We performed a comparison between Akana API Management 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."The tool's authentication mechanism is easy to implement. We had to define a few parameters."
"It allowed us to publish and replace pre-essential transactions in one place, with a uniformity in terms of control and policies."
"Good interface, intuitive solution."
"It has all the features necessary to work in anything from a basic scenario to advanced applications."
"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."
"The pricing is okay."
"I think the most valuable features are the security features. Of course, the user access control is the same as the security. The other very important issue is the sandboxing capability of Apigee."
"Apigee provides good documentation."
"The tool is one of the earliest API management products and is good. It reduces the Time To Market aspects of products."
"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."
"If you have numerous applications and high traffic, Apigee is a strong choice for its excellent features and outstanding performance."
"Lacks an integrated billing feature."
"The product has new features that we are going to implement in the next few months, such as API management and analytic reporting."
"Akana API Management needs to improve its documentation."
"As it is now, the rotation of certificates is a manual task and is something that can be improved."
"Apigee is demanding on the infrastructure so the setup cost is very high for an on-premises deployment."
"Apigee on premise is quite complex and it is always moving faster."
"I have heard there maybe be some security issues that need to be addressed. If this is the situation I would encourage taking a look at the security matters."
"We are experiencing issues with automation; the production in Apigee is quite time-consuming."
"Apigee's user interface could be more straightforward and have more options. Also, it would be nice if it were ready to work out of the box without so much configuration."
"I'd like this solution to improve on releasing new features; I'd like it to be more frequent."
"Apigee could do more to make users aware of what is available in the add-ons."
Akana API Management is ranked 28th in API Management with 3 reviews while Apigee is ranked 2nd in API Management with 82 reviews. Akana API Management is rated 8.4, while Apigee is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Akana API Management writes "Authentication mechanism is easy to implement but improvement is needed in documentation ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Apigee writes "Has a robust community and outstanding performance". Akana API Management is most compared with MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, Amazon API Gateway, Microsoft Azure API Management, Kong Gateway Enterprise and IBM API Connect, 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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