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API Blueprint vs Paw: What are the differences?

What is 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.

What is Paw? The ultimate REST client for Mac. Paw is a full-featured and beautifully designed Mac app that makes interaction with REST services delightful. Either you are an API maker or consumer, Paw helps you build HTTP requests, inspect the server's response and even generate client code.

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

API Blueprint is an open source tool with 7.52K GitHub stars and 2.07K GitHub forks. Here's a link to API Blueprint's open source repository on GitHub.

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Pros of API Blueprint
Pros of Paw
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    Easy to use
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    Ecosystem of tools
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    Great interface
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    Easy to use
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    More stable and performant than the others
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    Saves endpoints list for testing
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    Supports environment variables
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    Integrations
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    Multi-Dimension Environment Settings
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    Paste curl commands into Paw
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    Creates code for any language or framework

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Cons of API Blueprint
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      It's not free
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      MacOS Only

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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 Paw?

    Paw is a full-featured and beautifully designed Mac app that makes interaction with REST services delightful. Either you are an API maker or consumer, Paw helps you build HTTP requests, inspect the server's response and even generate client code.

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