We performed a comparison between Microsoft Azure API Management and WSO2 API Manager based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Many users are heavily invested in Microsoft Azure products, making Microsoft Azure API Management more widely used and trusted. Additionally, WSO2 API lacks some new features and updated functionalities that other API solutions commonly provide. In terms of pricing, however, users are happier with WSO2.
"The most valuable features are the ease of use and it is a platform that has self-enablement for the customers to be able to register themselves."
"The tool helps to manage APIs."
"The Azure Active Directory Synchronization is quite good."
"We use this solution for API rate limiting and for its security features against DDoS."
"The ease of use of the solution is excellent."
"I have found this solution to be easy to configure, simple to use, and flexible."
"Initial setup was quite easy."
"Allows the possibility of VPN technology to connect your gateway directly with on-prem services"
"Helped us to quickly publish our Microservice APIs and enforcing different policies against them, it comes up with features like Security, Throttling policy and it provides complete access to customize API's which actually saves development effort and time."
"I think the best part about WSO2 API Manager is that it's highly customizable because it's open-source. The partnership model is quite lucrative for us, it helps us to go and pitch to our customers. You can build a lot of business models yourself that you want to use. You are able to do a lot of the solutions."
"The solution is stable."
"WSO2 API Manager is a stable solution."
"The solution is open-source."
"It's a good product."
"The flexibility is definitely a highlight. We have flexible mapping capabilities, allowing us to provide common mappings or create custom ones as needed."
"The main feature — the publication of the API, the management section — is great in general."
"Technical support could be more flexible and try to meet the client's needs a bit more effectively."
"Support for GraphQL could be better."
"I rate the technical support from Microsoft Azure API Management a four out of five."
"An area for improvement in Microsoft Azure API Management is deployment, in particular, the deployment of versions in Oryx. The development to production instance isn't adequate for me and needs to be improved. Microsoft Azure API Management lacks automation, which is another area for improvement."
"Maybe the customization could be a bit better."
"From my understanding, there are some constraints around governance and service-to-service intercommunication managing priorities and our own governance."
"Azure is our most expensive resource; it's costly."
"The documentation could be improved for the customer."
"WSO2 API Manager can be improved a lot relating to usability"
"They don't have different URLs for administrators."
"Lacks some new features and updated functionalities."
"We found WSO2 API Manager to be a bit complex."
"The price and the complexities attached to the solution are two areas of concern where improvements are required."
"WSO2 API Manager should improve its marketplace subscription model and documentation in order to reach a higher level in the market."
"Providing easy configuration for email and SMS notifications, layout and customization of admin and developer landing pages."
"Basically, mTLS is a certificate-based communication protocol that WSO2 API Manager doesn't support."
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Microsoft Azure API Management is ranked 1st in API Management with 68 reviews while WSO2 API Manager is ranked 8th in API Management with 33 reviews. Microsoft Azure API Management is rated 7.8, while WSO2 API Manager is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Microsoft Azure API Management writes "Efficiently manages and monetizes API ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of WSO2 API Manager writes "Reliable with good capabilities and good support". Microsoft Azure API Management is most compared with Amazon API Gateway, Apigee, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, Kong Gateway Enterprise and IBM DataPower Gateway, whereas WSO2 API Manager is most compared with Apigee, Kong Gateway Enterprise, Amazon API Gateway, Apache APISIX and 3scale API Management. See our Microsoft Azure API Management vs. WSO2 API Manager report.
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