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.
"A very functional solution."
"The developer portal is very useful to customers."
"Easy interface to monetize and deliver APIs with very easy integration for third-party development environments/delivery."
"They capture the details of all the incoming and outgoing traffic of your APIs. Based on 300+ default dimensions you can generate beautiful and insightful reports on usage and consumption of APIs."
"It's stable."
"I simply like how you can personalize your products and put them into product categories. That's what I like the most."
"The capabilities are very powerful."
"Apigee makes proxy management very simple."
"API Management does not take long to deploy."
"I like the stability and the ease of use."
"The most valuable features of Microsoft Azure API Management are the easy configuration and deployment with automation."
"It's very well integrated with the Azure environment."
"The solution is quite stable. We have no issues with it. there have been no crashes and we haven't experienced bugs or glitches. It's been quite reliable."
"Monitoring: It gives us a detailed overview of how clients are using the API and it allows us to see the consumption trends in real-time."
"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 user management is pretty seamless."
"We've encountered challenges in leveraging Connect functionality, prompting us to explore additional tools, such as Fergus, to address implementation and security issues."
"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."
"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."
"Role-based access management needs to be improved. It would also be nice if the solution could be integrated with code versioning systems like Git/Bitbucket."
"I would like them to add features, such as caching and mediation policies."
"Access restrictions can be improved."
"Better functionality for validating inputs and outputs would be helpful."
"What my clients don't like is that the on-premises solution is not being treated and maintained as well as the cloud solution."
"I'd like to have better flexibility and more capabilities."
"The solution’s security and performance could be improved."
"One of the most important improvements for us would be if it supported the HTTP/3 version and new protocol over a quick connection."
"They need to work on the third party integrations."
"The documentation could be improved for the customer."
"An area for improvement in Microsoft Azure API Management is deployment, in particular, the deployment of versions in Oryx. The development to production instance isn't adequate for me and needs to be improved. Microsoft Azure API Management lacks automation, which is another area for improvement."
"The licensing tiers can be misleading."
"The external policies are impossible to look at and configure."
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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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