# ReadyAPI Reviews **Vendor:** SmartBear **Category:** [Software Testing Tools](https://www.g2.com/categories/software-testing) **Average Rating:** 4.4/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 73 ## About ReadyAPI ReadyAPI allows teams to create, manage, and execute automated functional, security, and performance tests of RESTful, SOAP, Kafka and other web services in one centralized interface inside your CI/CD pipeline – accelerating API quality for Agile and DevOps software teams. Get started by importing API definitions like OpenAPI/Swagger or AsyncAPI, testing and recording live API traffic, or virtualizing web services to remove pipeline dependencies. ## ReadyAPI Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users value the **ease of use** in ReadyAPI, facilitating robust testing and simple test creation. (1 reviews) - Users value the **easy testing** capability of ReadyAPI, enabling quick test creation even without complete specifications. (1 reviews) - Users find **time-saving benefits** in ReadyAPI, enabling quicker test creation and enhancing their testing experience. (1 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users find the **licensing costs of ReadyAPI to be quite high** , which affects its overall value perception. (1 reviews) - Users find the **licensing costs high** , feeling it doesn't justify the value of ReadyAPI. (1 reviews) - Users find the **licensing fees expensive** relative to the overall value of ReadyAPI, impacting their purchase decisions. (1 reviews) ## ReadyAPI Reviews ### 1. Best API automation tool for Agile team needs of high productivity, easy CI integration **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rajani P. | Principal Software Development Engineer in Test, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 21, 2017 **What do you like best about ReadyAPI?** Have been using SoapUI Pro to automate REST API services in Healthcare industry product. Got quick launch with tool integration with Swagger. Initial template test cases built by tool are easy and various assertions on responses are just-a-click-away. Maven build pom given with various attribute samples is quite detailed and it made it possible to build and deploy acceptance tests on CI server in less than 3 week. **What do you dislike about ReadyAPI?** Project Coverage report feature is very helpful dashboard for senior management to indicate how much API test automation coverage is accomplished. This feature currently works only with SOAP API, but not with RESTful services. Good have the feature of REPRESENTATION coverage is captured for REST API as well. So that quantifiable coverage dashboards can be demonstrated to Senior leadership. **Recommendations to others considering ReadyAPI:** I recommend SoapUI Pro for the organizations looking for quick launching web services/ API automation in Agile development teams. I've explore other open source tools like JMeter, Postman before compare benefits and finalize to use SoapUI Pro. This tool, which excellent documentation helps even novice users to gain expert level within couple of months of usage. Continuous Integration build demands are easily meet with detailed POM.XML example and ability to run only needed tests by 'tag' names. This tool helped us to achieve bread & depth of coverage with enhanced assertion components and clear reporting. **What problems is ReadyAPI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Healthcare industry demands accuracy in results. SoapUI Pro with various assertion capabilities built-in along with script based assertion support, serving greater needs for Agile product development. Data driven testing & Data validations are fairly easy to accomplished with Data Source & JDBC assertions. Automated acceptance tests are built and deployed to run Continuous Integration using Maven (pom.xml) build. All of the script design and development is effortless and highly productive with detailed documentation the tool provides. ### 2. The best Top tier, versatile and easy to use API testing tool. Nothing comes close. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Greg G. | Manager, Quality Assurance, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 21, 2017 **What do you like best about ReadyAPI?** Usability. Ease of use. Data-Diven. Integration with other tools. Excellent support and free training/ webinars. **What do you dislike about ReadyAPI?** Nothing in particular. Maybe improved integration to CI/CD in SaaS environments and a centralized dashboard, but there are workarounds to make it work as is. **Recommendations to others considering ReadyAPI:** Excellent tool all around, quality support and online forums available. Plenty of training videos. **What problems is ReadyAPI solving and how is that benefiting you?** I've been in QA for over 20 years and saw the progression of the soapUI from an open source to Pro. SoapUI Pro / ReadyAPI tools are customer-centric and make QA and DevOps lives so much easier. I've completed close to 5 large-scale projects using the tool and it helped us tremendously with time to market. I was able to automate application testing end-to-end. Built smoke,acceptence and integration tests for QA departments, implemented it as part of CI/CD process using Microsoft TFS. SoapUI testcases could be re-used in other tools that Smarbear provides, such as AlertSite, Secure Pro, LoadUI and ServiceV. WIth the complete toolset, any organization could leverage the investment into SoapUI and make it a part of the enterprise. SoapUI data-driven testing capabilities, extensibility via extensions and plug-ins had helped speed up implementations and save on development time for other QA engineers on my team. Usage of APIs worldwide is on the rise and SoapUI Pro is a de-facto tool for API automation. ### 3. Good software for automation with excellent and ample online documents, resources **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** S F M. | System Test Specialist, Computer Software, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 22, 2017 **What do you like best about ReadyAPI?