Unparalleled DX
Type syntax you already know with safety and completions unlike anything you've ever seen
Better Errors
Deeply customizable messages with great defaults
Clarity and Concision
Definitions are half as long, type errors are twice as readable, and hovers tell you just what really matters
Faster... everything
100x faster than Zod and 2,000x faster than Yup at runtime, with editor performance that will remind you how autocomplete is supposed to feel
Object Validation, Node v23.6.1
Zod 👍 1397 nanoseconds
Yup 🐌 40755 nanoseconds*
*scaling generously logarithmized
Deep Introspectability
ArkType uses set theory to understand and expose the relationships between your types at runtime the way TypeScript does at compile time
Intrinsic Optimization
Every schema is internally normalized and reduced to its purest and fastest representation