We performed a comparison between Apiary and Microsoft Azure API Management 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."Quick and easy way to share a new API design with teams."
"In two years, there was one time the service was down for an hour or so."
"I find the generation of mock services very useful, especially when demonstrating for new consumers."
"Git integration"
"I do like the overall performance of the solution."
"It’s easy to set up."
"I like the API Management functions."
"We use Microsoft due to the stability of the company."
"The solution is reliable and very stable."
"Azure APIM's best features are its straightforward access management (it's a single point of access for all monitoring and logging and for policy implementation) and its integration with the Azure Cloud infrastructure."
"I like API Management's sandbox feature. It's an environment where you can test out the API before putting it into production and connecting it to a live environment."
"The ability to easily connect back to Service Fabric is the most important for us."
"The ease of setting up a new solution is the most valuable feature. It's very easy to set up a new solution and to deploy it to production."
"The Oracle release cycle is very bad because the patches only update once a year."
"Swagger (OpenAPI Specification) and Blueprint Support"
"I would like an integrated option to download a Swagger version of the definition."
"It can be quite complex, somewhat lacking in flexibility."
"From my understanding, there are some constraints around governance and service-to-service intercommunication managing priorities and our own governance."
"The developer portal can be improved."
"There is room for improvement in the user interface and workflow for hosting APIs, especially third-party APIs."
"One of the most important improvements for us would be if it supported the HTTP/3 version and new protocol over a quick connection."
"Could use clearer configuration when it comes to API policies."
"They need to work on the third party integrations."
"The solution’s security and performance could be improved."
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Apiary is ranked 36th in API Management while Microsoft Azure API Management is ranked 1st in API Management with 68 reviews. Apiary is rated 8.2, while Microsoft Azure API Management is rated 7.8. 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 Microsoft Azure API Management writes "Efficiently manages and monetizes API ". Apiary is most compared with SwaggerHub, Oracle API Platform Cloud Service and Apigee, whereas Microsoft Azure API Management is most compared with Amazon API Gateway, Apigee, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, Kong Gateway Enterprise and IBM API Connect.
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