** The customization abilities to accommodate/integrate other 3rd party software or in-house frameworks made within our company with SoapUI is amazing. The vast amount of documents, online training and resources available from the vendor makes the learning process much easier. SoapUI Pro is getting better with new releases and adding new features which is highly appreciated. **What do you dislike about ReadyAPI?** Improvements on navigation within SoapUI would be great. Memory usage can be improved as often times I need to restart the software as it becomes non-responsive. **Recommendations to others considering ReadyAPI:** This tool is very intuitive and the training material available is excellent which makes it easier to transfer knowledge within a team. **What problems is ReadyAPI solving and how is that benefiting you?** SoapUI lets me automate web service test cases. The structured intuitive format of the tool makes it easy to learn and lets me efficiently automate existing test cases that were being tested manually previously. ### 4. good experience **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Namita M. | Quality Assurance Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 01, 2017 **What do you like best about ReadyAPI?** The customization abilities to accommodate/integrate other 3rd party software or in-house frameworks \with SoapUI is amazing. SoapUI Pro is getting better with new releases and adding new features which is highly appreciated. **What do you dislike about ReadyAPI?** Improvements on navigation within SoapUI would be great. Memory usage can be improved as often times need to restart the software as it becomes non-responsive. **What problems is ReadyAPI solving and how is that benefiting you?** SoapUI lets me automate web service test cases. The structured intuitive format of the tool makes it easy to learn and lets me efficiently automate existing test cases that were being tested manually previously ### 5. Best of Breed for DevOps Continuous Testing **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Entertainment | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 20, 2017 **What do you like best about ReadyAPI?** SoapUI Pro provided the best fit when it came to testing in our newly established DevOps group. Prior to migrating to SOAP, we tried to use several tools with minimal success. SoapUI Pro allows us to create functional API tests, integrate assertions that provide useful returns, and customizable reports. Custom Properties and Test Runner allow for automatically launching test suites via Jenkins/Buildmaster... making SoapUI Pro the best tool for DevOps Continuous Testing. **What do you dislike about ReadyAPI?** Documentation is a bit on the light side though I have been able to eventually find my answers over enough time. With the 2.0 release which now includes Secure Pro, I have not found any documentation or tutorials to show me how to use this tool. Being fairly new to SmartBear, the more documentation the better. **Recommendations to others considering ReadyAPI:** If you are looking for a tool that will easily validate API Operations, SOAPUI Pro will meet and exceed your needs. No other tool can compare! **What problems is ReadyAPI solving and how is that benefiting you?** A new DevOps group has been created 18 months ago and I was brought in to manage the Continuous Testing role. My job is to validate that new code that is promoted has not introduced any defects prior to that code being integrated into a new environment (QA/Stab/Staging/Prod...). This is done using DevOps tools (Chef, Jenkins, BuildMaster…); DevOps test servers and SoapUI Pro. Prior to a build being promoted to the desired environment, the build is first loaded onto one of the DevOps test servers where a series of API tests are run against the new build. These tests are used to validate that the new code has not introduced any defects prior to the code being deployed to the designated environment for testing. Feedback to the developers on the test results is done within 10 minutes of a deployment via an email that includes a link to the test logs. If a test fails at build check-in, that build is unable to be promoted to QA or another environment until the issue is resolved. Testing at this early point in the development process and providing immediate feedback helps minimize issues being discovered later in the SDLC costing more in time and resources to correct. Continuous Integration testing at the API level (immediately after a build is promoted) provides immediate validation at the logic tier which touches multiple endpoints (web servers, message queue, external services, etc.). API testing ensures that all services are functioning correctly prior to the build moving to the QA environment for UI testing. This is important because it is in the API that business rules are coded and enforced whereas the end-user GUI only displays results and any error message provided by the API. One of the biggest benefits of SoapUI Pro is how the management of the test suite is accomplished. As developers code and test their work, they update the test suite and check-in their code to source control. This has become our model for projects that utilize DevOps resources. ### 6. API Testing with SOAP UI Pro - Beginner's View **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ravi V. | Senior Software Engineer, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 19, 2017 **What do you like best about ReadyAPI?