We performed a comparison between Apigee and MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Apigee has a slight edge in this comparison. Apigee is easy to deploy and received high marks for its analytics features. Some MuleSoft Anypoint users say that its deployment can be complex and that it needs better analytics tools.
"The tool is one of the earliest API management products and is good. It reduces the Time To Market aspects of products."
"Apigee is a pioneer in the industry and has good features and functionalities. It is a good tool for API management and it has more advancements than all other tools in the market in certain areas."
"The capabilities are very powerful."
"They capture the details of all the incoming and outgoing traffic of your APIs. Based on 300+ default dimensions you can generate beautiful and insightful reports on usage and consumption of APIs."
"Apigee gives you plenty of opportunities to set up your workspace depending on how you want to manage your APIs."
"The security provided by the solution is excellent."
"We use it to build API proxies for securing targeted back-ends with an emphasis on Continuous Integration/Continuous Development (CI/CD)."
"The most valuable features are scalability and technical support."
"Both the cloud and on-premises options are available. Customers can leverage the MuleSoft Cloud platform to deploy the applications or set up their own online infrastructure to deploy applications."
"It provides all of the robust platform-enabled features."
"The developer portal is easy to integrate. It is easy to use, easy to integrate, and I like the developer portal."
"MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager is a low-code product."
"The most valuable features of the solution for securing APIs stem from the tool's ability to allow users to deploy policies."
"The most valuable feature of Mulesoft Anypoint API Manager is the gateway that is provided."
"The entire offering and suite of tools that this solution provides have been very valuable. We are able to manage APIs on runtime on a cloud basis which has been very useful."
"We can use both on-premises and cloud setups."
"The solution is pretty expensive."
"Maintaining and deploying revisions need to be more defined."
"The Apigee cloud admin UI could be more user-friendly by adding a few more features."
"We are experiencing some performance issues."
"It is an expensive solution."
"Development IDE, especially for Architect Review."
"In terms of the functionalities of a typical API gateway, Apigee is actually doing its job, but when it involves integration with backend applications, which some gateways have, I don't believe it has this functionality. You have to do Java or do some other low-level coding before you are able to do the integration. Apigee has a lot of components, which means that management will be a bit difficult. It probably has ten different components, and all of these components leverage open-source utilities, such as NGINX. When those open-source vendors upgrade their utility, Apigee usually lags behind because they need to do a lot of tests and any required development in their own platform. They need to do rigorous testing to make sure that nothing breaks. Because of that, it takes them a while to upgrade whatever components have been upgraded by the open-source vendor that owns the utility. We've been chasing them for a particular upgrade for well over a year and a half, and they have not done that upgrade. It is creating a security risk for us as an enterprise, but that upgrade has not been done, even though the open-source vendor, the owner of the utility, has upgraded it a long time ago."
"I would like to see SOAP services and socket-based connectivity developed."
"The dashboards in Mulesoft Anypoint API Manager could improve."
"It can offer workflows, orchestration, and webhooks."
"The initial setup is very complex."
"Better documentation to help explain each of the features would be really helpful."
"The product's price should be available for public review since it is not currently available for others to see, making it one of the areas where the product has certain shortcomings."
"The solution should facilitate the creation of custom connectors for use cases where a user would require extra connectors."
"Mulesoft Anypoint API Manager could improve the monitoring because it is very poor quality and not user-friendly. It is not as good as other solutions on the market."
"To improve Anypoint API Manager for the next release, it should focus on better consumption scalability, especially for smaller APIs."
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Apigee is ranked 2nd in API Management with 82 reviews while MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager is ranked 4th in API Management with 49 reviews. Apigee is rated 8.2, while MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Apigee writes "Has a robust community and outstanding performance". 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". Apigee is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, IBM API Connect, WSO2 API Manager, Amazon API Gateway and Kong Gateway Enterprise, whereas MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, Amazon API Gateway, IBM API Connect, Kong Gateway Enterprise and Layer7 API Management. See our Apigee vs. MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager report.
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Apigee for sure. Not only do you get the benefit of hybrid and on-prem deployments. As a gov entity, you will face those challenges. Over time you might want to use AWS/Azure clouds so you can migrate it accordingly or just use the PAYG on GCP with all the security Bells and Whistles. https://www.gartner.com/review...
I will choose MuleSoft due to its ease of use, integration extendibility, and product roadmap.
MuleSoft API Management is better because of the following reasons:
* Ease of initial setup & configuration
* Most robust features in API management: oath, throttling, and access levels can be done very easily.
* MuleSoft API-led connectivity & Integration solution (you can extend the API management solution with a flexible integration option). You can very easily extend APIM to integration.
* Very Clear Product roadmap including APIM, RPA and multi-cloud implementation.
The cost of both MuleSoft APIM & APIGEE is similar.
Compared to 3scale, Apigee API Management has a better API gateway for security and traffic management.
Apigee is better for API policy enablement compared to 3scale API Management. Apigee provides better support for GraphQL, OData, OAS2.