Apidog vs. Blackbird API Development

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Apidog
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
Apidog is a platform designed to simplify and enhance the entire API lifecycle, offering a range of features to support API design, debugging, testing, documentation, management, and collaboration. Here’s an overview of its key features: 1. API Design and Documentation Visual interface for API design: Apidog provides an interface for defining APIs in a code-less way, covering endpoints, request and response formats, data schemas, and authentication methods. It is…
$0
up to 4 collaborators and 5 projects
Blackbird API Development
Score 10.0 out of 10
N/A
Ambassador offers a suite of products designed to deliver API developer experiences that fuel innovation. Blackbird API Development Platform enables developers to spec, mock, write boilerplate code, and debug APIs faster.
$10
per month (for a single user and 5 concurrent instances)
Pricing
ApidogBlackbird API Development
Editions & Modules
Basic
$12
per month per user
Professional
$24
per month per user
Enterprise
$324
per year per user
Enterprise On-premises
Contact sales
per year per user
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
ApidogBlackbird API Development
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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User Ratings
ApidogBlackbird API Development
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(1 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(1 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
ApidogBlackbird API Development
Likelihood to Recommend
Apidog Pte. Ltd.
API scheduling scenarios are the best, but when we need to check API scheduling for less than 1 hours, it do not provide such features.
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Datawire, Inc., dba Ambassador
Ambassador is really well suited for scenarios were you need to give power and freedom to your developers so they can take advantage of the self-service approach. One of the few scenarios I can not recommend using Ambassador is in the case you are planning to not using Kubernetes as it is a solution designed to work specifically on that platform
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Pros
Apidog Pte. Ltd.
  • Login API Scheduling
  • Exports API Scheduling
  • Reporting
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Datawire, Inc., dba Ambassador
  • Simple syntax
  • Easy to understand
  • Easy to install
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Cons
Apidog Pte. Ltd.
  • Schedule for half hour basis or 5 min basis
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Datawire, Inc., dba Ambassador
  • Documentation is not updated
  • Implementing external authentication doesn't always work as described in the documentation
  • The Administration console is limited
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Usability
Apidog Pte. Ltd.
As its very user friendly and of modern UI
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Datawire, Inc., dba Ambassador
It's great! it's amazingly simple to use and the best part is the self-service approach. I also like how easy it is to add a new route to a endpoint with the mappings definition.
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Support Rating
Apidog Pte. Ltd.
No answers on this topic
Datawire, Inc., dba Ambassador
Overall the support has been great and quick to answer the requests I've submitted in the past. I was originally using the community/open source version and I can't say it was the best experience I had, it wasn't terrible but it wasn't great. I believe the biggest issue was that they refer to the documentation a lot but the documentation isn't updated regularly so I feel it's lagging behind the most recent versions.
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Alternatives Considered
Apidog Pte. Ltd.
Apidog is of low cost and equip with modern features.
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Datawire, Inc., dba Ambassador
They both offer about the same in terms of end goal and purpose of use and scenarios. However, Ambassador does way better in terms of simplifying the syntax and makes offer a little bit more of control by adding the concepts of hosts, mappings while staying away from a hard to read single file configuration.
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Return on Investment
Apidog Pte. Ltd.
  • Downtime reduction
  • Early Issue Detection
  • Reporting
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Datawire, Inc., dba Ambassador
  • Reduced downtime by redirecting traffic between DC.
  • Reduced engineering time, don't have to dedicate 1 person to manage it.
  • Increased training costs in the short term.
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ScreenShots

Apidog Screenshots

Screenshot of where to create an API document in a click.Screenshot of the visual interface to design an API.Screenshot of the API debugging interface.Screenshot of a mock API, without additional configurations.Screenshot of API test automation at Apidog.Screenshot of the database to connect to for pre-processors and post-processors, assertion available.