Akamai API Gateway vs. SwaggerHub

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Akamai API Gateway
Score 9.4 out of 10
N/A
Akamai offers their API Gateway, touting easy control and access to enterprise applications via their services.N/A
SwaggerHub
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
SwaggerHub is a platform for API design and documentation with OpenAPI. Whether it’s push generating an API’s design and code to source control hosts, deploying the API to API Management platforms, or triggering a Jenkins build, SwaggerHub boasts a host of integrations. Faster, Standardized API Design Design APIs in an editor that is built for efficiency without any loss in design…
$75
per month per user
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Team 3 - Annual
$75
per month per user
Team 3 - Monthly
$90
per month per user
Team 5 - Annual
$125
per month per user
Team 5 - Monthly
$150
per month per user
Team 10 - Annual
$250
per month per user
Team 10 - Monthly
$300
per month per user
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Akamai API GatewaySwaggerHub
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
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Features
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API Management
Comparison of API Management features of Product A and Product B
Akamai API Gateway
7.7
1 Ratings
9% below category average
SwaggerHub
8.0
6 Ratings
5% below category average
API access control8.01 Ratings8.74 Ratings
Rate limits and usage policies7.01 Ratings6.74 Ratings
API usage data8.01 Ratings7.34 Ratings
API user onboarding8.01 Ratings8.73 Ratings
API versioning7.01 Ratings9.96 Ratings
Usage billing and payments7.01 Ratings7.01 Ratings
API monitoring and logging9.01 Ratings7.64 Ratings
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Small Businesses
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Score 9.2 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
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Score 9.2 out of 10
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Score 9.2 out of 10
Enterprises
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Score 9.2 out of 10
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Score 9.2 out of 10
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User Ratings
Akamai API GatewaySwaggerHub
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(1 ratings)
8.0
(6 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
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(0 ratings)
6.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Akamai API GatewaySwaggerHub
Likelihood to Recommend
Akamai
It is really helpful for managing [the] scaling of systems with need and utilizing resources when needed. Also, DevOps support for deployment plans is quite useful when deploying applications. Monitoring systems with graphQL and utilizing them in APIs is quite helpful when used in Microservices systems to identify system capabilities and user utilization of applications.
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SmartBear
ReadyAPI and SwaggerHub are a match made in heaven. Being able to so easily import the API directly into ReadyAPI and then being able to generate a test suite from the API is my favorite part of these softwares. We have rather large services so building out the API can take some time
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Pros
Akamai
  • Graphically representation in GraphQL
  • Scaling system
  • DevOps management
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SmartBear
  • Treating the design as documentation ensures that we have consistent and well defined APIs
  • API consumers can export the swagger definition or code stubs to use within their development environment
  • We can iterate through multiple versions of a definition privately before making a version publicly available
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Cons
Akamai
  • Quota enforcement can be simplified
  • Caching mechanism for API with akamai can be improved
  • Gateway configuration can be simplified as details are not much elaborate
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SmartBear
  • The user interface could be more improved to sustain with other similar tools in the market.
  • Beneficial if we have better integration with third party softwares.
  • Nice to have ability to download the documentation in usable formats.
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Alternatives Considered
Akamai
Akamai [API Gateway] helps better in terms of representation of graphQL and its consumption in monitoring system making a package for deployment speed with monitoring and scaling application with all services and utilizing most of a system without much knowledge of other aspects. Also, [a] user-friendly system helps people to handle [the] system with necessary options
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SmartBear
The only other product we looked at was Postman. But we liked the SwaggerHub UI & the integrations it has with the AWS API gateway. Though Postman has some other great features like the ability to write test cases & execute them, SwaggerUI was more convenient to document & share them.
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Return on Investment
Akamai
  • Decrease in time required for deployment and monitoring by significant amount causing less support resources needed
  • Scaling applications on month-end at high usage time has reduced TAT time for issues and no of issues occurring
  • Quota enforcement has allowed [managing] multiple systems and their needs in respective stakeholders hands and reduced infra teams involvement in [the] management of reoccurring problems
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SmartBear
  • Faster API development lifecycle.
  • Reduced discussion time when building a new vital API endpoint.
  • Complete documentation which makes the new team member onboarding process easier.
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