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We performed a comparison between SwaggerHub and Tyk based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two API Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
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Pros
"The product's initial setup phase was easy and not at all difficult.""It is a stable solution.""I rate the solution's stability a ten out of ten.""The scalability is endless.""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.""The most valuable features are the collaboration between multiple teams and the control and distribution of specifications.""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."

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"The portal for developers that this solution provides has great functionality.""The most valuable feature is the load balancing with the circuit-breaker function.""The feature I find most valuable is that this solution allows us to manage our security.""It is a good product for API management.""You can set up workflows and write limited pieces of logic.""The scalability is very good. That was a key factor in the selection, like how it could be pushed to high volume and scalability, which seemed to be very good."

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Cons
"It could be more intuitive compared to one of its competitors.""It has limited functionality...Unfortunately, some of its features are not what we need.""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.""More integration and usability with the cloud microservices would be nice""SwaggerHub's UI needs to be improved as it looks very old school.""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.""We have to use additional tools to test APIs."

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"Sometimes when new features are released, they are not immediately stable.""It is a young product and does not have the kind of brand recognition that would make it a more popular solution with our clients.""In terms of our usage, the main area of concern is that they tend to build enhancements slightly ahead of the considerations for what those enhancements and extensions are. So it could be slightly better communication with the customer base that would be my main issue with them.""We ran it for a while, but then we decided to move away from Tyk, because Tyk's cloud version, the SaaS version, has a significant limitation of limited flexibility, so you can't program very much.""We would like a better tool for generating documentation for the APIs to be developed.""I would like to see some additional features like having some extensions for .NET core because we use it for our back-end language."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "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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  • "The price is low compared to other products of a similar type."
  • "There are different versions and plans available depending on the requirements, so there is flexibility in terms of the pricing."
  • "It had a free version, which suited many of our needs, but not all, but we were happy to go ahead with the licensed version as well, which is the paid version."
  • "We are using the open-source version of this product, so there are no licensing costs for its use."
  • "The cost curve is far smoother, both in terms of volume and the number of calls it's running on, compared to most competitors. So it's a tad more expensive at the very low end, but the curve is nothing like Apigee or some of the others."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:The tool's most valuable feature is licensing.
    Top Answer:We have to use additional tools to test APIs.
    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.
    Top Answer:The scalability is very good. That was a key factor in the selection, like how it could be pushed to high volume and scalability, which seemed to be very good.
    Top Answer:The pricing is actually quite competitive. In Azure environments, it gets beaten by Microsoft API Gateway, but on the other hand, it offers some features that Microsoft lacks. So it really comes down… more »
    Top Answer:In terms of our usage, the main area of concern is that they tend to build enhancements slightly ahead of the considerations for what those enhancements and extensions are. So it could be slightly… more »
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    Overview

    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.

    Tyk is an open source API Gateway that is fast and scalable, an API management platform featuring an API gateway, analytics, developer portal and dashboard. Available in three flavours to best suit your architecture and governance. We offer full cloud or on-premises options, and the best of both worlds with our unique hybrid model. www.tyk.io
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    Financial Services Firm20%
    Computer Software Company14%
    Government8%
    Manufacturing Company6%
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    Computer Software Company20%
    Financial Services Firm18%
    Government7%
    Retailer6%
    Company Size
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    Small Business38%
    Large Enterprise63%
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    Small Business17%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise69%
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    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise59%
    Buyer's Guide
    SwaggerHub vs. Tyk
    March 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about SwaggerHub vs. Tyk and other solutions. Updated: March 2024.
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    SwaggerHub is ranked 13th in API Management with 8 reviews while Tyk is ranked 16th in API Management with 6 reviews. SwaggerHub is rated 7.8, while Tyk is rated 7.6. 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". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Tyk writes "Simple to install, has many features, but lacks support for multiple programming languages". SwaggerHub is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, Apigee, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, Amazon API Gateway and Stoplight, whereas Tyk is most compared with Apache APISIX, Traefik Enterprise, Apigee, Microsoft Azure API Management and IBM DataPower Gateway. See our SwaggerHub vs. Tyk report.

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