There are several alternatives, including:

* <a href="https://www.uvicorn.org/" class="external-link" target="_blank">Uvicorn</a>: a high performance ASGI server.
* <a href="https://pgjones.gitlab.io/hypercorn/" class="external-link" target="_blank">Hypercorn</a>: an ASGI server compatible with HTTP/2 and Trio among other features.

    family-names: Ramírez
    email: ******@****.***
identifiers:
repository-code: 'https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi'
url: 'https://fastapi.tiangolo.com'
abstract: >-
  FastAPI framework, high performance, easy to learn, fast to code,
  ready for production
keywords:
  - fastapi
  - pydantic
  - starlette

[build-system]
requires = ["pdm-backend"]
build-backend = "pdm.backend"

[project]
name = "fastapi"
dynamic = ["version"]
description = "FastAPI framework, high performance, easy to learn, fast to code, ready for production"
readme = "README.md"
requires-python = ">=3.8"
authors = [
    { name = "Sebastián Ramírez", email = "******@****.***" },
]
classifiers = [
    "Intended Audience :: Information Technology",

For production you would use `fastapi run` instead. 🚀

Internally, **FastAPI CLI** uses <a href="https://www.uvicorn.org" class="external-link" target="_blank">Uvicorn</a>, a high-performance, production-ready, ASGI server. 😎

## `fastapi dev`

When you run `fastapi dev`, it will run on development mode.

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```console
$ pip install "uvicorn[standard]" gunicorn

---> 100%
```

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That will install both Uvicorn with the `standard` extra packages (to get high performance) and Gunicorn.

## Run Gunicorn with Uvicorn Workers

Then you can run Gunicorn with:

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```console

    But `open()` doesn't use `async` and `await`.

    So, we declare the event handler function with standard `def` instead of `async def`.

### `startup` and `shutdown` together

There's a high chance that the logic for your *startup* and *shutdown* is connected, you might want to start something and then finish it, acquire a resource and then release it, etc.