diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 068e0bf..be0981e 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -22,3 +22,10 @@ example which uses the latest chi/render sub-pkg.
 
 All feedback is welcome, thank you!
 
+## Build with [jsoniter](https://github.com/json-iterator/go)
+
+The `render` package use `encoding/json` as default json package but you can change to [jsoniter](https://github.com/json-iterator/go) by build from other tags.
+
+```sh
+$ go build -tags=jsoniter .
+```
diff --git a/decoder.go b/decoder.go
index 849c56b..cfe8144 100644
--- a/decoder.go
+++ b/decoder.go
@@ -1,12 +1,13 @@
 package render
 
 import (
-	"encoding/json"
 	"encoding/xml"
 	"errors"
 	"io"
 	"io/ioutil"
 	"net/http"
+
+	"github.com/go-chi/render/json"
 )
 
 // Decode is a package-level variable set to our default Decoder. We do this
diff --git a/json/json.go b/json/json.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e5b10fd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/json/json.go
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+// +build !jsoniter
+
+package json
+
+import "encoding/json"
+
+var (
+	Marshal    = json.Marshal
+	NewDecoder = json.NewDecoder
+	NewEncoder = json.NewEncoder
+)
diff --git a/json/jsoniter.go b/json/jsoniter.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..383f195
--- /dev/null
+++ b/json/jsoniter.go
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+// +build jsoniter
+
+package json
+
+import jsoniter "github.com/json-iterator/go"
+
+var (
+	json       = jsoniter.ConfigCompatibleWithStandardLibrary
+	Marshal    = json.Marshal
+	NewDecoder = json.NewDecoder
+	NewEncoder = json.NewEncoder
+)
diff --git a/responder.go b/responder.go
index 4a7c52f..84ec173 100644
--- a/responder.go
+++ b/responder.go
@@ -3,11 +3,12 @@ package render
 import (
 	"bytes"
 	"context"
-	"encoding/json"
 	"encoding/xml"
 	"fmt"
 	"net/http"
 	"reflect"
+
+	"github.com/go-chi/render/json"
 )
 
 // M is a convenience alias for quickly building a map structure that is going