We performed a comparison between Akana API Management and WSO2 API Manager based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Google, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and others in API Management."Good interface, intuitive solution."
"The tool's authentication mechanism is easy to implement. We had to define a few parameters."
"It allowed us to publish and replace pre-essential transactions in one place, with a uniformity in terms of control and policies."
"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."
"A complete integration suite and a good platform."
"One of the great things about WSO2 API Manager is that it is so easy to adopt. And because it's an open source solution, we're able to extend the implementation any time to suit our company needs better."
"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."
"Based on the information I have, the solution's most valuable feature is its capability of implementing custom solutions."
"The solution is open source and easy to configure."
"This solution is a little bit faster, easier to use, and has better integration than the other solutions I have experienced."
"The solution is stable."
"Lacks an integrated billing feature."
"Akana API Management needs to improve its documentation."
"The product has new features that we are going to implement in the next few months, such as API management and analytic reporting."
"WSO2 API Manager could improve the API approval system."
"They don't have different URLs for administrators."
"WSO2 API Manager should improve its marketplace subscription model and documentation in order to reach a higher level in the market."
"API Manager is not easy to scale because some of its components lack scalability. It's a difficult point. Especially because companies are so cloud-based these days, microservice scalability is a major thing."
"The product hasn’t been updated for some time."
"WSO2 API Manager can be improved a lot relating to usability"
"We found WSO2 API Manager to be a bit complex."
"From what I have experienced from the versions I have tried, they could improve on the multi-tenant environments to allow some kind of SSO single sign-on between tenant."
Akana API Management is ranked 28th in API Management with 3 reviews while WSO2 API Manager is ranked 8th in API Management with 33 reviews. Akana API Management is rated 8.4, while WSO2 API Manager is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Akana API Management writes "Authentication mechanism is easy to implement but improvement is needed in documentation ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of WSO2 API Manager writes "Reliable with good capabilities and good support". Akana API Management is most compared with Apigee, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, Amazon API Gateway, Microsoft Azure API Management and Kong Gateway Enterprise, whereas WSO2 API Manager is most compared with Apigee, Kong Gateway Enterprise, Amazon API Gateway, Microsoft Azure API Management and Apache APISIX.
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