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 pricing is okay."
"It's a good return on my investment."
"The use case which I have installed serves the intended purpose."
"The analytics feature is quite good."
"Tracing in Apigee is a very good feature."
"We use it to build API proxies for securing targeted back-ends with an emphasis on Continuous Integration/Continuous Development (CI/CD)."
"It nice and easy for the clients and those using the product to access the product's help resources."
"Apigee is relatively easy to use for developers."
"What I like most about Microsoft Azure API Management is that it's flexible and user-friendly. The solution also has rich documentation and guides available, so users can configure and use it."
"The ability to easily connect back to Service Fabric is the most important for us."
"It's a very robust tool. So you see that there is a developer portal which can be used by developer or the vendors as well. And other external partners to create keys and manage their own APIs. The other thing is that they have a lot of policies there are too many options within API. So I do the difficult to tell one, but probably I would say, like, proxy sorry. The policies is one of the thing wherein you can just configure the policies and modify the behavior of the APIs."
"Without a doubt, it has a very robust, strong marketplace where we can directly integrate with existing APIs and begin working on those."
"Most of the features are valuable to me."
"The most valuable features are the API and integrations."
"Azure API is scalable."
"The stability and performance are good. It is easy to install, and it scales well too."
"Apigee's user interface could be more straightforward and have more options. Also, it would be nice if it were ready to work out of the box without so much configuration."
"Apigee is more of an entry level solution that does basic things pretty well, but if you want to go more customizable, you want to really look for another solution."
"The number one area this solution could be improved is by implementing support. Support is not a part of this solution."
"There should be an integrated continuous integration and continuous deployment approach with Apigee. Currently, for development at a more integrated level, you have set it up yourself."
"The solution could add even more functionalities."
"The user interface could be better. It could be easier to navigate and more user-friendly."
"More documentation on the Open Banking Standard will help."
"The solution’s scalability could be improved."
"I'd like to have better flexibility and more capabilities."
"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."
"Support for GraphQL could be better."
"I could that the UI could be improved."
"API Management's price could be lower."
"The documentation could be improved for the customer."
"From my understanding, there are some constraints around governance and service-to-service intercommunication managing priorities and our own governance."
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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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