Flask VS Tornado

Compare Flask vs Tornado and see what are their differences.

Tornado

Tornado is a Python web framework and asynchronous networking library, originally developed at FriendFeed. (by tornadoweb)
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Flask Tornado
134 13
66,287 21,504
0.7% 0.2%
8.7 7.8
3 days ago 7 days ago
Python Python
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License Apache License 2.0
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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 2024-01-30.

Tornado

Posts with mentions or reviews of Tornado. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-11.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Flask and Tornado 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.

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

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

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

starlette - The little ASGI framework that shines. 🌟

sanic - Accelerate your web app development | Build fast. Run fast.

uvicorn - An ASGI web server, for Python. 🦄

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