Amazon API Gateway vs Layer7 API Management vs SwaggerHub comparison

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Broadcom are both solutions in the API Management category. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is ranked #2 with an average rating of 8.3, while Broadcom is ranked #10 with an average rating of 7.4. Amazon Web Services (AWS) holds a 12.9% mindshare in APIM, compared to Broadcom’s 2.6% mindshare. Additionally, 93% of Amazon Web Services (AWS) users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 90% of Broadcom users who would recommend it.

Amazon API Gateway

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93% willing to recommend

Layer7 API Management

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3,571 Views
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90% willing to recommend

SwaggerHub

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1,306 Views
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91% willing to recommend

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We performed a comparison between Amazon API Gateway, Layer7 API Management, and SwaggerHub based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the API Management category, the mindshare of Amazon API Gateway is 12.9%, down from 13.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Layer7 API Management is 2.6%, down from 3.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SwaggerHub is 1.4%, up from 1.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

API Management Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Amazon API Gateway	12.9%
Layer7 API Management	2.6%
SwaggerHub	1.4%
Other	83.1%

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Featured Reviews

Rahul Kundu

AWS Engineer at Abbott

Cost-effective serverless routing with room for extended timeout settings

We are using API Gateway to route the traffic to our Lambdas. Every API pass is linked to some of the Lambdas. When traffic hits CloudFront, it redirects it to API Gateway, which then redirects it to the respective Lambda server. We have different kinds of services invoked through these Lambdas…

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NikhilChaudhari

Senior Associate Software at Intelliswift Software

Valued for its drag-and-drop functionalities, the available policy options, and the excellent security features

I work as a PG developer, primarily dealing with Layer7 API Management and MuleSoft API management. My focus is mainly on VM management platforms such as Layer7 and Apigee Layer7 API Management is most valued for its drag-and-drop functionalities, the available policy options, and the excellent…

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SwaminathanSubramanian

Director/Enterprise Solutions Architect, Technology Advisor at Kyndryl

Facilitating enterprise-wide API governance and management

Some areas of SwaggerHub that could be improved include the interface between the code editor and the visual editor, the integration with private APIs, which currently requires an upgraded account. The scalability also needs enhancement, as it becomes flaky under increased load. Additionally, the versioning management could be improved to be on par with source code management tools.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The initial setup is straightforward."

"The solution is stable."

"It's a low-code solution that helps our company manage operations seamlessly"

"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is a stable solution with an uptime of 99.99 percent."

"The Cognito authorization integration is very useful, along with the easy multi-region integration and connectivity with various AWS services like SQS, SNS, and Lambda functions."

"The initial setup is pretty easy. Deployment only takes five minutes."

"This solution is useful for making new APIs."

"The most valuable feature is it has lots of integration."

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"The most valuable features of Layer7 API Management are integration, ease of use, building APIs easily, and portal straightforward."

"We are able to go to market very quickly and deploy our functionalities very quickly."

"The actual management of APIs is fundamental to us, as we're a heavy API user/provider. So, obviously, a centralised management platform is important."

"The Gateway is most important because it is our strategic front door into the company for all APIs."

"Initial setup is straightforward. It is simple and easy to do."

"Ease of use."

"Tech support is fast and responsive."

"It allows us to keep clear traceability of the changes made in each of our APIs."

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"The most valuable features are the collaboration between multiple teams and the control and distribution of specifications."

"One of the best features of SwaggerHub is how it allows me to create APIs and control the evolution of APIs within an organization."

"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."

"You can click & play and add the notation in a human-readable form. Spotlight is also very good in the graphical design of APIs."

"The product's initial setup phase was easy and not at all difficult."

"SwaggerHub has significantly improved how my organization designs, documents, and manages APIs, centralizing API management so that all API definitions are stored in one location, which makes it easy for stakeholders, developers, QA, DevOps, and products to access the latest version."

"One of the best features of SwaggerHub is how it allows me to create APIs and control the evolution of APIs within an organization."

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Cons

"When using APIs, the manual bit for intermediate confirmation with VTL can be a challenge."

"From a use cases perspective, you need to have an internal and external gateway. AWS can only handle external traffic so has to be used together with another solution."

"The user interface, in general, can be better. The user interface for the entire Amazon cloud can be more friendly. There are some scenarios that are not really easy to manage and configure through the user interface."

