We performed a comparison between 3scale API Management and Microsoft Azure API Management 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 product is stable."
"The solution is quite lightweight, and the installation is very easy. It's like a two-click installation."
"I like the API automation."
"The gateway is the most valuable feature because it makes it possible for us to gather all traffic into one proxy, which is a good thing."
"The standard deployment is very simple."
"The most valuable features are the gateway and security features."
"To me, the most valuable feature of 3scale API Management is that it lets you add a backend to the product. I also like that you can integrate it well with OpenShift clusters, making 3scale API Management a useful solution."
"3scale API Management's best feature is API management."
"The initial setup is not that complex, but there are certain challenges."
"It’s easy to set up."
"The API management and the hosting of the API platform are great."
"Access control is the most valuable aspect."
"There were no scalability issues."
"Azure API is scalable."
"Microsoft Azure API Management is 90 to 99 percent scalable. We have three instances running in parallel."
"I like the stability and the ease of use."
"I believe the CMS part of it has room for improvement though. That is where you write a couple of things if you want to publish your API. It's based on liquid scripting, which doesn't seem like the obvious ones to script with."
"What was suggested by Red Hat was a crucial part of the configuration, but when we started to ask about the supportability of this configuration, Red Hat said only some parts of the configuration would be supported."
"It would be helpful to improve the customization features so that the customer can do it based on their own needs."
"The user experience could be better. The developer portal is too complex and hard to configure."
"3scale API Management only supports restful APIs and doesn't support SOAP."
"What I'd like to improve in 3scale API Management is its route-limiting feature. Currently, I don't know how to do that effectively on the solution, but in Kong, I know how to do it, so I would love to see route-limiting being easily done on 3scale API Management. It would also be good if there was some authentication that you could do from 3scale API Management because Kong offers that functionality out of the box. What I'd love to see in the next release of 3scale API Management is the ability to integrate more plug-ins easily onto the platform, so you'll be able to extend it, and even do customs management. If Red Hat could offer that extension where it allows the internal organization where 3scale API Management is deployed on-premise to integrate its tools on top of 3scale API Management and provide an API for that, that will make the solution very powerful."
"We tried to use the portal, but we decided that it wasn't enough. The content management system (CMS) is not easy to use if you want to customize things, and it's hard to get someone who has the knowledge to work with the CMS."
"The product is not that flexible for developers. It's less flexible and rigid. It's not easy to make changes or customize it."
"The documentation could be improved for the customer."
"The hybrid part could be improved because API Management is entirely cloud-based, but some of our resources are on-prem, so formatting is an issue. Our goal is dual implementation."
"I'd like to have better flexibility and more capabilities."
"It could be more user friendly for developers. It would be nice if developers could view things more easily."
"Price is the first thing that comes to mind. It's quite expensive, which could be a barrier for some users."
"The integration with other API gateways is where they might try to improve."
"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."
"I would like to see more security features become available."
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3scale API Management is ranked 11th in API Management with 10 reviews while Microsoft Azure API Management is ranked 1st in API Management with 67 reviews. 3scale API Management is rated 7.4, while Microsoft Azure API Management is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of 3scale API Management writes "Useful as it lets you add a backend to the product, it integrates well with clusters, and it has exceptional technical support, but route-limiting isn't easy to do on it". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Azure API Management writes "Efficiently manages and monetizes API ". 3scale API Management is most compared with Amazon API Gateway, Kong Gateway Enterprise, Apigee, IBM API Connect and MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, whereas Microsoft Azure API Management is most compared with Amazon API Gateway, Apigee, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, Kong Gateway Enterprise and Boomi AtomSphere API Management. See our 3scale API Management vs. Microsoft Azure API Management report.
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