We performed a comparison between Apiary and Apigee based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Google, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and others in API Management."I find the generation of mock services very useful, especially when demonstrating for new consumers."
"I do like the overall performance of the solution."
"Quick and easy way to share a new API design with teams."
"Git integration"
"In two years, there was one time the service was down for an hour or so."
"The features I found most valuable are how the APIs are published, the whole process of finalizing the API, and then controlling it."
"The initial setup was easy - there was an onboarding document with steps that we followed."
"Apigee makes proxy management very simple."
"Apigee provides out-of-the-box policies, so it is ready to use with minimal configuration to those policies. You can govern your API and manage the life cycle of the API completely with the Apigee tool."
"The most valuable features are low-code play, quick packaging, and production."
"Apigee is an easy-to-use solution."
"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."
"This is a front-layer gateway that helps to improve our overall performance."
"The Oracle release cycle is very bad because the patches only update once a year."
"I would like an integrated option to download a Swagger version of the definition."
"Swagger (OpenAPI Specification) and Blueprint Support"
"I would like to see better integration and some architectural improvements in future releases of the solution."
"The ability to work across different management solutions in a plug and play fashion would make it easier for faster uptake."
"Apigee is more of an entry level solution that does basic things pretty well, but if you want to go more customizable, you want to really look for another solution."
"The entire user across all the layers should be singly authenticated through an external authentication system."
"They need to work on the cost of the solution."
"I don't have any notes for improvement."
"The solution’s scalability could be improved."
"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."
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Apiary is ranked 36th in API Management while Apigee is ranked 2nd in API Management with 82 reviews. Apiary is rated 8.2, while Apigee is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Apiary writes "The ability to configure rules to check for consistency has helped". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Apigee writes "Has a robust community and outstanding performance". Apiary is most compared with SwaggerHub, Oracle API Platform Cloud Service and Microsoft Azure API Management, whereas Apigee is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, IBM API Connect, Amazon API Gateway, WSO2 API Manager and Layer7 API Management.
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