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"Quick and easy way to share a new API design with teams.""I do like the overall performance of the solution.""I find the generation of mock services very useful, especially when demonstrating for new consumers.""In two years, there was one time the service was down for an hour or so.""Git integration"

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"It is a stable solution.""The most valuable features are the collaboration between multiple teams and the control and distribution of specifications.""The scalability is endless.""The product's initial setup phase was easy and not at all difficult.""Code generation is one of the important features of SwaggerHub. We design our API, and we can generate a very rich codebase and add to it. The code generation feature is very valuable.""The tool's most valuable feature is licensing.""It is quite a useful tool. It is quite good with the validation of the spec. It works quite well in terms of errors and conformity to the OpenAPI standard. It is better than Visual Studio Code in terms of editing.""I rate the solution's stability a ten out of ten."

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"I would like an integrated option to download a Swagger version of the definition.""The Oracle release cycle is very bad because the patches only update once a year.""Swagger (OpenAPI Specification) and Blueprint Support"

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"The review process should be improved. There seem to be some gaps, at least for us, for the editing part because we would like to have a full request review mechanism. They support some comments, but it is really hard to manage those comments. We would like to use the full request. Therefore, we are now looking to integrate with repositories. It has integration with Bitbucket and GitHub, but we have some internal constraints, and we need to move some of the repositories to GitHub. Our source code is on-premise in Bitbucket, and it was a bit of a problem for us to integrate. Now we are transitioning our repositories to GitHub, and hopefully, we can enable the integration. This will probably solve the problem with the review and approval. Its customization should also be improved. There are limitations around the support for the developer portal. There should be more customization options for the website that you can use as a developer portal. Currently, it has only Swagger UI with minimal customization. You cannot actually add additional pages and documentation for explaining concepts and general things. That's why we have started to look around to see what other tools are doing. They should also allow tagging on the API. We would like to add some tagging on the API to reflect certain things. Currently, any metadata that you would like to have has to be a part of the spec. You cannot do anything else. It should also have support for Open API 3.1, which was released at the beginning of the year. It would be great to be able to switch to that.""We have to use additional tools to test APIs.""It has limited functionality...Unfortunately, some of its features are not what we need.""It could be more intuitive compared to one of its competitors.""SwaggerHub's UI needs to be improved as it looks very old school.""SwaggerHub could be improved with better integration for tools.""More integration and usability with the cloud microservices would be nice""SwaggerHub lacks in terms of integrations. They have APIs integrated, and they also have some connectors, but they don't have integration with many of the things that we use. For example, for connecting with SVN, we had to implement external scripts. So, they should work on the integration because currently, we have to work on the integration with our DevOps, continuous delivery, or continuous deployment. It would be great if these integrations are built-in. Mainly, we would like it to integrate with SVN and Jira."

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  • "There is a free subscription option to start and try the service."
  • "It is easy to get started with personal (free) accounts, but a subscription is required for additional features."
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  • "It has a yearly subscription, but I am not sure."
  • "The management considers it a bit expensive. At first, we wanted to purchase a license for 100 users, but we went for a license for only 15 users. Its cost is $10,220 per year."
  • "The tool is cheap."
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    Top Answer:The tool's most valuable feature is licensing.
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    Top Answer:The company I work for purchased SwaggerHub with the intent to use it for a certain period of time. I use SwaggerHub in my company for testing purposes, especially testing the APIs.
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    Overview

    Apiary's pioneering APIFlow solution provides the framework and tools for developing application programming interfaces (APIs) that share enterprise services and data and help create modern, cloud-based applications and experiences. APIFlow spans the API creation lifecycle, including design, governance, testing, and documentation, while supporting API Blueprint and OpenAPI industry standardsץ

    SwaggerHub is an integrated API Development platform, built for teams, that brings the core capabilities of the Swagger framework to design, build, document and deploy APIs. SwaggerHub enables development teams to collaborate and coordinate the entire lifecycle of an API with the flexibility to integrate with the toolset of your choice.

    Sample Customers
    Microsoft, salesforce.com, Bloomberg, GoodData, Viacom, Akamai Technologies, DigitalGlobe
    Sonic, Zuora, Woolworths, CrowdFlower
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm12%
    Insurance Company10%
    Real Estate/Law Firm10%
    Computer Software Company10%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm20%
    Computer Software Company14%
    Government8%
    Manufacturing Company6%
    Company Size
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business24%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise64%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business38%
    Large Enterprise63%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business17%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise69%
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    Apiary is ranked 36th in API Management while SwaggerHub is ranked 13th in API Management with 5 reviews. Apiary is rated 8.2, while SwaggerHub is rated 7.8. On the other hand, the top reviewer of SwaggerHub writes "An easy-to-use solution for the entry point of API documentation that needs to introduce some regulatory controls". Apiary is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, Apigee and Oracle API Platform Cloud Service, whereas SwaggerHub is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, Apigee, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, Amazon API Gateway and Kong Enterprise.

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