Performance Benchmarks

Using Pydantic’s benchmarking code, drf-turbo performs serialization, deserialization and validation nearly eight times faster than a standard django-rest-framework configuration.

You can see a closed pull request to add this benchmarking code to Pydantic here

Package	Version	Relative Performance	Mean Validation Time
drf-turbo	0.1.1		113.79μs
django-rest-framework	3.12.4	7.78x slower	885.47μs

See Pydantic benchmarking page for more relative performance data and of the a link to the benchmarking code.

Raw scores:

drf-turbo best=111.754μs/iter avg=113.794μs/iter stdev=1.274μs/iter version=0.1.1
django-rest-framework best=856.090μs/iter avg=885.471μs/iter stdev=39.377μs/iter version=3.12.4
pydantic best=103.525μs/iter avg=106.093μs/iter stdev=2.720μs/iter version=1.8.2
attrs + cattrs best=67.449μs/iter avg=67.766μs/iter stdev=0.388μs/iter version=21.2.0
cerberus best=1561.922μs/iter avg=1638.844μs/iter stdev=44.257μs/iter version=1.3.4
marshmallow best=198.683μs/iter avg=201.499μs/iter stdev=2.192μs/iter version=3.14.0
valideer best=90.025μs/iter avg=91.712μs/iter stdev=1.579μs/iter version=0.4.2
voluptuous best=195.394μs/iter avg=197.416μs/iter stdev=2.399μs/iter version=0.12.2
schematics best=728.707μs/iter avg=745.313μs/iter stdev=11.523μs/iter version=2.1.1
trafaret best=221.880μs/iter avg=223.723μs/iter stdev=1.050μs/iter version=2.1.0