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What FastAPI does
FastAPI is an open source Python API framework licensed under MIT, built on Starlette and Pydantic with automatic interactive documentation.
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- Licensed under the MIT License per fastapi.tiangolo.com; as open source software it has no paid tier or vendor price to compare
- FastAPI depends entirely on Starlette for its web layer and Pydantic for validation, per its own documentation, so it is not a standalone framework and inherits both dependencies' constraints
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