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Benchmarks — Balaur beside Godot, case for case

The Balaur game engine measured on the same physics and scene-tree scenes the Godot benchmark suites publish: what a tick costs, what rapier costs inside it, and what the engine adds.

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3D
2D
Nodes
How it was measured
Running it

Balaur is the quickest engine on all 12 physics cases: about 3× faster than Godot Jolt and 11–18× faster than Godot Physics.

3D

3D chart

	Balaur	Godot Rapier 3D	Godot Jolt	Godot Box3D	Godot Physics 3D
pyramid 3795 bodies	10.33 ms	14.62 ms	26.92 ms	13.52 ms	48.03 ms
mixed_pile 5000 bodies	4.94 ms	11.28 ms	13.70 ms	9.72 ms	84.90 ms
joint_grid 5000 bodies, 9950 joints	3.13 ms	8.92 ms	—	10.27 ms	26.08 ms
smash 5001 bodies	8.17 ms	19.14 ms	12.12 ms	9.62 ms	99.98 ms
query_storm 2000 bodies	4.68 ms	5.93 ms	26.45 ms	6.67 ms	73.26 ms
drop 8000 bodies	3.21 ms	12.26 ms	22.14 ms	11.34 ms	—

2D

2D chart

	Balaur	Godot Rapier 2D	Godot Box2D v3	Godot Physics 2D
pyramid 10000 bodies	7.02 ms	20.03 ms	21.33 ms	147.26 ms
mixed_pile 5000 bodies	2.88 ms	9.25 ms	6.71 ms	71.12 ms
joint_grid 5000 bodies, 9950 joints	2.20 ms	10.16 ms	4.93 ms	—
smash 5001 bodies	3.49 ms	11.86 ms	11.57 ms	55.09 ms
query_storm 2000 bodies	4.23 ms	6.25 ms	4.56 ms	57.24 ms
drop 8000 bodies	6.35 ms	16.54 ms	22.66 ms	103.34 ms

Nodes

Milliseconds for the whole loop, lower is better. Godot's numbers are its own published run, on a 12th-gen i5.

operation	Balaur	Godot
`add_children`	24.33 ms	28.19 ms
`delete_children_in_order`	13.35 ms	9.82 ms
`delete_children_reverse`	14.47 ms	6.10 ms
`delete_children_random`	17.04 ms	19.63 ms
`get_node`	51.69 ms	29.60 ms

How it was measured

Balaur c862aad11 against Godot 4.7-stable (official) on Apple M1, 8 cores, Darwin 25.6.0, 2026-09-06. The scenes are the godot-rapier benchmark suite's (post, docs), body for body; each runs 300 timed steps at 60 Hz after a settle, and the tables show the median physics tick.

Running it

cargo build --release -p balaur_cli --features window --bin balaur
python3 scripts/bench_compare.py --shots --godot-results <benchmarks-repo>/results

One case on its own, or in the editor:

target/release/balaur run examples/benchmark --headless --fixed-tick -- --case=3d/pyramid
target/release/balaur edit examples/benchmark