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Swagger/OpenAPI pricing
Swagger/OpenAPI publishes 3 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.
- Entry price
- Free
- Model
- Freemium
- Tiers
- 3
- Free tier
- Yes
Swagger/OpenAPI plans, side by side
Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Source | Free | 2 | Entry tier |
| SwaggerHub Free | Free | 3 | +$0/monthly, 3 more features |
| SwaggerHub Pro | $75/monthly | 3 | +$75/monthly, 3 more features |
What each tier adds
The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.
Open Source
FreeThe entry tier. It covers openapi specification, community tools.
SwaggerHub Free
FreeOver Open Source, this tier adds:
- Cloud editor
- API mocking
- API testing
SwaggerHub Pro
$75/monthlyOver SwaggerHub Free, this tier adds:
- Team collaboration
- Advanced mocking
- Analytics
Where Swagger/OpenAPI stops being free
Open Source, Free
- OpenAPI specification
- Community tools
SwaggerHub Pro, $75/monthly
The first thing you pay for:
- Team collaboration
- Advanced mocking
- Analytics
What the product covers
The full Swagger/OpenAPI feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.
Core
- OpenAPI Specification
- Interactive Documentation
- Code Generation
Integrations
- GitHub
- GitLab
- Jenkins
- IDE plugins
Platform
- Web support
- CLI support
- Desktop support
People bring Swagger/OpenAPI in for api development, api gateway, api testing, api documentation, microservices. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Swagger/OpenAPI are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in API Management
Too few api management tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Swagger/OpenAPI (this page) | Free | freemium | - | |
| Backendless | Free, then $15/month | - | - | vs Swagger/OpenAPI |
| Asyncapi | Free | open-source | - | vs Swagger/OpenAPI |
| Akana | $2500/monthly | subscription | - | vs Swagger/OpenAPI |
| Boomi API Management | $1500/monthly | subscription | - | vs Swagger/OpenAPI |
| AWS API Gateway | Free | usage-based | - | vs Swagger/OpenAPI |
| Appwrite | Free, then $15/month | - | - | vs Swagger/OpenAPI |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the Swagger/OpenAPI badges page.
Before you pay for Swagger/OpenAPI
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: 3 tiers between Free and $75/monthly, with the jump itemised above. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
Swagger/OpenAPI runs on web, cli, desktop, and is published by SmartBear Software of Somerville, Massachusetts, USA. The full record is on the Swagger/OpenAPI review, and the rest of the category is under best api management tools.
Swagger/OpenAPI pricing questions
- How much does Swagger/OpenAPI cost?
- Swagger/OpenAPI publishes 3 tiers, from Free for Open Source up to $75/monthly for SwaggerHub Pro. The entry tier costs nothing.
- Does Swagger/OpenAPI have a free plan?
- Yes. The Open Source tier costs nothing and covers openapi specification, community tools. Paying starts at $75/monthly for SwaggerHub Pro.
- What is the difference between Open Source and SwaggerHub Free on Swagger/OpenAPI?
- SwaggerHub Free costs Free against Free, and adds cloud editor, api mocking, api testing.
- Which api management tools can I use without paying?
- 5 of the 8 api management tools listed alongside Swagger/OpenAPI have a free tier: Backendless, Asyncapi, AWS API Gateway, Appwrite, Microsoft Azure API Management.
- What am I actually paying for with Swagger/OpenAPI?
- The record lists 10 features across 3 areas: core, integrations, platform. In practice it is brought in for api development, api gateway, api testing.
- Does Swagger/OpenAPI charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 3 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these Swagger/OpenAPI prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare Swagger/OpenAPI against before paying?
- The closest api management tools in this directory are Backendless, Asyncapi, Akana, Boomi API Management. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Swagger/OpenAPI covering price, platforms and features.