"I believe that there could be more features associated with analytics since it is an area where the product lacks."

"Like most Amazon services, and this one's the same, you're expected to effectively do your own support, and any other support is by emails, so it's quite limited."

"We faced a few issues with the documentation."

"The integration could be improved."

"When working with XML payloads, there can be issues due to the lack of a seamless connection between API Gateway and Lambda functions."

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"I would like for the new release to allow us to speed up code generation. The integration with CICD could also be more seamless."

"Some users say that the API lacks some features and is lagging behind the competition although that has not been my personal experience."

"Layer7 API Management should improve the quota policy for the number of API calls."

"The interface is Java which is difficult to make look very nice."

"The only issue we have is that we have to buy an APM license separately for end-to-end monitoring."

"feel like Apigee's API product is more interactive. You can drag and drop with those, but it's a little more difficult in Layer7. It's less user-friendly compared to that Apigee product."

"The Policy Manager tool that is used to manage the solution is very heavy to use because it is based in Java. Sometimes it takes a long time to load. There could be some improvements to it. If they could make Policy Manager on a web page that would be a good alternative."

"We have experienced technical difficulties with the product in the past."

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"In SwaggerHub, I appreciate that it is a powerful platform for API design and collaboration, but currently, the access control is somewhat limited."

"It could be more intuitive compared to one of its competitors."

"We have to use additional tools to test APIs."

"The scalability aspect of SwaggerHub can be improved. It becomes a bit unreliable when the load is increased and isn't up to par with expectations for scalability."

"It has limited functionality...Unfortunately, some of its features are not what we need."

"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."

"SwaggerHub could be improved with better integration for tools."

"More integration and usability with the cloud microservices would be nice"

More SwaggerHub cons

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Fees are volume-based."

"The solution is expensive. Though the product was previously available at a cheap rate, nowadays it is expensive."

"I rate the tool's price as seven on a scale of one to ten, where one means low price and ten means high price."

"We use all open-source technology."

"This is a pay-per-use service, where you only pay for what you use."

"Amazon API Gateway is a very cheaply priced product."

"It is somewhat costly, particularly when it introduces server-related features, which are often scheduled on our end."

"Since it's a serverless solution, Amazon API Gateway is not so expensive."

More Amazon API Gateway pricing and cost advice

"CA API Management has a licensing path. If you want more features, it requires more licenses and more installation time."

"We weren't comfortable with the pricing of licensing. It was slightly more expensive than its competitors."

"For what we are after, the pricing is okay. It is competitive."

"It has a reasonable pricing model by instance."

"APIs can be developed to provide security. We can show them in one single pane of glass, such as the CA API Management API Developer Portal. It is there that we can provide the monetization for their APIs and what is happening on third-party applications, like Paytm or BookMyShow."

"Do not buy piecemeal."

"I think it's competitive. It's not that expensive when you compare CA with the Oracle product."

"The price of Layer7 API Management is reasonable compared to Apigee."

More Layer7 API Management pricing and cost advice

"It has a yearly subscription, but I am not sure."

"The tool is cheap."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

14%

Computer Software Company

12%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Comms Service Provider

Financial Services Firm

18%

Computer Software Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

Healthcare Company

Financial Services Firm

19%

Computer Software Company

13%

Manufacturing Company

Retailer

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	13
Midsize Enterprise	12
Large Enterprise	21

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	23
Midsize Enterprise	13
Large Enterprise	84

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	3
Large Enterprise	7

Questions from the Community

Which is better - Apigee or Amazon API Gateway?

Amazon API Gateway is a platform that supports the creation and publication of API for web applications. The platform...

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How does Mulesoft Anypoint API Manager compare with Amazon API Gateway?

I have found that Mulesoft Anypoint API Manager is the best integration tool out there for API management. It is easy...

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Which is better - Azure API Management or Amazon API Gateway?

If you use Azure products, API Management is a great solution. It solves many of the problems of externalizing web se...

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What do you like most about Layer7 API Management?

The solution's technical support is good.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Layer7 API Management?

Pricing is more than average. While I am used to Layer7 API Management ( /products/layer7-api-management-reviews ), s...

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What needs improvement with Layer7 API Management?

