We performed a comparison between Microsoft Azure API Management 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: Based on the parameters we compared, Mulesoft Anypoint API Manager seems to be the more desirable product. With overwhelming responses applauding its stability and reliability, it is evident that users of Mulesoft Anypoint API Manager are happy with the solution. In addition, users had only positive experiences with service and support, and were satisfied with the ROI. Users consider it to be expensive, but worth the expense.
"API Management does not take long to deploy."
"Microsoft Azure API Management has many valuable features. One is the developer portal, that's very useful for teams. The tool also provides layers of security. I also found the caching, automatic documentation, and version management functionalities most valuable."
"The ability to easily connect back to Service Fabric is the most important for us."
"I have found this solution to be easy to configure, simple to use, and flexible."
"The ease of setting up a new solution is the most valuable feature. It's very easy to set up a new solution and to deploy it to production."
"The API management and the hosting of the API platform are great."
"We use this solution for API rate limiting and for its security features against DDoS."
"We use Microsoft due to the stability of the company."
"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 features of Mulesoft Anypoint API Manager are the API gateway, rate limiting, and orchestration."
"Mulesoft Anypoint API Manager's most valuable aspect is it has plenty of features."
"The most valuable feature of Mulesoft Anypoint API Manager is the gateway that is provided."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to investigate APIs."
"The developer portal is easy to integrate. It is easy to use, easy to integrate, and I like the developer portal."
"The documentation is great; it is always up to date and well-presented."
"MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager has the most valuable data components and can integrate APIs across multiple microservices."
"The API gateway can be very complex."
"The solution's integration suite needs improvement."
"In the API you need to delete the suffix. It is annoying that you need to have a suffix. We can add a suffix at the API level, not at the operation level, and that could be improved on."
"I would like to see more integration with other platforms, as well as increased security."
"They should improve the inbuilt policies that they have and that should properly create a deployment architecture as well."
"Some of the DevOps stuff could be easier to work with. The migration paths are a little complicated, and moving code around could be more seamless. There should be less manual migration when several teams work together to publish code to the DevOps."
"I could that the UI could be improved."
"Other products have more customization options."
"When compared to other integration technologies, it is slightly higher."
"The initial setup, if you go back three or three and a half years, definitely, for us, was complex."
"I would like to see more automation. Operations are done manually. It should also automate in the operation."
"With respect to the live help, I have language issues because I can't understand some of the things that I hear."
"The setup process could be simpler."
"I would like to see MuleSoft expand the range of APIs you can manage with it beyond HTTP, GIPC, and others."
"Rather than focusing on numbers, they should focus more on the customer support service."
"Not many stand-out features."
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Microsoft Azure API Management is ranked 1st in API Management with 68 reviews while MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager is ranked 4th in API Management with 49 reviews. Microsoft Azure API Management is rated 7.8, while MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Microsoft Azure API Management writes "Efficiently manages and monetizes API ". 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". Microsoft Azure API Management is most compared with Amazon API Gateway, Apigee, Kong Gateway Enterprise, IBM API Connect and WSO2 API Manager, whereas MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager is most compared with Amazon API Gateway, Apigee, IBM API Connect, Kong Gateway Enterprise and Layer7 API Management. See our Microsoft Azure API Management vs. MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager report.
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