We performed a comparison between Apigee, Microsoft Azure API Management, and MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Google, Amazon and others in API Management."API/proxy lifecycle workflow for API providers is quite good and one of Apigee's strongest features."
"The most important feature is the security capabilities and the way it integrates very quickly with other security providers. We have integrated it with Azure and it integrates quite seamlessly."
"The most valuable feature of Apigee is its simplicity of deploying an API and restricting access, like rate limit, with the API."
"The ability to convert from language to language using a single tool."
"It nice and easy for the clients and those using the product to access the product's help resources."
"The developer portal is very useful to customers."
"Anyone with basic knowledge can build an API."
"A special feature is configuring target servers, proxy config, and Cert related security, which regularizes incoming traffic from cloud users or external applications to internal applications in a secured manner."
"The solution is reliable and very stable."
"Azure APIM's best features are its straightforward access management (it's a single point of access for all monitoring and logging and for policy implementation) and its integration with the Azure Cloud infrastructure."
"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 features are the ease of use and it is a platform that has self-enablement for the customers to be able to register themselves."
"It’s easy to set up."
"Initial setup was quite easy."
"I like that security features can be integrated with API Management. I also like that you can perform rate-limiting and throttling functions."
"The most valuable features are the API and integrations."
"The tool has a private area. It also has a cloud deployment option."
"We use it heavily because Azure offers better pricing than its competitors."
"Anypoint API Manager's most valuable feature is its connectors."
"It is a good management tool for controlling purposes."
"When using the Mulesoft Anypoint Platform, it has a wide range of connectors that are readily available to connect with the multiple applications."
"It provides various advantages in the integration field, including support for Azure services and cloud integrations."
"Offers good integration and flexibility."
"We have all the policies available via drag and drop. It made it very easy."
"It is an expensive solution."
"The integration could be improved within the solution. There is a need to pay more attention to this."
"When it comes to the rate limit, we don't have a specific category for rate limits for a particular customer."
"iPaaS is something that we would like to see. For example, MuleSoft is kind of an integrated platform as a service (iPaaS), and it provides a lot of out-of-the-box connectors and other such things. This is where Apigee lacks. I'm not sure if that's the roadmap for Apigee, but any improvements on those lines would be helpful where things become easier to implement."
"Sometimes there are glitches, which means there's still room for improvement in the platform."
"Areas like traffic handling of incoming requests, security features between third-parties and Apigee, and between Apigee and internal network servers, resources, or JSON areas, etc."
"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 ability to work across different management solutions in a plug and play fashion would make it easier for faster uptake."
"Microsoft Azure API Management could improve the documentation. The documentation feels like marketing information and not sufficient technical information. Your easiest option is to purchase services from a Microsoft partner and this is their marketing."
"They're trying to implement versioning and trying to be able to manage different versions of your API all at the same time, but they're not doing that just quite right yet."
"The documentation could be improved for the customer."
"The API gateway can be very complex."
"Microsoft Azure API Management needs to improve stability."
"The scalability of this solution could be improved. The volume which the API Management task service can handle needs to be improved. Cost wise, this solution could be optimized."
"Could use clearer configuration when it comes to API policies."
"In the next release, Azure APIM should include deployment in various environments and CI/CD for deployment."
"The API gateway and API runtime are too heavy, which means that it is not suitable for microservices."
"Not many stand-out features."
"Rather than focusing on numbers, they should focus more on the customer support service."
"I would like to see MuleSoft expand the range of APIs you can manage with it beyond HTTP, GIPC, and others."
"One improvement is maybe to add a plugin in the API manager. Let's say an organisation is using SOAP services or legacy APIs. Maybe I don't want to migrate it to rest API, but my plugin should be able to convert Jason to XML. Basically, protocol transformation features in API Manager."
"They should develop on MuleSoft as it would be a good way of improving API monetization."
"Migrating any existing middleware platform to Mulesoft is difficult because of the transformation, conversion and integration involved. Better tools are needed to achieve quicker time to market."
"Better documentation to help explain each of the features would be really helpful."
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