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Pros
"It is a stable solution.""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 most valuable features are the collaboration between multiple teams and the control and distribution of specifications.""The tool's most valuable feature is licensing.""I rate the solution's stability a ten out of ten.""The product's initial setup phase was easy and not at all difficult.""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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"It is good for communicating between the systems and for publishing and subscribing. We can easily retrieve data. It is good in terms of troubleshooting and other things.""We have found the pricing of the solution to be fair.""webMethods API Portal is overall very valuable. It is now a comprehensive API catalogue that serves various purposes, including API assessment and evaluation."

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"We have to use additional tools to test APIs.""More integration and usability with the cloud microservices would be nice""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 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.""SwaggerHub's UI needs to be improved as it looks very old school.""SwaggerHub could be improved with better integration for tools.""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."

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"The improvement needed is related to the model's position. As of now, it seems to be more of a conceptual idea rather than a widely implemented solution. For how long""The on-premises setup can be difficult.""Some of the things that we use cannot be done in this solution. For these things, we have to either use a Java service or a util service. There is no predefined or existing service that we can use. So, we have to work on the util service and write on top of it. Its price can also be better. It is pretty costly because they charge us for each transmission."

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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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  • "Based on our team discussions and feedback, it is pretty costly because they charge us for each transmission."
  • "I don’t have much idea about prices, but webMethods API Portal is not something cheaper."
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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:webMethods API Portal is overall very valuable. It is now a comprehensive API catalogue that serves various purposes, including API assessment and evaluation.
    Top Answer:I don’t have much idea about prices, but webMethods API Portal is not cheap.
    Top Answer:The improvement needed is related to the model's position. As of now, it seems to be more of a conceptual idea rather than a widely implemented solution. Monetization is currently on the rise, driven… 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.

    Software AG’s webMethods API-Portal provides a comprehensive solution that allows the developer community to find, learn about, discuss and test your APIs. This API portal not only exposes API documentation to developers inside and outside of your organization but also manages the developer on-boarding process and lets developers use exposed APIs for new and creative uses.

    Software AG’s new API portal offer significant benefits for companies working on API monetization, including:

    -An intuitive user interface and highly customizable “look and feel”
    -A single solution for both external and internal developers
    -Analytics at the API portal to help you better understand your users
    -Strong API security through the use of API keys and OAuth2 credentials support
    -Seamless integration with other webMethods components, including CentraSite, Software -
    AG’s SOA governance and SOA life-cycle management solution

    Sample Customers
    Sonic, Zuora, Woolworths, CrowdFlower
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    Top Industries
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    Financial Services Firm20%
    Computer Software Company14%
    Government8%
    Manufacturing Company6%
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    Computer Software Company14%
    Government12%
    Non Profit10%
    Retailer9%
    Company Size
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    Small Business38%
    Large Enterprise63%
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    Small Business17%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise69%
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    Small Business28%
    Midsize Enterprise10%
    Large Enterprise62%
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    SwaggerHub is ranked 13th in API Management with 8 reviews while webMethods API Portal is ranked 23rd in API Management with 3 reviews. SwaggerHub is rated 7.8, while webMethods API Portal 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 webMethods API Portal writes "Stable, with good technical support, but the on-premises version can be difficult to set up". SwaggerHub is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, Apigee, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, Amazon API Gateway and RapidAPI, whereas webMethods API Portal is most compared with IBM API Connect and Microsoft Azure API Management.

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