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What is API Hub (formerly SmartBear SwaggerHub)?

SwaggerHub is now officially SmartBear API Hub! API Hub provides organizations developing APIs, a central collaboration platform to provide a single source of truth to guide API design and documentation, reinforce standardization, and enable better alignment between APIs and the intended business purpose.

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Product Description

Simplify your API lifecycle with SmartBear API Hub. API Hub integrates effortlessly with the tools your team depends on, centralizing design, testing, documentation, and exploration in one unified experience. Eliminate silos and unlock innovation.

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SmartBear

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SmartBear is pioneering innovation in software quality, embracing AI’s transformative potential. The company’s powerful solution hubs, including SmartBear API Hub, SmartBear Insight Hub, and SmartBear Test Hub, featuring HaloAI, give software development teams around the world visibility and automation that provide end-to-end quality. SmartBear is trusted by over 16 million developers, testers, and software engineers at 32,000+ organizations – including innovators like Adobe, JetBlue and Microsoft. With an active peer-to-peer community, SmartBear meets customers where they are to help make our technology-driven world a better place. The company is committed to ethical corporate practices, including responsible AI that integrates accountability and transparency across its technology stack, and to social responsibility, promoting good in all the communities it serves.

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Process Associate

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

7/11/2025

"API Hub Review"

5/5

What do you like best about API Hub (formerly SmartBear SwaggerHub)?

It is centralized API design like it provides a signal source of truth for API definitions. API mecca allows druggies to design, document, and manage APIs using the OpenAPI Specification( OAS) in a single platform. The real- time editor with confirmation helps catch crimes beforehand and provides live previewing, which is a big productivity boost. There are so many features as well Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about API Hub (formerly SmartBear SwaggerHub)?

It has limited issues, performance issues. The attestation UI is tightly coupled with Swagger UI, and customizing the look, feel, or layout is limited. However, it can be frustrating, If you are trying to deeply conform the API croakers experience for branding or usability. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is API Hub (formerly SmartBear SwaggerHub) solving and how is that benefiting you?

How API mecca Solves It

Style companion enforcement

Design- time confirmation against the OpenAPI Spec

Versioning and lifecycle operation

Benefit is insure harmonious, high- quality APIs that align with your company’s norms — reducing tech debt and perfecting maintainability. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ramakrishna R.

L2-Senior Technical Support Specialist

Information Technology and Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

7/9/2025

"BEST TOOL FOR API DESIGN DOCUMENTATION"

4.5/5

What do you like best about API Hub (formerly SmartBear SwaggerHub)?

SmartBear SwaggerHub is a platform designed for API design, documentation, and testing, offering a collaborative environment for teams to work on their APIs. It's known for its ability to enforce OpenAPI standards, manage API evolution, and integrate with CI/CD pipelines. While praised for its user-friendly interface and ease of integration, some users find the API testing functionality limited and suggest improvements in integration with microservices and cloud technologies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about API Hub (formerly SmartBear SwaggerHub)?

Some key drawbacks include the complexity of integration with existing projects, potential performance issues with larger projects, and limitations in collaboration features. Additionally, the free version has limited functionality, and some users report that refreshing the page can reset the payload and query parameters. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is API Hub (formerly SmartBear SwaggerHub) solving and how is that benefiting you?

API Hubs help solve several key business challenges related to API management and integration. They address the need for centralized discovery, streamline development processes, enhance security, and improve collaboration among teams. By providing a central location for APIs, API Hubs simplify the process of finding, understanding, and using APIs, ultimately boosting development efficiency and accelerating time to market for new products and features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Consulting

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

7/12/2025

"Solid platform for API lifecycle management with strong governance features"

3.5/5

What do you like best about API Hub (formerly SmartBear SwaggerHub)?

The best part is how clean and developer-friendly the UI is. Designing APIs using OpenAPI spec is smooth, and the branching/version control feels like Git but made for API documentation. It really helps keep everything consistent across teams. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about API Hub (formerly SmartBear SwaggerHub)?

The ability to enforce API design standards using style guides is a huge plus. Our team uses it to maintain uniformity across services. Integrations with GitHub and contract testing tools like PactFlow make CI/CD workflows much more reliable Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is API Hub (formerly SmartBear SwaggerHub) solving and how is that benefiting you?

API Hub helps our teams standardize and centralize API design and documentation. It eliminates inconsistencies across services by enforcing design rules and making collaboration seamless. We no longer waste time managing multiple Swagger files or worrying about breaking changes in APIs. It’s also improved our DevOps efficiency by integrating contract testing early in the pipeline. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Varun T.

Senior Software Engineer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

11/14/2024

"Swagger: A Tool for testing my work"

4.5/5

What do you like best about API Hub (formerly SmartBear SwaggerHub)?

The UI is simple and clean, Provides ease of access to new users. The authentication token can be configured easily. I use it in my daily development activities. The APIs I wrote, I test them using swagger. After I test my APIs through swagger, then I will start integration with frontend APIs. With some additional configuration swagger persists auth token, changes theme, displays response time too. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about API Hub (formerly SmartBear SwaggerHub)?

If we reload swagger then all the request body we made earlier for APIs will be erased, we should have a persistence option to save requests. For example postman supports saving requests etc. Swagger Filter option is not upto the mark. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

José Fernando J.

Back End Developer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

10/16/2024

"SwaggerHub as a tool for a backend developer"

4/5

What do you like best about API Hub (formerly SmartBear SwaggerHub)?

I like it because I can work with other teammates developing our documentation in the same project, I like it because we can have our own branches for developing, we can search depending of the frequency of updating or searching by name, is very useful when project becomes very big and when we work with too much people. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about API Hub (formerly SmartBear SwaggerHub)?

I dislike that we cannot see in a easy way which changes our teammates make in the document of swaggerHub this process needs to be done manually. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Naga Likhita C.

Technical Lead

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

11/14/2024

"My API development journey with SwaggerHub"

4.5/5

What do you like best about API Hub (formerly SmartBear SwaggerHub)?

I use SwaggerHub frequently to create API Documentation.

Easy to test the api's locally before deployments.

Simple to export the code to the programming language of my choice and implementation is made easy.

Able to test API security with OAuth Authentication.

Easy to validate API requests and integrate to other systems.

Easy to copy/download curl requests. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about API Hub (formerly SmartBear SwaggerHub)?

Free version has limited features.

Once we refresh the swagger, json payload will be reset to default and query parameters will be erased.

Team collabration options are limited. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

6/24/2025

"Nice and Easy to use"

5/5

What do you like best about API Hub (formerly SmartBear SwaggerHub)?

This makes the developers to view the contracts easy and understand the API responses and request Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about API Hub (formerly SmartBear SwaggerHub)?

It was a perfect platform no dislike and easy to use Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

6/19/2025

"How API Hub helped collaboration and reduced KT times"

4/5

What do you like best about API Hub (formerly SmartBear SwaggerHub)?

The most helpful feature is the ability to create and edit OpenAPI definitions in a collaborative, web-based editor. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.