We performed a comparison between Layer7 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.
"We definitely get good responses from the technical team and they are quite responsive."
"We have more than 50 applications in the backend. We monitor the infrastructure through a database monitoring tool. Our daily tasks involve working on P1 incidents, managing change requests, conducting patching updates, working on P2 tickets, backend server certificate renewals, etc."
"When I have used technical support they helped me a lot. Sometimes they took a long time to respond because we had very complex issues that we asked them for help with, but I think it is a very good service."
"It has its own language, which make it possible to design and implement the complete flow using existing services and databases, and to create and aggregate fine-and coarse-grained APIs."
"As an organization grow, you can use CA API Management for authentication purposes through the CA API Gateway. It allows for multiple identity providers with different Active Directories."
"The solution fills our two most important concerns in seeking an API solution by providing a reliable gateway and security options."
"The initial setup process is easy and flexible."
"The speed and versatility in the implementation of APIs without writing a line of code in any programming language."
"The tool helps to manage APIs."
"The price is pretty reasonable for us."
"The most valuable features are the API and integrations."
"There were no scalability issues."
"Most of the features are valuable to me."
"It's easy to use compared to other products. It's easy to set up."
"The initial setup is not that complex, but there are certain challenges."
"Azure API Management is an API gateway that can be used for different purposes, for example, to monetize APIs."
"As the number of instances increases, its complexity of installation increases if you do not use the OVA."
"Layer7 API Management should improve the quota policy for the number of API calls."
"I would like for the new release to allow us to speed up code generation. The integration with CICD could also be more seamless."
"The development portal could be improved."
"The Portal lacks maturity. Since the move from Portal 3.x to 4.x, a lot of features were removed. It is slowly coming back. I can see a lot of changes are done in the "background" to decouple components and make it more flexible. Those changes are just not getting to the UI side quick enough."
"I understand that clients are often concerned about costs. They might be exploring other options due to the high cost associated with our current package."
"I feel there is a lot to improve in terms of providing plug-and-play functionalities, as at the moment it requires a lot of coding in their specific language for implementing a medium-complexity use case."
"The developer portal needs to fully supported SOAP services (including WSDL publication with security), it would certainly push adoption for us."
"From my understanding, there are some constraints around governance and service-to-service intercommunication managing priorities and our own governance."
"Microsoft Azure API Management's most valuable features are the microservices we used to use. They were API callers to receive communication with the network and building system, to complete the request. The response would be through the processing system."
"In terms of improvement, it would be helpful if they could develop an on-premises option."
"The portal where we publish the APIs could be improved. Maybe this is because we didn't configure it. It is quite easy to bypass API management because we have a lot of information shared on the portal, where we publish our APIs. I worry there is potential for a security breach in the API publishing. There needs to be more security available on terms of the way we publish them."
"The user interface needs improvement."
"Microsoft Azure API Management needs to improve stability."
"The documentation could be improved for the customer."
"There is room for improvement in the user interface and workflow for hosting APIs, especially third-party APIs."
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Layer7 API Management is ranked 10th in API Management with 110 reviews while Microsoft Azure API Management is ranked 1st in API Management with 68 reviews. Layer7 API Management is rated 8.4, while Microsoft Azure API Management is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Layer7 API Management writes "Has great drag-and-drop features and it requires minimal coding ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Azure API Management writes "Efficiently manages and monetizes API ". Layer7 API Management is most compared with Apigee, Kong Gateway Enterprise, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, Amazon API Gateway and IBM API Connect, whereas Microsoft Azure API Management is most compared with Amazon API Gateway, Apigee, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, Kong Gateway Enterprise and 3scale API Management. See our Layer7 API Management vs. Microsoft Azure API Management report.
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