We performed a comparison between Apigee vs. WSO2 API Manager based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Apigee has the winning edge in this comparison. Apigee has better ratings when it comes to ease of deployment, features, and service and support.
"I'm still evaluating, but in terms of overall performance and stability, it's quite good."
"The most valuable feature is the API gateway."
"There are just a lot of security features in general."
"The most valuable feature of Apigee is its simplicity of deploying an API and restricting access, like rate limit, with the API."
"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."
"Apigee has better scalability than WSA."
"It accelerates development and deployment processes."
"I use it because it's simple, it automatically updates, and It hasn't given me any issues."
"WSO2 API Manager is a stable solution."
"A complete integration suite and a good platform."
"API management lifecycle is the most valuable."
"The most interesting feature is its Mac-based function."
"As far as I am aware this solution is the first API Publisher that allows you to create and publish API and to manage the API lifecycle."
"I think the best part about WSO2 API Manager is that it's highly customizable because it's open-source. The partnership model is quite lucrative for us, it helps us to go and pitch to our customers. You can build a lot of business models yourself that you want to use. You are able to do a lot of the solutions."
"The solution is stable."
"The product is easy to use."
"They need to work on the cost of the solution."
"I would like to see SOAP services and socket-based connectivity developed."
"Apigee is more of an entry level solution that does basic things pretty well, but if you want to go more customizable, you want to really look for another solution."
"iPaaS is something that we would like to see. For example, MuleSoft is kind of an integrated platform as a service (iPaaS), and it provides a lot of out-of-the-box connectors and other such things. This is where Apigee lacks. I'm not sure if that's the roadmap for Apigee, but any improvements on those lines would be helpful where things become easier to implement."
"Apigee on premise is quite complex and it is always moving faster."
"The ability to work across different management solutions in a plug and play fashion would make it easier for faster uptake."
"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."
"Apigee is demanding on the infrastructure so the setup cost is very high for an on-premises deployment."
"The interface needs to be modernized and made more user friendly so the product continues to have a growing community of users."
"From what I have experienced from the versions I have tried, they could improve on the multi-tenant environments to allow some kind of SSO single sign-on between tenant."
"WSO2 API Manager could improve the API approval system."
"The user interface could be a bit better."
"The technical support must be improved."
"For fresh graduates and engineers, the setup process can be very difficult."
"I would like it to be a more stable solution. Maybe in the last version that is approved. For me it would be good if they had a community established version."
"API Manager is not easy to scale because some of its components lack scalability. It's a difficult point. Especially because companies are so cloud-based these days, microservice scalability is a major thing."
Apigee is ranked 2nd in API Management with 82 reviews while WSO2 API Manager is ranked 7th in API Management with 33 reviews. Apigee is rated 8.2, while WSO2 API Manager is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Apigee writes "Has a robust community and outstanding performance". On the other hand, the top reviewer of WSO2 API Manager writes "Reliable with good capabilities and good support". Apigee is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, IBM API Connect, Amazon API Gateway, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager and Layer7 API Management, whereas WSO2 API Manager is most compared with Kong Gateway Enterprise, Amazon API Gateway, Microsoft Azure API Management, Apache APISIX and 3scale API Management. See our Apigee vs. WSO2 API Manager report.
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