Flask VS starlette

Compare Flask vs starlette and see what are their differences.

starlette

The little ASGI framework that shines. 🌟 (by encode)
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Flask starlette
135 55
66,350 9,491
0.7% 2.8%
8.7 9.2
1 day ago 8 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 2024-04-19.

starlette

Posts with mentions or reviews of starlette. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-09.

What are some alternatives?

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

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

Django - The Web framework for perfectionists with deadlines.

uvicorn - An ASGI web server, for Python. 🦄

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

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

starlite - Light, Flexible and Extensible ASGI API framework | Effortlessly Build Performant APIs [Moved to: https://github.com/litestar-org/litestar]

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

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

pydantic - Data validation using Python type hints