# Install nanobench with npm

Simple benchmarking tool with TAP-like output that is easy to parse. Version 3.0.0 via npm; verified 2022-08-23. Also installable with nix: nix profile install nixpkgs#nanobench.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install npm:nanobench
```

Additional install commands:

### Portable and language managers

- npm (100%):

```sh
npm install -g nanobench
```

  Evidence: local npm package metadata

## Package facts

- **Package key:** npm:nanobench
- **Package manager:** npm
- **Package manager page:** <https://www.npmjs.com/package/nanobench>
- **Version:** 3.0.0
- **Source summary:** Simple benchmarking tool with TAP-like output that is easy to parse
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/mafintosh/nanobench>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/mafintosh/nanobench>
- **Upstream docs:** <https://github.com/mafintosh/nanobench>
- **License:** MIT
- **Source archive:** <https://registry.npmjs.org/nanobench/-/nanobench-3.0.0.tgz>
- **Issue tracker:** <https://github.com/mafintosh/nanobench/issues>
- **Published:** 2022-08-23T09:41:10.109Z
- **Last updated:** 2022-08-23T09:41:10.109Z
- **Generated:** 2026-08-04T22:13:35+00:00

## Executables

- nanobench (cli)
- nanobench-compare (cli)
- nanobench (alias)

## Dependencies

- chalk
- mutexify
- pretty-hrtime

## Build dependencies

- standard

## Install behavior

- Post-install hook: not defined
- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-04
- Package-manager version: 3.0.0
- Package-manager updated: 2022-08-23
- Local data: ok
- Upstream repository: https://github.com/mafintosh/nanobench
- warning: The package-manager record has not been updated in over a year.
- info: No cached GitHub release or tag data was available.

## Security Notes

No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for nanobench. Package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.


## Source Database Details

- **Source Database:** npm registry
- **Dist Tags:** Latest: 3.0.0
- **Version Count:** 8
- **Maintainers:** mafintosh
- **Author:** Mathias Buus
- **Publisher:** mafintosh
- **Integrity:** sha512-PaNQpZVmB/hFDQSBExgEJ5/1nzdqaIMUXzwWxFCYRl6j8lFt6kdNAUy1ieyPeMYWQk3AAmRg6UQn4g96J1SgLA==
- **Shasum:** 170d391734175fe5b92673af7fb0b42a0da97b08
- **Unpacked Size:** 13,483
- **File Count:** 0
- **Created At:** 2016-11-01T14:50:18.039Z
- **Latest Published At:** 2022-08-23T09:41:10.109Z
- **Modified At:** 2022-08-23T09:41:10.172Z

## Other Package-Manager Records

- Nix - nanobench: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/na/nanobench/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Related links

- [Text processing packages](https://pkg.so/text-processing-tools/) - Matched curated package taxonomy and local package facts.
- [autocannon](https://pkg.so/npm/autocannon/) - Local package facts share a topical domain. Shared terms: benchmarking, chalk, cli, developer, developer-tools.
- [tap-spec](https://pkg.so/npm/tap-spec/) - Local package facts share a topical domain. Shared terms: chalk, cli, developer, developer-tools, like.
- [pretty-html-log](https://pkg.so/npm/pretty-html-log/) - Local package facts share a topical domain. Shared terms: chalk, cli, developer, developer-tools, is.

## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- package-page enrichment
- package version freshness
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- package relationship graph
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph