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 mediation and translation from SOAP to REST technology makes it possible to open up legacy systems that couldn't be opened before."
"It seems quite good so far. It handles our current workload well, and I'm optimistic it can scale effectively as our needs grow."
"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 user management is pretty seamless."
"There were no scalability issues."
"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."
"It's easier to use and has more features than Google."
"It's easy to use compared to other products. It's easy to set up."
"This is a flexible and versatile API management solution that has the power to integrate with more than just API."
"I think the best part about WSO2 API Manager is that it's highly customizable because it's open-source. The partnership model is quite lucrative for us, it helps us to go and pitch to our customers. You can build a lot of business models yourself that you want to use. You are able to do a lot of the solutions."
"The main feature — the publication of the API, the management section — is great in general."
"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."
"The solution is stable."
"It's a good product."
"Yes WSO2 API Manager is scalable"
"API management lifecycle is the most valuable."
"The API gateway can be very complex."
"Specific to API development, I think Microsoft is still far behind AWS. AWS has grown by leaps and bounds, and Microsoft is a close second. But in terms of features and other stuff they provide, Microsoft's compatibility with publicly available APIs is a little limited. So, that is a little bit of a constraint. But what they provide is good, it's just that they need to build more on their API suite. I think Google is doing a really good job at that."
"The user interface needs improvement."
"Price is the first thing that comes to mind. It's quite expensive, which could be a barrier for some users."
"The licensing fees should be cheaper."
"Multi-tenant functionalities is missing from the system, especially when it comes to the developer code of features."
"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."
"The integration with other API gateways is where they might try to improve."
"From what I have experienced from the versions I have tried, they could improve on the multi-tenant environments to allow some kind of SSO single sign-on between tenant."
"The initial setup can be difficult."
"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."
"The interface needs to be modernized and made more user friendly so the product continues to have a growing community of users."
"Integration is an area that needs to be improved."
"Basically, mTLS is a certificate-based communication protocol that WSO2 API Manager doesn't support."
"The user interface needs to improve, it is a bit outdated."
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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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