We performed a comparison between Apigee and Tyk based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two API Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Apigee is a strong-featured solution. It leads in Gartner Quadrant ratings and it is a full-slated API solution that has the features that an API gateway requires."
"Its customer service is good."
"Great flexibility with its features."
"It is scalable."
"It's easy to use and the security features are valuable."
"Apigee Analytics dashboard is useful to monitor transactions, error percentage, transaction latency, etc."
"Easy interface to monetize and deliver APIs with very easy integration for third-party development environments/delivery."
"I simply like how you can personalize your products and put them into product categories. That's what I like the most."
"The scalability is very good. That was a key factor in the selection, like how it could be pushed to high volume and scalability, which seemed to be very good."
"It is a good product for API management."
"The feature I find most valuable is that this solution allows us to manage our security."
"You can set up workflows and write limited pieces of logic."
"The most valuable feature is the load balancing with the circuit-breaker function."
"The portal for developers that this solution provides has great functionality."
"We are experiencing issues with automation; the production in Apigee is quite time-consuming."
"Unlike WSA, Apigee does not have a partnership model, something which makes it a bit easier for companies such as ours to go with the former solution."
"We need better performance monitoring."
"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."
"Apigee could do more to make users aware of what is available in the add-ons."
"Apigee is demanding on the infrastructure so the setup cost is very high for an on-premises deployment."
"The technical support could be improved because their response time is slow."
"In terms of the functionalities of a typical API gateway, Apigee is actually doing its job, but when it involves integration with backend applications, which some gateways have, I don't believe it has this functionality. You have to do Java or do some other low-level coding before you are able to do the integration. Apigee has a lot of components, which means that management will be a bit difficult. It probably has ten different components, and all of these components leverage open-source utilities, such as NGINX. When those open-source vendors upgrade their utility, Apigee usually lags behind because they need to do a lot of tests and any required development in their own platform. They need to do rigorous testing to make sure that nothing breaks. Because of that, it takes them a while to upgrade whatever components have been upgraded by the open-source vendor that owns the utility. We've been chasing them for a particular upgrade for well over a year and a half, and they have not done that upgrade. It is creating a security risk for us as an enterprise, but that upgrade has not been done, even though the open-source vendor, the owner of the utility, has upgraded it a long time ago."
"We would like a better tool for generating documentation for the APIs to be developed."
"It is a young product and does not have the kind of brand recognition that would make it a more popular solution with our clients."
"Sometimes when new features are released, they are not immediately stable."
"In terms of our usage, the main area of concern is that they tend to build enhancements slightly ahead of the considerations for what those enhancements and extensions are. So it could be slightly better communication with the customer base that would be my main issue with them."
"I would like to see some additional features like having some extensions for .NET core because we use it for our back-end language."
"We ran it for a while, but then we decided to move away from Tyk, because Tyk's cloud version, the SaaS version, has a significant limitation of limited flexibility, so you can't program very much."
Apigee is ranked 2nd in API Management with 82 reviews while Tyk is ranked 17th in API Management with 6 reviews. Apigee is rated 8.2, while Tyk is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Apigee writes "Has a robust community and outstanding performance". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Tyk writes "Simple to install, has many features, but lacks support for multiple programming languages". Apigee is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, IBM API Connect, Amazon API Gateway, WSO2 API Manager and MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, whereas Tyk is most compared with Apache APISIX, Traefik Enterprise, Microsoft Azure API Management, Amazon API Gateway and WSO2 API Manager. See our Apigee vs. Tyk report.
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