> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://mkbrr.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Benchmarks

> Performance comparison with other popular torrent creation tools.

<Note>
  All benchmarks were performed using [hyperfine](https://github.com/sharkdp/hyperfine) with 5 runs per tool after a warm-up run.
</Note>

## Performance Overview

mkbrr consistently outperforms other torrent creation tools across various hardware configurations. The benchmarks show that mkbrr is not only faster but also maintains better consistency, especially on mechanical drives where other tools struggle with variance.

<CardGroup cols={4}>
  <Card title="Hetzner AX102" icon="bolt">
    <Icon icon="arrow-trend-up" color="#22c55e" /> **2.86s** for 15 GiB
  </Card>

  <Card title="Leaseweb SSD" icon="hard-drive">
    <Icon icon="arrow-trend-up" color="#22c55e" /> **7.24s** for 21 GiB
  </Card>

  <Card title="Hetzner HDD" icon="hard-drive">
    <Icon icon="arrow-trend-up" color="#22c55e" /> **41.02s** for 14 GiB
  </Card>

  <Card title="Apple Silicon" icon="apple">
    <Icon icon="arrow-trend-up" color="#22c55e" /> **9.71s** for 30 GiB
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## Detailed Results

<Tabs>
  <Tab title="Hetzner AX102">
    <CardGroup cols={2}>
      <Card title="Hardware" icon="server">
        **Hetzner Dedicated Server**

        * <Icon icon="microchip" /> AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D
        * <Icon icon="memory" /> 128GB DDR5 RAM @ 3600 MT/s
        * <Icon icon="hard-drive" /> 2× KIOXIA KCD8XRUG1T92 in SW RAID-0
      </Card>

      <Card title="Test Results" icon="chart-simple">
        15 GiB 1080p season pack

        * <Icon icon="rabbit" color="#22c55e" /> mkbrr: **2.86s**
        * <Icon icon="turtle" color="#94a3b8" /> torf: 3.06s
        * <Icon icon="turtle" color="#94a3b8" /> torrenttools: 3.11s
        * <Icon icon="turtle" color="#94a3b8" /> mktorrent: 16.83s
      </Card>
    </CardGroup>
  </Tab>

  <Tab title="Leaseweb SSD">
    <CardGroup cols={2}>
      <Card title="Hardware" icon="server">
        **Leaseweb Dedicated Server**

        * <Icon icon="microchip" /> Intel Xeon E-2274G @ 4.00GHz
        * <Icon icon="memory" /> 32GB RAM
        * <Icon icon="hard-drive" /> SAMSUNG MZQL21T9HCJR-00A07 1.92TB SSD
      </Card>

      <Card title="Test Results" icon="chart-simple">
        21 GiB 1080p season pack:

        * <Icon icon="rabbit" color="#22c55e" /> mkbrr: **7.24s**
        * <Icon icon="turtle" color="#94a3b8" /> torf: 8.85s
        * <Icon icon="turtle" color="#94a3b8" /> torrenttools: 9.07s
        * <Icon icon="turtle" color="#94a3b8" /> mktorrent: 45.41s
      </Card>
    </CardGroup>
  </Tab>

  <Tab title="Hetzner HDD">
    <CardGroup cols={2}>
      <Card title="Hardware" icon="server">
        **Hetzner Dedicated Server**

        * <Icon icon="microchip" /> AMD Ryzen 5 3600 (12) @ 4.71GHz
        * <Icon icon="memory" /> 64GB RAM
        * <Icon icon="hard-drive" /> 4 × TOSHIBA MG08ACA16TEY in RAID0
      </Card>

      <Card title="Test Results" icon="chart-simple">
        14 GiB 1080p season pack:

        * <Icon icon="rabbit" color="#22c55e" /> mkbrr: **41.02s**
        * <Icon icon="turtle" color="#94a3b8" /> torrenttools: 47.97s
        * <Icon icon="turtle" color="#94a3b8" /> torf: 58.19s
        * <Icon icon="turtle" color="#94a3b8" /> mktorrent: 68.17s
      </Card>
    </CardGroup>
  </Tab>

  <Tab title="Apple Silicon">
    <CardGroup cols={2}>
      <Card title="Hardware" icon="laptop">
        **Macbook Pro M4**

        * <Icon icon="apple" /> Apple M4
        * <Icon icon="memory" /> 16GB RAM
        * <Icon icon="microchip" /> 512GB NVME
      </Card>

      <Card title="Test Results" icon="chart-simple">
        30 GiB 1080p season pack:

        * <Icon icon="rabbit" color="#22c55e" /> mkbrr: **9.71s**
        * <Icon icon="turtle" color="#94a3b8" /> torf: 9.78s
        * <Icon icon="turtle" color="#94a3b8" /> mktorrent: 10.90s
      </Card>
    </CardGroup>
  </Tab>
</Tabs>

## Performance Consistency

<Info>
  mkbrr maintains good consistency across all platforms, with variance ranging from 0.25% to 2.4%. It particularly excels on storage-heavy workloads, where other tools can show up to 39% variance.
</Info>

