We performed a comparison between Microsoft Azure API Management and Apigee based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Based on the parameters we compared, Apigee received higher ratings than Microsoft Azure API Management. Although Apigee is the more expensive solution, it comes out on top with more favorable features and good technical support.
"I simply like how you can personalize your products and put them into product categories. That's what I like the most."
"The security that you have with Apigee is very good and aligns with compliance."
"This is a front-layer gateway that helps to improve our overall performance."
"Apigee's best features are flexibility and breadth of capabilities."
"Apigee is an easy-to-use solution."
"Its flexibility allows seamless management of different products, showcasing scalability to handle extensive solutions."
"It is a stable solution...It is a scalable solution."
"It has all the features necessary to work in anything from a basic scenario to advanced applications."
"The solution has overall high performance."
"The initial setup is not that complex, but there are certain challenges."
"The Azure Active Directory Synchronization is quite good."
"The documentation and configuration of APIs."
"The most valuable feature is the developer portal, which has source code examples in various programming languages to help developers learn the API."
"The tool helps to manage APIs."
"The mediation and translation from SOAP to REST technology makes it possible to open up legacy systems that couldn't be opened before."
"I have found this solution to be easy to configure, simple to use, and flexible."
"Could be more user friendly."
"We are experiencing issues with automation; the production in Apigee is quite time-consuming."
"An area for improvement would be to provide more information while troubleshooting."
"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 are experiencing some performance issues."
"The number one area this solution could be improved is by implementing support. Support is not a part of this solution."
"The pricing of the solution could be improved upon. We'd like it if it was less costly."
"Access restrictions can be improved."
"From my understanding, there are some constraints around governance and service-to-service intercommunication managing priorities and our own governance."
"Azure is our most expensive resource; it's costly."
"The developer console for external users could be improved, especially in the testing site."
"I would like to see more security features become available."
"They're trying to implement versioning and trying to be able to manage different versions of your API all at the same time, but they're not doing that just quite right yet."
"The API gateway can be very complex."
"Microsoft Azure API Management is lagging behind Apigee and should also have a better CICD process."
"The implementation has room for improvement and can be more user-friendly."
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Apigee is ranked 2nd in API Management with 82 reviews while Microsoft Azure API Management is ranked 1st in API Management with 68 reviews. Apigee is rated 8.2, while Microsoft Azure API Management is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Apigee writes "Has a robust community and outstanding performance". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Azure API Management writes "Efficiently manages and monetizes API ". Apigee is most compared with IBM API Connect, Amazon API Gateway, WSO2 API Manager, Layer7 API Management and MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, whereas Microsoft Azure API Management is most compared with Amazon API Gateway, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, Kong Gateway Enterprise, IBM API Connect and WSO2 API Manager. See our Apigee vs. Microsoft Azure API Management report.
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