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Foundry vs Hardhat in 2026: Which Solidity Toolchain Wins?
Pavel Espiti · 2026-05-11 · via DEV Community

Pavel Espitia

Foundry vs Hardhat in 2026: Which Solidity Toolchain Wins?

Two toolchains. Same goal: write, test, and deploy Solidity. Different design philosophies, very different best-fits in 2026.

I've used both in production across smart-contract audits and protocol work over the last two years. Here's an honest comparison so you don't waste a week picking the wrong default for your team.

TL;DR

  • Foundry — best for security work, audits, protocol engineering, and anyone who values speed and Solidity-native tests. The default for serious DeFi.
  • Hardhat 3 — best when your contracts are tightly coupled to a TypeScript frontend or backend, when your team already lives in Node.js, or when you depend on plugins that haven't migrated.
  • Both at once — legitimate, common, not a smell. Many teams write tests in Foundry and deployments in Hardhat.

If you're starting a new protocol from scratch in 2026, default to Foundry. The rest of this post explains when the others are correct.

Installation and first impressions

Foundry

curl -L https://foundry.paradigm.xyz | bash
foundryup
forge init my-project

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Three commands. Sub-30 seconds. You get forge (compiler / test runner), cast (CLI for chain interaction), and anvil (local node). All written in Rust. All single binaries. No package.json, no node_modules.

Hardhat 3

mkdir my-project && cd my-project
pnpm init
pnpm add -D hardhat
npx hardhat --init

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Hardhat 3 (released late 2025) is a substantial rewrite. The new toolchain runs on a Rust-based execution layer (effectively REVM), bringing the test speed within striking distance of Foundry. It also natively supports Solidity tests, which were exclusive to Foundry until last year.

This matters: most "Foundry vs Hardhat" comparisons online are pre-Hardhat-3 and outdated.

Test speed (the headline metric)

Same Uniswap-V2-style contract, 80 unit tests, on an M2 MacBook:

Toolchain Cold run Warm run Memory
Foundry 1.3 s 0.4 s 220 MB
Hardhat 3 (Solidity tests) 2.1 s 0.7 s 480 MB
Hardhat 2 (TypeScript tests via ethers) 18 s 9 s 1.2 GB

Hardhat 3 closed the gap. It's now within 2x of Foundry on equivalent test suites — versus the 10-20x penalty Hardhat 2 incurred. If your only reason for picking Foundry was speed, that argument is weaker in 2026.

Test ergonomics

Foundry — Solidity tests

// test/Counter.t.sol
pragma solidity ^0.8.20;
import "forge-std/Test.sol";
import "../src/Counter.sol";

contract CounterTest is Test {
    Counter c;

    function setUp() public {
        c = new Counter();
    }

    function test_increment() public {
        c.increment();
        assertEq(c.count(), 1);
    }

    function testFuzz_setNumber(uint256 x) public {
        c.setNumber(x);
        assertEq(c.count(), x);
    }
}

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Tests live in the same language as the contracts. No type marshaling. No JS context switch. Fuzzing is a built-in keyword (testFuzz_) — no extra config.

Hardhat 3 — same test, two flavours

// test/Counter.t.sol — Solidity test
import "forge-std/Test.sol";
import "../src/Counter.sol";

contract CounterTest is Test {
    Counter c;
    function setUp() public { c = new Counter(); }
    function test_increment() public { c.increment(); assertEq(c.count(), 1); }
}

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Hardhat 3 runs Foundry-compatible tests. Identical syntax. Either toolchain executes them.

// test/Counter.ts — TypeScript test (still supported)
import { expect } from "chai";
import { ethers } from "hardhat";

describe("Counter", () => {
  it("increments", async () => {
    const Counter = await ethers.getContractFactory("Counter");
    const c = await Counter.deploy();
    await c.increment();
    expect(await c.count()).to.equal(1);
  });
});

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The TS path is for teams that want to integrate tests with frontend assertions or backend test suites. Slower to run, but the unified language can pay off in a full-stack codebase.

Plugin and ecosystem

Foundry Hardhat
Coverage forge coverage (built-in) solidity-coverage plugin
Verification forge verify-contract hardhat-verify plugin
Local node anvil (built-in) hardhat-node (built-in)
Mainnet forking forge --fork-url (built-in) hardhat-network --fork (built-in)
Contract upgrades Manual proxies @openzeppelin/hardhat-upgrades
Gas reports forge test --gas-report hardhat-gas-reporter plugin
Defender / monitoring Manual scripting defender-cli integration
Frontend type generation None native (use wagmi-cli separately) typechain (mature plugin)

Hardhat's plugin ecosystem is wider and more mature — particularly for OpenZeppelin upgrades and frontend integration. Foundry trades plugin breadth for built-in primitives that cover 80% of needs without extension.

Where each one wins

Use Foundry if

  • You're building a DeFi protocol, lending market, AMM, vault, or anything where a missed bug equals a wallet drain.
  • Your team's primary language is Solidity, not TypeScript.
  • You need fast invariant testing or stateful fuzzing as part of CI.
  • You write audits or work in security-adjacent roles. Auditors expect Foundry projects.
  • You don't want a node_modules graph.

Use Hardhat 3 if

  • Your contracts are part of a full-stack TypeScript app and your team lives in pnpm workspaces.
  • You depend on OpenZeppelin's upgrade plugin or other Hardhat-only tooling.
  • Your team has invested in TypeScript test patterns and the migration cost is high.
  • You ship to many networks with environment-specific deployment scripts and want the JS flexibility.

Use both (the senior move)

The pattern many serious teams adopt:

  • Tests in Foundry. Speed, fuzzing, invariant testing, Solidity-native ergonomics.
  • Deployments in Hardhat. Network-specific configs, OpenZeppelin upgrade plugin, TypeScript scripting.

This is supported by Hardhat 3 out of the box — it can read Foundry's foundry.toml, share build artifacts, and run mixed test suites. The boundaries between the two have softened significantly.

What changed in 2026

If you read a "Foundry vs Hardhat" post from 2024, it's probably out of date in three places:

  1. Hardhat 3's Rust execution layer closed most of the speed gap.
  2. Solidity tests in Hardhat removed the "Foundry is the only Solidity-native option" advantage.
  3. Cross-tool interopfoundry.toml parsed by Hardhat, shared artifacts — turned the "pick one" decision into "pick which side of the workflow each tool handles."

The decision is no longer binary. It's about workflow phase.

My recommendation

Start with Foundry. It's the right default for the security-sensitive work that pays $10K+ a month. If your project grows into a full-stack codebase that needs Hardhat's plugin ecosystem, layer Hardhat 3 on top — they coexist cleanly.

The wrong move is picking Hardhat in 2026 because that's what 2022 tutorials taught, and then six months later trying to retrofit Foundry-level test speed into a deeply Hardhat-coupled codebase.

Pick the tool that matches the work you'll be doing in twelve months. For most protocol engineers in 2026, that's Foundry first.

Next post in the series: how to set up a CI pipeline for a Foundry project that runs invariant tests, gas reports, and coverage — under 50 lines of YAML.