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Opinions: Dataclasses or Pydantic model base?
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For validation and/or (de)serialization: pydantic.
Otherwise, dataclasses.
I also like to replace tuples with NamedTuple, but I tend to use tuples a lot in the first place. It’s generally recommended to use dataclasses instead if you don’t specifically need tuple-like behavior.