ReadyAPI vs. SoapUI Open Source, supported by SmartBear

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
ReadyAPI
Score 8.1 out of 10
N/A
ReadyAPI (formerly SoapUI Pro, LoadUI Pro, and ServiceV Pro) is a REST and SOAP API functional testing tool that enables software developers, QA engineers, and manual testers to work together to create, maintain, and execute complex end-to-end API tests in their CI/CD pipelines without needing to code.N/A
SoapUI Open Source
Score 7.8 out of 10
N/A
SoapUI is an open source API testing tool supported by SmartBear's community, supporting functional and performance testing of APIs.N/A
Pricing
ReadyAPISoapUI Open Source, supported by SmartBear
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
ReadyAPISoapUI Open Source
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
ReadyAPISoapUI Open Source, supported by SmartBear
Considered Both Products
ReadyAPI
Chose ReadyAPI
ReadyAPI beats all other alternatives because of its support of all kinds of API types. Also, users can specify every flow and every step for every second to replicate every test case with ease. It also has GIT support with is a big plus.

ReadyAPI is must have tool for API …
Chose ReadyAPI
It has many features including functional security testing. And it's known to be widely used.
Chose ReadyAPI
ReadyAPI provides intuitive GUI capabilities compared to their own open source product.

When compared to Postman, ReadyAPI also supports SOAP based services, which is a saver especially when integrating with legacy or other third party systems.
SoapUI Open Source

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Enterprises
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Score 8.1 out of 10
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User Ratings
ReadyAPISoapUI Open Source, supported by SmartBear
Likelihood to Recommend
8.2
(66 ratings)
8.9
(5 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
7.3
(18 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Usability
9.9
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Availability
9.0
(1 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Performance
8.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
8.0
(6 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
7.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
7.0
(1 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
ReadyAPISoapUI Open Source, supported by SmartBear
Likelihood to Recommend
SmartBear
As stated, we do a LOT of API testing, the swaggerhub import makes it easy to add APIs. This is very well-suited, as well as easy management of the steps/cases/suites inside of ReadyAPI. The one thing I do wish ReadyAPI was better suited for is changes to data, we have a lot of test cases in ReadyAPI and if we make a change to how the backend data is structured, one-by-one adjustments need to be made to the steps. Less appropriate, UI testing.
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SmartBear
If you are making system upgrade project and you have existing system working and you want to imitate messages that are going in production but without making any data loads or switch it’s very suitable and convenient software. It serves well in manual test scenarios but wouldn’t be as good in case of mass tests.
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Pros
SmartBear
  • Ease of use (ability to automatically import API definitions, Jenkins integration for running in the pipeline).
  • Detailed test reports (allow to easily identify weak spots during both functional and performance testing).
  • One platform for all tests (allows to closely couple and reuse existent tests).
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SmartBear
  • SOAP
  • REST
  • Authentication
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Cons
SmartBear
  • Needs good documentation
  • Need to improve the performance of the tool
  • Setup is very complex and for such [a] commercial tool, it should easy and straightforward
  • Tool says it supports security testing but in reality, it is not at an extensive level.
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SmartBear
  • I actually like SoapUI as it is, I have not found things to improve, except for the speed of response is very complex services.
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Likelihood to Renew
SmartBear
The only reason this isn't a '10' is because of the cost. This product is definitely meant for organizations who are serious about making sure they invest in the full ecosystem of API design, development, maintenance. But there is a significant cost associated with this investment. and because of this cost (and the non-tangible output for executives), it is a difficult line-item to justify in this post-pandemic environment.
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SmartBear
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Usability
SmartBear
SoapUI allows us to combine multiple tests and adhere
to the sequence that they need to run in order to complete successfully.
It has an excellent GUI design and the reporting mechanism is also very
good. It does consume a lot of memory though during concurrent testing
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SmartBear
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Reliability and Availability
SmartBear
Soap UI has managed to continuously build on it's solid foundation and keep improving by each release. It is by far the most dependable and accurate testing tool out there of its kind. Available via connecting to VM's created as SoapUI test machines give access to it anytime, anywhere practically.
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SmartBear
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Performance
SmartBear
It has an excellent GUI design and the reporting mechanism is also very
good. It does consume a lot of memory though during concurrent testing.
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SmartBear
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Support Rating
SmartBear
To be honest, we didnt had much issues with the support, as there is already plenty of online communities available for help. But if ever there were some minor issues with the membership or the certificates, the tech support was always quick and efficient enough to resolve the issue ASAP
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SmartBear
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Implementation Rating
SmartBear
no very easy but lacks documentation
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SmartBear
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Alternatives Considered
SmartBear
ReadyAPI provides intuitive GUI capabilities compared to their own open source product. When compared to Postman, ReadyAPI also supports SOAP based services, which is a saver especially when integrating with legacy or other third party systems.
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SmartBear
Every application has its own features and UI design but SoapUI is also very good at testing. All features are awesome.
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Scalability
SmartBear
It has an excellent GUI design and the reporting mechanism is also very
good. It does consume a lot of memory though during concurrent testing. However, I have read that added monitoring tools have been added, which if so the 7 could possibly go to a 8 or 9.
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SmartBear
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Return on Investment
SmartBear
  • Very quick regression testing, hence having the testing results very soon, even the same day of deployment
  • for same above reason, it can save money for corporation (so no tedious, costly and erroneous manual testings)
  • The test reports are compatible with TestNG, so the corporation can integrate the reports in our Autamation frameworks such as Allure or Jira Zephyr
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SmartBear
  • Saves time in web service testing
  • Make it easy
  • No need to code much
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