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NGINX Plus vs. Swagger Open Source, supported by SmartBear

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
NGINX Plus
Score 8.6 out of 10
N/A
NGINX Plus is presented as a cloud‑native, easy-to-use reverse proxy, load balancer, and API gateway, from F5.
$849
per month billed annually
Swagger Open Source, supported by SmartBear
Score 9.2 out of 10
N/A
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
NGINX PlusSwagger Open Source, supported by SmartBear
Editions & Modules
Team
$849
per month billed annually
Advanced
$2,099
per month billed annually
Enterprise
Tiered Pricing
No answers on this topic
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
NGINX PlusSwagger Open Source, supported by SmartBear
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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Features
NGINX PlusSwagger Open Source, supported by SmartBear
Application Servers
Comparison of Application Servers features of Product A and Product B
NGINX Plus
8.2
6 Ratings
3% above category average
Swagger Open Source, supported by SmartBear
-
Ratings
IDE support8.04 Ratings00 Ratings
Security management8.14 Ratings00 Ratings
Administration and management8.35 Ratings00 Ratings
Application server performance8.14 Ratings00 Ratings
Installation8.35 Ratings00 Ratings
Open-source standards compliance8.45 Ratings00 Ratings
API Management
Comparison of API Management features of Product A and Product B
NGINX Plus
-
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
NGINX PlusSwagger Open Source, supported by SmartBear
Likelihood to Recommend
8.4
(6 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
7.5
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Online Training
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
NGINX PlusSwagger Open Source, supported by SmartBear
Likelihood to Recommend
F5
Makes our life easy as application admins in securing our applications and making them accessible. We can easily add an application within a few minutes and define the backend servers right away.
Vinnie Chhabra | TrustRadius Reviewer
Vinnie Chhabra
IT Engineer
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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.
Pierre LAFAY | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Pros
F5
  • APIGW
  • Policy Enforcement
  • Centrally Manage API Traffic
ML
Maverick Lim
Senior System Analyst
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SmartBear
  • Produce documentation
  • user interface to create api definition
  • reusability of data description
Pierre LAFAY | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Cons
F5
  • An AI bot would be cool to help build config files
  • More webinars for advanced NGINX Plus would be great
  • GUI tool... might already be one available
Vinnie Chhabra | TrustRadius Reviewer
Vinnie Chhabra
IT Engineer
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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
Pierre LAFAY | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Likelihood to Renew
F5
No reason not to renew it, we are happy with it.
Verified User
Anonymous
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SmartBear
No answers on this topic
Usability
F5
Very easy to use
Verified User
Anonymous
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SmartBear
No answers on this topic
Support Rating
F5
We had an issue after upgrading from RHEL 7 to 8, and there were some issues that the security team imposed upon the platform with a scanning tool. We also had a VXLAN environment that was not properly sending a gratuitous arp to the network. NGINX support was instrumental to speedily resolving our issue.
Verified User
Anonymous
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SmartBear
No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
F5
The API and dashboard alone make NGINX Plus a better choice.
Verified User
Anonymous
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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.
Pierre LAFAY | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Return on Investment
F5
  • We are planning by using NGINX it can greatly reduce our OPEX by 50% "just our own running APIGW" the cascading effects in the long run will be much more.
ML
Maverick Lim
Senior System Analyst
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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
Pierre LAFAY | TrustRadius Reviewer
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