Swagger VS Retrofit

Compare Swagger vs Retrofit and see what are their differences.

Retrofit

A type-safe HTTP client for Android and the JVM (by square)
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Swagger Retrofit
- 47
1,550 42,613
0.1% 0.3%
0.0 9.1
7 days ago 15 days ago
HTML
- Apache License 2.0
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Swagger

Posts with mentions or reviews of Swagger. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning Swagger yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

Retrofit

Posts with mentions or reviews of Retrofit. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-23.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Swagger and Retrofit you can also consider the following projects:

Feign - Feign makes writing java http clients easier

Spark - A simple expressive web framework for java. Spark has a kotlin DSL https://github.com/perwendel/spark-kotlin

OkHttp - Square’s meticulous HTTP client for the JVM, Android, and GraalVM.

Crnk - JSON API library for Java

Async Http Client - Asynchronous Http and WebSocket Client library for Java

Jersey - Eclipse Jersey Project - Read our Wiki:

unirest-java - Unirest in Java: Simplified, lightweight HTTP client library.

RESTEasy - An Implementation of the Jakarta RESTful Web Services Specification

Android Volley

Rapidoid - Rapidoid - Extremely Fast, Simple and Powerful Java Web Framework and HTTP Server!