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SwaggerHub pros and cons

Vendor: SmartBear
3.9 out of 5

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PROS

SwaggerHub is highly scalable and useful, with excellent validation and error conformity to the OpenAPI standard.
It facilitates collaboration between teams with effective control and distribution of specifications.
SwaggerHub enhances stability and is highly rated in this aspect.
The tool simplifies the creation and evolution of APIs within an organization, improving API management efficiency.
It significantly improves the design, documentation, and management of APIs, centralizing API definitions for easy access and increased work efficiency.

CONS

More integration and usability with cloud microservices would be beneficial, alongside an improved review process to facilitate a full request review mechanism and better comment management.
Customization options should be enhanced, especially for the developer portal, as the current support is limited to Swagger UI with minimal customization.
SwaggerHub requires tagging capabilities for APIs to manage metadata outside of the current spec constraints.
Support for Open API 3.1 is needed to stay updated with recent standards.
Integration with private APIs requires an upgraded account, and scalability needs improvement for better reliability under increased load.
 

SwaggerHub Pros review quotes

reviewer1393596 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees
Aug 23, 2020
The scalability is endless.
Coralia Popa - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Architect at Waters Corporation
Apr 13, 2021
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.
Hasham Mohammad - PeerSpot reviewer
Test Engineering at Capgemini
Apr 5, 2022
The most valuable features are the collaboration between multiple teams and the control and distribution of specifications.
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HV
Test lead at Percik Consulting
May 16, 2023
It is a stable solution.
Coralia Popa - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Architect at Waters Corporation
Jul 4, 2023
I rate the solution's stability a ten out of ten.
Mubarak Arimiyah - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Quality Assurance Engineer at Netow Solutions Ltd
Dec 8, 2023
The tool's most valuable feature is licensing.
Hammad Janjua - PeerSpot reviewer
SQA Engineer at SOFIT Consultancy (Pvt) Ltd
Dec 19, 2023
The product's initial setup phase was easy and not at all difficult.
SwaminathanSubramanian - PeerSpot reviewer
Director/Enterprise Solutions Architect, Technology Advisor at Kyndryl
Feb 5, 2025
One of the best features of SwaggerHub is how it allows me to create APIs and control the evolution of APIs within an organization.
UK
Test Engineer at Freelance
Aug 6, 2025
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.
Manish Indupuri - PeerSpot reviewer
senior DevOps engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Oct 23, 2025
SwaggerHub plays a crucial role in order to bring teams and automate things faster and also reduce the man-hours and increase the work efficiency.
 

SwaggerHub Cons review quotes

reviewer1393596 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees
Aug 23, 2020
More integration and usability with the cloud microservices would be nice
Coralia Popa - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Architect at Waters Corporation
Apr 13, 2021
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.
Hasham Mohammad - PeerSpot reviewer
Test Engineering at Capgemini
Apr 5, 2022
SwaggerHub could be improved with better integration for tools.
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HV
Test lead at Percik Consulting
May 16, 2023
It could be more intuitive compared to one of its competitors.
Coralia Popa - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Architect at Waters Corporation
Jul 4, 2023
It has limited functionality...Unfortunately, some of its features are not what we need.
Mubarak Arimiyah - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Quality Assurance Engineer at Netow Solutions Ltd
Dec 8, 2023
We have to use additional tools to test APIs.
Hammad Janjua - PeerSpot reviewer
SQA Engineer at SOFIT Consultancy (Pvt) Ltd
Dec 19, 2023
SwaggerHub's UI needs to be improved as it looks very old school.
SwaminathanSubramanian - PeerSpot reviewer
Director/Enterprise Solutions Architect, Technology Advisor at Kyndryl
Feb 5, 2025
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.
UK
Test Engineer at Freelance
Aug 6, 2025
In SwaggerHub, I appreciate that it is a powerful platform for API design and collaboration, but currently, the access control is somewhat limited.
Manish Indupuri - PeerSpot reviewer
senior DevOps engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Oct 23, 2025
The customization and doc formatting options for documentation pages are restricted in SwaggerHub.