We performed a comparison between Apigee and Postman based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two API Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The solution is stable and reliable."
"Apigee Analytics dashboard is useful to monitor transactions, error percentage, transaction latency, etc."
"A special feature is configuring target servers, proxy config, and Cert related security, which regularizes incoming traffic from cloud users or external applications to internal applications in a secured manner."
"The most important feature is the security capabilities and the way it integrates very quickly with other security providers. We have integrated it with Azure and it integrates quite seamlessly."
"The analytics function and the developer portal are the two valuable features of Apigee. The analytics part is very good, and the developer portal is quite rich in features."
"Its customer service is good."
"Apigee's best features are flexibility and breadth of capabilities."
"Highly scalable from any initial topology to horizontal extension"
"It is simple, easy to use and a good tool."
"We are using the automation and performance testing tools."
"Postman lets you create, manage, and validate a suite of tests. It has several features to help you organize your test suite. You can also automate stuff with a lot of validations and assertions. Postman supports GraphQL, and you can do various kinds of calls."
"The most valuable feature of Postman is the large libraries."
"It helps me to test APIs independently. It also supports hosting."
"The tool is simple and easy."
"I like that it is very easy to use. I also like the automation feature."
"This solution offers a free version."
"The pricing of the solution could be improved upon. We'd like it if it was less costly."
"I am still struggling to understand how we can use Apigee as a hybrid system. The pricing of this solution could also be improved as there are multiple new products coming onto the market at competitive price points."
"The caching capabilities are somewhat limited. This is more on the developer-oriented capabilities."
"The Apigee cloud admin UI could be more user-friendly by adding a few more features."
"The initial setup for the on-prem solution is a little complex."
"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."
"The initial setup is not straightforward, particularly for hybrid solutions."
"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."
"Could be more user friendly."
"One thing which Postman needs to improve is the documentation. The documentation of Postman is not that great when compared to other tools."
"I have recently noticed that, for some reason, I am not able to import collections in JSON. It is weird because I was able to do it before. When you create a new collection and documentation, in tests, you usually have to click Save. If you don't click Save, your collections don't sync with other devices, which is something I don't like. It is not clear for the users in a shared workspace, and I usually forget to click Save and end up losing all the collections that I created. I create a lot of routes, and clicking Save all the time isn't efficient. Instead of clicking Save all the time, there should be an option to save everything in one go."
"To get this email reporting function, we have to integrate Postman with Newman. If the two are not integrated, we won't be getting all these things in one group."
"The solution could be more user-friendly."
"The solution is quite complex partly because the UI needs simplification."
"The solution can be improved by providing detailed error logs including the line the error took place to make it easier to correct."
"I have display issues in my Windows that need to be fixed."
Apigee is ranked 2nd in API Management with 82 reviews while Postman is ranked 9th in API Management with 52 reviews. Apigee is rated 8.2, while Postman 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 Postman writes "Reliable and easy to expand with a helpful API network". Apigee is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, IBM API Connect, Amazon API Gateway, WSO2 API Manager and 3scale API Management, whereas Postman is most compared with Apache JMeter, ReadyAPI Test, Tricentis Tosca, Katalon Studio and Parasoft SOAtest. See our Apigee vs. Postman report.
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