DocDriven Visual API Design Tool with AI

DocDriven is a visual API design tool with AI for frontend and backend teams: design APIs, collaborate in real-time and avoid breaking changes.

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Visual API design
Key capability
Visual API editor
Screenshot of DocDriven documentation platform interface

What is DocDriven?

DocDriven is a visual API design tool with AI, built for frontend and backend teams. Teams design APIs in a visual editor, test them on instant mock servers, collaborate on changes in real-time and generate code from the designs, which keeps API documentation in one place and helps avoid breaking changes.

Screenshot of DocDriven documentation platform interface

Key features of DocDriven

DocDriven offers a visual API design editor with autocomplete, instant cloud mock servers, real-time collaboration with issue tracking and endpoint ownership, automatic changelogs, and AI code generation that pushes code for your API designs to your repositories as pull requests.

Visual API editor

A visual interface to design APIs instead of getting lost in YAML specs, with autocomplete and suggestions based on existing properties.

Instant mock servers

Test endpoints in seconds with instant cloud mock servers, with no setup required.

Real-time collaboration

Review upcoming changes, give feedback before they are implemented, and report and track issues.

Automatic changelogs

Automatic changelogs and history tracking keep track of API design changes.

AI code generation

Boilerplate code generation with AI that follows your coding standards and conventions.

Pros and cons of DocDriven

Pros

  • Instant cloud mock servers with no setup
  • AI code generation delivered as pull requests you review
  • Automatic changelogs and history tracking
  • Endpoint responsibility can be assigned to team members
  • Free 30-day trial with no credit card required

Cons

  • No free plan after the 30-day trial; the account is put on hold until a paid plan is selected
  • The Team plan starts at 3 users
  • The trial covers a single workspace

Key use cases for DocDriven

Visual API design

Design APIs faster with a visual API design tool before writing code.

Prototyping with mock servers

Test and prototype API designs on real-time mock servers before writing any code.

Avoiding breaking changes

Collaborate on API changes in real-time so frontend and backend teams avoid breaking changes.

Single source of truth

Keep all internal and external API documentation in one place.

How DocDriven works

  1. 1

    Design the API

    Design your APIs in the visual editor instead of YAML specs.

  2. 2

    Review with your team

    Team members review upcoming changes and provide feedback before they are implemented.

  3. 3

    Publish and generate code

    Publish your changes; DocDriven generates code based on your code conventions and pushes it to your repositories as pull requests.

  4. 4

    Review and merge

    Review the changes and merge the pull request when you are ready.

Who is using DocDriven

Backend developers
Frontend developers
UI designers
Product managers
DevOps engineers

DocDriven pricing

Free 30-day trial

$0 for 30 days

Single workspace with all features enabled, unlimited APIs and users. No credit card required.

Team

$14.25 per user / month, starting at 3 users

For small and medium sized companies: multiple workspaces, unlimited APIs and guests, visual API design, mock servers, changelog, collaboration and AI code generation.

Enterprise

Custom pricing

Everything in Team plus custom branding, custom payment terms, invoicing, onboarding with a CSM, priority support and an assigned TAM.

Plans and prices are as published by the vendor and can change. Check the official site before you buy. Open the pricing page (opens in a new tab)

Frequently asked questions about DocDriven

A visual API design tool with AI, built for frontend and backend teams to collaborate in real-time and avoid breaking changes.

You can try DocDriven for free for 30 days on a single workspace with all features enabled. No credit card required.

You will be asked to select a paid plan; otherwise the account is put on hold until you select a plan or close your account.

It checks out your code, generates code for your API designs based on your code conventions and pushes it back to your repositories as pull requests for you to review and merge.

Yes. Instant cloud mock servers let you start testing endpoints in seconds with no setup required.

Yes, you can upgrade or downgrade your plan at any time.

It keeps automatic changelogs and history tracking of your API designs.

Frontend and backend teams that design and maintain APIs together.

Conclusion

Backend and frontend developers share a single workspace in this hosted tool, where all of a team’s APIs can be explored and designed. Endpoints are drawn in a visual editor with autocomplete instead of hand-written YAML, then tested right away on instant cloud mock servers that need no setup. Team members review planned changes and report issues before anything is implemented, while automatic changelogs track each revision.

Once a design is published, the AI code generator checks out the codebase, writes code that follows the team’s conventions and opens pull requests for review. UI designers and product managers also feature, because designs that are not aligned with API capabilities and unclear API development status affect them too. There is no permanent free tier: a 30-day trial on one workspace comes first, and afterwards the account is put on hold unless a paid plan is chosen.

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