MuleSoft Anypoint Platform vs. Swagger Open Source, supported by SmartBear

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Anypoint Platform
Score 8.1 out of 10
N/A
The Anypoint Platform developed by MuleSoft and acquired by Salesforce in early 2018 is designed to connect apps, data, and devices anywhere, on-premises or in the cloud. This platform was built to offer out-of-the-box connectors as well as tools that architects and developers can adopt quickly to design, build and manage the entire lifecycle of their APIs, applications, and products.N/A
Swagger Open Source, supported by SmartBear
Score 9.2 out of 10
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Supported 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
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Anypoint PlatformSwagger Open Source, supported by SmartBear
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
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Features
MuleSoft Anypoint PlatformSwagger Open Source, supported by SmartBear
Cloud Data Integration
Comparison of Cloud Data Integration features of Product A and Product B
MuleSoft Anypoint Platform
7.1
12 Ratings
13% below category average
Swagger Open Source, supported by SmartBear
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Ratings
Pre-built connectors7.812 Ratings00 Ratings
Connector modification7.412 Ratings00 Ratings
Support for real-time and batch integration7.212 Ratings00 Ratings
Data quality services6.012 Ratings00 Ratings
Data security features6.812 Ratings00 Ratings
Monitoring console7.412 Ratings00 Ratings
API Management
Comparison of API Management features of Product A and Product B
MuleSoft Anypoint Platform
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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
MuleSoft Anypoint PlatformSwagger Open Source, supported by SmartBear
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(24 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.0
(1 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Usability
7.4
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
6.8
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
MuleSoft Anypoint PlatformSwagger Open Source, supported by SmartBear
Likelihood to Recommend
Salesforce
MuleSoft Anypoint Platform is best tool in the market for developing APIs with complex structures communicating with various different types of applications including web applications as well as legacy applications. Also applications including database connectivity for fetching and updating data in the DB tables. I cant think of any scenario which MuleSoft Anypoint Platform could not be used for developing the integrations.
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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
Salesforce
  • API Manager provides easy API Policy Governance. You do not have to manage multiple platforms for managing the policies.
  • Supports hybrid Mule EBS environments. You can configure both CouldHub-based and on-premise-based API using Mulesoft API manager in a similar manner.
  • It's very easy to implement API proxy.
  • User friendly UI.
  • Single platform to manage all.
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SmartBear
  • Produce documentation
  • user interface to create api definition
  • reusability of data description
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Cons
Salesforce
  • Has more features than what we really need so we're paying for more than we use. Sort of like paying for an Abrams tank when all we really need is a Toyota Corolla.
  • Not a value product, tends to be expensive.
  • Takes a while for developers to learn to use Mulesoft Anypoint.
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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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Usability
Salesforce
There’s a lot of learning curve at the beginning when it comes to building the code and everything. In terms of usability, I’d say once you get used to it, it’s fine — but it’s not very easy during the initial stages.
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SmartBear
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Support Rating
Salesforce
Anypoint Platform support is very responsive. There is also a huge knowledge base and an active online forum where answers to most questions can be found. When needed support engages the engineering group so adequate solutions or workarounds are always provided.
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SmartBear
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Alternatives Considered
Salesforce
Once we have moved all of our system integration APIs to the MuleSoft Anypoint Platform, we will need to communicate with a wide variety of external systems. All of our business and service logic is stored in the aforementioned core systems. Anypoint Platform (and all of our APIs) makes it easy to connect to various other platforms. In order to link to these many other systems, connectors and/or components are utilized, and they are simple to configure and integrate.
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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
Salesforce
  • Mulesoft can be used to provide an integration platform to a large number of systems like Salesforce, ODBC, JDBC, SAP, Mongo DB, etc.
  • An excellent option to develop microservices and real-time integrations.
  • Not as robust in handling large data volumes, Informatica is better in that respect.
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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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ScreenShots

Anypoint Platform Screenshots

Screenshot of Connect any endpoints using out-of-the-box connectors, dynamic connectivity to API specifications, or by building reusable connectors with Anypoint DevKit™.Screenshot of A reporting suite that provides a real-time view of API consumption trends and operational performance. Analytics provides insight into how your API is being used and informs forward-looking design decisions.Screenshot of A platform to engage with API developers and drive adoption. Share documentation, examples and manage developer access from a single platform.