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Swagger

Deep Dive Analysis

Swagger is the tooling around the OpenAPI specification: describe an API once, then generate documentation, clients and test consoles from it.

Target Audience

Teams publishing an API that other people have to consume.

The Final Verdict

"Worth adopting for any public API. The spec only helps if you keep it truthful."

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What we checked

Public API
Offers a documented API you can build against.
Yes
Mobile app
Has a native app for iOS or Android, not just a mobile website.
No
Open source / self-hostable
Source is open and the tool can be run on your own infrastructure.
Yes
SSO (SAML)
Supports SAML single sign-on on at least one plan.
Yes

These are facts that can be checked, not opinions. Where we have not checked, it says so — we do not fill the gap with a guess.

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