We performed a comparison between Apigee vs IBM API Connect 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 an edge in this comparison because it received higher marks than IBM API Connect in the ease of deployment and support categories.
"The most valuable features are low-code play, quick packaging, and production."
"Apigee is a very lightweight solution."
"The security provided by the solution is excellent."
"The usability is one of the best aspects of the product."
"The ability to convert from language to language using a single tool."
"I have found the most valuable features to be tracing a proxy, and managing proxy versions and revisions via the Edge UI component."
"The most valuable features of Apigee for me are analytics, security, ease of use, and integration capabilities."
"The tool is one of the earliest API management products and is good. It reduces the Time To Market aspects of products."
"The statistics component is easy to use."
"The centralized management: this provides a management module that can deploy and apply security policies to all APIs, including all the gateways that are deployed on-premises and on any cloud because the gateway component can run at a VMware or in a Kubernetes cluster."
"I have found the API Management to be most valuable."
"It's quite flexible and easy to deploy, especially for beginners. It has almost all the features that an API gateway should have."
"Policy configurations are pretty easy."
"The most valuable feature for me is the ability to distribute work among our API developers, so we don't have to do all the work as IBM API Connect administrators and IBM DataPower administrators."
"API Connect's most valuable feature is its ability to act as a gateway. It's very easy to configure security and everything else in it. You don't have to kill yourself implementing custom configurations."
"It is a complete all-in-one solution."
"When it comes to the rate limit, we don't have a specific category for rate limits for a particular customer."
"When there is an update on a new version or an automatic update, you have to be present and double-check that the update is reflected in the environment with no issues."
"The solution is pretty expensive."
"Apigee on premise is quite complex and it is always moving faster."
"The pricing for the product was a bit higher. I also found it challenging to manage sometimes."
"The user interface could be better. It could be easier to navigate and more user-friendly."
"Sometimes there are glitches, which means there's still room for improvement in the platform."
"Unlike WSA, Apigee does not have a partnership model, something which makes it a bit easier for companies such as ours to go with the former solution."
"Understanding the architecture, deployment criteria, and communication methods of the installation can be time-consuming."
"Extracting the data could be improved."
"The implementation process could benefit from improvements, as it may take some time to become accustomed to the deployment."
"Debugging could be improved."
"The administration of the user interface and the technical documentation are areas of concern in the solution where improvements are required."
"There are some performance issues and issues related to asynchronous APIs."
"There is room for improvement regarding the connectivity of the DevOps."
"Support for this platform could still be improved. It also needs to have more levels of versatility. Its compatibility and integration with different platforms also need improvement."
Apigee is ranked 2nd in API Management with 82 reviews while IBM API Connect is ranked 5th in API Management with 73 reviews. Apigee is rated 8.2, while IBM API Connect is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Apigee writes "Has a robust community and outstanding performance". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM API Connect writes "Good speed and performance, but it's based on a bit dated architecture". Apigee is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, Amazon API Gateway, WSO2 API Manager, Layer7 API Management and MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, whereas IBM API Connect is most compared with IBM DataPower Gateway, Microsoft Azure API Management, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, Amazon API Gateway and Kong Gateway Enterprise. See our Apigee vs. IBM API Connect report.
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Of those three: MuleSoft Anypoint. But, cost-friendly is another term, I would choose a different solution. We are happy with Gravitee.