SwaggerHub vs WSO2 API Manager comparison

SmartBear and WSO2 are both solutions in the API Management category. SmartBear is ranked #15 with an average rating of 7.6, while WSO2 is ranked #6 with an average rating of 7.8. SmartBear holds a 1.4% mindshare in APIM, compared to WSO2’s 5.0% mindshare. Additionally, 91% of SmartBear users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 94% of WSO2 users who would recommend it.

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91% willing to recommend

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94% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 17, 2024

SwaggerHub and WSO2 API Manager are competitors in API management. WSO2 API Manager seems to have the advantage due to its comprehensive feature set appealing to enterprise needs.

Features: SwaggerHub simplifies API design with collaborative tools, a user-friendly interface, and seamless OpenAPI standard integration. WSO2 API Manager delivers secure integrations, robust analytics, and extends lifecycle management functionalities, making it suitable for complex enterprise environments.

Room for Improvement: SwaggerHub could enhance its support for larger, more complex enterprise deployments and integration features. It might expand customization capabilities to better meet diverse organizational needs and improve documentation for advanced features. WSO2 API Manager could streamline its initial setup process for non-experts, improve user interface intuitiveness, and expand support for emerging API security standards while enhancing real-time monitoring options.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: WSO2 API Manager offers both on-premise and cloud deployments with extensive customer service helping users through technical challenges and optimization processes. SwaggerHub is designed for quick cloud-based deployment, emphasizing ease and integration speed. While both have satisfactory support, WSO2's flexibility with infrastructure preferences offers a distinctive benefit.

Pricing and ROI: SwaggerHub is typically more budget-friendly, benefiting smaller teams or those with financial constraints. The initial cost for WSO2 API Manager may be higher but users perceive a greater ROI attributed to its extensive feature set and suitability for large-scale integrations. Choosing between them depends on budgetary considerations and the depth of API management needs.

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Categories and Ranking

SwaggerHub

Ranking in API Management

15th

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

WSO2 API Manager

Ranking in API Management

6th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2025, in the API Management category, the mindshare of SwaggerHub is 1.4%, up from 1.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of WSO2 API Manager is 5.0%, up from 4.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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SwaminathanSubramanian

Director/Enterprise Solutions Architect, Technology Advisor at Kyndryl

Facilitating enterprise-wide API governance and management

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. The scalability also needs enhancement, as it becomes flaky under increased load. Additionally, the versioning management could be improved to be on par with source code management tools.

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VishalSingh14

IT Engineer at Reliance Industries Ltd

Easy to deploy APIs and easy to manage CORS configuration

I have used WSO2 Store and WSO2 API Manager at the architecture level. I worked on two versions, namely WSO2 API Manager 2.6.0 and 5.7.0. I have also worked with WSO2 Identity Server versions 5.7 and 5.11. There are certain things that Apigee handles better than WSO2 API Manager. The user interface of WSO2 API Manager is much easier than that of Apigee. The scope of flexibility was much greater in Apigee. In WSO2 API Manager, we had little flexibility and were restricted to a specific software or tool. On the other hand, we had the scope of customization in Apigee.

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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

"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 scalability is endless."

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

"It is a stable solution."

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

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

"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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"Yes WSO2 API Manager is scalable"

"The capability to define processes and seamless integration with APIs enhances our operations."

"I think the best part about WSO2 API Manager is that it's highly customizable because it's open-source. The partnership model is quite lucrative for us, it helps us to go and pitch to our customers. You can build a lot of business models yourself that you want to use. You are able to do a lot of the solutions."

"Helped us to quickly publish our Microservice APIs and enforcing different policies against them, it comes up with features like Security, Throttling policy and it provides complete access to customize API's which actually saves development effort and time."

"The main feature — the publication of the API, the management section — is great in general."

"WSO2 API Manager provides OAuth2 token capabilities that our customers use to interact, onboard new customers, and provide approvals whenever a customer is onboarded."

"We could easily deploy APIs on WSO2 API Manager, and CORS configuration was easy to manage."

"Most of the time, we need to install a plug-in without having any lapse in services or restarting the application. The WSO2 platform can do all deployments without any downtime."

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Cons

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

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

"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."

"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."

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

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

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

"The scalability aspect of SwaggerHub can be improved. It becomes a bit unreliable when the load is increased and isn't up to par with expectations for scalability."

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"Lacks some new features and updated functionalities."

"The technical support must be improved."

"The user interface could be a bit better."

"We found WSO2 API Manager to be a bit complex."

"I would like to see improvements in the speed of the solution as it can be a bit slow compared to other platforms along with addressing memory issues would be beneficial."

"API Manager is not easy to scale because some of its components lack scalability. It's a difficult point. Especially because companies are so cloud-based these days, microservice scalability is a major thing."

"The user interface needs to improve, it is a bit outdated."

"We had some problems with the reverse proxy not being able to invoke fully qualified domain names, so we have to build some custom scripts to solve this issue."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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

"The tool is cheap."

"For our projects, we found the pricing to be a little high."

"I think the other competitors that are providing the same solution are quite expensive. WSO2 API Manager is quite cheap."

"WSO2 API Manager is an open-source solution."

"We use the open-source version of WSO2 API Manager, there is no cost."

"It's not expensive, but it could be cheaper."

"WSO2 API Manager is a costly solution, and its pricing is not competitive enough compared to other products."

"It is costly, around ten thousand per year, per instance"

"The challenge is the increasing pricing, which has led some customers to consider alternatives, like using Spring Boot solutions instead. The rising costs, especially as cores and usage increase, have been a concern, prompting some to migrate to other products."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

17%

Computer Software Company

13%

Retailer

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

17%

Computer Software Company

16%

Comms Service Provider

Manufacturing Company

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about SwaggerHub?

The tool's most valuable feature is licensing.

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What needs improvement with SwaggerHub?

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What is your primary use case for SwaggerHub?

I started using SwaggerHub in its previous version, SmartMiner, with a tool called SoapUI. I used it to create mock web services to test web services and create test scripts and mock APIs. This usa...

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What do you like most about WSO2 API Manager?

It is possible to scale up and scale down with the solution...I can say that I have not seen any issues related to scalability.

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What needs improvement with WSO2 API Manager?

We have encountered some concerns with concurrency. Our integrations do not handle high-volume transactions, and when benchmarking, some issues arose with concurrent testing. It is uncertain whethe...

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What is your primary use case for WSO2 API Manager?

We use WSO2 API Manager ( /products/wso2-api-manager-reviews ) to integrate our telecom products with third-party REST APIs. We are orchestrating services where our business process defines the int...

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Overview

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.

SmartBear

WSO2 API Manager is a comprehensive platform that allows organizations to design, publish, and manage APIs.

It provides a centralized interface for API governance, security, and analytics.

With features like API monetization and developer portal, it enables businesses to drive innovation and create new revenue streams.

WSO2

Sample Customers

Sonic, Zuora, Woolworths, CrowdFlower

1. eBay 2. StubHub 3. Cisco 4. Verizon 5. T-Mobile 6. Vodafone 7. Orange 8. BT Group 9. Telstra 10. Deutsche Telekom 11. Swisscom 12. AT&T 13. Sprint 14. Telefonica 15. O2 16. British Airways 17. Lufthansa 18. Emirates 19. Qatar Airways 20. Etihad Airways 21. Air France 22. KLM 23. American Express 24. Visa 25. Mastercard 26. PayPal 27. Western Union 28. Citibank 29. HSBC 30. Barclays 31. Santander 32. Goldman Sachs

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