# Node red performance
**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-performance/5788
**Category:** General
**Created:** [14 December 2018 05:45 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-performance/5788 "2018-12-14T05:45:07Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@rinzin](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/rinzin)
#### Post date: [14 December 2018 05:45 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-performance/5788/1 "2018-12-14T05:45:07Z")
Hello, I am new to node-red and I was wondering whether running a node-red HTTP server will be the same as running a nodejs server? what about the performance?
---
### Author:  [@janvda](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/janvda)
#### Post date: [14 December 2018 07:33 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-performance/5788/2 "2018-12-14T07:33:33Z")
Node-RED is not that resource intensive. When you have a minimal node-red HTTP server with hardly any load then it would need about 60 MB of RAM and hardly any CPU activity.
I also think that you would not see that much difference between node-RED and nodejs as node-red is build on top of node.js.
---
### Author:  [@rinzin](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/rinzin)
#### Post date: [14 December 2018 07:37 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-performance/5788/3 "2018-12-14T07:37:14Z")
Thank you..
---
### Author:  [@TotallyInformation](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/TotallyInformation)
#### Post date: [14 December 2018 16:59 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-performance/5788/4 "2018-12-14T16:59:05Z")
Not sure I would entirely agree there. There _is_ a significant difference between a hand-crafted Node.JS app and the general platform that Node-RED provides.
The real question is whether you would notice.
I would suggest that you will rarely notice but there are certainly cases where you _will_. How often will depend on what you are doing with it and what platform you are running on.
Node-RED's big advantage is the speed at which you can generate a robust working application.