Broadcom's push for upgrades from version nine to ten, ten to 10.3, and onwards to twelve needs improvement in migrat...

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What do you like most about SwaggerHub?

The tool's most valuable feature is licensing.

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What needs improvement with SwaggerHub?

Some areas of SwaggerHub that could be improved include the interface between the code editor and the visual editor, ...

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What is your primary use case for SwaggerHub?

I started using SwaggerHub in its previous version, SmartMiner, with a tool called SoapUI. I used it to create mock w...

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Comparisons

Microsoft Azure API Management vs Amazon API Gateway

Compared 66% of the time

Apigee vs Amazon API Gateway

Compared 5% of the time

WSO2 API Manager vs Amazon API Gateway

Compared 3% of the time

MuleSoft API Manager vs Amazon API Gateway

Compared 3% of the time

Kong Gateway Enterprise vs Amazon API Gateway

Compared 2% of the time

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Apigee vs Layer7 API Management

Compared 27% of the time

MuleSoft API Manager vs Layer7 API Management

Compared 15% of the time

Kong Gateway Enterprise vs Layer7 API Management

Compared 14% of the time

TIBCO Cloud API Management vs Layer7 API Management

Compared 8% of the time

Microsoft Azure API Management vs Layer7 API Management

Compared 8% of the time

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Microsoft Azure API Management vs SwaggerHub

Compared 23% of the time

Apigee vs SwaggerHub

Compared 18% of the time

MuleSoft API Manager vs SwaggerHub

Compared 11% of the time

Postman Enterprise vs SwaggerHub

Compared 10% of the time

Kong Konnect vs SwaggerHub

Compared 4% of the time

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CA API Management, CA Live API Creator, Espresso Logic, CA API Gateway

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Overview

Amazon API Gateway facilitates internal APIs exposure to external users, manages requests, and enhances security with authentication. It efficiently handles serverless architectures with AWS Lambda integration, supporting cloud-based API management.

Amazon API Gateway acts as a gateway for backend microservices, making it suitable for real-time use cases. It enables secure communication, traffic routing, and access control management. With its strength in integrating AWS services, it offers excellent scalability, proxy capabilities, and cost-effective management. Users have noted areas for improvement, such as pricing, interface, and the need for better AI-based capabilities. Improvements are also sought in monitoring, security features, and support services.

What features make Amazon API Gateway stand out?

Proxy Capabilities: Facilitates unified API access and management
AWS Lambda Integration: Seamlessly connects with serverless architectures
Authentication: Provides robust security through authentication measures
SQL Injection Prevention: Ensures secure API interactions
Custom Domain Assignment: Supports personalized API endpoints
Multi-Region Connectivity: Offers global reach and low latency

What benefits should users consider in reviews?

Scalability: Handles large-scale integrations efficiently
Cost-Effectiveness: Offers budget-friendly management options
Security: Strong measures to protect data and APIs
Ease of Management: Provides intuitive management features
Efficient Endpoint Management: Streamlines the API lifecycle

Industries utilize Amazon API Gateway to streamline operations in sectors like finance, healthcare, and tech, focusing on real-time data processing and secure communication. The gateway's ability to manage traffic and provide robust security features is key in industries requiring dependable and versatile API management solutions.

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Layer7 API Management is a comprehensive solution that enables organizations to securely expose, manage, and monetize their APIs.

It provides features such as API gateway, developer portal, analytics, and security to ensure seamless integration and control over API traffic.

With Layer7 API Management, businesses can streamline their API operations and drive innovation.

Broadcom

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.

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Sample Customers

Autodesk, Fox Digital Consumer Group, iFlix, UK Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA), Miovision, Olympusat, PhotoVogue, Royale International Group, Veracode

1. IBM 2. Microsoft 3. Oracle 4. Salesforce 5. SAP 6. Cisco 7. Dell 8. HP 9. Adobe 10. VMware 11. Accenture 12. Capgemini 13. Deloitte 14. PwC 15. Ernst & Young 16. Infosys 17. TCS (Tata Consultancy Services) 18. Wipro 19. Cognizant 20. HCL Technologies 21. Tech Mahindra 22. Fujitsu 23. Hitachi 24. NEC 25. NTT Data 26. Ericsson 27. Nokia 28. Siemens 29. AT&T 30. Verizon 31. Vodafone 32. Orange

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