We performed a comparison between 3scale API Management and Microsoft Azure API Management based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two API Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It's good that they aren't adding a lot of features like ESP, etc. It's okay with just being a gateway."
"The solution is quite lightweight, and the installation is very easy. It's like a two-click installation."
"3scale API Management's best feature is API management."
"I like the API automation."
"To me, the most valuable feature of 3scale API Management is that it lets you add a backend to the product. I also like that you can integrate it well with OpenShift clusters, making 3scale API Management a useful solution."
"The gateway is the most valuable feature because it makes it possible for us to gather all traffic into one proxy, which is a good thing."
"The standard deployment is very simple."
"The product is stable."
"The product gives API gateway-related features, like throttling, which are easy to use and low-code/no-code."
"The most valuable features are the API and integrations."
"The stability and performance are good. It is easy to install, and it scales well too."
"The solution has overall high performance."
"Everything is already available and ready to operate without a lot of preparation work."
"It seems quite good so far. It handles our current workload well, and I'm optimistic it can scale effectively as our needs grow."
"Monitoring: It gives us a detailed overview of how clients are using the API and it allows us to see the consumption trends in real-time."
"The initial setup is not that complex, but there are certain challenges."
"The user experience could be better. The developer portal is too complex and hard to configure."
"The product is not that flexible for developers. It's less flexible and rigid. It's not easy to make changes or customize it."
"3scale API Management only supports restful APIs and doesn't support SOAP."
"It would be helpful to improve the customization features so that the customer can do it based on their own needs."
"I believe the CMS part of it has room for improvement though. That is where you write a couple of things if you want to publish your API. It's based on liquid scripting, which doesn't seem like the obvious ones to script with."
"What I'd like to improve in 3scale API Management is its route-limiting feature. Currently, I don't know how to do that effectively on the solution, but in Kong, I know how to do it, so I would love to see route-limiting being easily done on 3scale API Management. It would also be good if there was some authentication that you could do from 3scale API Management because Kong offers that functionality out of the box. What I'd love to see in the next release of 3scale API Management is the ability to integrate more plug-ins easily onto the platform, so you'll be able to extend it, and even do customs management. If Red Hat could offer that extension where it allows the internal organization where 3scale API Management is deployed on-premise to integrate its tools on top of 3scale API Management and provide an API for that, that will make the solution very powerful."
"We tried to use the portal, but we decided that it wasn't enough. The content management system (CMS) is not easy to use if you want to customize things, and it's hard to get someone who has the knowledge to work with the CMS."
"What was suggested by Red Hat was a crucial part of the configuration, but when we started to ask about the supportability of this configuration, Red Hat said only some parts of the configuration would be supported."
"One of the most important improvements for us would be if it supported the HTTP/3 version and new protocol over a quick connection."
"I rate the technical support from Microsoft Azure API Management a four out of five."
"Sometimes when immediate support is required, it isn't available."
"The licensing tiers can be misleading."
"The developer portal can be improved."
"Other products have more customization options."
"I would like to see better scalability and better performance."
"Multi-tenant functionalities is missing from the system, especially when it comes to the developer code of features."
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3scale API Management is ranked 14th in API Management with 10 reviews while Microsoft Azure API Management is ranked 1st in API Management with 68 reviews. 3scale API Management is rated 7.4, while Microsoft Azure API Management is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of 3scale API Management writes "Useful as it lets you add a backend to the product, it integrates well with clusters, and it has exceptional technical support, but route-limiting isn't easy to do on it". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Azure API Management writes "Efficiently manages and monetizes API ". 3scale API Management is most compared with Amazon API Gateway, Kong Gateway Enterprise, Apigee, IBM API Connect and WSO2 API Manager, whereas Microsoft Azure API Management is most compared with Amazon API Gateway, Apigee, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, Kong Gateway Enterprise and Oracle API Platform Cloud Service. See our 3scale API Management vs. Microsoft Azure API Management report.
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