--- title: XMLSpy Reviews meta\_title: 'XMLSpy Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 26 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how XMLSpy works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.3 review\_count: 26 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-07' parent\_category: name: NoSQL Databases url: https://www.g2.com/categories/nosql-databases --- # XMLSpy Reviews & Product Details Claimed ###### Profile Status This profile is currently managed by XMLSpy but has limited features. Are you part of the XMLSpy team? [Upgrade your plan](https://sell.g2.com) to enhance your branding and engage with visitors to your profile! Altova XMLSpy is the world’s best-selling JSON and XML editor for modeling, editing, transforming, and debugging related technologies. It gives developers the tools they need to build the most sophisticated applications with its graphical schema designer, code generation, file converters, debuggers, and profilers for working with XSD, JSON Schema, XSLT, XQuery, XBRL, SOAP, and more. * * * Seller [Altova](https://www.g2.com/sellers/altova) Discussions [XMLSpy Community](https://www.g2.com/products/xmlspy/discuss) Languages Supported German, English, French, Japanese, Spanish Solution Type Best-of-Breed Overview by Erin Cavanaugh Show More ## Value at a Glance Averages based on real user reviews. ### Perceived Cost $$$$$ [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/xmlspy/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![IBM Db2](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "IBM Db2") IBM Db2 4.1/5(683) ](https://www.g2.com/products/ibm-db2/reviews) [ ![Progress MarkLogic](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Progress MarkLogic") Progress MarkLogic 4.3/5(66) ](https://www.g2.com/products/progress-marklogic/reviews) [ ![InterSystems IRIS](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "InterSystems IRIS") InterSystems IRIS 4.6/5(68) ](https://www.g2.com/products/intersystems-iris/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/xmlspy/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 26 real user reviews. Perceived Cost $$$$$ [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ![Indrajeet D.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Indrajeet D.") ID Indrajeet D. Technical Lead Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 12/11/2022 "XMLSpy - One of the best Mark up Language Editor" 4/5 What do you like best about XMLSpy? XMLSpy is one of the best tools for editing, debugging and coding in XML and JSON formats. It eases the schema design of XSD, JSON Schema, XSLT, XQuery, XBRL, SOAP, and more. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about XMLSpy? Lack of free version. The cost is too high. Too many updates whole round the year creates confusion on stability. Examples are not easy to understand. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is XMLSpy solving and how is that benefiting you? End-to-end solution for any XML and JSON format designing, compiling, editing and viewing. GUi-based view, which makes it very easy to understand and design schemas. Helps validate and formating huge XML and JSON files. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Logistics and Supply Chain](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Logistics and Supply Chain") UL Verified User in Logistics and Supply Chain Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 11/14/2021 "Altova XMLSpy should be your first choice for working with XML schemas" 4/5 What do you like best about XMLSpy? Altova XMLSpy provides an excellent visual user interface for designing new XML schemas from scratch and maintaining existing XML schemas. It allows even novices to learn how XML schemas work and figure out how to create an XML schema to model real-world objects or represent the data structures that are relevant to them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about XMLSpy? The software licensing costs for Altova XMLSpy might put it out of reach of non-corporate users. It would be great if there were a lite or free version that was available for non-commercial use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is XMLSpy solving and how is that benefiting you? We use Altova XMLSpy in our software development toolchain for enterprise integration and business-to-business integration. It is our core tool for designing or maintaining XML schemas, and we also use it for inspecting and reformatting XML documents and investigating and diagnosing issues with XML data. It has saved hundreds of hours of effort that we would have expended had we been required to craft XML schemas line by line manually. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 5/21/2024 Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite RM Rishi M. Services Engineer Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 1/7/2021 "Best tool to write code and generate schema" 5/5 What do you like best about XMLSpy? This tool helps me to create varity of schema depending on the system also help me to create webservice. The best thing about XMLspy is that it integrates with DataPower and allow to test the code before even putting it into DataPower. Which no other IDE does. Features like visual schema creation, xsl v2 support, graphical WSDL creation, open XML support, diff dog and many more makes it even more powerful tool. It not only helps in coding it helps on creating the design documents as well. Ahh, I almost forgot that it helps a lot by integrating itself with eclipse. I use this IDE a lot and xmlspy makes my life easy by integrating with it. Creating scema and WSDL is so easy in this tool. And the graphical options gives so much visibility of the inter related schemas, which helps any organization which uses schemas for all its service. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about XMLSpy? All good about this tool. Nothing bad. Price could have been a bit less. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering XMLSpy: Highly recomended product. Loads of features available if you are developing a web service which used XML as a base. Features like visual schema creation, xsl v2 support, graphical WSDL creation, open XML support and for me DataPower plugin support makes this tool awesome to but for any organisation or for a developer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is XMLSpy solving and how is that benefiting you? It helps me to save my time by compiling the code before even putting into DataPower. Whihc is for me a very big task. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Siarhei L.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Siarhei L.") SL Siarhei L. Senior Machine Learning Specialist Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 1/12/2021 "Altova XML Spy is the right choice" 5/5 What do you like best about XMLSpy? If there is a time for you to use data in XML format together with Schema development - Altova XML Spy is the right choice. You can easily develop new schemas in an intuitive way using cool UI - just add new nodes into the graph. Or, you can switch to the text format and work with it. Next, you can validate you XML files against yours schemas, or transform data using XSLT. Plus, it supports JSON and many more formats/standards! Great experience! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about XMLSpy? Nothing to dislike actually, this is my best tool to develop XML schemas. