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Rentgen vs Apidog — not competitors, different moments

DEV Community·Liudas·about 1 month ago
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People often try to compare Rentgen with tools like Apidog. On paper it sounds logical — both are related to APIs. But in practice, they solve completely different problems. Apidog is a full API development platform. You design APIs, mock them, document them, collaborate with your team, write assertions, and integrate everything into CI/CD. It’s a system you live in when building and maintaining APIs. Rentgen is not that. And it doesn’t try to be. Rentgen flow: cURL in, tests out One request in. Reality instead of assumptions. The moment everyone skips There is a specific moment in API development that almost nobody talks about. A developer writes an endpoint, sends a request, gets a response, and moves on. Maybe they check for 200 OK, maybe they look at the response body. And then comes the classic line: “I tested it. It works.” That’s where most problems are already hiding. Not because someone did something wrong, but because only the expected scenario was tested. Everything else is still unknown.…

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