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Paw vs OpenAPI: What are the differences?
Developers describe Paw as "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. On the other hand, OpenAPI is detailed as "Allows the owner of a network-accessible service to give universal access". It is a publicly available application programming interface that provides developers with programmatic access to a proprietary software application or web service.
Paw and OpenAPI belong to "API Tools" category of the tech stack.
OpenAPI is an open source tool with 15.4K GitHub stars and 5.46K GitHub forks. Here's a link to OpenAPI's open source repository on GitHub.
Swat.io, Paw, and PlanHW are some of the popular companies that use Paw, whereas OpenAPI is used by aaaa aa, StickyKnow.io, and Voypost. Paw has a broader approval, being mentioned in 22 company stacks & 106 developers stacks; compared to OpenAPI, which is listed in 3 company stacks and 4 developer stacks.
Pros of OpenAPI
- Easy to read the template generated1
- The most popular api spec1
- Easy to learn1
- Supports versioning1
- Supports authentication1
- Supports caching1
Pros of Paw
- Great interface46
- Easy to use37
- More stable and performant than the others25
- Saves endpoints list for testing16
- Supports environment variables13
- Integrations12
- Multi-Dimension Environment Settings9
- Paste curl commands into Paw4
- Creates code for any language or framework2
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Cons of OpenAPI
Cons of Paw
- It's not free3
- MacOS Only2
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