We performed a comparison between Apiary and Microsoft Azure API Management 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."I find the generation of mock services very useful, especially when demonstrating for new consumers."
"Quick and easy way to share a new API design with teams."
"In two years, there was one time the service was down for an hour or so."
"Git integration"
"I do like the overall performance of the solution."
"The API management is very good."
"Microsoft Azure API Management is better because it has a DevOps integration by default."
"Microsoft Azure API Management is 90 to 99 percent scalable. We have three instances running in parallel."
"The initial setup is not that complex, but there are certain challenges."
"I have found this solution to be easy to configure, simple to use, and flexible."
"The ability to easily connect back to Service Fabric is the most important for us."
"I like the API Management functions."
"The most valuable features of the solution are its importing and publishing."
"Swagger (OpenAPI Specification) and Blueprint Support"
"I would like an integrated option to download a Swagger version of the definition."
"The Oracle release cycle is very bad because the patches only update once a year."
"They should improve the inbuilt policies that they have and that should properly create a deployment architecture as well."
"Some of the DevOps stuff could be easier to work with. The migration paths are a little complicated, and moving code around could be more seamless. There should be less manual migration when several teams work together to publish code to the DevOps."
"What would make Microsoft Azure API Management better are more APIs. They keep updating their APIs, but it would be better if the solution had more APIs for the services and more integration with other platforms."
"Microsoft Azure API Management is lagging behind Apigee and should also have a better CICD process."
"Multi-tenant functionalities is missing from the system, especially when it comes to the developer code of features."
"I would like to see more security features become available."
"The cloud deployment performance could be better."
"The solution's integration suite needs improvement."
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Apiary is ranked 36th in API Management while Microsoft Azure API Management is ranked 1st in API Management with 68 reviews. Apiary is rated 8.2, while Microsoft Azure API Management is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Apiary writes "The ability to configure rules to check for consistency has helped". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Azure API Management writes "Efficiently manages and monetizes API ". Apiary is most compared with SwaggerHub, Oracle API Platform Cloud Service and Apigee, whereas Microsoft Azure API Management is most compared with Amazon API Gateway, Apigee, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, Kong Gateway Enterprise and IBM API Connect.
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