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.
"The analytics function and the developer portal are the two valuable features of Apigee. The analytics part is very good, and the developer portal is quite rich in features."
"It's a good return on my investment."
"Apigee is a great product with good feedback and recommendations from clients."
"A special feature is configuring target servers, proxy config, and Cert related security, which regularizes incoming traffic from cloud users or external applications to internal applications in a secured manner."
"The most valuable features are scalability and technical support."
"The stability of the solution is good. There aren't issues surrounding bugs or glitches. We don't find that it crashes or freezes. It's pretty reliable."
"It accelerates development and deployment processes."
"The following features are most valuable: API Management, Analytics, Quota, and the Developer Portal."
"Monitoring: It gives us a detailed overview of how clients are using the API and it allows us to see the consumption trends in real-time."
"The ease of use of the solution is excellent."
"Microsoft Azure API Management has many valuable features. One is the developer portal, that's very useful for teams. The tool also provides layers of security. I also found the caching, automatic documentation, and version management functionalities most valuable."
"API Management does not take long to deploy."
"Microsoft Azure API Management is 90 to 99 percent scalable. We have three instances running in parallel."
"We use this solution for API rate limiting and for its security features against DDoS."
"It is easy to use."
"The package as a whole is useful for our customers."
"The ability to work across different management solutions in a plug and play fashion would make it easier for faster uptake."
"The entire user across all the layers should be singly authenticated through an external authentication system."
"Apigee is not a solution compatible with public clouds, making it one of its shortcomings where improvements are required."
"The solution could add even more functionalities."
"More documentation on the Open Banking Standard will help."
"Proxy versioning seems a bit confusing/buried in the publishing experience, especially for the URI-based versioning approach."
"I would like to see better integration and some architectural improvements in future releases of the solution."
"Apigee lacks market presence."
"The user interface needs improvement."
"In terms of improvement, it would be helpful if they could develop an on-premises option."
"Performance issues from this platform need to be sorted out."
"The developer portal can be improved."
"The product needs to introduce a developer portal."
"They're trying to implement versioning and trying to be able to manage different versions of your API all at the same time, but they're not doing that just quite right yet."
"Maybe the customization could be a bit better."
"It can be quite complex, somewhat lacking in flexibility."
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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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