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    Cloud Elements (discontinued)

    Score5 out of 10
    N/ACloud Elements was a cloud API integration service acquired by UiPath in 2021. It used cooperative apps to connect an organization’s customers, partners and employees to the cloud services they use. The product was discontinued in 2023.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
    Cloud Elements (discontinued)SwaggerHub
    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
    Cloud Elements (discontinued)SwaggerHub
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Cloud Elements (discontinued)SwaggerHub
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    Key User Insights
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    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    100%
    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    Cloud Elements (discontinued)SwaggerHub
    API Management
    Comparison of API Management features of Cloud Elements (discontinued) and SwaggerHub
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    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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    User Ratings
    Cloud Elements (discontinued)SwaggerHub
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.6
    (8 ratings)
    8.0
    (6 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
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    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Cloud Elements (discontinued)SwaggerHub
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Discontinued Products
    Cloud Elements shines when you want to offer multiple options to the user on a type of system, such as supporting integration to CRM and wanting to offer Dynamics, Salesforce, and HubSpot on equal footing. If you only have a single integration with a single system, using Cloud Elements adds an unnecessary layer of abstraction.
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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
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    Pros
    Discontinued Products
    • The API itself is very robust and easy to use, being a standard REST interface, standard HTTP response codes, well-packaged error messages, etc.
    • Their uptime is great! I think I've seen one (short) 5-minute' blip' the entire time we've been connected for any type of primary function.
    • Their support is top notch, they respond quickly, and the team that works with you is communicative and knowledgable.
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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
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    Cons
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    • The only thing I can think of that they could improve is the quality of the assets they produce in the go-to-market process. This is a huge value add service, but the quality of what was produced was lower than what we would have produced internally. We spent more time going back and forth on the assets than it would have taken us to build them from scratch.
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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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    Alternatives Considered
    Discontinued Products
    At the time we found Cloud Elements we found no other option that had a Unified API for cloud storage providers.
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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
    Discontinued Products
    • Not my area of expertise, but it made my job as an implementer much easier, especially after finishing the first integration.
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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.
    Incentivized
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