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering XMLSpy: there are no alternatives :) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is XMLSpy solving and how is that benefiting you? Three easy steps: - create schema using great UI - create test XML files - generate code and use XML-formatted data in my product code. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite JT Jon T. Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 1/7/2021 "Great piece of software" 5/5 What do you like best about XMLSpy? I've used XMLSpy for around 10 years now and have always got on well with it. Whenever I have moved companies I have always insisted XMLSpy is purchased as part of my software suite as it is critical to the work I do. It makes analysing XML files very easy, and I use it a great deal for setting up xsd files which is very simple and straight forward. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about XMLSpy? No dislikes about the software, I find it meets all my needs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is XMLSpy solving and how is that benefiting you? XML analysis and xsd creation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Shivi M.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Shivi M.") SM Shivi M. IT Analyst Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 12/15/2020 "Genuine feedback on Xml Spy" 5/5 What do you like best about XMLSpy? What is not to like in Xml spy, with so many similar products already in the market XML spy is first choice. Other products are just limited to editing xml but Altova Xml spy allows to validate, edit, format xml, validate, format and write xslt, XPath, against an schema. One doesn't needs a comparison tool as with xml spy comparison is also possible. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about XMLSpy? I understand that the project offering so many features often charge but I felt this product price is little higher. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is XMLSpy solving and how is that benefiting you? Only the price is bit higher else no such issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite MO Mark O. Sr. Lead Software Quality Assurance Engineer Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 11/2/2020 "Powerful and Insightful" 5/5 What do you like best about XMLSpy? XMLSpy is a very powerful tool that needs to be included in your development toolbox. The XMLSpy editor is extremely helpful when trying to solve issues in your backend systems and processes when creating or developing your XML or XSD templates. The step through, viewer and the ability to add threads for stress and integration needs when whitebox testing or development is phenomenal. The wizards have been revamped so that it's not complicated but actually straight-forward when implementing some of the features that are unlocked. One of the more powerful aspects with XMLSpy is the WSDL & SOAP tools help tremendously when creating or developing your process. Since I'm a SQA Engineer the tools and debuggers in XMLSpy have helped me to isolate issues or even for that matter potential issues/bugs that could surface in your testing phase. I've used the SOAP client to help me when I needed to interpret third-party WSDL docs from our development partners. It is so helpful to use the database integration portion of the tool that helps with SQL interoperability configurations. Download the tool you won't regret it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about XMLSpy? I guess the only thing that is a negative is price but down the line it pays for itself. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering XMLSpy: I would highly recommend downloading and using XMLSpy, even if it's just for the trial. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is XMLSpy solving and how is that benefiting you? The issues that I have used XMLSpy to solve were my project needs when we were using XML in Java to parse our creation of XML templates. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Verified User in Computer Software](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer Software") UC Verified User in Computer Software Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 3/5/2021 "XML files validation using XMLspy for client project" 4/5 What do you like best about XMLSpy? The schema validation and the graphical representation of the object in the XML document is very important for the developer/data engineers while working with the XML format files. XMLspy used to validate the schema and even helped with showing all the list of objects present in the XML file Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about XMLSpy? Since we can't connect it directly from git hub so I felt it will be really convenient if we have those features Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering XMLSpy: If we have to validate and create new XML file from the existing this is the best tool Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is XMLSpy solving and how is that benefiting you? Schema creation of new XML files from existing file so tht data analyst team can use the data for future analysis Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Financial Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Financial Services") UF Verified User in Financial Services Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 1/14/2021 "Altova Xml Spy Review" 4.5/5 What do you like best about XMLSpy? XML spy is my favorite editor. I've used this tool to edit my xml code because of their fully loaded language markup editor. It's very easy to debug the code using this tool. Love the Grid view option which displays the code in a clear and concise manner making editing quick and efficient . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about XMLSpy? Cost is the only downside to this tool. Wish it was a little less expensive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is XMLSpy solving and how is that benefiting you? I edit my PPFAs, xml scripts using this tool and always find it easy to use and very convenient. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Information Technology and Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Information Technology and Services") UI Verified User in Information Technology and Services Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 1/20/2021 "Excellent tool for XML-based and Web services applications" 5/5 What do you like best about XMLSpy? I liked the best is for creating and validating XML\*\*s with the schema/XSD and xml using Soap UI it is easy to use for validating the files against a schema and easy to format XML data and can see the flows for a XML schema Overall it is one of my best tool I recommend . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about XMLSpy? heard it as expensive but AT&T still uses this product overall i like this product as its ease to use and Can validate using it . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering XMLSpy: Highly recommend to use Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is XMLSpy solving and how is that benefiting you? Validation purpose I used this software to create, view, and edit XML and WSDL files for our platform in multiple ways . Overall it was so easy to use and format quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ##### Pricing Pricing details for this product isn’t currently available. Visit the vendor’s website to learn more. 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