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Five frameworks, the same coding agent, the same tests, and a 36-check production-readiness rubric. Which framework ships code an AI agent can build production-ready in one pass?
Hono ran cheapest in our AI-readiness benchmark and collapsed worst when the test suite started probing for production-readiness.
Fastify was the closest non-Encore result in our AI-readiness benchmark, and reaching that result still cost about twice as many tokens.
Claude Code on NestJS cost about twice as many tokens as the same agent on Encore, and shipped fewer working production-readiness checks.
What Claude Code shipped when we gave it the same backend tasks on Express and on Encore.