We performed a comparison between Microsoft Azure API Management and Apigee based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Based on the parameters we compared, Apigee received higher ratings than Microsoft Azure API Management. Although Apigee is the more expensive solution, it comes out on top with more favorable features and good technical support.
"Apigee provides good documentation."
"It is a stable solution...It is a scalable solution."
"The solution is stable and reliable."
"The flexibility allows you to quickly run a cloud-native application architecture."
"It's stable."
"Lifecycle management."
"The most valuable features are scalability and technical support."
"I have not encountered instability with the product."
"The API management and the hosting of the API platform are great."
"It's a very robust tool. So you see that there is a developer portal which can be used by developer or the vendors as well. And other external partners to create keys and manage their own APIs. The other thing is that they have a lot of policies there are too many options within API. So I do the difficult to tell one, but probably I would say, like, proxy sorry. The policies is one of the thing wherein you can just configure the policies and modify the behavior of the APIs."
"API Management does not take long to deploy."
"We use this solution for API rate limiting and for its security features against DDoS."
"The ability to easily connect back to Service Fabric is the most important for us."
"The most valuable features of Microsoft Azure API Management are the easy configuration and deployment with automation."
"Initial setup was quite easy."
"It is easy to use."
"Sometimes there are glitches, which means there's still room for improvement in the platform."
"The ability to work across different management solutions in a plug and play fashion would make it easier for faster uptake."
"Apigee could improve by integrating with more identity providers and offering a default authentication module."
"Development IDE, especially for Architect Review."
"The integration could be improved within the solution. There is a need to pay more attention to this."
"The caching capabilities are somewhat limited. This is more on the developer-oriented capabilities."
"The developer portal's adoption of the OpenAPI standard needs to be improved. In the latest version of the developer portal, they have adopted the OpenAPI standard. This feature, however, can be improved by supporting more characteristics of the OpenAPI standard."
"Unlike WSA, Apigee does not have a partnership model, something which makes it a bit easier for companies such as ours to go with the former solution."
"API Management's price could be lower."
"There is a limitation of 32 kb of data in the APIs. Having the limitation increase would be a benefit."
"Performance issues from this platform need to be sorted out."
"The licensing tiers can be misleading."
"The scalability of this solution could be improved. The volume which the API Management task service can handle needs to be improved. Cost wise, this solution could be optimized."
"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."
"I'd like to have better flexibility and more capabilities."
"They're trying to implement versioning and trying to be able to manage different versions of your API all at the same time, but they're not doing that just quite right yet."
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Apigee is ranked 2nd in API Management with 82 reviews while Microsoft Azure API Management is ranked 1st in API Management with 68 reviews. Apigee is rated 8.2, while Microsoft Azure API Management is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Apigee writes "Has a robust community and outstanding performance". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Azure API Management writes "Efficiently manages and monetizes API ". Apigee is most compared with IBM API Connect, Amazon API Gateway, WSO2 API Manager, Layer7 API Management and MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, whereas Microsoft Azure API Management is most compared with Amazon API Gateway, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, Kong Gateway Enterprise, IBM API Connect and WSO2 API Manager. See our Apigee vs. Microsoft Azure API Management report.
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