Niquests
Drop-in replacement for Requests with HTTP/2, HTTP/3, async, WebSocket, and SSE support.
72
Hero Score
Popularity
58
Performance
100
Ecosystem
50
Maturity
61
Dev Experience
93
⭐ 2,349 stars⬇ 322.1K downloads/wkFirst release: Jul 2023Last release: May 2026
Async Support: YesPlugin Extensions: MediumSpeed: Very fastDoc Quality: HighLearning Curve: Very easy
Pros
- • Drop-in replacement for Requests; migrate with a single import change
- • HTTP/2 by default, HTTP/3 over QUIC, WebSocket, and SSE out of the box
- • Fastest in benchmarks (0.55s vs httpx 2.08s for 1,000 requests) with sync and async support
Cons
- • Much smaller community and ecosystem compared to Requests or HTTPX
- • Some advanced features (HTTP/3, SOCKS) depend on platform-specific pre-built wheels
- • Younger project with less battle-testing in large-scale production environments