** Best features that are available only on SOAP UI Pro are 1. Environments - This feature has helped us maintain single suit of tests externalizing all the environment related configurations. 2. Although we can write XPATH for property validations on responses, it will be error prone and would need some level of skill to get it right, SOAP UI Pro provides easy UI to write XPATH matches 3. SOAP UI is a tool where you find more and more use cases when you start using it. SmartBear provides free on demand videos and occasional Webinars which are really useful in understanding the breadth and depth of functionality available. **What do you dislike about ReadyAPI?** As I do not have any other tool to compare it against and all I have are Performance and Memory Hog type issues, which would usually not be an issue if we restart SOAP UI Pro daily instead of letting it be running all week. **Recommendations to others considering ReadyAPI:** If your team is working on SOAP or restful webservices, SOAP UI Pro is a must as it makes testing WebServices easy with features like JDBC connectivity, Environments. **What problems is ReadyAPI solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using SOAP UI as a functional testing tool, which also runs the test suites as part of build process automating functional tests. ### 7. soap ui pro 5.2.0 **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 23, 2018 **What do you like best about ReadyAPI?** Ease of testing API. querying all get and post requests and being able to test functionality and data without any ui. **What do you dislike about ReadyAPI?** When the application crashes at times and loses data. **Recommendations to others considering ReadyAPI:** sure go for it. **What problems is ReadyAPI solving and how is that benefiting you?** API testing. Get and post queries verified. ### 8. Soap UI - best tool to automate webservices **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sai spandana K. | Analyst Software Testing and QA, Financial Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 20, 2017 **What do you like best about ReadyAPI?** It is very easy to integrate with Jenkins CI Test suites are easy to customise as per the required environments If dealing with multiple environments in Organization. DB connections can be established with simple step. Test data management is easy. **What do you dislike about ReadyAPI?** There are no featured that I currently dislike but expecting lot more other new features **Recommendations to others considering ReadyAPI:** simply amazing tool and I recommend this for every webservices automation user. **What problems is ReadyAPI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Using Soap Pro I have solved CI problem and now it is very easy to test builds. Before moving to SOAP ui pro I was facing problems in handling multiple environments that has been solved now. ### 9. Cross Functinoal domain user **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gaurav S. | Business Analyst, Financial Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 28, 2017 **What do you like best about ReadyAPI?** It is like a dashboard for testers, all functionality at one screen. **What do you dislike about ReadyAPI?** One thing I missed from old version of Soap UI is the look of tree hierarchy of test cases. **What problems is ReadyAPI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Using SOAP UI as a functional testing tool to test API functionality. Soap UI provides transactions history and can be extracted with all details in a report I surely recommend it to everyone. I have seen it used by developers for preliminary testing as well as testers for advanced testing. ### 10. Test Automation with SOAP UI PRO **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Marton J. | QA Specialist, Information Technology and Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 20, 2017 **What do you like best about ReadyAPI?** It is really easy to write automated test cases with SOAP UI. Forums and descriptions are quite good, so I learned fast . I like that I can make dynamic Mockups. **What do you dislike about ReadyAPI?** It is hard to use http request and couldnt find a good explanation or example. **What problems is ReadyAPI solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using soap messages to communicate with 3rd parties. I simulate all the communications request with SOAPUI. I use it to create test data, get informations from database, and mockup some other 3rd parties. With SOAP UI I can make a functional testing. I use also for test automation. ### 11. SoapUI Pro Webinar **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Varsha P. | Senior Consultant, Hospital & Health Care, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 01, 2017 **What do you like best about ReadyAPI?** API testing and capabilities to create steps creation and environment support... **What do you dislike about ReadyAPI?