We performed a comparison between Apigee and Tyk 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."
"It's stable."
"The ability to convert from language to language using a single tool."
"I like implementing different policies, for example, rate-limiting policy."
"The most valuable feature is the API gateway."
"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."
"It has a very efficient logging system which is easy to maintain."
"Apigee provides good documentation."
"The most valuable feature is the load balancing with the circuit-breaker function."
"You can set up workflows and write limited pieces of logic."
"It is a good product for API management."
"The scalability is very good. That was a key factor in the selection, like how it could be pushed to high volume and scalability, which seemed to be very good."
"The feature I find most valuable is that this solution allows us to manage our security."
"The portal for developers that this solution provides has great functionality."
"Apigee lacks market presence."
"The account simplification process can be improved."
"Apigee is demanding on the infrastructure so the setup cost is very high for an on-premises deployment."
"An area for improvement would be to provide more information while troubleshooting."
"Sometimes there are glitches, which means there's still room for improvement in the platform."
"It would be good if the Apigee management allowed us to be able to consolidate many operations into single one for the gateway functionality."
"It needs predictive analysis of consumption."
"Apigee is not a solution compatible with public clouds, making it one of its shortcomings where improvements are required."
"In terms of our usage, the main area of concern is that they tend to build enhancements slightly ahead of the considerations for what those enhancements and extensions are. So it could be slightly better communication with the customer base that would be my main issue with them."
"It is a young product and does not have the kind of brand recognition that would make it a more popular solution with our clients."
"We ran it for a while, but then we decided to move away from Tyk, because Tyk's cloud version, the SaaS version, has a significant limitation of limited flexibility, so you can't program very much."
"I would like to see some additional features like having some extensions for .NET core because we use it for our back-end language."
"We would like a better tool for generating documentation for the APIs to be developed."
"Sometimes when new features are released, they are not immediately stable."
Apigee is ranked 2nd in API Management with 82 reviews while Tyk is ranked 17th in API Management with 6 reviews. Apigee is rated 8.2, while Tyk is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Apigee writes "Has a robust community and outstanding performance". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Tyk writes "Simple to install, has many features, but lacks support for multiple programming languages". Apigee is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, IBM API Connect, Amazon API Gateway, WSO2 API Manager and Layer7 API Management, whereas Tyk is most compared with Apache APISIX, Traefik Enterprise, Amazon API Gateway, Microsoft Azure API Management and WSO2 API Manager. See our Apigee vs. Tyk report.
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