We performed a comparison between Apiary and Apigee 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."Quick and easy way to share a new API design with teams."
"I do like the overall performance of the solution."
"Git integration"
"I find the generation of mock services very useful, especially when demonstrating for new consumers."
"In two years, there was one time the service was down for an hour or so."
"If you have numerous applications and high traffic, Apigee is a strong choice for its excellent features and outstanding performance."
"There is plenty of support documentation available."
"I have not encountered instability with the product."
"The ease of creating policies has been the most useful of the solution's features. It's a quick ramp-up time. It's easy for our support staff to implement the policies in the API management layer."
"Anyone with basic knowledge can build an API."
"The most valuable feature of the current version of Apigee, such as Apigee Edge, is that the maintenance and scalability of the service are not our responsibility. As a SaaS platform, Google takes care of it, ensuring the system is stable. Another valuable feature is the ability to customize the platform extensively. We can add JavaScript functionality to cater to any use case that is not available out of the box."
"The features I found most valuable are how the APIs are published, the whole process of finalizing the API, and then controlling it."
"It has all the features necessary to work in anything from a basic scenario to advanced applications."
"The Oracle release cycle is very bad because the patches only update once a year."
"I would like an integrated option to download a Swagger version of the definition."
"Swagger (OpenAPI Specification) and Blueprint Support"
"We are experiencing issues with automation; the production in Apigee is quite time-consuming."
"The cost of the solution is quite high."
"Apigee is demanding on the infrastructure so the setup cost is very high for an on-premises deployment."
"I see some lagging in regards to integration capacity"
"The Apigee cloud admin UI could be more user-friendly by adding a few more features."
"Integration should be improved."
"They should improve the monitoring tools for on-premises environments."
"Better functionality for validating inputs and outputs would be helpful."
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Apiary is ranked 36th in API Management while Apigee is ranked 2nd in API Management with 82 reviews. Apiary is rated 8.2, while Apigee is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Apiary writes "The ability to configure rules to check for consistency has helped". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Apigee writes "Has a robust community and outstanding performance". Apiary is most compared with SwaggerHub, Oracle API Platform Cloud Service and Microsoft Azure API Management, whereas Apigee is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, IBM API Connect, Amazon API Gateway, WSO2 API Manager and Layer7 API Management.
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