** Clear separation need between database model and front end code **What problems is ReadyAPI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Creating web tool for users to see change reports. This will help them easily to find out new changes. ### 12. Very easy web service testing **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Insurance | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 31, 2018 **What do you like best about ReadyAPI?** I can quickly enter many web service requests all at once. **What do you dislike about ReadyAPI?** Sometimes it is difficult to find the correct tab or field. **What problems is ReadyAPI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Quickly able to enter many test applications in qa. ### 13. Wonderful Services Testing Tool **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vickie I. | IT Manager, Financial Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 26, 2017 **What do you like best about ReadyAPI?** The easy of updating test projects and end points. **What do you dislike about ReadyAPI?** None that I can think of at this time. Nice product. **Recommendations to others considering ReadyAPI:** Easy to automate. Easily use data sources (databases, excel, grid) **What problems is ReadyAPI solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are identifying functional issues with our in-house developed services (REST and SOAP). ### 14. SOAP UI Very Robust Tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 20, 2017 **What do you like best about ReadyAPI?** Any Possible scenario could be thought , is covered by the SOAP UI tool. Excellent Help available in every part of the tool.I have done a POC with the tool and my team liked the features. Supports all recent database . Different Plug-ins are available to the Jira test management tool too. SOAP UI features is like an ocean the more we explore the more we can do with it. **What do you dislike about ReadyAPI?** The tool has a very limited trial time. **Recommendations to others considering ReadyAPI:** I did a POC and found out soap UI is better than Postman **What problems is ReadyAPI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Helps in early detection of the defects. Continuous Integration is possible through this tool API reporting is available. Different ways of Parameterization could be done without writing lines of code. ### 15. Easy to use, versatile **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Attila D. | Test Automation Engineer, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 20, 2017 **What do you like best about ReadyAPI?** Request generation by wsdl One click service mockup Assertations Scripting possibility **What do you dislike about ReadyAPI?** Nothing so far. very easy to use and intuitive. **Recommendations to others considering ReadyAPI:** Really easy to use and has a lot of potential thanks to the scripting option. **What problems is ReadyAPI solving and how is that benefiting you?** We needed to test some virtualized services, and we used first the mockup feature of SOAPUI to see if it fits to our needs. Very easy to create mockups, basically with a push of a button. Like it ! ### 16. easy use tool of soapUI, fast automation with it **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lucy L. | Senior QA Analyst, Telecommunications, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 20, 2017 **What do you like best about ReadyAPI?** easy, test API automation, good training. **What do you dislike about ReadyAPI?** I do not find what I do not like yet. I will continue try to test more **What problems is ReadyAPI solving and how is that benefiting you?** automation, save time, reuse ### 17. Amazing tool for Testing WebServices **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 20, 2017 **What do you like best about ReadyAPI?** It converts the XML request into a form which is easy to use. Has Environment Functionality which allows to run our cases in different environment with a change in selection. It also allows project to be saved as composite project which creates different folder rather than one single linear file **What do you dislike about ReadyAPI?** The passwords arent masked and so it shows up in the report as well. When we need to share the report we would need to manually mask the password which is a downside but I hope they fix it soon **What problems is ReadyAPI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Test Automation of Webservices. Since getting data in Pro version has been made easy, it saves time for users especially in our project as we communicate with different requests to fetch data ### 18. Good Product but less user friendly **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Deepak K. | Senior Integration Consultant, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 03, 2016 **What do you like best about ReadyAPI?** This was the first web service client for me. i use to work on SOAP UI for SOAP Web service testing. the best part of it is mocking web service. it makes life easier when you want to do web service development locally and have dependency on another un-developed web service. automatic SOAP Envelope generation on the basis of WSDL is also a best feature of this product. **What do you dislike about ReadyAPI?** UI is worst and its best feature mocking services also have many bugs. it would be great if smart bear will make it more lighter and fast. **Recommendations to others considering ReadyAPI:** For SOAP services testing it is the best available tool. **What problems is ReadyAPI solving and how is that benefiting you?