Week 1 Scorecard

Six developer experience benchmarks. 3-2-1 point scoring. Ties split the pool.

1st place
17.0
SynapseKit
Wins 5 of 6 benchmarks
2nd place
11.5
LangChain
Wins 1 of 6 (cold start)
3rd place
7.5
LlamaIndex
No outright wins
Points per Benchmark
Raw Values — Normalized (1.0 = best)
Full Points Table
Benchmark Metric SynapseKit LangChain LlamaIndex Winner
#1 Cold Start 0.27 / 0.16 / 1.40 s 2 3 1 LangChain
#2 Dep Hell 2 / 32 / 60 pkgs 3 2 1 SynapseKit
#3 Hello RAG 4 / 13 / 9 lines 3 1 2 SynapseKit
#4 Memory 38 / 72 / 98 MB 3 2 1 SynapseKit
#5 Provider Switch 1 / 3 / 3 changes 3 1.5 1.5 SynapseKit
#6 Error Quality 3.47 / 3.20 / 2.73 3 2 1 SynapseKit
Total 17.0 11.5 7.5
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