Your problem is SQLAlchemy in all of these, not Flask. Use a different ORM for Flask. > Django rest framework, DRF for short (http://www.django-rest-framework.

Your problem is SQLAlchemy in all of these, not Flask. Use a different ORM for Flask. > Django rest framework, DRF for short (http://www.django-rest-framework.org/ http://www.django-rest-framework.org/), which is very mature at this stage, runs circles around Flask API. Flask API is inspired by DRF. I use both and enjoy both, but Flask API is _much_ better designed than DRF. Go look over the source for both. So yeah, Flask is much smaller than Django: but that's a good thing _for some projects_ like you've said. If you want Django manage.py, Django's ORM, DRF, and debug toolbar, then use Django!