NGINX Plus vs. Swagger Open Source, supported by SmartBear
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NGINX Plus | Score8.6 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 | Score6.7 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 |
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100% Would buy again 6 Answers | No answers on this topic | |
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100% Delivers good value for the price 6 Answers | No answers on this topic | |
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83% Happy with the feature set 5 Answers | No answers on this topic | |
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80% Lived up to sales and marketing promises 4 Answers | No answers on this topic | |
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100% Implementation went as expected 5 Answers | No answers on this topic | |
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| Small Businesses | NGINX Score9.1 out of 10 | Amazon API Gateway Score7.2 out of 10 |
| Medium-sized Companies | Oracle WebLogic Server Score7.3 out of 10 | ![]() Azure API Management Score9.1 out of 10 |
| Enterprises | NGINX Score9.1 out of 10 | OCI API Management Score7.9 out of 10 |
| All Alternatives | View all alternatives | View all alternatives |
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| Likelihood to Recommend | 8.3 | 10.0 |
| Likelihood to Renew | 9.1 | - |
| Usability | 7.0 | - |
| Support Rating | 9.1 | - |
| Online Training | 9.1 | - |
| Vendor post-sale | 9.1 | - |
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