[Python] FastAPI UploadFile is slow compared to Flask

I have created a FastAPI endpoint, as shown below:

@app.post("/report/upload")
def create_upload_files(files: UploadFile = File(...)):
try:
with open(files.filename,'wb+') as wf:
wf.write(file.file.read())
wf.close()
except Exception as e:
return {"error": e.__str__()}


It is launched with uvicorn:

../venv/bin/uvicorn test_upload:app --host=0.0.0.0 --port=5000 --reload


I am performing some tests of uploading a file of around 100 MB using Python requests, and that takes around 128 seconds to complete:

f = open(sys.argv[1],"rb").read()
hex_convert = binascii.hexlify(f)
items = {"files": hex_convert.decode()}
start = time.time()
r = requests.post("http://192.168.0.90:5000/report/upload",files=items)
end = time.time() - start
print(end)


I tested the same upload script with an API endpoint using Flask and takes around 0.5 seconds:

from flask import Flask, render_template, request
app = Flask(__name__)


@app.route('/uploader', methods = ['GET', 'POST'])
def upload_file():
if request.method == 'POST':
f = request.files['file']
f.save(f.filename)
return 'file uploaded successfully'

if __name__ == '__main__':
app.run(host="192.168.0.90",port=9000)


Is there anything I am doing wrong?

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