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Swagger

bySmartBear
in API Generation Software
4.3

Overview

Product Information on Swagger

Updated 4th March 2026

What is Swagger?

Swagger is a suite of open-source and professional tools that facilitates the design, development, and documentation of RESTful APIs. It provides tools for defining APIs using a standardized specification, allowing teams to create interactive documentation, validate API requests and responses, and generate client and server code in various programming languages. The software enables businesses to streamline the API development lifecycle, reduce errors, and promote consistency across services by ensuring API definitions are clear and machine-readable. Swagger addresses the challenge of maintaining accurate API documentation and automating repetitive coding tasks, supporting collaboration among development, QA, and DevOps teams.

Swagger Pricing

Swagger has three pricing models; free, SaaS, and on-prem. Both SaaS and on-prem are further divided by team size.

Overall experience with Swagger

Engineer
500M - 1B USD, IT Services
FAVORABLE

“Intuitive interface speeds up API testing and improves collaboration”

4.0
Jul 24, 2026
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IT Manager
1B - 3B USD, Transportation
CRITICAL

“Vendor Prioritizes Innovation Over Addressing Core API Governance Challenges”

3.0
Feb 25, 2026
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About Company

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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Swagger Reviews and Ratings

4.3

(19 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

5 Star
42%
4 Star
42%
3 Star
16%
2 Star
0%
1 Star
0%
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  • Engineer
    50M-1B USD
    IT Services
    Review Source

    Intuitive interface speeds up API testing and improves collaboration

    4.0
    Jul 24, 2026
    variable tool for documenting and exploring rest API and it provides the clear interface for understanding and point and liquid parameter and making a collaboration depend developer fantastic must material and the interface documentation help verify API quickly and video with time let it don't understand your services the overall it has improve our AP test
  • Engineer
    50M-1B USD
    IT Services
    Review Source

    Intuitive interface speeds up API testing and improves collaboration

    4.0
    Jul 24, 2026
    variable tool for documenting and exploring rest API and it provides the clear interface for understanding and point and liquid parameter and making a collaboration depend developer fantastic must material and the interface documentation help verify API quickly and video with time let it don't understand your services the overall it has improve our AP test
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Reviewer Insights for: Swagger
Performance of Swagger Across Market Features

Swagger Likes & Dislikes

Like

but I like most about intuitive interface and interactive API documentation it makes make it easy to understand AP and point request and response format and test appear checkly from the browser it improve collaboration between developer andester and its a time doing API variation and help to keep a pair documentation consistant throughout the development life cycle

Like

but I like most about intuitive interface and interactive API documentation it makes make it easy to understand AP and point request and response format and test appear checkly from the browser it improve collaboration between developer andester and its a time doing API variation and help to keep a pair documentation consistant throughout the development life cycle

Like

but I like most about intuitive interface and interactive API documentation it makes make it easy to understand AP and point request and response format and test appear checkly from the browser it improve collaboration between developer andester and its a time doing API variation and help to keep a pair documentation consistant throughout the development life cycle

Dislike

API standards governance is not effectively addressed in a flexible way. API review by teams is not well supported.

Dislike

API standards governance is not effectively addressed in a flexible way. API review by teams is not well supported.

Dislike

API standards governance is not effectively addressed in a flexible way. API review by teams is not well supported.