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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Cloud Elements (discontinued)

    Score5 out of 10
    N/ACloud Elements was a cloud API integration service acquired by UiPath in 2021. It used cooperative apps to connect an organization’s customers, partners and employees to the cloud services they use. The product was discontinued in 2023.N/A

    Swagger Open Source, supported by SmartBear

    Score6.7 out of 10
    N/ASupported by SmartBear, Swagger is a set of tools used by developers to design, document, build, and test APIs in the OpenAPI Specification.N/A
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    Pricing Offerings
    Cloud Elements (discontinued)Swagger Open Source, supported by SmartBear
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    Cloud Elements (discontinued)Swagger Open Source, supported by SmartBear
    API Management
    Comparison of API Management features of Cloud Elements (discontinued) and Swagger Open Source, supported by SmartBear
    Feature
    Cloud Elements (discontinued)
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    Ratings
    Swagger Open Source, supported by SmartBear
    7.4
    1 Ratings
    13% below category average
    API access control00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Rate limits and usage policies00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    API usage data00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    API user onboarding00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    API versioning00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Usage billing and payments00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    API monitoring and logging00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Cloud Elements (discontinued)Swagger Open Source, supported by SmartBear
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    User Testimonials
    Cloud Elements (discontinued)Swagger Open Source, supported by SmartBear
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Discontinued Products
    Cloud Elements shines when you want to offer multiple options to the user on a type of system, such as supporting integration to CRM and wanting to offer Dynamics, Salesforce, and HubSpot on equal footing. If you only have a single integration with a single system, using Cloud Elements adds an unnecessary layer of abstraction.
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    SmartBear
    To my opinion Swagger Open Source is a very good tool to quickly produce an api documentation, that how I use it.Swagger can also produce an open api file to generate an api for our application server (Inersystems Iris) but we don't use this functionality for now. We plan to use more Swagger features in the future.
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    Pros
    Discontinued Products
    • The API itself is very robust and easy to use, being a standard REST interface, standard HTTP response codes, well-packaged error messages, etc.
    • Their uptime is great! I think I've seen one (short) 5-minute' blip' the entire time we've been connected for any type of primary function.
    • Their support is top notch, they respond quickly, and the team that works with you is communicative and knowledgable.
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    SmartBear
    • Produce documentation
    • user interface to create api definition
    • reusability of data description
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    Cons
    Discontinued Products
    • The only thing I can think of that they could improve is the quality of the assets they produce in the go-to-market process. This is a huge value add service, but the quality of what was produced was lower than what we would have produced internally. We spent more time going back and forth on the assets than it would have taken us to build them from scratch.
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    SmartBear
    • for me the UI can be more simple
    • too many functionnalities when just want to produce doc, can be a separate app
    • A french documentation will be apreciated
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    Alternatives Considered
    Discontinued Products
    At the time we found Cloud Elements we found no other option that had a Unified API for cloud storage providers.
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    SmartBear
    We use swagger only to generate the API documentation, for testing the APIs, we use Postman. We don't find an other tools for producing API documentation in web pages and also in pdf files. Postman is a good complement for testing APIs on InterSystems IRIS (a powerful application server and DB manager) which implements these APIs.
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    Return on Investment
    Discontinued Products
    • Not my area of expertise, but it made my job as an implementer much easier, especially after finishing the first integration.
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    SmartBear
    • Less time to produce our documentation
    • Documentation can be accessed online, this is a plus for our customers and partners
    • Great tools to communicate with other project actors
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