Sanic
High-performance async web framework and server designed for speed.
HTTP servers and APIs PyPI MIT
How Sanic is used
Sanic is a dependency in 0 of the 6,208 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned, too few to describe it from them alone. Our scan also samples projects by dependency (Solana 2,661, Ethereum and EVM 1,496, 3D and games 2,818, agent frameworks and SDKs 10,983); counting those, it appears in 53 projects, and what it is used with below comes from all of them. The most used alternative in our scan is FastAPI (465 projects). Projects that use it most often also use Boto3 (98.1%), coloredlogs (98.1%), jsonschema (98.1%).
Sanic popularity over time
Gid Score 51: downloads 51, use in agent projects 42, GitHub stars 60, downloads trend 50 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.
Often used with Sanic
| Boto3 | 98.1% of Sanic projects · 101.5× more than average |
|---|---|
| coloredlogs | 98.1% of Sanic projects · 1015.1× more than average |
| jsonschema | 98.1% of Sanic projects · 60.3× more than average |
| Matplotlib | 98.1% of Sanic projects · 36.5× more than average |
| NetworkX | 98.1% of Sanic projects · 98.2× more than average |
| NumPy | 98.1% of Sanic projects · 16.8× more than average |
| pytz | 98.1% of Sanic projects · 105.0× more than average |
| redis (Python) | 98.1% of Sanic projects · 49.1× more than average |
From all 53 projects in our scan that use Sanic, including the dependency samples.
How Sanic is funded
Open Collective: Sanic Community Organization
| Received, last 12 months | $247 Oct 2025 – Sep 2026 |
|---|---|
| Estimated annual budget | $299 Open Collective's estimate |
| Balance | $3,386 |
| Raised since the start | $3,587 · $200 paid out |
| Typical month median, last 12 months | $22 · $22 over 24 months |
| Last 12 months vs the 12 before | -69% |
| Contributors, last 12 months | 4 |
Top company backers all time
| CodeStream | $875 since Feb 2021 |
|---|---|
| Rasa | $50 since Dec 2021 |
| Saebasol | $5 since Sep 2022 |
| GoMage | $2 since Apr 2021 |
Oct 2021Sep 2026
Money by month, last five years. First money received in Jan 2021. The typical month is the median: one big one-off donation does not move it.
USD after payment processor fees, as Open Collective reports it; fiscal host Open Source Collective. Source
Ways to fund Sanic
Open Collective
As the maintainers list them in FUNDING.yml on GitHub. Checked Oct 20, 2026.
Install
| Package | pip install sanic |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | Python (53) |
| Example projects | apconw/Aix-DB, pengyou200902/Doctor-Friende, LuoFanA595/Medical-Robot-AI, rctatman/dialect-quiz-bot, luojie1024/WeatherBot |
Alternatives to Sanic
Tools that do the same job, so a project picks one or the other. Add-ons and libraries used alongside Sanic are not listed here; they are in "Often used with".
| Tool | Gid Score | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FastAPI pypi High-performance Python web framework with automatic API docs and async support. |
91 | 465 (28.7%) | 114M | 103K | MIT |
| Flask pypi Lightweight Python web framework for building web applications and APIs. |
85 | 107 (6.6%) | 39.9M | 75K | BSD-3-Clause |
| Starlette pypi Lightweight ASGI web framework for building Python APIs and web applications. |
78 | 82 (5.1%) | 151M | 12.7K | BSD-3-Clause |
| Django pypi High-level Python web framework for rapid development with clean design. |
63 | 26 (1.6%) | 11M | — | BSD-3-Clause |
| Tornado pypi High-performance Python web framework and async networking library for building servers. |
76 | 12 (0.7%) | 25.3M | 22.2K | Apache-2.0 |
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