We maintain a set of automated benchmarks against Yarn 1/2+ (PnP and node_modules tracked separately), pnpm, and npm: https://yarnpkg.com/benchmarks https://yar

We maintain a set of automated benchmarks against Yarn 1/2+ (PnP and node_modules tracked separately), pnpm, and npm: https://yarnpkg.com/benchmarks https://yarnpkg.com/benchmarks The fastest are usually either Yarn PnP or pnpm. Note however that regardless of the package managers it's quite clear that performances are reaching a plateau in the common cases. I personally believe a better thing to consider are feature set, stability, documentation, and general codebase health (since it impacts how fast features and bugfixes ship, and how dangerous upgrades may be). But those are quite a bit harder to measure, of course!