We performed a comparison between Layer7 API Management and Microsoft Azure API Management based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two API Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It's a comprehensive tool that allows us to perform all the necessary tasks in one place."
"The most valuable features of Layer7 API Management are integration, ease of use, building APIs easily, and portal straightforward."
"The mobile access gateway (MAG) is tremendous."
"The most important features of Layer7 API Management are the basic security functionality and validation checks."
"API Enhanced Portal 4.1 looks very promising. API Gateway policy manager for writing policies is excellent. It is the best in the industry for policy writing."
"There are many security policies within this solution that help to prevent attacks. We are also able to implement TLS to allow us to look at the application from the backend. There are workflows inside of the gate that help us a lot to implement customers and improve user experience. Our customers are also able to move from a customized creative view to taking advantage of AI bot solutions."
"It allows us to keep clear traceability of the changes made in each of our APIs."
"Has great drag-and-drop features and requires minimal coding."
"The user management is pretty seamless."
"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."
"API Management does not take long to deploy."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Azure API Management is monitoring. When compared with Apigee, I prefer Microsoft Azure API Management."
"It's very well integrated with the Azure environment."
"Microsoft Azure API Management is a good, comprehensive solution for enterprise implementation."
"Without a doubt, it has a very robust, strong marketplace where we can directly integrate with existing APIs and begin working on those."
"The most valuable feature is the developer portal, which has source code examples in various programming languages to help developers learn the API."
"Increase tools for manipulation of JSON messages."
"As a SaaS product, control over some configuration elements and environments is lost."
"The architecture of the solution does not allow for flexibility in using different components for the gateway architecture."
"Some problems with response time."
"The OTK, however, is a complex upgrade. They tend to change the schemas on the database behind it, between the versions, which can be a pain to have to migrate all of our existing clients from one database schema to the other."
"We are looking for improvements related to integration. We want to see them add integration tools to the CA bundle. That would be helpful."
"Some users say that the API lacks some features and is lagging behind the competition although that has not been my personal experience."
"Layer7 API Management’s price could be reduced."
"Could use clearer configuration when it comes to API policies."
"Microsoft Azure API Management could improve by having better integration with third-party solutions."
"Microsoft Azure API Management should have the ability to allow multitenancy."
"I'd like to have better flexibility and more capabilities."
"One of the most important improvements for us would be if it supported the HTTP/3 version and new protocol over a quick connection."
"In terms of improvement, it would be helpful if they could develop an on-premises option."
"In the next release, Azure APIM should include deployment in various environments and CI/CD for deployment."
"Azure is our most expensive resource; it's costly."
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Layer7 API Management is ranked 10th in API Management with 110 reviews while Microsoft Azure API Management is ranked 1st in API Management with 68 reviews. Layer7 API Management is rated 8.4, while Microsoft Azure API Management is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Layer7 API Management writes "Has great drag-and-drop features and it requires minimal coding ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Azure API Management writes "Efficiently manages and monetizes API ". Layer7 API Management is most compared with Apigee, Kong Gateway Enterprise, Amazon API Gateway, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager and IBM API Connect, whereas Microsoft Azure API Management is most compared with Amazon API Gateway, Apigee, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, Kong Gateway Enterprise and 3scale API Management. See our Layer7 API Management vs. Microsoft Azure API Management report.
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