For encoding there shouldn't be a format specific difference. If there is, it is based on immaturity of the implementations. There were stages when brotli:0 use

For encoding there shouldn't be a format specific difference. If there is, it is based on immaturity of the implementations. There were stages when brotli:0 used to be faster to compress than any setting in zstd, but now they have played catch-up and are the leader. Zstd can be significantly slower in medium levels -- you just need not to be tricked to apply compressors at different window sizes. Zstd changes window sizes under the hood. With brotli you need to explicitly decide about your decoding resource use. If you use the same window size and aim for the same density of compression, brotli actually tends to compress faster in the middle qualities, too.