Layer7 API Management vs. SwaggerHub

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Layer7 API Management
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
Layer7 API Management (formerly CA API Management) from Broadcom company CA Technologies enables creation and management of API.N/A
SwaggerHub
Score 8.3 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
Layer7 API ManagementSwaggerHub
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
Layer7 API ManagementSwaggerHub
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
Layer7 API ManagementSwaggerHub
API Management
Comparison of API Management features of Product A and Product B
Layer7 API Management
8.6
1 Ratings
5% above category average
SwaggerHub
8.0
6 Ratings
2% below category average
API access control9.01 Ratings8.74 Ratings
Rate limits and usage policies10.01 Ratings6.74 Ratings
API usage data9.01 Ratings7.34 Ratings
API user onboarding7.01 Ratings8.73 Ratings
API versioning8.01 Ratings9.96 Ratings
Usage billing and payments7.01 Ratings7.01 Ratings
API monitoring and logging10.01 Ratings7.64 Ratings
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User Ratings
Layer7 API ManagementSwaggerHub
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(1 ratings)
8.0
(6 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
6.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
8.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
8.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Layer7 API ManagementSwaggerHub
Likelihood to Recommend
Broadcom
Well suited for publishing internal services with very high security, protecting against attacks, and managing on-demand load. Also good for transform messages and SQL to Rest services. Not appropriate for business logic implementation.
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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
Broadcom
  • SOAP to Rest / Rest to SOAP web services transformation.
  • Secure authorization and authetication (JWT, OpenIP Connect, OAuth, SAML and more). WASP Features as injection protection.
  • Easy rule writing without coding.
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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
Broadcom
  • It would be nice to have an integration with services like Github for managing projects and versions.
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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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Usability
Broadcom
The Layer7 API Management is a great solution, but, sometimes the documentation is not clear or has lack of examples.
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SmartBear
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Support Rating
Broadcom
The support team is good and the response time is reasonable, but (there is always a but), when support inquiries are made by someone experienced, and the question is not trivial, it is boring and takes a long time to get the case escalated to the next level of support.
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SmartBear
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Alternatives Considered
Broadcom
We evaluated 3 tools and decided on Layer7 API Management because it had the shortest implementation times and fastest learning curve, without losing power of customization and scalability.
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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
Broadcom
  • Very fast implementation and is easy to learn & use.
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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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