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.
"One of the best parts of this solution is the implementation as we did not need to use code or out-of-box policies. When it comes to the cloud-based architecture, there is a high level of reliability."
"I have not encountered instability with the product."
"Its customer service is good."
"The security that you have with Apigee is very good and aligns with compliance."
"I have found the most valuable features to be tracing a proxy, and managing proxy versions and revisions via the Edge UI component."
"Apigee is a great product with good feedback and recommendations from clients."
"Apigee is relatively easy to use for developers."
"The central monitoring feature is the most valuable. It also provides security for the APIs and high availability for our use cases. Apigee is the best product in the industry in comparison to other API management solutions. It helps in fast development, which is a top point. It also supports a lot of industry standards and has excellent documentation."
"Policy configurations are pretty easy."
"The solution provides a common place for all APIs, allowing for easy sharing and exchange of information between internal and external stakeholders."
"API Connect's data gateway is one of the strongest in the market."
"The statistics component is easy to use."
"The management of the API and API portal is good."
"IBM API Connect is a good product, and their technical support is excellent."
"The solution offers a pretty good SLA."
"The most valuable features are stability and security."
"The company needs to better support webhooks. It used to support webhooks and their policies and they have since stopped. They had some issues in the product and they abandoned the support for them. It's not come back since."
"Technical support model for OPDK should be more exposed and mature in terms of providing support during installation, run, and debug of Apigee in production on OPDK mode."
"We need better performance monitoring."
"Google isn't enthusiastic about supporting older versions. Google is now trying to move all of its clients to X within the cloud."
"More documentation on the Open Banking Standard will help."
"The solution is pretty expensive."
"We do not have control over the installation."
"An area for improvement would be to provide more information while troubleshooting."
"The solution would be better if it had cloud functionalities."
"It should be cheaper."
"The installation was difficult with the IBM toolkit."
"Debugging could be improved."
"The developer portal could be easier to customize."
"The product's setup phase and its setup for the users in different environments, along with DevOps integration, are areas of concern where there is a need for improvement."
"There are some performance issues and issues related to asynchronous APIs."
"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."
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.