jmarmolejos / pdf-benchmarks

Puppeteer

• Downloads a ~104 MB Chrome image (~282MB after installed on Linux)
• Spawns a Chrome process outside of the Node process
• Node process itself only takes ~8MB of ram
• Chrome process can take up to ~60MB of ram
• Duration to generate a .PDF from www.example.com: ~1500ms
• PDF size: 30KB

pdfkit

• No extra download necessary
• No extra processes are spawned outside the Node process
• Node process takes ~18MB when idle, ~20MB when generating the PDF
• Duration to render a sample PDF with drawings and text: 78ms
• PDF size: ~3KB