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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Mashery (now part of Boomi)

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AMashery, for a time sold as TIBCO Cloud API Management, was an API management solution whose former capabilities have been added to Boomi's enterprise platform.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
    Pricing
    Mashery (now part of Boomi)Swagger Open Source, supported by SmartBear
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Mashery (now part of Boomi)Swagger Open Source, supported by SmartBear
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    Mashery (now part of Boomi)Swagger Open Source, supported by SmartBear
    API Management
    Comparison of API Management features of Mashery (now part of Boomi) and Swagger Open Source, supported by SmartBear
    Feature
    Mashery (now part of Boomi)
    6.9
    23 Ratings
    20% below category average
    Swagger Open Source, supported by SmartBear
    7.4
    1 Ratings
    13% below category average
    API access control8.423 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Rate limits and usage policies7.723 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    API usage data7.223 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    API user onboarding7.522 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    API versioning7.019 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Usage billing and payments4.01 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    API monitoring and logging6.522 Ratings7.01 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Mashery (now part of Boomi)Swagger Open Source, supported by SmartBear
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.6
    (23 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Mashery (now part of Boomi)Swagger Open Source, supported by SmartBear
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Discontinued Products
    Mashery is great when it comes to deployment to your own datacenter and when it comes to managing third party API's like Salesforce using Mashery Cloud version. I would be a little bit more careful when deploying it on Kubernetes as it was not designed for it. New version 5 is re-architected to run more on natively on Kubernetes, but we have not tested it yet.
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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
    • Easy integration of the TIBCO Cloud Mashery developer portal allows simple onboarding and user and application management.
    • Configuration of TIBCO Cloud Mashery is both flexible and focused to address the main tasks for an API Management solution.
    • The built-in OAuth Token capabilities provide a quick start to properly manage application access.
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    SmartBear
    • Produce documentation
    • user interface to create api definition
    • reusability of data description
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    Cons
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    • The "Control Center" admin dashboard is not performant. We have a lot of configuration data in Mashery (many endpoints, many plans, many users, many keys, etc.) and the website struggles with the volume of data it has to deal with.
    • Their systems have limitations that make it more difficult for us to operate the way we would like. For example, there is a limit to the number of API Definitions we can create, as well as a limit to the number of Endpoints we can define in a Plan.
    • Their support organization leaves a lot to be desired. Responses are slow, and when they do come they are often inadequate. We have to re-phrase the question to get them to answer it differently, or we have to repeatedly follow up to ask for additional clarifying information.
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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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    Likelihood to Renew
    Discontinued Products
    Ease of use.
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    SmartBear
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    Usability
    Discontinued Products
    i find some of the package adding and key are complex . UI experience is bad . Every step need front and backward navigation too much. It would be better if endpoint itself contain package and key addiction option
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    SmartBear
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    Support Rating
    Discontinued Products
    Support has been good overall.
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    SmartBear
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    Implementation Rating
    Discontinued Products
    Initially it was difficult to understand . after few day , it was easy
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    SmartBear
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    Alternatives Considered
    Discontinued Products
    I've really only looked at Mashery since it has been around a very long time and has a rich feature set. I do know our platform teams are looking into AWS gateway but not sure this product has everything we need.
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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
    • As a API Mediation layer it has helped with the troublesome port setup with internal and external clients. Meaning it made that easy to the client that they know where to go for access to an API.
    • The interactive documentation is very well put together and has reduced the time that developers have to go back and forth with each other to figure how to call the API.
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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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