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Apiary vs Swagger UI: What are the differences?
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; Swagger UI: dependency-free collection of HTML, Javascript, and CSS assets that dynamically generate beautiful documentation. Swagger UI is a dependency-free collection of HTML, Javascript, and CSS assets that dynamically generate beautiful documentation and sandbox from a Swagger-compliant API.
Apiary and Swagger UI belong to "Documentation as a Service & Tools" category of the tech stack.
"Easy to use" is the primary reason why developers consider Apiary over the competitors, whereas "Open Source" was stated as the key factor in picking Swagger UI.
According to the StackShare community, Swagger UI has a broader approval, being mentioned in 203 company stacks & 101 developers stacks; compared to Apiary, which is listed in 44 company stacks and 18 developer stacks.
Pros of Apiary
- Easy to use28
- Free to use19
- Traffic inspector12
- Free11
- Collaboration10
- Mock API7
- Dashboard4
- Customization3
- 30 Days Trial2
- Access Control2
- Validate API Documentation2
- Documentation2
- API explorer1
- Clean syntax1
- Github integration helps with collaboration1
- Code auto-generation1
- Shared API blueprint templates1
- Provisioning1
Pros of Swagger UI
- Open Source45
- Can execute api calls from the documentation32
- Free to use28
- Customizable19
- Easy to implement in .Net14
- Mature, clean spec13
- API Visualization11
- Coverage9
- Easy to use6
- Scaffolding6
- Vibrant and active community5
- Elegant4
- Adopted by tm forum api3
- Clear for React2
- Can deploy API to AWS API Gateway and AWS Lambda1
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Cons of Apiary
Cons of Swagger UI
- Need to learn YAML and RAML2
- You don’t actually get in-line error highlighting1
- Does not support hypermedia1