Speakeasy vs Fern
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Speakeasy
OpenAPI to SDKs and MCP servers - now pitching an AI control plane.
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Fern
Input OpenAPI. Output production-ready SDKs and beautiful API docs — a...
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| RECATOOLS Score | 8.2 / 10 | 8.4 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |
| Free tier | 1 language, up to 250 API operations, SDK and MCP generation included | Hobby plan: free forever, 2 members, 250 AI credits, custom domain |
| Paid from | $720/month per language (Business); Enterprise custom pricing | Docs Team from $150/mo (annual saves ~25%); SDK generation priced separately; Enterprise custom |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✓ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | ~3,000 users; 7,250+ SDKs generated as of late 2024 | Used by companies including Square and Adobe; distributed via Postman post-acquisition |
| Founded | 2022 | 2022 |
| Maker | Speakeasy (independent, Series A-backed) | Postman |
| Verdict | Speakeasy remains one of the strongest choices for API-first teams needing production-grade, polyglot SDKs without maintaining ten separate codebases - no proprietary DSL, no vendor lock-in, and a CLI that runs fully air... |
Nordic APIs picked Fern as the best of eight SDK generators it tested in 2025, and the reasoning holds up: the output reads like a senior engineer wrote it by hand, not a template. The open-source core (Apache 2.0, 3.7k... |
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