We performed a comparison between Apigee vs. WSO2 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 the winning edge in this comparison. Apigee has better ratings when it comes to ease of deployment, features, and service and support.
"Apigee's best features are flexibility and breadth of capabilities."
"It is easy to deploy, configure, and monitor the APA."
"The most valuable features are low-code play, quick packaging, and production."
"Apigee provides out-of-the-box policies, so it is ready to use with minimal configuration to those policies. You can govern your API and manage the life cycle of the API completely with the Apigee tool."
"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 strong-featured solution. It leads in Gartner Quadrant ratings and it is a full-slated API solution that has the features that an API gateway requires."
"Technical support has been decent."
"A very functional solution."
"The main feature — the publication of the API, the management section — is great in general."
"It's very scalable, which is one of the best features."
"The product is easy to use."
"The solution is open-source."
"This is a flexible and versatile API management solution that has the power to integrate with more than just API."
"The documentation is good."
"This solution is a little bit faster, easier to use, and has better integration than the other solutions I have experienced."
"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."
"They need to work on the cost of the solution."
"Drag and drop of features would be more beneficial, rather than manually working on the configuration and updates."
"I would like to see SOAP services and socket-based connectivity developed."
"Could be more user friendly."
"They have an external developer platform that was a little bit painful."
"The solution is pretty expensive."
"Apigee is not a solution compatible with public clouds, making it one of its shortcomings where improvements are required."
"Areas like traffic handling of incoming requests, security features between third-parties and Apigee, and between Apigee and internal network servers, resources, or JSON areas, etc."
"Lacks some new features and updated functionalities."
"I can say that user management is not really flexible. So, if I want to create 1,000 store users, I can't do it as a publisher. You have to register as a store user using the store URL."
"WSO2 API Manager can be improved a lot relating to usability"
"The user interface needs to improve, it is a bit outdated."
"WSO2 API Manager could increase their security compliance."
"I would improve the product documentation. There are some gaps, and it can be difficult to find the proper documentation for the product if you need to solve something."
"WSO2 API Manager should improve its marketplace subscription model and documentation in order to reach a higher level in the market."
"The technical support must be improved."
Apigee is ranked 2nd in API Management with 82 reviews while WSO2 API Manager is ranked 8th in API Management with 33 reviews. Apigee is rated 8.2, while WSO2 API Manager 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 WSO2 API Manager writes "Reliable with good capabilities and good support". Apigee is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, IBM API Connect, Amazon API Gateway, Layer7 API Management and MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, whereas WSO2 API Manager is most compared with Kong Gateway Enterprise, Amazon API Gateway, Apache APISIX, Microsoft Azure API Management and 3scale API Management. See our Apigee vs. WSO2 API Manager report.
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