Layer7 API Management vs SwaggerHub comparison

"This improved our organization, because it gives the management data to discuss for the next course of action and it suggests what to work on, as the next thing."

"The security checking authentication is our primary use case for this solution."

"It is fairly stable for the Gateway side."

"Tech support is fast and responsive."

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

"The most important features of Layer7 API Management are the basic security functionality and validation checks."

"The latest version that just came out at the first of October really was a powerful move in the right direction. I was very, very pleased with that because it allows now beginning to use information of things. We've got this IOT infrastructure that we can plug into, and for my use cases there are a lot of outdoor sensors that provide valuable information to my customers."

"The most valuable feature is the security with its out-of-the-box policies."

"It is a stable solution."

"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."

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

"I rate the solution's stability a ten out of ten."

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

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

"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."

"Some problems with response time."

"CA double up portal is a pain. It is something that we are struggling with right now."

"More developer focused tools. They have a nice debugger inside of the program, but when you are developing code with their policies, it is tough to visualize that sometimes as a developer."

"Layer7 API Management should give a clear roadmap of the product and where it is going, and they should not change the underlying layers."

"The setup was not as straightforward as it should have been. Support should be improved."

"There is a need for the migration of policies, better reporting, and monitoring integration."

"One specific feature that we need is the ability to authenticate directly to the server with API data. It's not complex nowadays. This is a feature that we need and CA doesn't have it."

"The security protocols in CA's product, for financial services, weren't as good as those in API Connect."

"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."

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

"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 could be improved with better integration for tools."

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

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

"It is a pricey product, although not extremely overpriced compared to competitors in the market."

"If you do a TCO of more than five years, then you will see a big jump in costs for some vendors."

"At the time we bought the product it was a perpetual users license and there has been no need for additional licensing fees."

"Licenses are required to operate the product, but I don't know much about the validity periods attached to it."

"Keep in mind the non-product licensing, e.g., if you opt not to use the embedded SQL."

"Pricing for Layer7 API Management is excellent, so it's an eight out of ten. The product is less expensive than other solutions. Layer7 API Management charges you based on the number of transactions, so the enterprise-level pricing my company got was excellent."

"The price of Layer7 API Management is too high and should be reduced. However, it is a good solution in the market."

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

"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."

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