Hono Has a Free Runtime — Here's How to Build Ultra-Fast APIs for Any Platform

A developer benchmarked Express vs Hono on Cloudflare Workers. Express: not compatible. Hono: 100,000+ requests/second with sub-millisecond cold starts. And it runs on Bun, Deno, Node.js, and every edge platform. Why Hono Hono is a tiny web framework (14KB) that runs everywhere: Cloudflare Workers — free tier: 100K requests/day Deno Deploy — free tier: 100K requests/day Bun — local development, self-hosted Node.js — drop-in Express replacement AWS Lambda , Vercel Edge , Netlify Edge Fastly Compute Quick Start npm create hono@latest my-api cd my-api npm install npm run dev import { Hono } from ' hono ' ; const app = new Hono (); app . get ( ' / ' , ( c ) => c . json ({ message : ' Hello, Hono! ' })); app . get ( ' /users/:id ' , ( c ) => { const id = c . req . param ( ' id ' ); return c . json ({ id , name : `User ${ id } ` }); }); export default app ; Full REST API import { Hono } from ' hono ' ; import { cors } from ' hono/cors ' ; import { jwt } from ' hono/jwt ' ; import { zValidato