-) |          1.0 |    0.65 (-) |          1.9 |
| laravel-10.3         |               291.84 (-) |          1.0 |    0.63 (-) |          1.9 |

PHP 8.3.6 (cli) (built: Mar 20 2026 02:32:55) (NTS)
Copyright (c) The PHP Group
Zend Engine v4.3.6, Copyright (c) Zend Technologies
    with Zend OPcache v8.3.6, Copyright (c), by Zend Technologies

SYSTEM USED:

• PHP 8.3


• Ubuntu Mate 24.04


• GIGABYTE GA-M52S-S3P rev 1.0


• AMD Phenom ll x2 550 3.1 ghz


• 8GB 4x4GB Samsung M378T5263AZ3-CF7 PC2–6400U-666 4GB 2Rx8 800MHz 240-pin DIMM Non-ECC DDR2


• GPU NVIDIA Corporation G73 GeForce 7300 GT ( rev a1 )


• HDD IDE


• https://github.com/myaaghubi/PHP-Frameworks-Bench