When comparing Pyramid vs Phoenix, the Slant community recommends Phoenix for most people. In the question“What are the best backend web frameworks?” Phoenix is ranked 1st while Pyramid is ranked 15th.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Very flexible
Pyramid can be used for creating small applications quickly and easily, but it also powers up large enterprise-scale applications such as Dropbox.
Pro Persistence agnostic
Either NoSQL and SQL (including SQLAlchemy plugin).
Pro Comes with security included
Includes authorization and authentication with multiple backends.
Pro Very positive reviews
Pro Relatively big community
It has the biggest community from all Elixir web frameworks so there are examples and tutorials all over the place and you can quickly find help.
Pro Easy to learn
The official guides are really well written.
Pro Will be easy to learn for Rails developers
Cons
Con The great number of options it offers can become intimidating
One of Pyramid's greatest drawbacks is that it requires a lot of set up in the beginning of a project. This can feel overwhelming and can keep people away from using it.