We performed a comparison between Microsoft Azure API Management and WSO2 API Manager based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Many users are heavily invested in Microsoft Azure products, making Microsoft Azure API Management more widely used and trusted. Additionally, WSO2 API lacks some new features and updated functionalities that other API solutions commonly provide. In terms of pricing, however, users are happier with WSO2.
"The API management and the hosting of the API platform are great."
"I like the support they provide for the APIs more than the solution itself. First of all, documentation-wise, both Microsoft Azure and even Google Cloud are up there. But in comparison, the real-time consulting and support for APIs make Microsoft stand out a little. I also like the performance. Standard public cloud provider-built APIs are more resilient and flexible in terms of what feature you want to use and what feature you don't want to use, and they're more customizable. They are more resilient in terms of performance in that particular environment because that is the design aspect of the offering. When public clouds build APIs and deploy them after testing them on their framework for a certain amount of time, I feel there is a massive difference in the product's performance. On the interface, everything is strong."
"The most valuable feature is the developer portal, which has source code examples in various programming languages to help developers learn the API."
"We're very satisfied with Azure API Management. We've had no issues with bugs, everything runs smoothly, and the connection between the cloud and the on-premise infrastructure was good."
"The solution is quite stable. We have no issues with it. there have been no crashes and we haven't experienced bugs or glitches. It's been quite reliable."
"The integration with Azure Active Directory is a good security feature for authentication and authorization. There is multifactor authentication. You can also use all of the Azure AD features integrated with API Management."
"The ease of use of the solution is excellent."
"The most valuable features are the API and integrations."
"API management lifecycle is the most valuable."
"As far as I am aware this solution is the first API Publisher that allows you to create and publish API and to manage the API lifecycle."
"Functionality-wise, I like WSO2 API Manager - Publisher API and WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus."
"This is a flexible and versatile API management solution that has the power to integrate with more than just API."
"It is possible to scale up and scale down with the solution...I can say that I have not seen any issues related to scalability."
"WSO2 API Manager is easy to use."
"A complete integration suite and a good platform."
"Most of the time, we need to install a plug-in without having any lapse in services or restarting the application. The WSO2 platform can do all deployments without any downtime."
"I rate the technical support from Microsoft Azure API Management a four out of five."
"What would make Microsoft Azure API Management better are more APIs. They keep updating their APIs, but it would be better if the solution had more APIs for the services and more integration with other platforms."
"From my understanding, there are some constraints around governance and service-to-service intercommunication managing priorities and our own governance."
"I would like to see more security features become available."
"They need to work on the third party integrations."
"Some of the DevOps stuff could be easier to work with. The migration paths are a little complicated, and moving code around could be more seamless. There should be less manual migration when several teams work together to publish code to the DevOps."
"This solution is only available as a cloud-based deployment and it would be very helpful to have an on-premises version."
"Multi-tenant functionalities is missing from the system, especially when it comes to the developer code of features."
"The solution could be more user friendly for engineers."
"The user interface could be a bit better."
"We had some problems with the reverse proxy not being able to invoke fully qualified domain names, so we have to build some custom scripts to solve this issue."
"The professional support and licensing aspects of WSO have been a challenge."
"We found WSO2 API Manager to be a bit complex."
"I would like it to be a more convenient development platform with the ability to write orchestrations and so on. Our problem with this product is that in my country, we are the only enterprise that has been using this product. We're missing a lot of knowledge from colleagues to consult with, and we also aren't able to recruit people with relevant skills. It is a big problem. The small team that is maintaining this product is the only team that can actually relate to any technical issue. The support that we're getting from the company is not great. There is also a cultural gap there because they're from Sri Lanka, and it is not easy. They're putting in a lot of effort, but they are not meeting our expectations."
"The interface needs to be modernized and made more user friendly so the product continues to have a growing community of users."
"WSO2 API Manager could increase their security compliance."
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Microsoft Azure API Management is ranked 1st in API Management with 68 reviews while WSO2 API Manager is ranked 8th in API Management with 33 reviews. Microsoft Azure API Management is rated 7.8, while WSO2 API Manager is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Microsoft Azure API Management writes "Efficiently manages and monetizes API ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of WSO2 API Manager writes "Reliable with good capabilities and good support". Microsoft Azure API Management is most compared with Amazon API Gateway, Apigee, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, Kong Gateway Enterprise and IBM DataPower Gateway, whereas WSO2 API Manager is most compared with Apigee, Kong Gateway Enterprise, Amazon API Gateway, Apache APISIX and 3scale API Management. See our Microsoft Azure API Management vs. WSO2 API Manager report.
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