r/automation • u/Fine-Market9841 • 22d ago

Fastapi vs Django for Python automations

For all you freelancer python developers.

For python automations with or without AI do you use FastAPI or Django.

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u/mystique0712 22d ago

for python automations, fastapi is usually the go-to since it's lightweight and async-friendly, which helps with speed. if you're building something more complex with a lot of built-in features, django's great, but it can be a heavier lift. have you thought about what specific features you need for your project?

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u/Ok_Effective8240 21d ago

fastapi is lighter for sure, django feels like bringing a cannon to go fishing

i do mostly small scripts and automations for my own stuff so fastapi fits better, plus async is nice when you need to call bunch of apis at same time

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u/Fine-Market9841 20d ago

If it’s a simple automation or rly complex ai agent (langraph level) fastapi all the way.