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title: 'Choosing the Right Python Web Framework: Django, Flask, or FastAPI?'
source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=f00Kxt-PFYA'
video_id: 'f00Kxt-PFYA'
date: 2026-06-15
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# Choosing the Right Python Web Framework: Django, Flask, or FastAPI?

> Source: [Choosing the Right Python Web Framework: Django, Flask, or FastAPI?](https://youtube.com/watch?v=f00Kxt-PFYA)

## Summary

This video compares Flask, Django, and FastAPI to help you choose the right Python web framework for your next project. It covers the strengths and weaknesses of each, including factors like minimalism, built-in features, performance, and community support.

### Key Points

- **Flask is a micro-web framework** [00:27] — Flask is minimalistic, giving you granular control. It lacks built-in ORM and other features, making it lightweight and easy to learn.
- **Django for batteries-included projects** [02:26] — Django comes with a built-in admin dashboard, ORM, and many other features. It's ideal for large projects and team collaboration, but has a steeper learning curve.
- **FastAPI for modern, high-performance apps** [07:33] — FastAPI supports async IO and type hints, offering high performance. It's recommended for serious projects where speed and scalability are crucial.
- **Performance comparison** [09:59] — FastAPI is the best in terms of performance, but Django's built-in CRUD operations can be efficient if used correctly.
- **Ease of use ranking** [10:24] — Flask is easiest, followed by FastAPI, then Django. Flask's simplicity allows rapid prototyping.
- **Community support** [11:29] — Flask and Django have strong community support, while FastAPI's community is smaller, which may lead to fewer solutions for unique problems.

### Conclusion

Choose Flask for minimalistic projects and full control, Django for large, feature-rich applications with team collaboration, and FastAPI for high-performance, modern web apps. Consider your project's needs and your familiarity with each framework.

