We performed a comparison between Apigee and Layer 7 API Management based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Apigee has very high availability and makes it easy for users to manage the entire lifecycle of the API. It offers vast opportunities for easy customization. Users find some of Layer 7 API Management’s tools and features difficult to implement and bulky, causing processes to slow down. Layer 7 could also use more cloud-native features.
"It is easy to deploy, configure, and monitor the APA."
"It's stable."
"We have been using Apigee mostly for proxy FGIs. We also use its security features as well as traffic control features."
"It is scalable."
"Apigee has better scalability than WSA."
"Technical support has been decent."
"The analytics feature is quite good."
"The most valuable feature of the current version of Apigee, such as Apigee Edge, is that the maintenance and scalability of the service are not our responsibility. As a SaaS platform, Google takes care of it, ensuring the system is stable. Another valuable feature is the ability to customize the platform extensively. We can add JavaScript functionality to cater to any use case that is not available out of the box."
"Key features include: lightweight mediation, transformation from JSON to XML and XML to JSON, API portal and API key management, the Developer Portal, and Circuit Breaker is a cool feature, too."
"There are a few assertions which are built-in for threat protection. I have used them for vulnerabilities, like for DDoS attacks, XML schema validation, IP restriction, and for cross-domain."
"The solution fills our two most important concerns in seeking an API solution by providing a reliable gateway and security options."
"Containerization and the monetization module are quite unique for an API tool... In addition, the development time and rollout time are pretty quick."
"It has improved API governance and gives analytics to API performance."
"It's a comprehensive tool that allows us to perform all the necessary tasks in one place."
"The Mobile API Gateway is also great."
"Security is the most important parameter of the solution, for me, because whenever you are exposing your APIs to third-parties, it is critical that the data remains anonymous and that data is retained within the system, that it is not leaked. CA API Management provides good security features."
"I would like to see SOAP services and socket-based connectivity developed."
"We need better performance monitoring."
"Role-based access management needs to be improved. It would also be nice if the solution could be integrated with code versioning systems like Git/Bitbucket."
"Access restrictions can be improved."
"I would like to see the monitoring, dashboards, and reports improve."
"The integration could be improved within the solution. There is a need to pay more attention to this."
"An area for improvement would be to provide more information while troubleshooting."
"We do not have control over the installation."
"As the number of instances increases, its complexity of installation increases if you do not use the OVA."
"Layer7 API Management could have a live API creator feature, so my team can easily create APIs. Right now, the product doesn't have that feature."
"The setup was not as straightforward as it should have been. Support should be improved."
"The developer portal needs to fully supported SOAP services (including WSDL publication with security), it would certainly push adoption for us."
"The interface is Java which is difficult to make look very nice."
"It would be nice if we could create APIs directly from Swagger files. We're doing that ourselves with a middle layer. But if you could integrate with open API Swagger specs, and then just create a Swagger and upload it to the gateway and it would create all my API template policy, and would apply the OAuth restrictions, the types of security restrictions I have on there, that would be pretty cool."
"They need a workflow for the API Developer Portal, where the process only allows requests to go to the correct person."
"We are looking for improvements related to integration. We want to see them add integration tools to the CA bundle. That would be helpful."
Apigee is ranked 2nd in API Management with 82 reviews while Layer7 API Management is ranked 10th in API Management with 110 reviews. Apigee is rated 8.2, while Layer7 API Management is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Apigee writes "Has a robust community and outstanding performance". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Layer7 API Management writes "Has great drag-and-drop features and it requires minimal coding ". Apigee is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, IBM API Connect, Amazon API Gateway, WSO2 API Manager and MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, whereas Layer7 API Management is most compared with Kong Gateway Enterprise, Amazon API Gateway, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, Microsoft Azure API Management and IBM API Connect. See our Apigee vs. Layer7 API Management report.
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