Flask VS Django

Compare Flask vs Django and see what are their differences.

Flask

The Python micro framework for building web applications. (by pallets)

Django

The Web framework for perfectionists with deadlines. (by django)
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Flask Django
122 434
62,297 69,446
1.0% 1.6%
9.2 9.9
8 days ago 5 days ago
Python Python
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License
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Flask

Posts with mentions or reviews of Flask. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-13.

Django

Posts with mentions or reviews of Django. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-23.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Flask and Django you can also consider the following projects:

fastapi - FastAPI framework, high performance, easy to learn, fast to code, ready for production

Nest - A progressive Node.js framework for building efficient, scalable, and enterprise-grade server-side applications on top of TypeScript & JavaScript (ES6, ES7, ES8) 🚀

quart - An async Python micro framework for building web applications.

AIOHTTP - Asynchronous HTTP client/server framework for asyncio and Python

Tornado - Tornado is a Python web framework and asynchronous networking library, originally developed at FriendFeed.

starlette - The little ASGI framework that shines. 🌟

Masonite - The Modern And Developer Centric Python Web Framework. Be sure to read the documentation and join the Discord channel for questions: https://discord.gg/TwKeFahmPZ

CherryPy - CherryPy is a pythonic, object-oriented HTTP framework. https://cherrypy.dev

uvicorn - An ASGI web server, for Python. 🦄

Bottle - bottle.py is a fast and simple micro-framework for python web-applications.

web.py - web.py is a web framework for python that is as simple as it is powerful.