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Apiary vs Ardoq: What are the differences?

What is Apiary? Integrated API documentation, prototyping and testing. It takes more than a simple HTML page to thrill your API users. The right tools take weeks of development. Weeks that apiary.io saves.

What is Ardoq? SaaS Platform focusing on automating and visualizing your documentation. Ardoq's out of the box visualizations are automatically created in real-time. All changes and relationships are visualized simultaneously and are context sensitive. With Ardoq, you can see your documentation in the perspectives that best suit your needs.

Apiary and Ardoq can be primarily classified as "Documentation as a Service &" tools.

Some of the features offered by Apiary are:

  • Documentation- Organized around resources, code samples with syntax highlight, easy to explore.
  • Inspector- Users can make API calls through apiary.io, we show them how they differ from documentation.
  • Community- Opensource your API documentation on GitHub. The right channel between developers on both side of the API.

On the other hand, Ardoq provides the following key features:

  • Navigate Systems and Dependencies Through Interactive and Customizable Visualisations.
  • Perform Consequence Analysis Through Visualisations.
  • Extensive REST-api for Customisation and Automation.
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From a StackShare Community member: "I just started working for a start-up and we are in desperate need of better documentation for our API. Currently our API docs is in a README.md file. We are evaluating Postman and Swagger UI. Since there are many options and I was wondering what other StackSharers would recommend?"

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Jagdeep Singh
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I use Postman because of the ease of team-management, using workspaces and teams, runner, collections, environment variables, test-scripts (post execution), variable management (pre and post execution), folders (inside collections, for better management of APIs), newman, easy-ci-integration (and probably a few more things that I am not able to recall right now).

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I use Swagger UI because it's an easy tool for end-consumers to visualize and test our APIs. It focuses on that ! And it's directly embedded and delivered with the APIs. Postman's built-in tools aren't bad, but their main focus isn't the documentation and also, they are hosted outside the project.

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Sadik Ay
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I recommend Postman because it's easy to use with history option. Also, it has very great features like runner, collections, test scripts runners, defining environment variables and simple exporting and importing data.

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Pros of Ardoq
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    Easy to use
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    Free to use
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    Traffic inspector
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    Free
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    Collaboration
  • 7
    Mock API
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    Dashboard
  • 3
    Customization
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    30 Days Trial
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    Access Control
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    Documentation
  • 2
    Validate API Documentation
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    API explorer
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    Clean syntax
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    Provisioning
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    Shared API blueprint templates
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    Github integration helps with collaboration
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    Code auto-generation
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    Swagger API-visualization
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    Easy to use and auto generated views
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    Supports TOGAF ArchiMate 3.0

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What is Apiary?

It takes more than a simple HTML page to thrill your API users. The right tools take weeks of development. Weeks that apiary.io saves.

What is Ardoq?

Ardoq's out of the box visualizations are automatically created in real-time. All changes and relationships are visualized simultaneously and are context sensitive. With Ardoq, you can see your documentation in the perspectives that best suit your needs.

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