** i am using it for webservice testing and the only benefit is it's automatic request (SOAP envelope) generation. ### 19. Best Tool in the market for web services testing! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 19, 2017 **What do you like best about ReadyAPI?** I am fairly new to web services testing and I can say its extremely easy to use and very user friendly. **What do you dislike about ReadyAPI?** The application sometime hangs and doesn't save my changes but I haven't seen that with the 2.0 which is the most recent version so far. **What problems is ReadyAPI solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use SOAP UI pro to create and test web service developed using AWS technology. Tremendous benefits when we find defects early on. The ease of training new employees who are not familiar with SOAP UI is great. ### 20. Value for money **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Amol S. | Sr. QA Engineer, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 20, 2017 **What do you like best about ReadyAPI?** Get data feature makes life very easy for user. We can use any value in the previous step without property transfer. **What do you dislike about ReadyAPI?** It crashes suddenly. Used more RAM. We are unaware about the reason many times. **What problems is ReadyAPI solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is very useful for us. ### 21. SoapUI Pro 5.1.2 review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 09, 2016 **What do you like best about ReadyAPI?** I like that it is easy to use and test cases can be copied and reused. I like that it is quick. Also it can be used for soap, rest and security testing easily. **What do you dislike about ReadyAPI?** Nothing. Great tool for WS testing. this is the best product for web services testing **Recommendations to others considering ReadyAPI:** Great tool for API and WS testing. Give a try. **What problems is ReadyAPI solving and how is that benefiting you?** We need to create and test web service connections with our interface partners. Tremendous benefits realized when finding defects early with connectivity and ease of training new employees. ### 22. SoapUI Pro 5.1.2 review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tony T. | Master Test Engineer, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 12, 2016 **What do you like best about ReadyAPI?** Extremely easy to use and simply designed for a novice user **What do you dislike about ReadyAPI?** Nothing, this is the best product on the market for web services testing **Recommendations to others considering ReadyAPI:** This is extremely affordable and the easiest to use program for web services creation and testing. Licensing process is a breeze. **What problems is ReadyAPI solving and how is that benefiting you?** We need to create and test web service connections with our interface partners. Tremendous benefits realized when finding defects early with connectivity and ease of training new employees. ### 23. Pretty good Ui and useful for testing api **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 05, 2016 **What do you like best about ReadyAPI?** I like that it is easy to use and test cases can be copied and reused. I like that it is quick. **What do you dislike about ReadyAPI?** I can't think of anything I dislike right now. maybe more samples included would be nice. Oh and switching licenses from different workstations can be better. **What problems is ReadyAPI solving and how is that benefiting you?** Api testing and reproducible test cases ## ReadyAPI Discussions - [When API testing is done?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/when-api-testing-is-done) - [What is the best tool for API testing?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-the-best-tool-for-api-testing) - [How does ReadyAPI test REST API?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/how-does-readyapi-test-rest-api) - [What is ReadyAPI tool?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-readyapi-tool) - [View ReadyAPI pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/readyapi/reviews?page=2§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-19+09%3A25%3A25+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=57585ad9-2d88-4a91-806b-455a59fc8b43&secure%5Btoken%5D=b55d4ff07531f17fbacb85ede22bf967cfac4c79354453475a2db27da733e03f&format=llm_user) ## ReadyAPI Integrations - [Tricentis qTest](https://www.g2.com/products/tricentis-qtest/reviews) ## ReadyAPI Features **Functionality** - Test Coverage - System Capture - False Positives - Simulation Quality **Functionality ** - Test Feedback - Test History - Customization - Test Variety **Agentic AI - Software Testing** - Autonomous Task Execution - Natural Language Interaction - Proactive Assistance **Usability ** - Remediation Suggestions - Collaboration - Ease of Configuration **Automation** - Organization - Reliability - Thoroughness **Agentic AI - Automation Testing** - Autonomous Task Execution - Natural Language Interaction - Proactive Assistance ## Top ReadyAPI Alternatives - [Postman](https://www.g2.com/products/postman/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (1,724 reviews) - [Katalon True Platform](https://www.g2.com/products/katalon-true-platform/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (210 reviews) - [Apache JMeter](https://www.g2.com/products/apache-jmeter/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (151 reviews)