## Transcript

In today's video, I'll tell you which framework you have to choose
between 'Flask' , 'Django' & 'FastAPI' for your next project.
Does it depend on what kind of project
you guys are working on?
Or does it depend on whether you guys are making any project,
then you have to use a given framework for it?
"How to select a framework?" I'll tell you in
today's video by comparing all three of them.
What options do we have in 'Django'' that
we don't get in 'Flask' or 'FastAPI'?
Let me tell you from the starting.
Firstly we'll talk about 'Flask',
'Flask' is a micro-web framework.
Which means it is quite minimalistic.
If you have to do anything in it,
everything is not built-in, into it
It does not have ORM support.
What does ORM mean?
Object Relation Model.
It means that you won't get native
Python code to query the database.
You won't get wrappers in 'Flask'
as you get in 'Django'.
I'll discuss about 'Django' in a short while.
But I'd like to tell you that 'Flask'
is very minimalistic.
If you want almost full control on your app,
Or you want to make your app lightweight,
Then you can use 'flask'.
Now you'll say "What's for me if my app
is light weight or not and all?"
When you work on a project in which
you want a lot of control,
You want to have every bell &
whistle in your control
"I can change it" , "Or I can over-write a
particular function whenever I want",
And let us say if you're connecting to a database, but
you want to use another database instead of that.
Basically you need granular control.
So you look for a minimalistic framework,
Which is 'Flask'.
Secondly, you don't want unnecessary overheads.
For eg. There may be some things working behind
the scenes in 'Django' that you don't need,
You have installed a package, which you will
definitely use if you are using 'Django'.
Which you're not using in actual,
That means you have a code which
you are not even using.
But in 'Flask' this gets minimized.
You don't keep the code in your source-code
directory which you don't need.
'Flask' is quite lightweight & minimalistic,
I'd rather say it's very easy to learn.
In 'Django' you have to make efforts
to understand things.
In 'FastAPI' you have to understand the concept,
'Flask' & 'FastAPI' are a little bit similar.
'Django' is a different framework.
If asked, which is more similar to 'FastAPI' - 'Flask' or 'Django'?
I'll say 'Flask'.
Now let's talk about 'Django'.
When do you have to use 'Django'?
You have to use 'Django' when you need a built-in dashboard,
Because there's a built-in admin dashboard in 'Django'
Along with that you have to use
'Django' for major projects.
If you want a framework in which
you get batteries included,
In which you want ORM, which means you're not writing
a lot of complex queries to connect to a database.
You want to get functionality for built-in search.
Which means you get native code in Python.
Which will connect to your database,
And along with that you want a lot
of things already done.
I'd like to talk about one more thing,
If you want your app to be re-used again & again.
Suppose you created a blog in
your e-commerce website.
And you want the same blog to plug-in,
in your personal portfolio project
So this can be done very easily from 'Django'.
And if you're using ORM then you automatically
get a lot of functions in 'Django'
For eg. Suppose you want to fetch all
of the users from a given model,
In that if you write code for ORM then you
automatically get suggestions for that.
In that case I use IDE like PyCharm
I've done all the development, related to 'Flask'
& 'Django' in PyCharm from the very starting
Because that make things easier
So in my opinion there's a big role of IDE
if you're working on a major project
If you're using 'Django' then I'll recommend
you to use a good IDE
For eg. "JetBrains PyCharm"
There are a lot of good features in 'JetBrains PyCharm'
I'm using it for quite a lot of time
In-fact I made my first Python course
using JetBrains PyCharm
And it gives a very good experience
because it has built-in functionality.
For eg. Suppose you're calling a module.
It automatically figures out what properties and functions
does that module have, and starts giving you recommendations.
Along with that if you're opening multiple files
then you get quite a smooth navigation
And if you're working on a major project
then IDEs like this are recommended
If you want to download "JetBrains PyCharm"
I'll give you a link in the description
And you'll get a link for community version which is
absolutely free and you can install it for free
If you're a student then professional
version is absolutely free for you
I'll add a link in the description for
that and other details,
Another big advantage of using 'Django' is,
when you are on a team-work
Suppose you want to embed a blog or an
e-commerce store in your application
And along with that you want to embed an
application for customer support
So different developers can work
on these three applications.
Then in the end, these can then be merged
into a particular 'Django' app
However you can do that in 'Flask' & 'FastAPI' too,
But you have to face a lot of difficulties
Because I've done these type of
projects personally
I'll choose 'Django' if I have to divide
the work between my colleagues
Specifically if I have to divide apps based on work
I'll give an app to each developer
In that case it'll be easy for me to monitor
and merge them all into a master app
This 'Master App' is called 'Project' in 'Django'.
In 'Django' you have a lot of commands.
For eg. Start Project, Create App & Create Super User
You can do these type of things from 'Django'
You just have to write command in
terminal and you can use
code of 'Django' which generates automatically
when you create a new project
For eg. If you want to create a super user
then you can create a super user
Or if you want to delete a super user
then you can do that too
If you want to create a new app
then you can do that too
You can add multiple apps in a single project
If you want to create a big project then
I'll suggest you to use 'Django'
Otherwise I'll suggest you 'Flask' & 'FastAPI'
Now if I talk about the drawbacks of using 'Django'
Then it'll take time for you to learn it
It'll take time for you to understand things
