Run results for: Markdown Performance Comparison 21

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 18_7 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/26.3 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1

Browser: Mobile Safari 26

Operating system: iOS 18.7

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 7 days ago

Test name	Executions per second
Marked	37508.2 Ops/sec
CommonMark	122508.4 Ops/sec
Markdown-it	139258.8 Ops/sec
Remarkable	190959.5 Ops/sec
Micromarkdown	81107.5 Ops/sec
Snarkdown	16052.2 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<script type="text/javascript" src="https://unpkg.com/marked@1.1.0/marked.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://unpkg.com/commonmark@0.29.1/dist/commonmark.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://unpkg.com/markdown-it@11.0.0/dist/markdown-it.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://unpkg.com/remarkable@2.0.1/dist/remarkable.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://unpkg.com/micromarkdown@0.3.0/dist/micromarkdown.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://unpkg.com/snarkdown@1.2.2/dist/snarkdown.umd.js"></script>

Script Preparation code:

var conv = {
  marked: marked,
  cm: new commonmark.HtmlRenderer(),
  mdit: markdownit({ html: true }),
  remarkable: new remarkable.Remarkable(),
  micromarkdown: window.micromarkdown,
  snarkdown: window.snarkdown,
};

var pars = {
  cm: new commonmark.Parser()
};

var md = "# Short test\n\nthis is a *short* test, a short test to check how this thing does with a pretty _short_ piece of text.";

Tests:

Marked
conv.marked(md);
CommonMark
conv.cm.render(pars.cm.parse(md));
Markdown-it
conv.mdit.render(md);
Remarkable
conv.remarkable.render(md);
Micromarkdown
conv.micromarkdown.parse(md);
Snarkdown
conv.snarkdown(md);

Run results for: Markdown Performance Comparison 21

A performance comparison of leading Javascript Markdown implementations.

Marked

CommonMark

Markdown-it

Remarkable

Micromarkdown

Snarkdown