justrach/turboAPI

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1002 stars · 29 forks observed · 2026-09-03

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

TurboAPI is a FastAPI-compatible Python web framework whose HTTP layer is implemented in Zig, offering drop-in migration by changing a single import line. It provides Zig-native request validation (dhi models), zero-copy response handling, and native support for Python 3.14 free-threading for high-throughput APIs.

Use cases

• migrate an existing FastAPI app to a faster runtime without rewriting code
• build high-throughput JSON REST APIs in Python
• serve APIs with lower latency than FastAPI or Flask
• run Python web servers on free-threaded Python 3.14 without GIL contention
• validate request bodies with Pydantic-style models at native speed
• mount C or Zig handlers for ultra-hot endpoints

When to choose

• you have an existing FastAPI codebase and need more throughput
• you can run Python 3.13+/3.14t and want a drop-in performance upgrade
• your workload is HTTP-heavy and benefits from zero-copy parsing and native validation
• you want FastAPI ergonomics (decorators, dependency injection, OpenAPI) with a faster core

When to avoid

• you need TLS, HTTP/2, or HTTP/3 natively - it requires an edge proxy like nginx or Caddy
• you need production-grade stability - the project is explicitly alpha with a changing API surface
• you rely on WebSockets at scale - support is still in progress and limited
• your deployment depends on C extensions that are not free-threading-safe
• you need configurable request body limits beyond the hardcoded 16MB cap

Facets

framework · maturity experimental

web-framework http-server api-framework serialization middleware auth routing web-development backend apis performance python cross-platform cli fastapi-compatible drop-in-replacement free-threaded-python zig-http-core zero-copy pydantic-alternative openapi alpha-software zig

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