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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Swagger Open Source, supported by SmartBear

    Score6.6 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

    WSO2 API Platform

    Score9.4 out of 10
    Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
    WSO2 API Manager makes it possible for developers to both develop and manage APIs of different types. Unlike solutions which focus only on managing API proxies, WSO2 API Manager provides tools to develop APIs by integrating different systems as well. It supports a variety of API types from REST, SOAP, GraphQL, WebSockets, WebHooks, SSEs and gRPC APIs with specialized policies and governance for each different type. Being fully open source, its architecture and extensibility…

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    Swagger Open Source, supported by SmartBearWSO2 API Platform
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    Pricing Offerings
    Swagger Open Source, supported by SmartBearWSO2 API Platform
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    Swagger Open Source, supported by SmartBearWSO2 API Platform
    API Management
    Comparison of API Management features of Swagger Open Source, supported by SmartBear and WSO2 API Platform
    Feature
    Swagger Open Source, supported by SmartBear
    7.4
    1 Ratings
    14% below category average
    WSO2 API Platform
    8.8
    4 Ratings
    4% above category average
    API access control7.01 Ratings9.54 Ratings
    Rate limits and usage policies7.01 Ratings9.54 Ratings
    API usage data7.01 Ratings8.04 Ratings
    API user onboarding7.01 Ratings8.04 Ratings
    API versioning10.01 Ratings9.04 Ratings
    Usage billing and payments7.01 Ratings9.04 Ratings
    API monitoring and logging7.01 Ratings8.54 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Swagger Open Source, supported by SmartBearWSO2 API Platform
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.5
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    User Testimonials
    Swagger Open Source, supported by SmartBearWSO2 API Platform
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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.
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    WSO2
    It's free! No argument can win a fight with that! And it's the only reason I gave it a 5. If you have no money to spend, and a simple environment you'll have a nice product. But free does come with a price. After 5 years we're still struggling with ports, and analytics (it just won't work without any errors caused by some configuration somewhere). An API Manager should work out of the box. The only configuration expertise that any developer wants to invest in, is the configuration of API's. Not the product itself... Anyone who've seen the training material, just for installing this thing will agree that this is not the way to go. Of all the API Managers out there (we've tried 4), WSO2 is the only one were you need to know how this dragon of a java application works internally. Did I already mention the humongous amount of config files?
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    Pros
    SmartBear
    • Produce documentation
    • user interface to create api definition
    • reusability of data description
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    WSO2
    • Authentication based on OAuth 2.0 and HTTP Basic Authentication.
    • Rate Limiting applied at different levels like Subscriber, API, Resource and Backend.
    • Monitoring by exporting the metrics in Prometheus and traces in Jaeger.
    • Mediation to perform transformation, orchestration etc.
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    Cons
    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
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    WSO2
    • Better QA testing prior to releases rollout
    • Better support needed
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    Alternatives Considered
    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.
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    WSO2
    Providing better capabilities comparing the overall API lifecycle management, especially the availability of API Integration layer and a strong identity layer of their own which provides an end-to-end API ecosystem that would be advantageous in terms of a large software development initiative.
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    Return on Investment
    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
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    WSO2
    • We've moved away from legacy SOAP services where nobody knew what services was used by who. WSO2 eliminated at least 90% of time spend on any service.
    • Creating API's (or actually creating the API Management layer...) is so simple that new developers can get away with it in no time. Again, real time gainer.
    • Since creating API's is so simple, developers are very fast in adopting a kind of "Domain thinking". In comparison with Azure API Manager: Azure does not demand knowledge of "how" the product works, but it's definitely more difficult to get an API up and running in Azure. And for some reason, azure does not promote clean domain driven architecture. Domain Driven architecture is the greatest time saver strategy possible. And WSO2 fits nicely in there.
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