<CardGroup cols={3}>
  <Card title="Hetzner AX102" icon="microchip">
    All tools showed good consistency on high-end hardware:

    * <Icon icon="chart-line" color="#22c55e" /> mktorrent: **1.62% variance**
    * <Icon icon="chart-line" /> mkbrr: 1.75% variance
    * <Icon icon="chart-line" /> torf: 2.29% variance
    * <Icon icon="chart-line" /> torrenttools: 2.93% variance
  </Card>

  <Card title="Hetzner HDD" icon="hard-drive">
    Other tools showed significant fluctuations on HDD:

    * <Icon icon="chart-line" color="#22c55e" /> mkbrr: **2.4% variance**
    * <Icon icon="chart-line" /> torf: 9.9% variance
    * <Icon icon="chart-line-down" /> torrenttools: 22.0% variance
    * <Icon icon="chart-line-down" /> mktorrent: 39.1% variance
  </Card>

  <Card title="Leaseweb SSD" icon="memory">
    All tools performed consistently on SSD:

    * <Icon icon="chart-line" color="#22c55e" /> mkbrr: **0.25% variance**
    * <Icon icon="chart-line" /> mktorrent: 0.36% variance
    * <Icon icon="chart-line" /> torf: 0.87% variance
    * <Icon icon="chart-line" /> torrenttools: 1.02% variance
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## Detailed Benchmark Data

<Accordion title="View Raw Benchmark Commands & Results" icon="terminal">
  ### Leaseweb Server (21 GiB 1080p season pack)

  ```bash theme={null}
  hyperfine --warmup 1 --runs 5 \
    --setup 'sudo sync && sudo sh -c "echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches"' \
    --prepare 'sudo sync && sudo sh -c "echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches" && rm -f /home/user/Show.S01.DL.1080p.WEB.H264-GROUP.torrent' \
    'mkbrr create /home/user/torrents/qbittorrent/Show.S01.DL.1080p.WEB.H264-GROUP' \
    'mktorrent /home/user/torrents/qbittorrent/Show.S01.DL.1080p.WEB.H264-GROUP' \
    'torrenttools create --threads 8 ~/torrents/qbittorrent/Show.S01.DL.1080p.WEB.H264-GROUP' \
    'torf --threads 8 /home/user/torrents/qbittorrent/Show.S01.DL.1080p.WEB.H264-GROUP'
  ```

  <Accordion title="View Results">
    ```plaintext theme={null}
    # Benchmark 1: mkbrr create ...
    #   Time (mean ± σ):      7.244 s ±  0.018 s    [User: 31.245 s, System: 7.554 s]
    #   Range (min … max):    7.225 s …  7.270 s    5 runs
    #
    # Benchmark 2: mktorrent ...
    #   Time (mean ± σ):     45.407 s ±  0.163 s    [User: 36.495 s, System: 4.983 s]
    #   Range (min … max):   45.135 s … 45.539 s    5 runs
    #
    # Benchmark 3: torrenttools create ...
    #   Time (mean ± σ):      9.074 s ±  0.093 s    [User: 29.248 s, System: 5.228 s]
    #   Range (min … max):    8.908 s …  9.122 s    5 runs
    #
    # Benchmark 4: torf --threads 8 ...
    #   Time (mean ± σ):      8.854 s ±  0.077 s    [User: 25.829 s, System: 5.136 s]
    #   Range (min … max):    8.771 s …  8.937 s    5 runs
    #
    # Summary
    #   'mkbrr create ...' ran
    #     1.22 ± 0.01 times faster than 'torf --threads 8 ...'
    #     1.25 ± 0.01 times faster than 'torrenttools create ...'
    #     6.27 ± 0.03 times faster than 'mktorrent ...'
    ```
  </Accordion>

  ### Hetzner Server (14 GiB 1080p season pack)

  ```bash theme={null}
  hyperfine --warmup 1 --runs 5 \
    --setup 'sudo sync && sudo sh -c "echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches"' \
    --prepare 'sudo sync && sudo sh -c "echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches" && rm -f /home/user/mkbrr/Show.S01.1080p.SRC.WEB-DL.DDP5.1.H.264-GRP.torrent' \
    'mkbrr create ~/torrents/qbittorrent/tv/Show.S01.1080p.SRC.WEB-DL.DDP5.1.H.264-GRP' \
    'mktorrent ~/torrents/qbittorrent/tv/Show.S01.1080p.SRC.WEB-DL.DDP5.1.H.264-GRP' \
    'torrenttools create --threads 12 ~/torrents/qbittorrent/tv/Show.S01.1080p.SRC.WEB-DL.DDP5.1.H.264-GRP' \
    'torf --threads 12 ~/torrents/qbittorrent/tv/Show.S01.1080p.SRC.WEB-DL.DDP5.1.H.264-GRP'
  ```

