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Evidence-based feature and performance comparisons for .NET libraries.

Dependency Injection

Benchmark overview

Performance and allocated memory are shown together. Lower values are better.

Libraries

	Autofac 9.3.1 A flexible inversion of control container for building extensible .NET applications.
	Castle Windsor 6.0.0 The Castle Project container, with bound lifestyles and Castle DynamicProxy interception.
	Catel 6.2.0 An MVVM application framework whose service locator and type factory perform constructor injection.
	DryIoc 5.4.3 A fast, small and feature-rich container with expression-compiled resolution and rich reuse options.
	Faster.Ioc 5.0.0 A minimalistic container focused on the shortest possible resolve path.
	Grace 7.2.1 A container with a fluent registration model, per-object-graph lifestyles and decorator support.
	Lamar 16.0.0 The successor to StructureMap, built around runtime code generation.
	LightInject 7.1.0 A lightweight container with an ultra-small API surface and its own interception package.
	Maestro 3.6.6 A small container with a fluent configuration API and pluggable activation interceptors.
	Managed Extensibility Framework 2 10.0.10 The lightweight Managed Extensibility Framework composition engine shipped as System.Composition.
	Microsoft Extensions Dependency Injection 10.0.10 The built-in .NET dependency injection container and its service collection abstractions.
	MvvmCross 10.1.2 A cross-platform MVVM framework with its own inversion of control provider.
	Ninject 3.3.6 A container built around fluent bindings, contextual conditions and pluggable extensions.
	Pure.DI 2.5.2 A compile-time dependency injection framework that generates strongly typed compositions.
	Simple Injector 5.6.0 A fast, opinionated dependency injection library that promotes explicit configuration and maintainable application design.
	Singularity 0.18.0 An expression-tree based container that validates the whole object graph when the container is built.
	Spring.NET 3.0.3 The Spring.NET application framework and its XML or code configured object factory.
	Stashbox 5.20.0 A fast container with per-request lifetimes, conditional registrations and child containers.
	StructureMap 4.7.1 A mature container with a fluent registry DSL, nested containers and decorators.
	Unity 5.11.10 The Unity container, offering per-resolve lifetimes and hierarchical child containers.
	Visual Studio MEF 17.13.41 The Visual Studio composition engine, a fast attribute-driven MEF implementation.
	ZenIoc 1.0.1 A tiny container with compiled registrations, named resolution and nested containers.

Benchmark scenarios

01 · Singleton

02 · Transient

03 · PerResolve

04 · Scoped

05 · Combined

06 · Complex

07 · Property

08 · Generics

09 · IEnumerable

10 · Array

11 · Conditional

12 · Child Container

13 · Interception With Proxy

14 · Prepare And Register

15 · Prepare And Register And Simple Resolve