Compare IBM API Connect vs Stoplight

Summary

IBM API Connect is an intuitive, complete and scalable API platform for businesses and companies that uses API technology in any sort of way. The platform helps users to generate, expose, monetise and manage APIs over clouds. This allows businesses and their customers to access digital applications and promote innovation. It also includes an IBM Cloud Pak solution, which helps users to achieve the application modernisation goals while working on different processes over the cloud. With advanced IBM DataPower Gateway, the platform provides a secured network and greatly reduces any risk of a cybersecurity incident. It has a microservices-based architecture that seamlessly scales its components to meet SLAs, improving the user experience while maintaining performance. IBM API Connect adapts to the companies needs and works wherever their applications and data is being operated, that is, cloud or anywhere else. Users can also expand their API strategy to meet their changing needs. ..show more

Stoplight is an API Design, Docs, Mocking, and Testing tool that uses OpenAPI documents to aid the API development process. With the help of a visual and collaborative editor, developers can manage OpenAPI (Swagger) with 10x faster turnaround time. Consistent and standardized REST APIs can be driven for organizations without writing any code. Developers also receive the benefit of integrated and hosted mock servers that are powered by Prism. The Hosted API Documentation feature also enables users to create beautiful, customizable, and interactive API documentation within minutes. Customers can refer to test requests within the documentation to understand how the API of the user works. The documentation can even be customized with Themes, Custom CSS, Pages, Domains, and Versioning. And with the OpenAPI Testing, users can build web APIs with customized tests based on the API contracts. The OpenAPI Mocking feature allows the routing of incoming requests to example responses. ..show more

API Design Helps in creating an interface to distribute the data systematically to other applications

API Lifecycle Management Helps to monitor and managing all the life cycles of an API

Access Control Defines application access to various users. Includes role-based system that controls options to be displayed to different users based on their role

Analytics Allows integration with other analytical tools or has it inbuilt

Dashboard A digital insight of reports and other workings on a single screen

Developer Portal Provides API and app performance analytics to developers, and offers a self-service platform

Testing Management Helps you in managing, tracking and organizing all tests and reports in one place

Threat Protection This feature will defend the system and application from cyber threats

Traffic Control Helpful in controlling the API traffic spikes

Version Control It gives the team the ability to recall specific versions of a document, code, content, file, or folder that records changes over time.

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