API Blueprint vs API Umbrella

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API Blueprint vs API Umbrella: What are the differences?

API Blueprint: A powerful high-level API design language for web APIs. API Blueprint is simple and accessible to everybody involved in the API lifecycle. Its syntax is concise yet expressive. With API Blueprint you can quickly design and prototype APIs to be created or document and test already deployed mission-critical APIs; API Umbrella: Open source API management platform used by api.data.gov. API Umbrella is a proxy that sits in front of your APIs It can seamlessly add common functionality like api keys, rate limiting, and analytics to any API..

API Blueprint and API Umbrella can be primarily classified as "API" tools.

API Blueprint and API Umbrella are both open source tools. It seems that API Blueprint with 7.52K GitHub stars and 2.07K forks on GitHub has more adoption than API Umbrella with 1.32K GitHub stars and 244 GitHub forks.

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    What is API Blueprint?

    API Blueprint is simple and accessible to everybody involved in the API lifecycle. Its syntax is concise yet expressive. With API Blueprint you can quickly design and prototype APIs to be created or document and test already deployed mission-critical APIs.

    What is API Umbrella?

    API Umbrella is a proxy that sits in front of your APIs. It can seamlessly add common functionality like api keys, rate limiting, and analytics to any API.

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