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.
"Apigee is very easy to use, and you can code in any language."
"If you have numerous applications and high traffic, Apigee is a strong choice for its excellent features and outstanding performance."
"The most valuable feature of Apigee is its simplicity of deploying an API and restricting access, like rate limit, with the API."
"It is easy to deploy, configure, and monitor the APA."
"The pricing is okay."
"The developer portal is very useful to customers."
"I think the most valuable features are the security features. Of course, the user access control is the same as the security. The other very important issue is the sandboxing capability of Apigee."
"Easy interface to monetize and deliver APIs with very easy integration for third-party development environments/delivery."
"Initial setup was quite easy."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Azure API Management is monitoring. When compared with Apigee, I prefer Microsoft Azure API Management."
"The UI management is very easy to use."
"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."
"What I like most about Microsoft Azure API Management is that it's flexible and user-friendly. The solution also has rich documentation and guides available, so users can configure and use it."
"The most valuable features are the ease of use and it is a platform that has self-enablement for the customers to be able to register themselves."
"It is easy to use."
"Without a doubt, it has a very robust, strong marketplace where we can directly integrate with existing APIs and begin working on those."
"Apigee's user interface could be more straightforward and have more options. Also, it would be nice if it were ready to work out of the box without so much configuration."
"Drag and drop of features would be more beneficial, rather than manually working on the configuration and updates."
"Apigee could do more to make users aware of what is available in the add-ons."
"The developer portal's adoption of the OpenAPI standard needs to be improved. In the latest version of the developer portal, they have adopted the OpenAPI standard. This feature, however, can be improved by supporting more characteristics of the OpenAPI standard."
"I would like to see the monitoring, dashboards, and reports improve."
"Apigee on premise is quite complex and it is always moving faster."
"They have an external developer platform that was a little bit painful."
"I'd like this solution to improve on releasing new features; I'd like it to be more frequent."
"They should improve the inbuilt policies that they have and that should properly create a deployment architecture as well."
"The scalability of this solution could be improved. The volume which the API Management task service can handle needs to be improved. Cost wise, this solution could be optimized."
"The API gateway can be very complex."
"I could that the UI could be improved."
"Sometimes when immediate support is required, it isn't available."
"Performance issues from this platform need to be sorted out."
"I would like to see more security features become available."
"I'd like to have better flexibility and more capabilities."
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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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