We performed a comparison between Apigee and Layer 7 API Management based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Apigee has very high availability and makes it easy for users to manage the entire lifecycle of the API. It offers vast opportunities for easy customization. Users find some of Layer 7 API Management’s tools and features difficult to implement and bulky, causing processes to slow down. Layer 7 could also use more cloud-native features.
"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."
"Lifecycle management."
"The most valuable features are low-code play, quick packaging, and production."
"A simple platform that's easier to work with than IBM API Connect. Support for it is really good and gives it advantage over other providers."
"Apigee has proven to be one of the best of the breed."
"The initial setup was easy - there was an onboarding document with steps that we followed."
"The flexibility allows you to quickly run a cloud-native application architecture."
"I like implementing different policies, for example, rate-limiting policy."
"This improved our organization, because it gives the management data to discuss for the next course of action and it suggests what to work on, as the next thing."
"Key features include: lightweight mediation, transformation from JSON to XML and XML to JSON, API portal and API key management, the Developer Portal, and Circuit Breaker is a cool feature, too."
"The most important features of Layer7 API Management are the basic security functionality and validation checks."
"Has great drag-and-drop features and requires minimal coding."
"Some of the performance matrix that API Gateway gives off, we monitor them via SNMP traps, and then we tie them into our monitoring system. You can actually monitor some of the latencies and some of the performance aspects of both API Gateways, as well back end services. So having that line of sight surely helps in terms DevOps."
"It impresses me as a product because it never goes down. It always does what it is supposed to do."
"The Mobile API Gateway is also great."
"Scalability: API Gateway is easily scalable horizontally and managed easily."
"When it comes to the rate limit, we don't have a specific category for rate limits for a particular customer."
"I would like to see the support improved. I think the time frame should be shorter for responses when it comes to technical support. This is not the ideal situation you want to be in when you need support."
"Drag and drop of features would be more beneficial, rather than manually working on the configuration and updates."
"Access restrictions can be improved."
"We are experiencing some performance issues."
"I am still struggling to understand how we can use Apigee as a hybrid system. The pricing of this solution could also be improved as there are multiple new products coming onto the market at competitive price points."
"The user interface could be better. It could be easier to navigate and more user-friendly."
"Since it is based on various open sourced projects, we might have to depend on the fixes provided by those components rather than Apigee directly fixing the issues."
"I would like for the new release to allow us to speed up code generation. The integration with CICD could also be more seamless."
"The development toolkit used for creating APIs should be more online and user-friendly. Deployment and tracking could also be improved. Tools like Apigee provide a complete online experience along with RESTful APIs, to manage all activities. It is a very nice and user-friendly solution compared to CA."
"The product's initial setup phase is not very straightforward, making it an area where improvements are required."
"The architecture of the solution does not allow for flexibility in using different components for the gateway architecture."
"They need a workflow for the API Developer Portal, where the process only allows requests to go to the correct person."
"I understand that clients are often concerned about costs. They might be exploring other options due to the high cost associated with our current package."
"We are looking for improvements related to integration. We want to see them add integration tools to the CA bundle. That would be helpful."
"If they had different levels of support available then it would be easier to justify the costs."
Apigee is ranked 2nd in API Management with 82 reviews while Layer7 API Management is ranked 10th in API Management with 109 reviews. Apigee is rated 8.2, while Layer7 API Management is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Apigee writes "Has a robust community and outstanding performance". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Layer7 API Management writes "Has great drag-and-drop features and it requires minimal coding ". Apigee is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, IBM API Connect, Amazon API Gateway, WSO2 API Manager and IBM DataPower Gateway, whereas Layer7 API Management is most compared with Kong Gateway Enterprise, Amazon API Gateway, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, Microsoft Azure API Management and IBM API Connect. See our Apigee vs. Layer7 API Management report.
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