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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    HAProxy Community Edition

    Score9.3 out of 10
    N/AHAProxy Community Edition is a free, open source reverse-proxy offering high availability, load balancing, and proxying for TCP and HTTP-based applications. It is presented as suited for very high traffic web sites.

    $0

    SwaggerHub

    Score8 out of 10
    N/ASwaggerHub 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
    HAProxy Community EditionSwaggerHub
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    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
    HAProxy Community EditionSwaggerHub
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    HAProxy Community EditionSwaggerHub
    Considered Both Products
    Open Source
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    100%
    Would buy again
    5 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    5 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    HAProxy Community EditionSwaggerHub
    API Management
    Comparison of API Management features of HAProxy Community Edition and SwaggerHub
    Feature
    HAProxy Community Edition
    -
    Ratings
    SwaggerHub
    8.0
    6 Ratings
    5% below category average
    API access control00 Ratings8.74 Ratings
    Rate limits and usage policies00 Ratings6.74 Ratings
    API usage data00 Ratings7.34 Ratings
    API user onboarding00 Ratings8.73 Ratings
    API versioning00 Ratings9.96 Ratings
    Usage billing and payments00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    API monitoring and logging00 Ratings7.64 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    HAProxy Community EditionSwaggerHub
    Small Businesses
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    Amazon API Gateway
    Score7.2 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    F5 BIG-IP
    Score9.2 out of 10
    Azure API Management
    Score9.1 out of 10
    Enterprises
    F5 BIG-IP
    Score9.2 out of 10
    OCI API Management
    Score7.9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    HAProxy Community EditionSwaggerHub
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (7 ratings)
    8.0
    (6 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    -
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    Support Rating
    9.7
    (2 ratings)
    -
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    User Testimonials
    HAProxy Community EditionSwaggerHub
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Open Source
    It prevents a single server failure from being a downtime event by adding redundancy to every layer of your architecture. A load balancer facilitates redundancy for the backend layer (web/app servers), but for a true high availability setup, you need to have redundant load balancers as well. So it is well suited for all production related servers and less suited for individual servers that do not require redundancy.
    Incentivized
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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
    Open Source
    • Low-Cost Load Balancer
    • Intelligent Request Routing based on URL and/or URI
    • Extremely flexible load balancing and healthchecks, can do almost anything including HTTP, HTTPS, PostgreSQL, etc.
    • SSL Termination
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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
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Open Source
    • A few, rare times each year, HAProxy CPU utilization spikes to 100% and server has to be rebooted - this may be related to HAProxy OR it could be an external factor causing this.
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    Open Source
    It is very easy to use. I was able to find a lot of documents for it on the internet. Very good community support. There are lots of examples available to try. We mostly use a command-line user interface to interact with it. The CLI is also super easy to use and very easy to interact with
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    SmartBear
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Open Source
    We haven't used customer support. We mostly used the community version. We build a multi-node HAProxy cluster with HA to the proxy itself using opensource plugins available. With the support available on the internet and the documents available we don't need to use much customer support.
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    SmartBear
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    Open Source
    We chose HA Proxy because it is cheaper than a hardware balancer, it is an open-source solution with a large community behind it and with constant updates. It also allows custom scripts according to needs.HA Proxy is a solution used in many internet sites like GitHub, Reddit, Twitter, and Tuenti.
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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
    Open Source
    • Significantly lower investment vs competitors. In the case of F5s we have Virtual Editions so we're paying for the hardware to run it on top of the several thousand dollar licenses that are required for each pair and we currently have a pair of F5s per client so there's a huge potential for cost savings there.
    • Requires our network engineers to learn a new skill or our Systems engineers to take on the responsibility of managing the load balancers. It's not a huge difference either way, but it does impact the way we have done business in the past.
    Incentivized
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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.
    Incentivized
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