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NGINX Plus vs. Swagger Open Source, supported by SmartBear

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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    NGINX Plus

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/ANGINX 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/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
    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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    Community Pulse
    NGINX PlusSwagger Open Source, supported by SmartBear
    Considered Both Products
    F5
    No answer on this topic
    SmartBear
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    6 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    6 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Happy with the feature set
    83%
    Happy with the feature set
    5 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    80%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    4 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    5 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    NGINX PlusSwagger Open Source, supported by SmartBear
    Application Servers
    Comparison of Application Servers features of NGINX Plus and Swagger Open Source, supported by SmartBear
    Feature
    NGINX Plus
    8.1
    6 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Swagger Open Source, supported by SmartBear
    -
    Ratings
    IDE support7.94 Ratings00 Ratings
    Security management7.94 Ratings00 Ratings
    Administration and management8.25 Ratings00 Ratings
    Application server performance7.94 Ratings00 Ratings
    Installation8.25 Ratings00 Ratings
    Open-source standards compliance8.25 Ratings00 Ratings
    API Management
    Comparison of API Management features of NGINX Plus and Swagger Open Source, supported by SmartBear
    Feature
    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
    8.3
    (6 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    7.0
    (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.
    Incentivized
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    F5
    • APIGW
    • Policy Enforcement
    • Centrally Manage API Traffic
    Incentivized
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    SmartBear
    • Produce documentation
    • user interface to create api definition
    • reusability of data description
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    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
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    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
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    F5
    No reason not to renew it, we are happy with it.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    SmartBear
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    F5
    Very easy to use
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    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.
    Incentivized
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    SmartBear
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    F5
    The API and dashboard alone make NGINX Plus a better choice.
    Incentivized
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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.
    Incentivized
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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.
    Incentivized
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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
    Incentivized
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