Assertible vs PactFlow

Assertible tests and monitors APIs, websites, and other HTTP services for uptime, availability, and correct behavior. Users create HTTP assertions, inspect request details, and review assertion results. The service can run smoke tests automatically after deployments to staging or production environments. API tests can be imported and synchronized with OpenAPI or Swagger specifications and Postman collections. Integrations listed in its documentation include GitHub deployments and status checks, Slack, PagerDuty, and Zapier. Monitoring schedules range from once per minute to once per day, with shorter intervals available on paid plans. Plans limit services, tests per service, retained results, team members, and schedule frequency rather than monthly request counts. The Personal plan costs nothing and includes two web services, 10 tests per service, 1,000 results, one to two members, and Standard monitoring with two monitors. Paid plans are Standard at $25 a month, Startup at $50 a month, and Business at $100 a month; each includes a one-month trial.

PactFlow is a managed Pact Broker for teams checking integrations in distributed systems through contract testing. It supports consumer-driven testing with Pact and bi-directional testing with OpenAPI. Its AI-augmented testing can generate tests from OpenAPI, traffic data or existing code. Integrations include SwaggerHub Editor and Pact plugins, including gRPC and protobuf; pull-request status checks work with GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket or other source control tools. A Developer API, CLI tools and Terraform support help automate configuration. PactFlow offers a managed service and an Enterprise on-premises option. Starter is free, allows unlimited users and includes two integrations. Team includes 50 integrations and community support; it costs $115.42 a month with yearly billing, billed yearly as $1,385, or $127 a month with monthly billing. Enterprise includes unlimited integrations, SAML SSO, role-based access management and dedicated support, with price available through sales. PactFlow states customer data and backups are stored in AWS data centres in Sydney, Australia, with encryption at rest and in transit.