• Concise: Silex exposes an intuitive and concise API that is fun to use. • Extensible: Silex has an extension system based around the Pimple micro service-container that makes it even easier to tie in third party libraries. • Testable: Silex uses Symfony2's HttpKernel which abstracts request and response. This makes it very easy to test apps and the framework itself. It also respects the HTTP specification and encourages its proper use.

* HTTP Router: Slim provides a fast and powerful router that maps route callbacks to specific HTTP request methods and URIs. It supports parameters and pattern matching. * Middleware: Build your application with concentric middleware to tweak the HTTP request and response objects around your Slim app. * PSR-7 Support: Slim supports any PSR-7 HTTP message implementation so you may inspect and manipulate HTTP message method, status, URI, headers, cookies, and body. * Dependency Injection: Slim supports dependency injection so you have complete control of your external tools. Use any Container-Interop container.