encode/django-rest-framework vs tiangolo/fastapi
Both showing Healthy signals — pick on fit, not health
As of June 2026, django-rest-framework and fastapi both show healthy maintenance signals. django-rest-framework was committed to 2 days ago with 43+ active contributors, while fastapi was committed to today with 5+ active contributors. django-rest-framework is Other-licensed while fastapi is MIT-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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encode/django-rest-framework →
Healthy across the board
non-standard license (Other)
Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
No critical CVEs, sane security posture — runnable as-is.
- ⚠Non-standard license (Other) — review terms
- ✓Last commit 2d ago
- ✓43+ active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 24% of recent commits)
- ✓Other licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
What would improve this?
- →Use as dependency Concerns → Mixed if: clarify license terms
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against dependency CVEs from deps.dev and OpenSSF Scorecard
tiangolo/fastapi →
Healthy across the board
Permissive license, no critical CVEs, actively maintained — safe to depend on.
Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
No critical CVEs, sane security posture — runnable as-is.
- ✓In RepoPilot's curated trusted-corpus (29 projects)
- ✓Last commit today
- ✓5 active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 48% of recent commits)
- ✓MIT licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against OpenSSF Scorecard
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| django-rest-framework | fastapi | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 30,089 | 99,696 |
| Last commit | 2d ago | today |
| License | Other | MIT |
| Open issues | 84 | 100 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 2% | 100% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Healthy signals | Healthy signals |
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