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    NGINX

    Score9.1 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    NGINX, a business unit of F5 Networks, powers over 65% of the world's busiest websites and web applications. NGINX started out as an open source web server and reverse proxy, built to be faster and more efficient than Apache. Over the years, NGINX has built a suite of infrastructure software products o tackle some of the biggest challenges in managing high-transaction applications. NGINX offers a suite of products to form the core of what organizations need to create…N/A

    SwaggerHub

    Score8 out of 10
    N/ASwaggerHub is a platform for API design and documentation with OpenAPI. Whether it’s push generating an API’s design and code to source control hosts, deploying the API to API Management platforms, or triggering a Jenkins build, SwaggerHub boasts a host of integrations. Faster, Standardized API Design Design APIs in an editor that is built for efficiency without any loss in design…

    $75

    per month per user

    Pricing
    NGINXSwaggerHub
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Team 3 - Annual
    $75
    per month per user
    Team 3 - Monthly
    $90
    per month per user
    Team 5 - Annual
    $125
    per month per user
    Team 5 - Monthly
    $150
    per month per user
    Team 10 - Annual
    $250
    per month per user
    Team 10 - Monthly
    $300
    per month per user
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    NGINXSwaggerHub
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    NGINXSwaggerHub
    Considered Both Products
    F5
    No answer on this topic
    SmartBear
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    98%
    Would buy again
    49 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
    5 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    45 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    50 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    5 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    92%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    34 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    96%
    Implementation went as expected
    43 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    NGINXSwaggerHub
    Application Servers
    Comparison of Application Servers features of NGINX and SwaggerHub
    Feature
    NGINX
    8.8
    43 Ratings
    10% above category average
    SwaggerHub
    -
    Ratings
    IDE support8.127 Ratings00 Ratings
    Security management8.638 Ratings00 Ratings
    Administration and management8.939 Ratings00 Ratings
    Application server performance9.139 Ratings00 Ratings
    Installation9.040 Ratings00 Ratings
    Open-source standards compliance9.037 Ratings00 Ratings
    API Management
    Comparison of API Management features of NGINX and SwaggerHub
    Feature
    NGINX
    -
    Ratings
    SwaggerHub
    8.0
    6 Ratings
    5% below category average
    API access control00 Ratings8.74 Ratings
    Rate limits and usage policies00 Ratings6.74 Ratings
    API usage data00 Ratings7.34 Ratings
    API user onboarding00 Ratings8.73 Ratings
    API versioning00 Ratings9.96 Ratings
    Usage billing and payments00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    API monitoring and logging00 Ratings7.64 Ratings
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    NGINXSwaggerHub
    Small Businesses
    No answers on this topic
    Amazon API Gateway
    Score7.3 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Oracle WebLogic Server
    Score7.3 out of 10
    Azure API Management
    Score9.1 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Red Hat JBoss EAP
    Score8.5 out of 10
    OCI API Management
    Score7.9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    NGINXSwaggerHub
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.3
    (72 ratings)
    8.0
    (6 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    8.3
    (25 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    NGINXSwaggerHub
    Likelihood to Recommend
    F5
    Nginx is well-suited for any web server scenarios, such as web applications, backend or reverse proxy for both application and HTTP requests, and distribution. It is less appropriate for Windows-based applications that run directly on a Windows Server host. In any case, it is very easy to manage, through separate conf files for each application or site you want to host with it.
    Incentivized
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    SmartBear
    ReadyAPI and SwaggerHub are a match made in heaven. Being able to so easily import the API directly into ReadyAPI and then being able to generate a test suite from the API is my favorite part of these softwares. We have rather large services so building out the API can take some time
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    F5
    • Very low memory usage. Can handle many more connections than alternatives (like Apache HTTPD) due to low overhead. (event-based architecture).
    • Great at serving static content.
    • Scales very well. Easy to host multiple Nginx servers to promote high availability.
    • Open-Source (no cost)!
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    SmartBear
    • Treating the design as documentation ensures that we have consistent and well defined APIs
    • API consumers can export the swagger definition or code stubs to use within their development environment
    • We can iterate through multiple versions of a definition privately before making a version publicly available
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    F5
    • Customer support can be strangely condescending, perhaps it's a language issue?
    • I find it a little weird how the release versions used for Nginx+ aren't the same as for open source version. It can be very confusing to determine the cross-compatibility of modules, etc., because of this.
    • It seems like some (most?) modules on their own site are ancient and no longer supported, so their documentation in this area needs work.
    • It's difficult to navigate between nginx.com commercial site and customer support. They need to be integrated together.
    • I'd love to see more work done on nginx+ monitoring without requiring logging every request. I understand that many statistics can only be derived from logs, but plenty should work without that. Logging is not an option in many environments.
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    SmartBear
    • The user interface could be more improved to sustain with other similar tools in the market.
    • Beneficial if we have better integration with third party softwares.
    • Nice to have ability to download the documentation in usable formats.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    F5
    Great value for the product
    Incentivized
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    SmartBear
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    F5
    This tool is really easy to use and configure. Consumes very less system resources. It is highly modular and configurable. You can easily use it with other tools like certbot for SSLs. You can configure basic security with configuration and headers
    Incentivized
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    SmartBear
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    F5
    Community support is great, and they've also had a presence at conferences. Overall, there is no shortage of documentation and community support. We're currently using it to serve up some WordPress sites, and configuring NGINX for this purpose is well documented.
    Incentivized
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    SmartBear
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    F5
    I have found that [NGINX] seems to perform better throughout the years with less issues although I've used Apache more. I would definitely recommend [NGINX] for any high volume site and I've seen this to usually be the case from most provided web hosts who will pick [NGINX] over alternatives
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    SmartBear
    The only other product we looked at was Postman. But we liked the SwaggerHub UI & the integrations it has with the AWS API gateway. Though Postman has some other great features like the ability to write test cases & execute them, SwaggerUI was more convenient to document & share them.
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    Return on Investment
    F5
    • By using Nginx, we can host multiple web services on a single server, keeping our infrastructure costs lower.
    • Nginx maintains our HTTPS connections, allowing us to keep our promise to our customers that their data is safe in transit.
    • Due to Nginx's extremely low failure rate, our web addresses always return something meaningful, even when individual services go down. In sense, this means we are "always online" and allows us to maintain brand and support our customers even in the face of catastrophe.
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    SmartBear
    • Faster API development lifecycle.
    • Reduced discussion time when building a new vital API endpoint.
    • Complete documentation which makes the new team member onboarding process easier.
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    ScreenShots

    NGINX Screenshots

    Screenshot of Overview of the NGINX Application PlatformScreenshot of NGINX Controller - MonitoringScreenshot of NGINX Controller - Configuration

    SwaggerHub Screenshots

    Screenshot of Faster, Standardized API Design