Starlette vs Falcon: What are the differences?

Developers describe Starlette as "The little ASGI framework that shines". It is a lightweight ASGI framework/toolkit, which is ideal for building high performance asyncio services. On the other hand, Falcon is detailed as "High-performance Python framework for building cloud APIs and web app backends". Falcon is a minimalist WSGI library for building speedy web APIs and app backends. We like to think of Falcon as the Dieter Rams of web frameworks.

Starlette and Falcon can be primarily classified as "Microframeworks (Backend)" tools.

Some of the features offered by Starlette are:

• Seriously impressive performance
• WebSocket support
• GraphQL support

On the other hand, Falcon provides the following key features:

• Intuitive routing via URI templates and resource classes
• Easy access to headers and bodies through request and response classes
• Idiomatic HTTP error responses via a handy exception base class

Starlette and Falcon are both open source tools. It seems that Falcon with 7.99K GitHub stars and 804 forks on GitHub has more adoption than Starlette with 4.55K GitHub stars and 356 GitHub forks.