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API Umbrella vs Runscope: What are the differences?

Developers describe API Umbrella as "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.. On the other hand, Runscope is detailed as "API Performance Monitoring". Keep tabs on all aspects of your API's performance with uptime monitoring, integration testing, logging and real-time monitoring.

API Umbrella and Runscope can be categorized as "API" tools.

API Umbrella is an open source tool with 1.32K GitHub stars and 244 GitHub forks. Here's a link to API Umbrella's open source repository on GitHub.

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      Nicely priced
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      Free plan
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      No install needed - runs on cloud
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      Dead simple and useful. Excellent
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      Awesome customer support
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      Import scripts from sources including Postman
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      Shareable Collections
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      Global & Collection level variables
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      Graphical view of response times historically
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      Integrations - StatusPage, PagerDuty, HipChat, Victorop
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      Run tests from multiple locations across globe
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      Schedule test collections to auto-run at intervals
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      Auto Re-run failed scheduled tests before notifying
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      Makes developing REST APIs easy
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      Restrict access by teams
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      Fully featured without looking cluttered
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      Can save and share scripts

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    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.

    What is Runscope?

    Keep tabs on all aspects of your API's performance with uptime monitoring, integration testing, logging and real-time monitoring.

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