  <Accordion title="View Results">
    ```plaintext theme={null}
    # Benchmark 1: mkbrr create ...
    #   Time (mean ± σ):     41.022 s ±  0.979 s    [User: 13.691 s, System: 6.747 s]
    #   Range (min … max):   39.938 s … 42.467 s    5 runs
    #
    # Benchmark 2: mktorrent ...
    #   Time (mean ± σ):     68.168 s ± 26.654 s    [User: 17.934 s, System: 6.543 s]
    #   Range (min … max):   39.268 s … 97.574 s    5 runs
    #
    # Benchmark 3: torrenttools create ...
    #   Time (mean ± σ):     47.968 s ± 10.552 s    [User: 7.052 s, System: 6.551 s]
    #   Range (min … max):   39.460 s … 66.296 s    5 runs
    #
    # Benchmark 4: torf --threads 12 ...
    #   Time (mean ± σ):     58.187 s ±  5.787 s    [User: 7.185 s, System: 6.511 s]
    #   Range (min … max):   50.125 s … 65.807 s    5 runs
    #
    # Summary
    #   'mkbrr create ...' ran
    #     1.17 ± 0.26 times faster than 'torrenttools create ...'
    #     1.42 ± 0.15 times faster than 'torf --threads 12 ...'
    #     1.66 ± 0.65 times faster than 'mktorrent ...'
    ```
  </Accordion>

  ### Macbook Pro M4 (30 GiB 1080p season pack)

  ```bash theme={null}
  hyperfine --warmup 1 --runs 5 \
    --prepare 'rm -f Show.S01.1080p.SRC.WEB-DL.DDP5.1.H.264-GRP.torrent' \
    'mkbrr create ~/Desktop/Show.S01.1080p.SRC.WEB-DL.DDP5.1.H.264-GRP' \
    'mktorrent ~/Desktop/Show.S01.1080p.SRC.WEB-DL.DDP5.1.H.264-GRP' \
    'torf --threads 10 ~/Desktop/Show.S01.1080p.SRC.WEB-DL.DDP5.1.H.264-GRP'
  ```

  <Accordion title="View Results">
    ```plaintext theme={null}
    # Benchmark 1: mkbrr create ...
    #   Time (mean ± σ):      9.708 s ±  0.355 s    [User: 10.823 s, System: 4.297 s]
    #   Range (min … max):    9.479 s … 10.323 s    5 runs
    #
    # Benchmark 2: mktorrent ...
    #   Time (mean ± σ):     10.897 s ±  0.701 s    [User: 11.021 s, System: 3.038 s]
    #   Range (min … max):    9.950 s … 11.620 s    5 runs
    #
    # Benchmark 3: torf --threads 10 ...
    #   Time (mean ± σ):      9.779 s ±  0.749 s    [User: 10.776 s, System: 5.253 s]
    #   Range (min … max):    9.383 s … 11.112 s    5 runs
    #
    # Summary
    #   'mkbrr create ...' ran
    #     1.01 ± 0.09 times faster than 'torf --threads 10 ...'
    #     1.12 ± 0.08 times faster than 'mktorrent ...'
    ```
  </Accordion>

  ### Hetzner Ryzen 9 7950X3D (15 GiB season pack)

  ```bash theme={null}
  hyperfine --warmup 1 --runs 5 \
    'mkbrr create The.Show.S02.1080p.SRC.WEB-DL.DDP5.1.H.264-GRP --workers 64' \
    'mktorrent -l 24 The.Show.S02.1080p.SRC.WEB-DL.DDP5.1.H.264-GRP' \
    'torrenttools create --threads 64 The.Show.S02.1080p.SRC.WEB-DL.DDP5.1.H.264-GRP' \
    'torf --threads 64 The.Show.S02.1080p.SRC.WEB-DL.DDP5.1.H.264-GRP'
  ```

  <Accordion title="View Results">
    ```plaintext theme={null}
    # Benchmark 1: mkbrr create ...
    #   Time (mean ± σ):      2.858 s ±  0.050 s    [User: 16.465 s, System: 55.272 s]
    #   Range (min … max):    2.817 s …  2.940 s    5 runs
    #
    # Benchmark 2: mktorrent ...
    #   Time (mean ± σ):     16.825 s ±  0.273 s    [User: 14.784 s, System: 1.669 s]
    #   Range (min … max):   16.491 s … 17.112 s    5 runs
    #
    # Benchmark 3: torrenttools create ...
    #   Time (mean ± σ):      3.111 s ±  0.091 s    [User: 2.532 s, System: 2.796 s]
    #   Range (min … max):    2.951 s …  3.169 s    5 runs
    #
    # Benchmark 4: torf ...
    #   Time (mean ± σ):      3.063 s ±  0.070 s    [User: 10.254 s, System: 2.806 s]
    #   Range (min … max):    2.976 s …  3.172 s    5 runs
    #
    # Summary
    #   'mkbrr create ...' ran
    #     1.07 ± 0.03 times faster than 'torf --threads 64 ...'
    #     1.09 ± 0.04 times faster than 'torrenttools create ...'
    #     5.89 ± 0.14 times faster than 'mktorrent ...'
    ```
  </Accordion>
</Accordion>