We performed a comparison between Apigee vs IBM API Connect 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 an edge in this comparison because it received higher marks than IBM API Connect in the ease of deployment and support categories.
"Apigee gives you plenty of opportunities to set up your workspace depending on how you want to manage your APIs."
"Apigee is a pioneer in the industry and has good features and functionalities. It is a good tool for API management and it has more advancements than all other tools in the market in certain areas."
"The most valuable features are low-code play, quick packaging, and production."
"Apigee is relatively easy to use for developers."
"This is a front-layer gateway that helps to improve our overall performance."
"The analytics function and the developer portal are the two valuable features of Apigee. The analytics part is very good, and the developer portal is quite rich in features."
"The most valuable feature of Apigee is its simplicity of deploying an API and restricting access, like rate limit, with the API."
"The most important feature is the security capabilities and the way it integrates very quickly with other security providers. We have integrated it with Azure and it integrates quite seamlessly."
"The solution is very scalable because it's on the cloud."
"The functionalities on offer are very good."
"One of the most valuable features of this solution is that it protects our backend system. We are exposing services to external parties and using this solution to protect the backend system, and to have a navigation in between."
"The product gathers data to measure API performance."
"The most valuable feature is the security we get from this solution. I know of a bank that uses it to ensure that everything is secure. The second feature I like is the retail environment, where we actually want to be able to provide as many suppliers and consumers with APIs as possible. If you are well-trained in the writing of RESTful API's, you can actually publish an API in a matter of minutes, test it, and publish it."
"Since it runs on top of Datapower, all Datapower based custom policies can be utilized and exported to API connect but its not straightforward/simple process."
"The interface is very nice. It makes the solution easy to use and navigate."
"The most valuable features of IBM API Connect are its performance and user-friendliness."
"We are experiencing issues with automation; the production in Apigee is quite time-consuming."
"We do not have control over the installation."
"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."
"The analytical aspect of it could be better. I think it is fair if Apigee lets you configure some of the metrics of the key details you want to monitor in terms of analytics."
"The initial setup is not straightforward, particularly for hybrid solutions."
"The account simplification process can be improved."
"The caching capabilities are somewhat limited. This is more on the developer-oriented capabilities."
"Role-based access management needs to be improved. It would also be nice if the solution could be integrated with code versioning systems like Git/Bitbucket."
"The initial setup and installation could be easier."
"The monetization of the API could be improved. The pricing for the consumer is also very important to improve this solution."
"Like any typical IBM infrastructure setup, you need to learn to set it up yourself. It's not one of those simple zip files or an archive unzip and you're up and running in some few minutes. Knowledge to set it up is key."
"The implementation of IBM API Connect is complex, as it's an enterprise solution with many components that require more than one person. It's not a single product that you work on, and this is an area for improvement, but normally, it's good. Having a more structured model for IBM API Connect support is also room for improvement that would help customers better."
"Debugging could be improved."
"The solution would be better if it had cloud functionalities."
"Due to bugs in integration, we have to look for workaround on fixing and using DataPower as gateway."
"It needs to be less taxing on compute resources."
Apigee is ranked 2nd in API Management with 82 reviews while IBM API Connect is ranked 5th in API Management with 73 reviews. Apigee is rated 8.2, while IBM API Connect 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 IBM API Connect writes "Good speed and performance, but it's based on a bit dated architecture". Apigee is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, Amazon API Gateway, WSO2 API Manager, Layer7 API Management and MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, whereas IBM API Connect is most compared with IBM DataPower Gateway, Microsoft Azure API Management, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, Amazon API Gateway and Kong Gateway Enterprise. See our Apigee vs. IBM API Connect report.
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Of those three: MuleSoft Anypoint. But, cost-friendly is another term, I would choose a different solution. We are happy with Gravitee.