Benchmark Pits Six React Data Grids Against Each Other to Find the Fastest

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A performance benchmark commissioned by 1771 Technologies compared six popular React data grids — LyteNyte Grid, AG Grid, MUI X Data Grid, DevExtreme, Handsontable, and Material React Table — across 13 scenarios including scrolling, sorting, filtering, and dataset updates. Tests ranged from 10,000 to one million rows, with LyteNyte Grid maintaining around 60 FPS consistently across all dataset sizes in the official benchmark environment. MUI X and AG Grid performed comparably at smaller scales but slowed significantly at one million rows, dropping to roughly 33 FPS and 27 FPS respectively. Handsontable was unable to complete the largest tests due to memory constraints on the benchmark machine. Notably, the full benchmark suite is open source, allowing developers to inspect the methodology and reproduce the results independently.

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