We performed a comparison between Apigee vs. WSO2 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: Apigee has the winning edge in this comparison. Apigee has better ratings when it comes to ease of deployment, features, and service and support.
"Apigee is a very lightweight solution."
"I simply like how you can personalize your products and put them into product categories. That's what I like the most."
"A simple platform that's easier to work with than IBM API Connect. Support for it is really good and gives it advantage over other providers."
"I'm still evaluating, but in terms of overall performance and stability, it's quite good."
"The security provided by the solution is excellent."
"The central monitoring feature is the most valuable. It also provides security for the APIs and high availability for our use cases. Apigee is the best product in the industry in comparison to other API management solutions. It helps in fast development, which is a top point. It also supports a lot of industry standards and has excellent documentation."
"One of the best parts of this solution is the implementation as we did not need to use code or out-of-box policies. When it comes to the cloud-based architecture, there is a high level of reliability."
"There is plenty of support documentation available."
"WSO2 API Manager is easy to use."
"The documentation is good."
"Its open-source features are very good, especially for your production work."
"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."
"Yes WSO2 API Manager is scalable"
"Based on the information I have, the solution's most valuable feature is its capability of implementing custom solutions."
"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."
"It's a good product."
"It is an expensive solution."
"We do not have control over the installation."
"They should improve the monitoring tools for on-premises environments."
"An area for improvement would be to provide more information while troubleshooting."
"The analytical aspect of it could be better. I think it is fair if Apigee lets you configure some of the metrics of the key details you want to monitor in terms of analytics."
"The initial setup for the on-prem solution is a little complex."
"Technical support model for OPDK should be more exposed and mature in terms of providing support during installation, run, and debug of Apigee in production on OPDK mode."
"The Apigee cloud admin UI could be more user-friendly by adding a few more features."
"I would improve the product documentation. There are some gaps, and it can be difficult to find the proper documentation for the product if you need to solve something."
"The solution could be more user friendly for engineers."
"The stability is pretty good, but it could be improved."
"The initial setup can be difficult."
"WSO2 API Manager should improve its marketplace subscription model and documentation in order to reach a higher level in the market."
"I would like it to be a more stable solution. Maybe in the last version that is approved. For me it would be good if they had a community established version."
"I can say that user management is not really flexible. So, if I want to create 1,000 store users, I can't do it as a publisher. You have to register as a store user using the store URL."
"Providing easy configuration for email and SMS notifications, layout and customization of admin and developer landing pages."
Apigee is ranked 2nd in API Management with 82 reviews while WSO2 API Manager is ranked 8th in API Management with 33 reviews. Apigee is rated 8.2, while WSO2 API Manager is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Apigee writes "Has a robust community and outstanding performance". On the other hand, the top reviewer of WSO2 API Manager writes "Reliable with good capabilities and good support". Apigee is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, IBM API Connect, Amazon API Gateway, Layer7 API Management and MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, whereas WSO2 API Manager is most compared with Kong Gateway Enterprise, Amazon API Gateway, Microsoft Azure API Management, Apache APISIX and 3scale API Management. See our Apigee vs. WSO2 API Manager report.
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