We performed a comparison between Akana API Management and MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Google, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and others in API Management."Good interface, intuitive solution."
"It allowed us to publish and replace pre-essential transactions in one place, with a uniformity in terms of control and policies."
"The tool's authentication mechanism is easy to implement. We had to define a few parameters."
"The most important features are the API management and API development."
"The ease of policy maintenance and API functionality are key features for me. They streamline business processes by allowing configurable control over policies, instead of writing codes and making maintenance more straightforward."
"I believe the API connectivity within the cloud marketplace is most valuable."
"Anypoint is very capable in terms of scalability."
"The most effective features of Anypoint API Manager for policy enforcement include security enforcement, rate limiting, client enforcement, traffic control, service level agreement policies, and caching policies."
"It is a good management tool for controlling purposes."
"MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager is a low-code product."
"MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager has the most valuable data components and can integrate APIs across multiple microservices."
"The product has new features that we are going to implement in the next few months, such as API management and analytic reporting."
"Akana API Management needs to improve its documentation."
"Lacks an integrated billing feature."
"The API gateway and API runtime are too heavy, which means that it is not suitable for microservices."
"Anypoint could be improved by making it more open and configurable for small companies, who tend not to consider the solution as it's expensive and requires a lot of costs upfront."
"I think that they can bring some transparency in reference to the terms of the microservices architecture."
"Not many stand-out features."
"Migrating any existing middleware platform to Mulesoft is difficult because of the transformation, conversion and integration involved. Better tools are needed to achieve quicker time to market."
"The dashboards in Mulesoft Anypoint API Manager could improve."
"I would like to see more automation. Operations are done manually. It should also automate in the operation."
"When compared to other integration technologies, it is slightly higher."
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Akana API Management is ranked 28th in API Management with 3 reviews while MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager is ranked 4th in API Management with 49 reviews. Akana API Management is rated 8.4, while MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Akana API Management writes "Authentication mechanism is easy to implement but improvement is needed in documentation ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager writes "Responsive technical support, low tickets issued showing great stability, and limitless expansion". Akana API Management is most compared with Apigee, Amazon API Gateway, Microsoft Azure API Management, Kong Gateway Enterprise and IBM API Connect, whereas MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, Amazon API Gateway, Apigee, IBM API Connect and WSO2 API Manager.
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