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24 alternatives to Swagger

The World's Most Popular Framework for APIs.

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier. Swagger launched in 2014; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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   Apidog▲570

   Development teams often struggle with using multiple tools like Postman and Swagger for API design, development, and testing. This fragmented approach leads to outdated API specs and chaotic collaboration. So we built Apidog: a single, unified API platform for team collaboration. It has a beautiful interface that makes it easy to create API spec, generate request data from API spec, validate responses, create mock data, orchestrate test scenarios, and publish API documentation. Apidog = Postman + Swagger + Mock + JMeter.

   2024 · apidog.com · its alternatives →

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   Mitmproxy2swagger – Automagically reverse-engineer REST APIs▲691

   Automagically reverse-engineer REST APIs via capturing traffic - alufers/mitmproxy2swagger

   2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   Pushpin▲79

   Building and scaling realtime APIs made easy

   2015 · pushpin.org · its alternatives →

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   Chain▲125

   The Block Chain API for Developers

   2014 · chain.com · its alternatives →

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   Bottr.co▲234

   The world's most simple bot framework

   2016 · bottr.co · its alternatives →

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   Swagger Inspector▲141

   Free online tool to test APIs and autogenerate documentation

   2018 · swagger.io · its alternatives →

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   API Tracker▲297

   IMDB for APIs, the world's biggest API search engine

   2022 · apitracker.io · its alternatives →

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   The Changelog - #189: JSON API with Yehuda Katz▲66

   Yehuda's start as a programmer and the spec for building API

   2016 · changelog.com · its alternatives →

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   SwaggerHub Explore▲72

   Evaluate the functionality of any API

   2023 · explore.swaggerhub.com · its alternatives →

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    Lumen▲173

    A PHP micro-framework by Laravel

    2015 · lumen.laravel.com · its alternatives →

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    Visual Swagger Editor for Teams▲89

    Link your app design to API calls

    2022 · its alternatives →

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    API{Search}▲127

    APIs: Find and Be Found

    2014 · apis.io · its alternatives →

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    HTTPHUB▲69

    Most essential backend for applications and devices

    2015 · its alternatives →

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    Collabinate▲68

    an API for hosted activity streams

    2014 · its alternatives →

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    Project Maelstrom▲88

    An Internet Powered By You; Not A Central Server

    2014 · bittorrent.com · its alternatives →

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    Apiary▲101

    Blueprint for API Development

    2013 · apiary.io · its alternatives →

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    Parsehubfree tier, from $189/mo▲96

    Turn dynamic websites into APIs

    2014 · parsehub.com · its alternatives →

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    Frontends▲93

    A community for front-end developers

    2014 · its alternatives →

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    Gondola▲69

    The web framework for Go programming language

    2014 · its alternatives →

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    Lightning▲91

    The faster, easier, and cheaper way to get services.

    2017 · lightninghomeservices.com · its alternatives →

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    Gleam.io▲85

    A metrics focused competition tool to drive user engagement

    2014 · gleam.io · its alternatives →

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    Apitronics▲75

    Nest for Farming

    2014 · apitronics.com · its alternatives →

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    GraphQL World▲85

    A map of events & projects in the global GraphQL community

    2017 · graphql-world.com · its alternatives →

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    Swagger Codegen▲29

    Auto-generate API clients, server stubs, docs for REST APIs

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

Ranked by how close each launch is in meaning, then by votes. Prices were read from each product’s own site when checked and can change. Refine with your own description →