But there are several cases in which you might benefit from using `UploadFile`.

## File Parameters with `UploadFile` { #file-parameters-with-uploadfile }

Define a file parameter with a type of `UploadFile`:

{* ../../docs_src/request_files/tutorial001_an_py310.py hl[14] *}

Using `UploadFile` has several advantages over `bytes`:

* You don't have to use `File()` in the default value of the parameter.

from fastapi import FastAPI, File, UploadFile
from fastapi.responses import HTMLResponse

app = FastAPI()


@app.post("/files/")
async def create_files(files: list[bytes] = File()):
    return {"file_sizes": [len(file) for file in files]}


@app.post("/uploadfiles/")
async def create_upload_files(files: list[UploadFile]):
    return {"filenames": [file.filename for file in files]}


@app.get("/")
async def main():

from fastapi import FastAPI, File, UploadFile
from fastapi.responses import HTMLResponse

app = FastAPI()


@app.post("/files/")
async def create_files(
    files: list[bytes] = File(description="Multiple files as bytes"),
):
    return {"file_sizes": [len(file) for file in files]}


@app.post("/uploadfiles/")
async def create_upload_files(
    files: list[UploadFile] = File(description="Multiple files as UploadFile"),
):

    ```python
    from typing import Annotated

    from fastapi import FastAPI, File, UploadFile

    app = FastAPI()


    @app.post("/files/")
    async def create_file(file: Annotated[bytes, File()]):
        return {"file_size": len(file)}


    @app.post("/uploadfile/")
    async def create_upload_file(file: UploadFile):
        return {"filename": file.filename}
    ```
    """

    file: Annotated[

from fastapi import FastAPI, File, UploadFile

app = FastAPI()


@app.post("/files/")
async def create_file(file: bytes = File()):
    return {"file_size": len(file)}


@app.post("/uploadfile/")
async def create_upload_file(file: UploadFile):

from fastapi import FastAPI, File, UploadFile

app = FastAPI()


@app.post("/files/")
async def create_file(file: bytes | None = File(default=None)):
    if not file:
        return {"message": "No file sent"}
    else:
        return {"file_size": len(file)}


@app.post("/uploadfile/")
async def create_upload_file(file: UploadFile | None = None):
    if not file:
        return {"message": "No upload file sent"}
    else:

from fastapi import FastAPI, File, UploadFile
from fastapi.responses import HTMLResponse

app = FastAPI()


@app.post("/files/")
async def create_files(
    files: Annotated[list[bytes], File(description="Multiple files as bytes")],
):
    return {"file_sizes": [len(file) for file in files]}


@app.post("/uploadfiles/")
async def create_upload_files(
    files: Annotated[

def is_uploadfile_or_nonable_uploadfile_annotation(annotation: Any) -> bool:
    if lenient_issubclass(annotation, UploadFile):
        return True
    origin = get_origin(annotation)
    if origin is Union or origin is UnionType:
        for arg in get_args(annotation):
            if lenient_issubclass(arg, UploadFile):
                return True
    return False


def is_bytes_sequence_annotation(annotation: Any) -> bool:

__version__ = "0.135.3"

from starlette import status as status

from .applications import FastAPI as FastAPI
from .background import BackgroundTasks as BackgroundTasks
from .datastructures import UploadFile as UploadFile
from .exceptions import HTTPException as HTTPException
from .exceptions import WebSocketException as WebSocketException
from .param_functions import Body as Body
from .param_functions import Cookie as Cookie

from typing import Annotated

from fastapi import FastAPI, File, UploadFile

app = FastAPI()


@app.post("/files/")
async def create_file(file: Annotated[bytes, File()]):
    return {"file_size": len(file)}


@app.post("/uploadfile/")
async def create_upload_file(file: UploadFile):