We performed a comparison between Akana API Management and MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager 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."It allowed us to publish and replace pre-essential transactions in one place, with a uniformity in terms of control and policies."
"The tool's authentication mechanism is easy to implement. We had to define a few parameters."
"Good interface, intuitive solution."
"The tool has a private area. It also has a cloud deployment option."
"The developer portal is easy to integrate. It is easy to use, easy to integrate, and I like the developer portal."
"The most valuable feature of Mulesoft Anypoint API Manager is the gateway that is provided."
"It is a good management tool for controlling purposes."
"The documentation is great; it is always up to date and well-presented."
"This is a good API management product."
"Anypoint is very capable in terms of scalability."
"We use it heavily because Azure offers better pricing than its competitors."
"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."
"The pricing is a bit expensive."
"The initial setup is very complex."
"I'd like more monitoring and analyzing features included in the future."
"Rather than focusing on numbers, they should focus more on the customer support service."
"Their studio performance is very slow, it requires a lot of memory, and should be improved."
"The initial setup, if you go back three or three and a half years, definitely, for us, was complex."
"One improvement is maybe to add a plugin in the API manager. Let's say an organisation is using SOAP services or legacy APIs. Maybe I don't want to migrate it to rest API, but my plugin should be able to convert Jason to XML. Basically, protocol transformation features in API Manager."
"Since most components are situated in the cloud, there's one particular hosted in the cloud. This presents a considerable challenge. While all other components are implemented on-premises, this specific one isn't permitted to be hosted in the cloud as per customer requirements. Shifting this component to an on-premises environment requires a significant effort."
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Akana API Management is ranked 28th in API Management with 3 reviews while MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager is ranked 4th in API Management with 47 reviews. Akana API Management is rated 8.4, while MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager 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 MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager writes "Responsive technical support, low tickets issued showing great stability, and limitless expansion". Akana API Management is most compared with Apigee, Amazon API Gateway, Microsoft Azure API Management, Kong Gateway Enterprise and IBM API Connect, whereas MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, Amazon API Gateway, Apigee, IBM API Connect and WSO2 API Manager.
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