[kortex]

Personal opinion: pydantic crushes Marshmallow. Not even a fair fight. Pydantic is more performant, has better mypy/linter integration, and more powerful data model. We had a project where we pre-emptively used marshmallow to marshall/validate data. Had to remove that and solely use it at the ORM layer because of performance (and it still struggles).

I haven't used pydantic's ORM integration, but I don't hesitate to use pydantic models everywhere as business logic classes unless I need ludicrous speed.

That's all opinion, but I'd definitely give pydantic a swing.