SwaggerHub Reviews

Name: SwaggerHub
Brand: SmartBear
Rating: 3.8 (9 reviews)

3.8 out of 5

9 reviews
90% willing to recommend

What is SwaggerHub?

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.

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SwaggerHub is the #14 ranked solution in top API Management solutions. PeerSpot users give SwaggerHub an average rating of 7.6 out of 10. SwaggerHub is most commonly compared to Microsoft Azure API Management: SwaggerHub vs Microsoft Azure API Management. SwaggerHub is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 67% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a financial services firm, accounting for 21% of all views.

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Murahari Bandarupalli

Senior Consultant at Capgemini

SwaggerHub simplifies API development for developers by providing a platform where they can efficiently create APIs without manually creating JSON or visual files. Developers can streamline the process of developing APIs and generating requests. SwaggerHub is a platform used for API design and management. Postman serves as a tool for creating and testing API requests. While Postman offers capabilities for scripting and automation, SwaggerHub focuses on defining APIs using the OpenAPI Specification, facilitating collaboration, and generating documentation automatically. While there may be ways to integrate Postman scripts into other testing tools like JMeter, such integration would typically require manual effort and customization. Overall, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.

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Coralia Popa

Software Architect at Waters Corporation

We want some regulatory control to understand who is reading our documentation in the space where we are active. It would be interesting to see who is looking for our API documentation, so that would be one way to understand the users. If it supports public API documentation, it's public. You never know who is likely to use it. There are other smaller things like tagging APIs and various other details. The workflow for editing to offer OpenAPI is not as rich as we would like, so we did the editing with other tools. Additionally, you cannot include additional pages explaining certain workflows you can do with the API. These additional content pages would enhance the OpenAPI specification for the API. So these things are not significant, but they can make a difference when you don't have them.

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Coralia Popa

Software Architect at Waters Corporation

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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SwaggerHub mindshare

As of January 2025, the mindshare of SwaggerHub in the API Management category stands at 1.3%, down from 1.7% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Last updated Dec 18, 2024

Valuable Features

SwaggerHub offers user-friendly features such as validation in OpenAPI, easy editing, and licensing. It excels in collaboration for team specifications and offers accessible documentation. Its simplicity is valued over Postman, facilitating smooth API design and execution. The graphical interface allows intuitive API creation and documentation.

"You can click & play and add the notation in a human-readable form. Spotlight is also very good in the graphical design of APIs."
"The product's initial setup phase was easy and not at all difficult."
"The tool's most valuable feature is licensing."

Room for Improvement

"SwaggerHub's UI needs to be improved as it looks very old school."
"We have to use additional tools to test APIs."
"It has limited functionality...Unfortunately, some of its features are not what we need."

Pricing

"The tool is cheap."
"It has a yearly subscription, but I am not sure."

Popular Use Cases

SwaggerHub is primarily used for API development and management, integrating with SmartBear ReadyAPI for seamless automation testing. Teams publish and test APIs, design API documentation, and define API specifications. It serves as an entry point for API documentation, facilitating understanding for consumers. SwaggerHub supports secure API calls, ensuring confidentiality, and simplifies API validation. Users create API definitions with features like endpoints, schemas, and error codes, and generate client code or server implementations.

Deployment

Users experienced a simple initial setup with SwaggerHub. While some find it slightly complex compared to competitors, others see it as easy and manageable. Setup usually occurs in an hour, with cloud-based access simplifying the process. Several appreciate its ease, mentioning deployment as quick and straightforward. Installation can be on-premises or cloud, with managed deployment reducing concerns. Many users rate the setup phase positively, viewing it favorably in terms of complexity.

Scalability

Users indicate that SwaggerHub offers significant scalability, accommodating varying numbers of users without issues. Multiple users, including software developers and consumers, utilize it effectively. Some have licenses restricting designers and consumers, but functionality remains robust, serving diverse groups. Organizations experience no limitations in expanding their API usage with SwaggerHub, finding it adaptable as needed. Scalability is often rated highly, with endorsements for its capability to meet different project demands successfully.

Stability

Users report that SwaggerHub is generally stable, with few stability issues. Most note minimal downtime, and some are unsure if disruptions were due to SwaggerHub. A few have experienced minor challenges but still rate its stability highly, often 8 out of 10 or even 10 out of 10. They mention that running different versions online should be managed to avoid content confusion.

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