Paw vs Swagger Codegen: What are the differences?

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.

What is Swagger Codegen? *Generate API clients or server stubs for REST API *. It is an open source project which allows generation of API client libraries (SDK generation), server stubs, and documentation automatically from an OpenAPI Specification.

Paw and Swagger Codegen can be primarily classified as "API" tools.

Some of the features offered by Paw are:

• Organize your Requests, make Groups or sort by Host, Name, etc.
• Easily build your requests, enjoy Formatters and Dynamic Values.
• See Request and Response infos, headers, and body.

On the other hand, Swagger Codegen provides the following key features:

• Generate client SDKs in over 40 different languages for end developers to easily integrate with your API
• Always updated with the latest and greatest changes in the programming world
• Remove tedious plumbing and configuration by generating boilerplate server code in over 20 different languages

Swagger Codegen is an open source tool with 10.1K GitHub stars and 4.75K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Swagger Codegen's open source repository on GitHub.

Swat.io, Paw, and PlanHW are some of the popular companies that use Paw, whereas Swagger Codegen is used by NDS, WAITR, and edu.chat, inc. Paw has a broader approval, being mentioned in 22 company stacks & 106 developers stacks; compared to Swagger Codegen, which is listed in 19 company stacks and 3 developer stacks.