Runscope vs Swagger Codegen

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Runscope vs Swagger Codegen: What are the differences?

What is Runscope? API Performance Monitoring. Keep tabs on all aspects of your API's performance with uptime monitoring, integration testing, logging and real-time monitoring.

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.

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

Some of the features offered by Runscope are:

  • Runscope Radar: Automatically monitor your APIs from around the globe. Integrates with PagerDuty, New Relic Insights, Keen IO, HipChat, Slack and more. Test complete API workflows with powerful assertions and notifications.
  • Runscope Metrics: API performance and usage reports.
  • Runscope API Traffic Inspector: Log and view API calls from any language or framework to any API to solve integration problems.

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.

According to the StackShare community, Runscope has a broader approval, being mentioned in 50 company stacks & 61 developers stacks; compared to Swagger Codegen, which is listed in 19 company stacks and 3 developer stacks.

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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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    Decent
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    Collections
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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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    History feature - call history and response history
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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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    SDK Generation

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What is Runscope?

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

What is Swagger Codegen?

It is an open source project which allows generation of API client libraries (SDK generation), server stubs, and documentation automatically from an OpenAPI Specification.

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