Framework Comparison

Comparing Django Ninja AIO against other Python REST frameworks

Run 2026-05-27 08:19:40 Python 3.14.5 Frameworks 4 Operations 13

Results

Bulk Serialization 100

Framework	Median (ms)	Avg (ms)	Min (ms)	Max (ms)
Django Ninja AIO	1.7661	1.7866	1.7314	2.2343
Django Ninja	1.0704	1.0803	1.0524	1.2640
ADRF	99.9768	105.8103	90.3141	131.8508
FastAPI	1.4045	1.4206	1.3712	1.8005

Bulk Serialization 500

Framework	Median (ms)	Avg (ms)	Min (ms)	Max (ms)
Django Ninja AIO	7.4632	7.5026	7.3640	7.8390
Django Ninja	4.2727	4.2791	4.2160	4.3840
ADRF	518.5468	529.1533	456.3029	647.9215
FastAPI	5.7958	5.8444	5.7675	6.4238

Complex Async Query

Framework	Median (ms)	Avg (ms)	Min (ms)	Max (ms)
Django Ninja AIO	1.0273	1.0621	0.9975	3.6393
Django Ninja	0.7114	0.7191	0.6703	0.9486
ADRF	31.7121	34.6755	28.8863	53.3001
FastAPI	0.8185	0.8269	0.7870	1.2012

Create

Framework	Median (ms)	Avg (ms)	Min (ms)	Max (ms)
Django Ninja AIO	0.7005	0.7613	0.6534	1.4091
Django Ninja	0.3866	0.3820	0.2779	0.5262
ADRF	1.8798	2.0131	1.7621	2.4998
FastAPI	0.2851	0.3061	0.2673	0.8562

Delete

Framework	Median (ms)	Avg (ms)	Min (ms)	Max (ms)
Django Ninja AIO	0.7690	0.7853	0.7230	1.3472
Django Ninja	0.8493	0.8259	0.6129	1.1327
ADRF	0.8356	0.8405	0.8043	0.9551
FastAPI	0.6522	0.6588	0.6194	0.9021

Filter

Framework	Median (ms)	Avg (ms)	Min (ms)	Max (ms)
Django Ninja AIO	0.4694	0.4771	0.4357	0.8379
Django Ninja	0.4002	0.4113	0.3721	0.6410
ADRF	1.8296	1.9133	1.7089	2.3742
FastAPI	0.4149	0.4289	0.3870	1.1306

List

Framework	Median (ms)	Avg (ms)	Min (ms)	Max (ms)
Django Ninja AIO	0.6119	0.6188	0.5819	0.8928
Django Ninja	0.4247	0.4281	0.4018	0.5879
ADRF	21.3561	22.7218	19.0054	28.4404
FastAPI	0.5103	0.5514	0.4790	0.9483

Many To Many

Framework	Median (ms)	Avg (ms)	Min (ms)	Max (ms)
Django Ninja AIO	1.4430	1.4607	1.2309	3.9823
Django Ninja	0.9744	0.9930	0.9342	1.4431
ADRF	8.0601	8.3940	7.7926	11.5148
FastAPI	1.0382	1.0905	0.9782	1.6344

Nested Relations

Framework	Median (ms)	Avg (ms)	Min (ms)	Max (ms)
Django Ninja AIO	0.8958	0.9068	0.8504	1.3379
Django Ninja	0.4442	0.4532	0.4154	0.7177
ADRF	2.5070	2.5970	2.3979	3.9607
FastAPI	0.4546	0.4694	0.4308	0.6566

Relation Serialization

Framework	Median (ms)	Avg (ms)	Min (ms)	Max (ms)
Django Ninja AIO	0.6452	0.6516	0.6103	0.9132
Django Ninja	0.5445	0.5534	0.5135	1.3627
ADRF	2.5764	2.7734	2.4160	3.8826
FastAPI	0.4485	0.4513	0.4229	0.6349

Retrieve

Framework	Median (ms)	Avg (ms)	Min (ms)	Max (ms)
Django Ninja AIO	0.5298	0.5419	0.4962	1.1776
Django Ninja	0.3588	0.3638	0.3385	0.5344
ADRF	1.6572	1.7028	1.5695	2.9391
FastAPI	0.3654	0.3729	0.3467	0.5486

Reverse Relations

Framework	Median (ms)	Avg (ms)	Min (ms)	Max (ms)
Django Ninja AIO	1.8714	1.8144	1.6108	4.3182
Django Ninja	1.3002	1.3516	1.2620	1.8977
ADRF	30.9030	33.3109	29.7420	44.5713
FastAPI	1.4530	1.5134	1.4028	2.6459

Update

Framework	Median (ms)	Avg (ms)	Min (ms)	Max (ms)
Django Ninja AIO	1.1264	1.1622	1.1026	1.8364
Django Ninja	0.9152	0.8583	0.7010	0.9850
ADRF	2.3115	2.5474	2.1691	3.2155
FastAPI	0.7169	0.7225	0.6837	0.9635