We performed a comparison between Amazon API Gateway 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: Amazon API Gateway has a slight edge in this comparison because it received higher marks than Mulesoft Anypoint API in the setup and pricing categories.
"The solution is solid, robust, and scalable."
"It is a stable solution."
"It's flexible. It was valuable."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"All information and data needs to be sanitized before it enters a private domain and we use this solution to do this."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is a stable solution with an uptime of 99.99 percent."
"Amazon stack is easy to use in combination with other Amazon services, so it was a logical continuity."
"The solution is stable."
"I believe the API connectivity within the cloud marketplace is most valuable."
"Anypoint is very capable in terms of scalability."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to investigate APIs."
"The scalability is good. It's passable."
"The entire offering and suite of tools that this solution provides have been very valuable. We are able to manage APIs on runtime on a cloud basis which has been very useful."
"The most valuable features of Mulesoft Anypoint API Manager are the API gateway, rate limiting, and orchestration."
"It provides various advantages in the integration field, including support for Azure services and cloud integrations."
"The developer portal is easy to integrate. It is easy to use, easy to integrate, and I like the developer portal."
"Since the first invocation of AWS Lambda takes more than 30 seconds because of Lambda's cold start, Amazon API Gateway blocks that resource, thereby aborting the invocation."
"A lower price would definitely be an improvement."
"Like most Amazon services, and this one's the same, you're expected to effectively do your own support, and any other support is by emails, so it's quite limited."
"Monitoring could be improved."
"If I take into consideration the past three to four years, during which I used the tool, I would say that some missing and external configurations were not possible in the product, and it was a bit difficult to manage."
"The API Gateway lacks the capability to directly facilitate API strategy development or user onboarding workflows."
"The user interface could be improved, as well as customer support and having a local customer representative in a country."
"The course management needs improvement. It's always an issue to set up the course management, especially when you use data form."
"They should develop on MuleSoft as it would be a good way of improving API monetization."
"In the next release, Mulesoft should make it easier for people who don't have the native connectors to build their own rather than using the APA from the power platform or outlet."
"Migrating any existing middleware platform to Mulesoft is difficult because of the transformation, conversion and integration involved. Better tools are needed to achieve quicker time to market."
"An area for improvement in MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager is the process of applying policies because it's manual. It would be great if MuleSoft could make the process easier, particularly by automating it."
"The most important thing that should be improved is that it is too heavy."
"The log management for this solution needs improvement."
"Since most components are situated in the cloud, there's one particular hosted in the cloud. This presents a considerable challenge. While all other components are implemented on-premises, this specific one isn't permitted to be hosted in the cloud as per customer requirements. Shifting this component to an on-premises environment requires a significant effort."
"Not many stand-out features."
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Amazon API Gateway is ranked 3rd in API Management with 37 reviews while MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager is ranked 4th in API Management with 47 reviews. Amazon API Gateway is rated 8.2, while MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Amazon API Gateway writes "Easy initial setup and highly stable solution". 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". Amazon API Gateway is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, Apigee, WSO2 API Manager, Layer7 API Management and Kong Gateway Enterprise, whereas MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, Apigee, IBM API Connect, Kong Gateway Enterprise and Layer7 API Management. See our Amazon API Gateway vs. MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager report.
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