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SwaggerHub pros and cons

Vendor: SmartBear

3.9 out of 5

11 reviews
91% willing to recommend

Pros & Cons summary

SwaggerHub offers endless scalability and is a useful tool, excelling in validation and OpenAPI standards compliance. It enhances collaboration between teams, with valuable licensing and specification control features. Standout capabilities include API creation and evolution tracking. However, integration with cloud microservices and editing reviews need refining. Customization is limited, and support for Open API 3.1 is necessary. Scalability under increased load remains a concern for larger demands.

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PROS

SwaggerHub offers endless scalability and stability, rated ten out of ten.

It excels in validating specifications, adhering to the OpenAPI standard.

It facilitates collaboration across multiple teams and controls specifications.

Licensing and the centralized management of API definitions are key features.

Initial setup is easy, and it simplifies API creation and evolution control within organizations.

CONS

SwaggerHub lacks robust integration and usability with cloud microservices and needs a full request review mechanism.

Customization options in SwaggerHub are limited, with minimal support for developer portals and lack of ability to add pages or documentation.

There is no support for tagging on the API in SwaggerHub, and metadata must be part of the specification.

SwaggerHub should support Open API 3.1 for up-to-date features.

SwaggerHub faces integration challenges with private APIs, requiring an upgraded account, and it struggles with scalability under increased load.

SwaggerHub Pros review quotes

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.

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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.

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Software Architect at Waters Corporation

Jul 4, 2023

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

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SwaminathanSubramanian

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.

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Peter Brückler

IT Architect at Equigy

Apr 26, 2024

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

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SQA Engineer at SOFIT Consultancy (Pvt) Ltd

Dec 19, 2023

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

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reviewer1393596

IT Manager at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees

Aug 23, 2020

The scalability is endless.

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HV

Test lead at Percik Consulting

May 16, 2023

It is a stable solution.

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Hasham Mohammad

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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Mubarak Arimiyah

Software Quality Assurance Engineer at Netow Solutions Ltd

Dec 8, 2023

The tool's most valuable feature is licensing.

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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.

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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.

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Software Architect at Waters Corporation

Jul 4, 2023

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

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SwaminathanSubramanian

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.

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SQA Engineer at SOFIT Consultancy (Pvt) Ltd

Dec 19, 2023

SwaggerHub's UI needs to be improved as it looks very old school.

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reviewer1393596

IT Manager at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees

Aug 23, 2020

More integration and usability with the cloud microservices would be nice

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HV

Test lead at Percik Consulting

May 16, 2023

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

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Hasham Mohammad

Test Engineering at Capgemini

Apr 5, 2022

SwaggerHub could be improved with better integration for tools.

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Mubarak Arimiyah

Software Quality Assurance Engineer at Netow Solutions Ltd

Dec 8, 2023

We have to use additional tools to test APIs.

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