We performed a comparison between Apigee and Tyk based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two API Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The initial setup isn't too complex."
"Apigee has proven to be one of the best of the breed."
"There is plenty of support documentation available."
"Easy interface to monetize and deliver APIs with very easy integration for third-party development environments/delivery."
"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."
"Highly scalable from any initial topology to horizontal extension"
"The initial setup was easy - there was an onboarding document with steps that we followed."
"Apigee is an easy-to-use solution."
"The feature I find most valuable is that this solution allows us to manage our security."
"The portal for developers that this solution provides has great functionality."
"The most valuable feature is the load balancing with the circuit-breaker function."
"It is a good product for API management."
"You can set up workflows and write limited pieces of logic."
"The scalability is very good. That was a key factor in the selection, like how it could be pushed to high volume and scalability, which seemed to be very good."
"The solution tends to hide the limitations to keep selling the product."
"They should improve the monitoring tools for on-premises environments."
"I would like to see SOAP services and socket-based connectivity developed."
"The solution is pretty expensive."
"Apigee does not have a testing feature."
"An area for improvement would be to provide more information while troubleshooting."
"Better functionality for validating inputs and outputs would be helpful."
"I don't have any notes for improvement."
"In terms of our usage, the main area of concern is that they tend to build enhancements slightly ahead of the considerations for what those enhancements and extensions are. So it could be slightly better communication with the customer base that would be my main issue with them."
"We ran it for a while, but then we decided to move away from Tyk, because Tyk's cloud version, the SaaS version, has a significant limitation of limited flexibility, so you can't program very much."
"It is a young product and does not have the kind of brand recognition that would make it a more popular solution with our clients."
"Sometimes when new features are released, they are not immediately stable."
"I would like to see some additional features like having some extensions for .NET core because we use it for our back-end language."
"We would like a better tool for generating documentation for the APIs to be developed."
Apigee is ranked 2nd in API Management with 82 reviews while Tyk is ranked 17th in API Management with 6 reviews. Apigee is rated 8.2, while Tyk is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Apigee writes "Has a robust community and outstanding performance". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Tyk writes "Simple to install, has many features, but lacks support for multiple programming languages". Apigee is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, IBM API Connect, Amazon API Gateway, WSO2 API Manager and Layer7 API Management, whereas Tyk is most compared with Apache APISIX, Traefik Enterprise, Amazon API Gateway, Microsoft Azure API Management and WSO2 API Manager. See our Apigee vs. Tyk report.
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