We performed a comparison between Apigee vs IBM API Connect based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Apigee has an edge in this comparison because it received higher marks than IBM API Connect in the ease of deployment and support categories.
"Apigee is relatively easy to use for developers."
"Lifecycle management."
"Apigee Analytics dashboard is useful to monitor transactions, error percentage, transaction latency, etc."
"This is a front-layer gateway that helps to improve our overall performance."
"The analytics feature is quite good."
"I'm still evaluating, but in terms of overall performance and stability, it's quite good."
"It's easy to use and the security features are valuable."
"The following features are most valuable: API Management, Analytics, Quota, and the Developer Portal."
"The functionalities on offer are very good."
"What's best about IBM API Connect is the excellent administration. The development tool that builds the API is also very simple, and user-friendly, and it doesn't consume too much time. Another valuable feature in IBM API Connect is its good reporting feature, particularly for operations, but the most valuable feature of the solution for the customer is security. IBM API Connect provides a DMZ and a security gateway between the external and internal environment, so you can publish your API safely. IBM API Connect can also integrate with any tool or middleware that works on open standards without the need for development or coding, so integration with the solution is easier."
"The technical support is good. Whenever we need anything, we have our IT team work with IBM to change whatever requirement is needed."
"The ability for all of our web applications to share standard functions and documents easily is valuable."
"Since it runs on top of Datapower, all Datapower based custom policies can be utilized and exported to API connect but its not straightforward/simple process."
"Easy to configure security and generate API keys."
"The support is good and active. I rate the technical support a nine out of ten."
"Its speed and performance are valuable."
"Could be more user friendly."
"The developer portal's adoption of the OpenAPI standard needs to be improved. In the latest version of the developer portal, they have adopted the OpenAPI standard. This feature, however, can be improved by supporting more characteristics of the OpenAPI standard."
"They should improve the monitoring tools for on-premises environments."
"There should be an integrated continuous integration and continuous deployment approach with Apigee. Currently, for development at a more integrated level, you have set it up yourself."
"Apigee is demanding on the infrastructure so the setup cost is very high for an on-premises deployment."
"Role-based access management needs to be improved. It would also be nice if the solution could be integrated with code versioning systems like Git/Bitbucket."
"Apigee is more of an entry level solution that does basic things pretty well, but if you want to go more customizable, you want to really look for another solution."
"When it comes to the rate limit, we don't have a specific category for rate limits for a particular customer."
"There is room for improvement regarding the connectivity of the DevOps."
"Support for this platform could still be improved. It also needs to have more levels of versatility. Its compatibility and integration with different platforms also need improvement."
"IBM info-center help documentation also needs improvement. Competitive product like Apigee provide out of the box policies to run Javascript, JAVA and better/flexible logging policies."
"In terms of what needs improvement, some of the product documentation could be better."
"Different versions of the same thing can mean unnecessary duplication."
"In the next version, I don't know if they've already been included it or not, but the designer and all the tools should be on the cloud. I don't want any external installation or local installation."
"The new version is very unstable."
"Firstly, the pricing model, when compared to other open sources, is high. Secondly, the availability of resources in the market, specifically the developers available in the market, is not so much."
Apigee is ranked 2nd in API Management with 82 reviews while IBM API Connect is ranked 5th in API Management with 73 reviews. Apigee is rated 8.2, while IBM API Connect is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Apigee writes "Has a robust community and outstanding performance". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM API Connect writes "Offers basic API orchestration and provides robust security and governance features". Apigee is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, WSO2 API Manager, Amazon API Gateway, Layer7 API Management and MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, whereas IBM API Connect is most compared with IBM DataPower Gateway, Microsoft Azure API Management, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, Amazon API Gateway and 3scale API Management. See our Apigee vs. IBM API Connect report.
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Of those three: MuleSoft Anypoint. But, cost-friendly is another term, I would choose a different solution. We are happy with Gravitee.