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Swagger

bySmartBear
in API Generation Software
4.0

Overview

Product Information on Swagger

Updated 5th November 2025

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

Overall experience with Swagger

SOFTWARE ENGG.
1B - 3B USD, Banking
FAVORABLE

“Swagger Streamlines API Design, Documentation, and Testing But Setup Can Be Complex”

4.0
May 16, 2025
Excellent experience with Swagger, there is lots of application where we have created an API and leveraging the swagger for API design, documentation and testing. Swagger UI allows users to explore and test API's directly from the documentation, streamlining the development process.
Founding Engineer
<50M USD, IT Services
CRITICAL

“Manual Spec Creation Tedious for Large APIs”

3.0
May 19, 2025
It's nice, but manual spec creation can be tedious for large APIs. Apart from that it's Developer friendly and improves team collaboration

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 26th February 2025
Company type
Private
Head office location
Somerville, United States
Number of employees
501 - 1000
Website
http://www.smartbear.com

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Reviewer Insights for: Swagger

Swagger Likes & Dislikes

Like

Wagger UI lets users interact with the API directly from the docs, making it very easy to understand and test endpoints. and works well with CI/CD pipelines, Git workflows and integrates with tools like ReDoc, Postman and API gateways.

Like

Interactive document is what I like the most

Like

Gave me a clearer structure for defining APIs properly, and the best way to be introduced to REST.

Dislike

Initial Setup can be Complex - Writing and maintaining YAML or JSON spec files can be tedious or confusing for newcomers. And customizing the look or behavior of swagger UI beyond its defaults often requires code-level changes.

Dislike

Manual OpenAPI spec editing is tedious and fragile

Dislike

I could find all the APIs for my project all at a single page, ready to use headers and bodies from the DTOs, ready made and I could get the CURLs also for testing the calls in different environments.

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Peer Discussions

Swagger Reviews and Ratings

4.0

(4 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

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25%
4 Star
50%
3 Star
25%
2 Star
0%
1 Star
0%
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Customer Experience

Evaluation & Contracting

4.5

Integration & Deployment

4.8

Service & Support

4.0

Product Capabilities

4.3

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  • SOFTWARE ENGG.
    1B-10B USD
    Banking
    Review Source

    Swagger Streamlines API Design, Documentation, and Testing But Setup Can Be Complex

    4.0
    May 16, 2025
    Excellent experience with Swagger, there is lots of application where we have created an API and leveraging the swagger for API design, documentation and testing. Swagger UI allows users to explore and test API's directly from the documentation, streamlining the development process.
  • Software Developer
    50M-1B USD
    IT Services
    Review Source

    Swagger Simplifies API Management for Java Developers and Freshers Alike

    4.0
    May 15, 2025
    When I started as a Java developer, Swagger was the tool which made my life easier, before that I used to piece the API calls which was always a big task for a fresher, I could test my API right from the browser without writing specific codes.
  • SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER
    50M-1B USD
    IT Services
    Review Source

    Real-Time Validation and Visualization Feature Among Swagger's Key Strengths

    5.0
    May 15, 2025
    Swagger makes it very easy to design and document REST APIs. Swagger editor allows to write YAML/JSON with real time validation which is really helpful. Its very useful in seeing request and response formats clearly
  • Founding Engineer
    <50M USD
    IT Services
    Review Source

    Manual Spec Creation Tedious for Large APIs

    3.0
    May 19, 2025
    It's nice, but manual spec creation can be tedious for large APIs. Apart from that it's Developer friendly and improves team collaboration
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