Mintlify charges $300/month for documentation alone. Apidog includes documentation — plus API design, debugging, testing, mocking, and MCP — starting free for teams of 4. One source of truth for your entire API lifecycle.
Why Apidog?
Reflect changes in API specs immediately across requests to ensure tests stay current, reducing manual updates and minimizing errors.
Allow teams to visually create and manage updates seamlessly, benefiting iterative development.
Auto generates requests and mock responses from API specs, simulating API behavior before the backend is complete.
Apidog can automatically generate API documentation from specifications, supporting custom domains and styles.
Apidog implements API Design-first, where API specifications and modifications can be automatically
synchronized across every stage of the API lifecycle.
| HTTP | ||
| WebSocket | ||
| SOAP | ||
| GraphQL | ||
| gRPC | ||
| SSE |
| Design APIs visually | ||
| Import/export OAS | ||
| Generate API spec from request | ||
| Generate example automatically | ||
| Branches |
| Pre/Post-request Scripts | ||
| Response validation | ||
| Connect to databases | ||
| Reference other programming languages |
| Visual orchestration (no code) | ||
| Visual assertions | ||
| CI/CD | ||
| Run collections | Unlimited | |
| Scheduled task | ||
| Performance test | ||
| Online test reports | ||
| Self-hosted runner |
| Custom domain | ||
| Custom documentation layout | ||
| Markdown pages | ||
| Versioning | ||
| Docs-as-code (Git/MDX workflow) | ||
| AI-powered search / chat | ||
| MCP Server for docs | ✓ (auto-generated) |
| Fixed response mocking | ||
| Smart mock engine | ||
| Cloud mock server | ||
| Customized mocking scripts | ||
| Self-hosted mock server |
| Entry price | $300/mo (Pro) | $9/user/mo |
| Self-hosted / on-premise | ||
| Users on free plan | 1 editor | Up to 4 |
| IDE plugin | IDEA |
Apidog implements API Design-first, facilitating the effortless synchronization of API,specifications and modifications across the entire API lifecycle.
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