When you'll install 'Django' with 'pip' then you'll
think it's similar to normal Python Module
Honestly, it's similar to normal Python Module
but it's behaviour is a little bit different
Because once, 'Django' installs, then you create
a new project using Django Utility,
Then you create a lot of apps in that,
Then "How to do it's URL parsing?",
"How to create a URL for it?" and all.
Suppose I created a Blog, then how can I display
a Blog-post using "/blog" or "/slug"?
If you're a Django beginner, neither Python
beginner nor Programming beginner
But a Django beginner and you
haven't ever used Django
Then it'll take time for you to understand it.
You can start using 'Flask' & 'FastAPI' in
fractions of seconds if you know Python.
But in Django it'll take some time
for you to understand it
So yes! It's a little time taking
But there are a lot of in-built features in Django,
which is good, if you use them.
But it's bad if you're creating a basic minimal app,
you've installed ORM and you've created apps,
And you're doing model migration
You're doing all these when there's minimal
use case of your app's database
And if you use Django in that so in
my opinion it's an overhead
Now, 'FastAPI' relatively is a new framework
Earlier there used to be wars between
Django & Flask, which one should we use
Not wars but confusions,
"Which one should we use?"
But after the launch of FastAPI, I recommend FastAPI
to those who are working on a serious project
And if you're a Python expert and you
know how async IO works in Python
You know how to work with Types in Python
Then you can use FastAPI
But I'm telling you again if you start with
'Flask' , then it'll be easy for you.
From learning stand point 'Flask'
is quite minimalistic
But if you want performance and you want to
use modern features in your web app,
Then you can switch to FastAPI.
Thus if you're creating such an application in
which speed plays a very important role.
Then you'll use FastAPI.
And if you want your app to be scalable,
And you want to handle thousands of users
at a time, then you can go for FastAPI.
But if you want to create a minimal prototype,
so even today I use 'Flask' for that
If I have to create a very minimal API,
I pick 'Flask' and used jsonify, and my API is ready.
It works quite simple for me
Yes it can be done using 'FastAPI'....
But I personally feel, with 'Flask' it's faster.
And maybe this is because, I'm using flask for quite a lot
of time and every function is on my finger tips.
So I'm able to use it quite easily.
Now if I compare these frameworks once again
So at a high-level 'Flask' is quite
minimalistic & easy to use
'Django' is not minimalistic at all, takes up a
lot of time, overwhelm the beginners
Comes with a lot of built-in features.
For eg. ORM,
There are a lot of things which
takes time to be understood
But those things are useful & saves a lot of time.
You get a built-in admin panel which contains all the things
to delete and all, basically those are CRUD operations
Those things are sometimes useful
but yes, it takes time to learn them
But once you learn, how to built a Django App and
how to manage it, then you'll love Django.
If someone ask you to create a Blog,
then you'll use Django.
If someone ask you to built an e-commerce website, then you'll
use Django cause in that you'll get built-in admin panel & ORM.
It'll be easy for you do queries, but only
when you know how to use it.
But if you don't know how to use it
then Django will haunt you.
If I talk about 'FastAPI',
So it's a modern framework.
You can perform async IO in that.
And it was designed keeping
modern python in mind.
So this was high-level overview
about these 3 frameworks.
Now if I tell you on the terms of performance,
then FastAPI is the best.
But it's not like 'Django' & 'Flask' are not
good in terms of performance.
Look, somethings are built-in in Django.
For eg. CRUD operations.
If you start to write the logic of CRUD Operations
in 'FastAPI' & 'Flask',
Then there's a chance, as a solo developer
you'll make mistake in that.
And your performance may not be as good as
the built-in CRUD Operation in Django.
I hope you're getting my point.
Now let's talk about ease-of-use.
I already told you it's 'Flask' then comes
'FastAPI' and then 'Django'.
Now there are a lot of third-party packages in Flask,
For eg. Flask-SQLAlchemy.
You can use Flask along with MongoDB.
There are a lot of things you get as a Python package,
which you can use to supplement Flask.
Same goes for Django, there are a lot of
packages which you can install in Django.
But in Django, as I already told you, the best part is,
you can divide the apps among the developer.
And those apps makes the over all development of
complex project faster, by merging into a single project.
I made an e-commerce website on
this channel using Django.
I chose Django because there are a lot of ins & outs
when you create an e-commerce website.
Then there are a lot of things which
you have to do from scratch.
But here I got a built-in admin panel & a lot of
things, so this becomes easy for me.
I've done a lot of projects using 'Flask'.
I've made a Blog using 'Flask'.
You'll use flask when you don't wanna use someone
else's logic and you want to write your own.
And same goes for FastAPI as well.
Now let me talk about community support.
In my opinion 'Flask' have the most community 
support as well as Django.
But FastAPI somewhere lacks this.
Now, who's community support between 'Flask' & 'Django'
is best? Then it depends upon the problem.
I don't have the exact numbers to be honest.
But their community support is a
lot better than FastAPI.
So it also matters somewhere.
Because if you get stuck on a problem,
then you may face difficulties.
If you're unable to find a solution
for a particular problem,
You get to know that no one has posted it's solution
anywhere and you now have to find it on your own.
So before using FastAPI you can
keep these things in mind.
That you might face unique problems
which no one has solved.
So I hope you got a high-level overview
of 'Flask' , 'Django' & 'FastAPI'
And you can now create your next project.
You can choose the best framework
for your next project.
That's it for this video guys.
Thank you so much guys for
watching this video :)
And I'll see you next time.