Get More From Your APIs
Get full visibility and control of your API ecosystem — now enhanced with HaloAI for smarter decisions and faster delivery.
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Design with API Hub
From code-first to API-first: Collaborate and standardize on API design, built on open standards and powerful integrations that support your workflow, wherever it starts.
Enhance team collaboration
- API Design for Everyone: Empower cross-functional teams with a visual, code-optional editor, making it easier for non-technical users to contribute to API design from the start.
- One API Catalog, One Source Of Truth: Organize and manage all your API descriptions in a centralized catalog that promotes consistency, reuse, and discoverability across teams.
- Faster Feedback Loops: Accelerate reviews with in-line commenting on API descriptions, streamlining team input and enabling quicker iteration.
Ensure high-quality, consistent APIs
- Enforce Standards With Ease: Apply pre-built templates and style guides to drive consistency, reusability, and faster API delivery.
- Work Across Multiple Specifications: Support both OpenAPI and AsyncAPI to accommodate a wide range of API styles and architectural patterns.
- Build Once, Reuse Everywhere: Standardize core components like data models, parameters, and headers to reduce duplication and accelerate development.
Simplify your workflow
- Seamless Integrations: Connect with version control systems, CI/CD pipelines, and API gateways.
- Flexible Export Options: Export designs in multiple formats to meet development needs.
- Automated Mock APIs: Generate mock servers instantly to test endpoints without manual setup.
Portal with API Hub
Create a customizable portal that makes APIs easy to discover, accelerates onboarding with clear documentation, and delivers an experience that drives adoption and engagement.
Productize APIs for accelerated consumption
- Control API Visibility: Decide whether to expose your APIs publicly or restrict them to authorized users—ensuring the right level of access for every use case.
- Centralize And Simplify Documentation: Consolidate all your API assets in a single, searchable portal for better discoverability, version control, and lifecycle management.
- Improve Developer Experience: Provide intuitive guides and actionable resources to simplify onboarding and accelerate integration.
Enhance discoverability
- Branded API Portal: Customize the portal to reflect your brand, providing a cohesive experience.
- Centralized API Catalog: Organize and showcase all your APIs in one accessible location.
- Search and Filter: Allow users to easily find APIs and endpoints relevant to their needs.
Streamline API documentation and access control
- Assign Roles And Permissions: Tailor access and editing rights across your team to simplify documentation workflows and maintain governance.
- Flexible Rendering Options: Choose between multiple documentation formats—like Swagger UI or markdown-style rendering—to suit both internal and external audiences.
- Unified API Documentation: Consolidate all your API specs and related content in one portal to improve discoverability, reduce context switching, and keep consumers aligned.
“API Hub for Portal is promising to be a game changer for our onboarding process and developer experience. The use of the product concept to describe different parts of our system, combined with seamless integration with other API Hub products, means that developers have a one stop shop to get all the latest API information alongside visually appealing up to date documentation.”
—Senior Tech & Developer Experience Lead, Webio
“With the entire suite of SmartBear tools in play, we are improving release quality and receiving positive customer feedback.”
—Head of Delivery, Triquestra
“We can easily standardize the API design and achieve the level of quality we expect, more efficiently and more easily.”
—Industry Standards Manager, IATA
“Adding API Hub for Contract Testing to our test automation strategy gives the team the confidence to move forward when they see validation between the provider and consumer."”
—Head of Test Engineering, M1 Finance
Contract Testing with API Hub
Replace your flaky and time-consuming end-to-end tests with fast, simple and reliable contract tests. Find and fix integration issues before you commit code, instead of in production.
Deploy with confidence
- Proactive Validation: Catch breaking changes early by validating API contracts throughout development, reducing production risks.
- Bulletproof Pipelines: Orchestrate complex CI and CD pipelines and use can-i-deploy to tell you when a component is safe to release.
- Protocol Versatility: Validate APIs across HTTP, Kafka, and more, ensuring broad compatibility and real-world readiness.
Say goodbye to painful release processes
- Scalable Workflows: The bi-directional contract testing workflow makes it simple for new teams to get started.
- Reduced Complexity: Remove the need for complex, costly and hard-to-manage integration test environments.
- AI-Driven Reliability: Use HaloAI to automate test generation and maintenance, keeping tests in sync with evolving APIs and enabling more reliable deployments.
Accelerate release cycles
- AI-Enhanced Efficiency: Detect testing gaps, optimize workflows, and accelerate time-to-market with minimal manual effort and HaloAI-driven accuracy.
- Proactive Issue Detection: Understand the impact of any change at the point of design or code modification, enabling faster resolution and smoother releases.
- Remove Testing Bottlenecks: Contract tests can be written during development - no need to wait for the other side of your integration to be ready.
Explore with API Hub
Explore APIs effortlessly with integrated documentation and discovery tools, enabling users to quickly understand, validate, and integrate APIs while boosting engagement and speeding up onboarding.
Get to know your APIs
- Quick Endpoint Insights: Instantly visualize API responses to evaluate functionality.
- Increase Collaboration: Share a set of API requests and responses with team members using Explore Spaces.
- Multi-Protocol Support: Interact with REST and Kafka APIs.
Confident integrations
- Mitigate Integration Errors: Reduce errors by evaluating API capabilities before integration.
- Save Time and Resources: Make informed API decisions quickly to focus on development.
- Understand API Behavior: Gain real-time insights into API responses to ensure functionality and integration readiness.
Share data, reduce duplicated efforts
- Integrated Exploration: Combine API documentation and live call testing in a single workspace to better understand how APIs behave before integration.
- Generate OpenAPI: Use Explore to generate an OpenAPI description for a service that doesn’t have one yet, and import it straight into Design to enhance your workflow.
- Collaborative API Discovery: Share API details across teams to accelerate learning and integration efforts.
Test with API Hub
Automate, scale, and streamline functional, integration, and regression API testing—right within your development workflows. Ensure API quality from the first design to final deployment.
Enhance Testing Efficiency
- Built-in API Alignment: Generate tests directly from your API designs to reduce rework and avoid outdated failures.
- Real-Time Collaboration: Share test results across QA, Dev, and Product teams to catch issues early.
- Version-Aware Testing: Validate APIs across versions without starting from scratch.
Accelerate Delivery
- Seamless CI/CD Automation: Trigger API tests at every stage of your pipeline to prevent late-stage defects.
- Low-Code/No-Code: Build reliable tests faster, with less scripting overhead.
- Parallel & Sequential Test Execution: Flexible test execution accelerates feedback loops and regression testing, boosting dev speed and cutting time-to-market.
Collaborate Across the Lifecycle
- Centralized Test Management: Monitor all test runs, results, and failures in one place.
- Role-Based Access Controls: Empower collaboration with intuitive access controls that keep teams aligned.
- Unified Experience: Teams can collaborate effortlessly across design, documentation, exploration, and testing—all within a single Hub.
API Hub Integrations
Seamless Connections for Smarter Development
API Hub integrates effortlessly with the tools your team depends on, enabling streamlined workflows and optimized collaboration.
Ready to transform your API lifecycle?
Unlock advanced features and scale your API management with API Hub’s integrated solution. Manage design, testing, and documentation from one central hub.
