For simple API things it definitely is significantly faster than anything else python has to offer. I am not sure where the author got the node comparison from,

For simple API things it definitely is significantly faster than anything else python has to offer. I am not sure where the author got the node comparison from, but all the python benchmarks are provided https://github.com/channelcat/sanic https://github.com/channelcat/sanic with the code used to run them. These are also single process benchmarks on a AWS medium (not sure what type). And I believe (best I can tell) those techempower benchmarks are run on a 40 core bare metal machine.