Valibot vs Zod: Which Is Faster? 0.97M vs 1.14M Parses
zod 4.6.5 vs valibot 1.5.0 on one nested user schema (uuid/email/age/tags/profile/enum). Warm medians after 2k warmup + 9×50k: zod.parse 1,144,494 ops/s vs valibot.parse 968,187 (~1.18×). safeParse fail: valibot 697,760 vs zod 415,523 (~1.7×). esbuild minify+gzip9: 452,999/92,636 B vs 85,126/15,422 B. Package trees ~6.1 MB vs ~1.9 MB. Fixture /workspace/bench-zod-valibot/.
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