Apiary vs SwaggerHub comparison

Oracle and SmartBear are both solutions in the API Management category. Oracle is ranked #36, while SmartBear is ranked #12 with an average rating of 8.0. Oracle holds a 0.7% mindshare in APIM, compared to SmartBear’s 1.5% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Oracle users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 93% of SmartBear users who would recommend it.

Apiary

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93% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 17, 2024

Apiary and SwaggerHub compete in the API management platform category. SwaggerHub seems to have the upper hand due to its comprehensive feature set, which many find justifies its cost.

Features: Apiary offers collaborative tools for flexible and innovative API design, efficient mock server usage for testing, and integration with GitHub for version management. SwaggerHub provides robust integration capabilities, advanced documentation features, and clear restrictions at both method and request levels, facilitating robust API creation.

Room for Improvement: Apiary could benefit from enhanced documentation options, better integration with existing development tools, and more flexible pricing models. SwaggerHub could improve by expanding its feature set to avoid workarounds, enhancing simplicity in open API documentation, and reducing dependency on custom workflows.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Apiary's intuitive deployment model is supported by a responsive team for smooth implementation. SwaggerHub offers a structured approach with detailed guides and extensive resources, which streamline integration processes more comprehensively.

Pricing and ROI: Apiary features a more modest cost structure, appealing to budget-conscious businesses with quick ROI potential for smaller projects. SwaggerHub's pricing reflects its extensive features, offering long-term ROI for organizations prioritizing strategic enhancements over initial costs.

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Categories and Ranking

Apiary

Ranking in API Management

36th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

SwaggerHub

Ranking in API Management

12th

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the API Management category, the mindshare of Apiary is 0.7%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SwaggerHub is 1.5%, up from 1.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

API Management Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
SwaggerHub	1.5%
Apiary	0.7%
Other	97.8%

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Phil Wilkins

Enterprise Integration Architect at Capgemini

The ability to configure rules to check for consistency has helped

Apiary provides a free tier of the platform which allows a small group of developers to collaborate easily on the design of open source APIs. In addition to this, it provides mock endpoints allowing people to experiment with the API without depending or having to stand up a real backend. With our clients, using Apiary allows us to very quickly pull together an API definition (particularly when using API Blueprint). The whole API design process for the simpler use cases can be done in a relatively short workshop which makes it a lot easier to agree, publish, version-manage an API definition with suitable documentation. This can then be evolved and enhanced (particularly in the documentation aspects). With the ability to support Swagger (Open API v2 and introducing/ed support for v3) and API Blueprint makes it a very versatile tool.

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Manish Indupuri

senior DevOps engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Has streamlined API documentation and integration workflows across cross-functional teams

Documenting SwaggerHub has a standard and consistent structure of API definitions, and it automatically generates interactive documentation which helps the developers to understand everything. There are certain areas where SwaggerHub can go beyond here as formatting options for documentation pages are restricted, and the import and export options of API collections are complex in SwaggerHub. It provides various collaboration tools where we can work and do it. The strong validation against the API maintains conformity and reduces errors. That part is very great in SwaggerHub. Overall, scalability and stability-wise, it varies high compared to the competitors, but there are still certain areas where competitors are providing various customizations. SwaggerHub can understand those aspects and implement them as well. The complex import and export of API calls and collaborations can be challenging in SwaggerHub. If they can make it easier for us, that would be great. Their performance is degraded if there is too much load on the API. The customization and doc formatting options for documentation pages are restricted in SwaggerHub. A few of my teammates have complained that they find the UI unintuitive where it requires multiple clicks for simple tasks. SwaggerHub is a great tool, but these limitations can be addressed to make things better and easier.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"In two years, there was one time the service was down for an hour or so."

"I do like the overall performance of the solution."

"Quick and easy way to share a new API design with teams."

"Git integration"

"I find the generation of mock services very useful, especially when demonstrating for new consumers."

"SwaggerHub is helping with team collaboration, as all the people now know the link, they just go there and get the information they need, and it is really a documentation tool for sharing documentation information about the API we support."

"The scalability is endless."

"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."

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

"The best feature that SwaggerHub offers is the collaboration capability that helps us the most across all of our teams, as we have a single API infrastructure but several teams working in different areas of these APIs."

"The tool's most valuable feature is licensing."

"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."

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Cons

"Swagger (OpenAPI Specification) and Blueprint Support"

"I would like an integrated option to download a Swagger version of the definition."

"The Oracle release cycle is very bad because the patches only update once a year."

"SwaggerHub could be improved with better integration for tools."

"In SwaggerHub, I appreciate that it is a powerful platform for API design and collaboration, but currently, the access control is somewhat limited."

"SwaggerHub can be improved since the API testing features are limited compared to Postman, and it is somewhat expensive for small teams as paid plans cost a lot."

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

"The customization and doc formatting options for documentation pages are restricted in SwaggerHub."

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

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

"More integration and usability with the cloud microservices would be nice"

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"There is a free subscription option to start and try the service."

"It is easy to get started with personal (free) accounts, but a subscription is required for additional features."

"The tool is cheap."

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

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Financial Services Firm

15%

Computer Software Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

Comms Service Provider

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	4
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	9

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What needs improvement with SwaggerHub?

We have tried automated code generation several times, and I think maybe some people are still using it somewhere, but it is not something that we do as a consolidated practice. At some point, we w...

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What is your primary use case for SwaggerHub?

We still use SwaggerHub, but we did not change much in the way we are using it, meaning just limited functionality. For us, SwaggerHub serves as a central place to publish the documentation for our...

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What advice do you have for others considering SwaggerHub?

As a technical person, I cannot comment on the money side, but we did not necessarily look to use the whole feature set of SwaggerHub. We do not do editing of the APIs in SwaggerHub; we basically u...

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Overview

Apiary's pioneering APIFlow solution provides the framework and tools for developing application programming interfaces (APIs) that share enterprise services and data and help create modern, cloud-based applications and experiences. APIFlow spans the API creation lifecycle, including design, governance, testing, and documentation, while supporting API Blueprint and OpenAPI industry standardsץ

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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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Microsoft, salesforce.com, Bloomberg, GoodData, Viacom, Akamai Technologies, DigitalGlobe

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