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.
"Its customer service is good."
"Apigee provides out-of-the-box policies, so it is ready to use with minimal configuration to those policies. You can govern your API and manage the life cycle of the API completely with the Apigee tool."
"The most valuable feature is the API gateway."
"The ability to convert from language to language using a single tool."
"The usability is one of the best aspects of the product."
"Technical support has been decent."
"Apigee is a pioneer in the industry and has good features and functionalities. It is a good tool for API management and it has more advancements than all other tools in the market in certain areas."
"Apigee has better scalability than WSA."
"The user management is pretty seamless."
"The UI management is very easy to use."
"The package as a whole is useful for our customers."
"Easy to integrate API management platform. It is a stable and scalable solution."
"We use Microsoft due to the stability of the company."
"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."
"Most of the features are valuable to me."
"Microsoft Azure API Management is better because it has a DevOps integration by default."
"They need to work on the cost of the solution."
"Apigee is not a solution compatible with public clouds, making it one of its shortcomings where improvements are required."
"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."
"Development IDE, especially for Architect Review."
"Integration should be improved."
"We are experiencing some performance issues."
"I would like to see better integration and some architectural improvements in future releases of the solution."
"Apigee is demanding on the infrastructure so the setup cost is very high for an on-premises deployment."
"The hybrid part could be improved because API Management is entirely cloud-based, but some of our resources are on-prem, so formatting is an issue. Our goal is dual implementation."
"I'd like to have better flexibility and more capabilities."
"When you start with Azure API management, you also need to onboard the Azure console and the Azure cloud environment, which comes with a price."
"There is a limitation of 32 kb of data in the APIs. Having the limitation increase would be a benefit."
"If I compare this solution to others I have used in other phases of my life, having APIM being an Azure resource, it is easy to configure and deploy. However, this conversely reduced the flexibility. The difficulty is how do we configure it in a manner that a larger enterprise would probably want it to be. This creates a bit more complexity, working around the constraints of the resource itself. If comparing it to other solutions, it is more of a legacy design with an older approach. The various level components are still around resembling an on-premise type of design similar to other solutions, such as Apigee or Mulesoft. They are still predominantly carrying some legacy design. Which might be suited for organizations where they have a more complex network layout. APIM is easy to deploy, but on the other side of that, it is constrained to how Azure has designed it to be."
"One of the most important improvements for us would be if it supported the HTTP/3 version and new protocol over a quick connection."
"It can be quite complex, somewhat lacking in flexibility."
"Multi-tenant functionalities is missing from the system, especially when it comes to the developer code of features."
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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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