Free Django Rest Framework Alternatives

Django Ninja is a free and open source web framework for building REST APIs with Django and Python 3.6+ based type hints. It shares many similarities with FastAPI, another popular Python framework for building APIs. Django Ninja now brings the same methodology to Django users wanting to build modern APIs using OpenAPI (Swagger) standards and JSON schema. It integrates well with the Django ORM and the ecosystem of third-party Django applications. Already the framework is used by multiple companies with live projects.

Supabase is a free and open-source self-hosted and SaaS provided alternative to Firebase. With Supabase you can add a realtime REST API to a PostgreSQL without writing a single line of code.

PostgREST is a standalone web server and development tool that automatically turns your PostgreSQL database into a RESTful API.

PostGraphile (previously known as PostGraphQL) is a free an open-source software project that lets you spin up GraphQL APIs on top of an existing PostgreSQL database, instantly. PostGraphile automatically detects tables, columns, indexes, relationships, views, types, functions and comments in your database. Based on that information it generates a GraphQL server and API which is automatically updated when changes are made to the database or its data.