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The benchmark has to be read with some knowledge. For example Plaintext is given you an indicator how good the runtime and the HTTP stack is. JSON goes one step further and gives you the comparison with common REST APIs including JSON serialization. One step further is then there is Fortune which also includes some DB layer and should representative for applications.

However, also check the definition of the rows. With Plaintext there are 3-10 entries for ASP.NET Core with different level of comfort (from "do not do that at home", to express like middlewares to "rails like MVC")