We performed a comparison between Akana API Management and MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Google, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and others in API Management."It allowed us to publish and replace pre-essential transactions in one place, with a uniformity in terms of control and policies."
"The tool's authentication mechanism is easy to implement. We had to define a few parameters."
"Good interface, intuitive solution."
"It provides various advantages in the integration field, including support for Azure services and cloud integrations."
"We can use both on-premises and cloud setups."
"MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager has the most valuable data components and can integrate APIs across multiple microservices."
"The most valuable features of the solution for securing APIs stem from the tool's ability to allow users to deploy policies."
"The developer portal is easy to integrate. It is easy to use, easy to integrate, and I like the developer portal."
"The security features are good. It's easy to configure the end-to-end integration with existing applications."
"The ease of policy maintenance and API functionality are key features for me. They streamline business processes by allowing configurable control over policies, instead of writing codes and making maintenance more straightforward."
"The product improved data exchange processes by enhancing communication between various messaging queues. There was a heavy reliance on queues for indexing clusters and data transfer in this particular environment. The product facilitated the transfer of messages from one queue to another, ensuring data flow and processing across different topics."
"The product has new features that we are going to implement in the next few months, such as API management and analytic reporting."
"Akana API Management needs to improve its documentation."
"Lacks an integrated billing feature."
"I'd suggest more control over MQ restarts and greater transparency in traffic management."
"The initial setup, if you go back three or three and a half years, definitely, for us, was complex."
"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."
"The log management for this solution needs improvement."
"To improve Anypoint API Manager for the next release, it should focus on better consumption scalability, especially for smaller APIs."
"They should provide training and development programs to enable the skills and capabilities of users."
"I would like to see more automation. Operations are done manually. It should also automate in the operation."
"MuleSoft has advanced features but is slower."
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Akana API Management is ranked 27th in API Management with 3 reviews while MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager is ranked 4th in API Management with 47 reviews. Akana API Management is rated 8.4, while MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Akana API Management writes "Authentication mechanism is easy to implement but improvement is needed in documentation ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager writes "Responsive technical support, low tickets issued showing great stability, and limitless expansion". Akana API Management is most compared with Apigee, Amazon API Gateway, Microsoft Azure API Management, Kong Gateway Enterprise and IBM API Connect, whereas MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, Amazon API Gateway, Apigee, Kong Gateway Enterprise and WSO2 API Manager.
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