We performed a comparison between Apigee and MuleSoft Anypoint 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 a slight edge in this comparison. Apigee is easy to deploy and received high marks for its analytics features. Some MuleSoft Anypoint users say that its deployment can be complex and that it needs better analytics tools.
"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 use case which I have installed serves the intended purpose."
"It has all the features necessary to work in anything from a basic scenario to advanced applications."
"Anyone with basic knowledge can build an API."
"It is a stable solution...It is a scalable solution."
"The central monitoring feature is the most valuable. It also provides security for the APIs and high availability for our use cases. Apigee is the best product in the industry in comparison to other API management solutions. It helps in fast development, which is a top point. It also supports a lot of industry standards and has excellent documentation."
"API/proxy lifecycle workflow for API providers is quite good and one of Apigee's strongest features."
"The opportunity for customization is really vast and it is a really good feature built into the product."
"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."
"Offers good integration and flexibility."
"This is a good API management product."
"The documentation is great; it is always up to date and well-presented."
"The most valuable features of the solution for securing APIs stem from the tool's ability to allow users to deploy policies."
"The auto-creation of the API documentation is useful."
"The security features are good. It's easy to configure the end-to-end integration with existing applications."
"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 caching capabilities are somewhat limited. This is more on the developer-oriented capabilities."
"There should be an integrated continuous integration and continuous deployment approach with Apigee. Currently, for development at a more integrated level, you have set it up yourself."
"It needs predictive analysis of consumption."
"It would be good if the Apigee management allowed us to be able to consolidate many operations into single one for the gateway functionality."
"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 solution could add even more functionalities."
"The account simplification process can be improved."
"The solution's price is high."
"The log management for this solution needs improvement."
"MuleSoft has advanced features but is slower."
"Anypoint could be improved by making it more open and configurable for small companies, who tend not to consider the solution as it's expensive and requires a lot of costs upfront."
"It can offer workflows, orchestration, and webhooks."
"Migrating any existing middleware platform to Mulesoft is difficult because of the transformation, conversion and integration involved. Better tools are needed to achieve quicker time to market."
"We find that the enterprise level is lacking scalability."
"The initial setup is very complex."
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Apigee is ranked 2nd in API Management with 82 reviews while MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager is ranked 4th in API Management with 47 reviews. Apigee is rated 8.2, while MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Apigee writes "Has a robust community and outstanding performance". 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". Apigee is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, IBM API Connect, Amazon API Gateway, WSO2 API Manager and IBM DataPower Gateway, whereas MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, Amazon API Gateway, IBM API Connect, Kong Gateway Enterprise and Layer7 API Management. See our Apigee vs. MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager report.
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Apigee for sure. Not only do you get the benefit of hybrid and on-prem deployments. As a gov entity, you will face those challenges. Over time you might want to use AWS/Azure clouds so you can migrate it accordingly or just use the PAYG on GCP with all the security Bells and Whistles. https://www.gartner.com/review...
I will choose MuleSoft due to its ease of use, integration extendibility, and product roadmap.
MuleSoft API Management is better because of the following reasons:
* Ease of initial setup & configuration
* Most robust features in API management: oath, throttling, and access levels can be done very easily.
* MuleSoft API-led connectivity & Integration solution (you can extend the API management solution with a flexible integration option). You can very easily extend APIM to integration.
* Very Clear Product roadmap including APIM, RPA and multi-cloud implementation.
The cost of both MuleSoft APIM & APIGEE is similar.
Compared to 3scale, Apigee API Management has a better API gateway for security and traffic management.
Apigee is better for API policy enablement compared to 3scale API Management. Apigee provides better support for GraphQL, OData, OAS2.