# Install hyperfine with Homebrew

Command-line benchmarking tool. Version 1.20.0 via Homebrew; verified from local package data.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:hyperfine
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install hyperfine
```

  Evidence: provider-native install command

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:hyperfine
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 1.20.0
- **Source summary:** Command-line benchmarking tool
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/sharkdp/hyperfine>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/sharkdp/hyperfine>
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T00:40:33+00:00

## Executables

- hyperfine (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 1.20.0
## Project history and usage

hyperfine is a Rust command-line benchmarking tool for comparing arbitrary shell commands with repeated runs, warmups, statistical analysis, outlier detection, and export formats.

### Project history

The project entered GitHub release metadata in January 2018 and reached 1.0.0 in March 2018. Its README establishes the core workflow: pass one or more commands, let hyperfine determine a run count, and compare runtimes with statistical summaries.

Over time, hyperfine grew from a convenient command timer into a reproducible benchmarking utility. Release notes added features such as parameter scans, shell control, setup and cleanup commands, JSON/CSV/Markdown/AsciiDoc export, reference-command comparisons, named outputs, and helper scripts for plotting benchmark data.

### Adoption history

hyperfine became a common package-manager tool for developers benchmarking CLI programs, build commands, searches, and small scripts. The input metadata lists broad packaging across Homebrew, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch, Nix, MacPorts, Scoop, winget, Alpine, and openSUSE.

### How it is used

Typical usage is `hyperfine 'command'` or `hyperfine 'cmd1' 'cmd2'`. Users add warmup runs for cache effects, preparation commands for cold-cache tests, parameter scans for build matrices, `--shell=none` for very fast commands, and export flags when results need to be tracked or plotted.

### Why package nerds care

hyperfine is important because it made respectable microbenchmarking available as a single package-manager install. It encodes the small details package maintainers and CLI authors care about: shell startup correction, warmups, outlier warnings, machine-readable exports, cross-platform behavior, and enough statistics to avoid cargo-culting `time` output.

### Timeline

- 2018: v0.2.0 and v1.0.0 appeared in GitHub release metadata.
- 2021: v1.12.0 expanded JSON output and export behavior.
- 2022: v1.13.0 added `--shell=none` for very fast commands.
- 2024: v1.19.0 added reference-command comparison and expanded flow controls.
- 2025: v1.20.0 added reference naming, richer ignored-exit handling, and plotting helpers.

### Related projects

- hyperfine sits alongside shell `time`, GNU time, Criterion-style benchmarking, cargo bench, and sharkdp's Rust CLI ecosystem such as fd and bat.

### Sources

- <https://api.github.com/repos/sharkdp/hyperfine/releases?per_page=100>
- <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/hyperfine>
- <https://github.com/sharkdp/hyperfine>
- <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sharkdp/hyperfine/master/README.md>


## Security Notes

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger risk:** green / low
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/hyperfine.yml](https://github.com/automic-vault/db/blob/main/combined/hyperfine.yml)


## Sources

- Nucleus package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation