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Market Presence: AI-Augmented Software Testing Tools, Load Testing Tools

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Product Information on SmartBear ReadyAPI

Updated 4th March 2026

What is SmartBear ReadyAPI?

ReadyAPI is a integrated API testing platform offering a full stack of integrated Functional, Security, Performance testing, and Virtualization tools that accelerate API Quality so that development and testing teams can simplify how they create, manage, and automate complex end-to-end API tests within their CI/CD pipelines while supporting a vast majority of API protocols (Rest, gRPC, Kafka, GraphQL, and more!) on-premise.

SmartBear ReadyAPI Pricing

Can be sold as stand-alone or bundle packaging for Test, Performance and Virtualization modules.

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SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER
250M - 500M USD, Software
FAVORABLE

“Boosting Productivity with SmartBear's ReadyAPI Tool”

4.0
Dec 20, 2024
SmartBear ReadyAPI is an easy tool for testing APIs. It help developers and testers to test the API and find issues. This is one of the best API tool available that is automated with minimal coding, it increase developer and tester productivity and reduce the work. This is used by the many companies to make sure APIs run smoothly.
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Company Description

Updated 7th December 2023

SmartBear concentrates on providing advanced tools designed to enhance the quality of software development processes. The focus is on granting software teams global insight into the complete software quality through test management, automation, API development lifecycle, and application stability, striving for each software release to outperform the previous version. Particular tools from the portfolio include SwaggerHub, TestComplete, Bugsnag, ReadyAPI, Zephyr, and Pactflow. These tools are utilized by millions of developers, testers, and software engineers in thousands of organizations globally, comprised of various renowned tech innovators. By fostering an active peer-to-peer community, SmartBear aims to cater to customer needs, striving to contribute positively to our technology-dependent society.

Company Details

Updated 18th March 2026
Company type
Private
Year Founded
2009
Head office location
Somerville, United States
Number of employees
501 - 1000
Website
http://www.smartbear.com

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SmartBear ReadyAPI Likes & Dislikes

Like

This is the platform that help different type of testing like functional, security, and performance tetsting. By following simple step it can check security and issues of applications. It support SOAP, REST both.

Like

Easy and flexible to create test and execution using readyAPI and nice visual editors and wizards that make testing easy and time saver. easy to manage the environments, like dockers contain or other distributed staging environments. Team friendly we can share the project with the team and report issues within them. when we are working in sprints, you need to have continuous feedback, readyAPI definitely helps in automating very fast and rapidly, we have less coding and we can more easily define our assertions.

Dislike

Not many users are available. Make complex task easier. Add more option for customization.

Dislike

No issue as of now, all fine with the feature of readyAPI

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4.2

(2 Ratings)

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4.5

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5.0

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4.5

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  • SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER
    50M-1B USD
    Software
    Review Source

    Boosting Productivity with SmartBear's ReadyAPI Tool

    4.0
    Dec 20, 2024
    SmartBear ReadyAPI is an easy tool for testing APIs. It help developers and testers to test the API and find issues. This is one of the best API tool available that is automated with minimal coding, it increase developer and tester productivity and reduce the work. This is used by the many companies to make sure APIs run smoothly.
  • LEAD MANAGER
    50M-1B USD
    Healthcare and Biotech
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    Most recommended for all

    5.0
    Mar 25, 2023
    Overall good, i can say it's a top-ranked product in the market now a day we are struggling to found a good product for performance testing and load testing, one of my friends suggest me to try smart bear, now we are so much happy with the feature and easy interface. we use data-driven testing within and support schemas and protocols. Anybody who is doing your functional testing can see that request and response times are and raise a flag base upon the business affiliates.
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