We performed a comparison between Apiary and IBM API Connect based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Google, Amazon and others in API Management."In two years, there was one time the service was down for an hour or so."
"Quick and easy way to share a new API design with teams."
"I find the generation of mock services very useful, especially when demonstrating for new consumers."
"Git integration"
"I do like the overall performance of the solution."
"The statistics component is easy to use."
"The capabilities are very good."
"The technical support is good. Whenever we need anything, we have our IT team work with IBM to change whatever requirement is needed."
"The most valuable feature for me is the ability to distribute work among our API developers, so we don't have to do all the work as IBM API Connect administrators and IBM DataPower administrators."
"Scalable and stable API platform for creating and managing APIs."
"We are able to share those APIs instantly within the organization; even if we want to share it outside publicly, then we can have those capabilities."
"The most valuable features of IBM API Connect are its performance and user-friendliness."
"I have found IBM API Connect to be highly secure, efficient, easy to deploy, and has a great GUI. It can operate and integrate well with other vendors, such as Amazon, Google, and Microsoft."
"The Oracle release cycle is very bad because the patches only update once a year."
"Swagger (OpenAPI Specification) and Blueprint Support"
"I would like an integrated option to download a Swagger version of the definition."
"The only disadvantage I can see is that it requires heavy hardware support."
"One thing about API Connect that could be improved is the security schemes. There are so many security schemes, and from a product perspective, IBM could improve the user experience of the configuration security scheme."
"Different versions of the same thing can mean unnecessary duplication."
"The documentation needs to be a bit better."
"Business applications could be exposed to users."
"API Connect's analytics subsystem could be improved to make it easier to render content from the analytics system and offload it to an external database."
"It would be helpful to have access monitoring."
"We would have more capability to interact with the catalog and inventories, so a more DevOps-friendly solution is needed."
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Apiary is ranked 36th in API Management while IBM API Connect is ranked 5th in API Management with 73 reviews. Apiary is rated 8.2, while IBM API Connect is rated 7.8. 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 IBM API Connect writes "Good speed and performance, but it's based on a bit dated architecture". Apiary is most compared with SwaggerHub, Microsoft Azure API Management, Apigee and Oracle API Platform Cloud Service, whereas IBM API Connect is most compared with IBM DataPower Gateway, Apigee, Microsoft Azure API Management, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager and Amazon API Gateway.
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