HTTPX2
Shares rank 6 of 11 HTTP client libraries by recommenders
Recommended as a stable, Pydantic-backed fork of HTTPX that promises not to break its API. Critics point to the confusing name and the original maintainer's conduct.
Recommended as a stable, Pydantic-backed fork of HTTPX that promises not to break its API. Critics point to the confusing name and the original maintainer's conduct.
11 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 8
- criticize it
- 3
- approval share
- 73%
Recommended in 3 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 8 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 2.7 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 3 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Backed by Pydantic
“httpx2 is sponsored by Pydantic and has involvement from the new maintainer of Starlette”
Comment from 28 Aug 2026 in “Migrating to HTTPX2” “Pydantic picked it up as httpx2”
Comment from 11 Sep 2026 in “Litelm: LiteLLM Without the Bloat” “Good job to Pydantic team!”
Comment from 14 May 2026 in “Pythons new httpx fork: httpx2” Trusted, involved maintainers
“httpx2 is sponsored by Pydantic and has involvement from the new maintainer of Starlette”
Comment from 28 Aug 2026 in “Migrating to HTTPX2” “trustworthy and resourcefull maintainers”
Comment from 28 Aug 2026 in “Migrating to HTTPX2”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Original maintainer's conduct criticized
“people also have a right to be upset by his passive aggressive behavior”
Comment from 28 Aug 2026 in “Migrating to HTTPX2” “closing repos just goes against all of this and should be a shame.”
Comment from 29 Aug 2026 in “Migrating to HTTPX2”
Other HTTP client libraries people recommend
The four most recommended other HTTP client libraries, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Requests (Python library) | 23 | 7 | 77% | 8 | — | Approved |
| Axios | 21 | 37 | 36% | 5 | — | — |
| Go net/http | 12 | 7 | 63% | 4 | — | — |
| libcurl | 10 | 2 | 83% | 7 | — | Approved |
| HTTPX2This page | 8 | 3 | 73% | 3 | — | — |
What people said
10 of the 12 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“you should update httpx to httpx2”
“Pydantic picked it up as httpx2”
“closing repos just goes against all of this and should be a shame.”
“HTTPX2 isn't a great name for a fork (or at all). Just leads to more confusion.”
“trustworthy and resourcefull maintainers”
“people also have a right to be upset by his passive aggressive behavior”
“AIUI the fork has better performance.”
“httpx2 is sponsored by Pydantic and has involvement from the new maintainer of Starlette”
“promises not to break the existing API, which makes it a more stable dependency to build against”
“Good job to Pydantic team!”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.