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Amazon API Gateway vs Apigee vs Layer7 API Management comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
7.4
Amazon API Gateway is praised for cost-effectiveness, time savings, and secure infrastructure, offering financial benefits for users.
Sentiment score
7.2
Apigee optimizes API management, improving security and collaboration, yielding high ROI despite costs, and leveraging Google's robust support.
Sentiment score
6.7
Layer7 API Management offers business growth and protection, with varying ROI timelines; quick benefits are observed by many users.
API Gateway saves time and secures my infrastructure, allowing effective deployment.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
7.2
Amazon API Gateway offers strong customer support, especially for enterprise plans, with variable response times based on support tier.
Sentiment score
6.3
Apigee's customer service is praised for responsiveness but needs improvement in consistent handling of escalated issues.
Sentiment score
7.3
Layer7 API Management is praised for support and resources, though some users note post-acquisition service challenges.
Within 15 minutes, we had a support engineer allocated via Amazon, and we were able to resolve the issue promptly.
Technical support is excellent, deserving a ten out of ten rating.
If you have a tier-one partnership, the support has been phenomenal.
They are responsive and provide assistance even during production issues.
The customer service and support are cooperative and effective in providing insights and solutions during challenges.
Technical support is excellent, and I would rate them as ten.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.8
Amazon API Gateway excels in scalability, efficiently managing traffic for diverse users, perfect for small teams and large enterprises.
Sentiment score
7.6
Apigee's scalable architecture supports high transaction volumes and large user bases, leveraging Kubernetes and cloud integration for enterprises.
Sentiment score
7.3
Layer7 API Management efficiently scales to handle significant traffic, supporting millions of daily requests with proper configuration.
It is very scalable, and we don't need to hire additional engineers.
We've significantly increased our traffic from hitting it once or twice a minute to now hitting it ten to fifteen times within a minute.
I haven't observed any significant issues indicating a lack of scalability, as it can be efficiently managed through configurations.
Adding extra Cassandra databases is complex.
All nodes communicate with one primary database, affecting connections and causing crashes under high load.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.6
Amazon API Gateway is highly stable and reliable, with minimal disruptions and a 99.99% uptime, supporting millions globally.
Sentiment score
8.1
Apigee is a highly stable platform with excellent reliability, frequent updates, and robust support, achieving a nine out of ten rating.
Sentiment score
7.6
Layer7 API Management is stable and reliable, with minor scalability issues, often resolved through updates and support.
I've deployed it for a client with millions of users without issues.
Our applications are stable, owing partly to our architecture, which is spread across three regions.
But, once it starts, it never fails.
Apigee is stable, and we have had the system running on Apigee servers for more than four years without any stability issues.
Without rebooting for ninety to one hundred eighty days, cache builds up in Linux boxes, causing memory utilization issues.
 

Room For Improvement

Amazon API Gateway requires enhancements in pricing, integration, security, technical support, feature richness, and reduced latency for improved user experience.
Apigee needs better role-based access, integration capabilities, documentation, security, pricing, technical support, and user interface enhancements.
Layer7 API Management needs improvements in UI, documentation, integration, functionality, training, policy tools, monitoring, reporting, and migration.
A local version of the API Gateway would be beneficial for testing purposes without incurring extra costs.
AWS charges for data ingress and egress, which could be further reduced.
It's important to consider the type of gateway endpoint carefully.
Apigee only allows validation of transactions up to a four-hour period, which requires manual hovering over the date and time.
Analytics is one of the areas needing enhancement, specifically more visibility and control over traffic to improve capacity management and high availability.
Apigee should also incorporate these capabilities, especially in the on-premises version.
Broadcom's push for upgrades from version nine to ten, ten to 10.3, and onwards to twelve needs improvement in migration processes, especially with service dependencies.
 

Setup Cost

Enterprise users find Amazon API Gateway's serverless, pay-as-you-go pricing competitive and flexible, despite potential high-volume cost concerns.
Apigee is costly, suited for large enterprises, with pricing based on usage and offering flexible subscription and tiered packages.
Layer7 API Management offers competitive pricing with Essential and Enterprise tiers, though perceived costly for smaller enterprises.
However, my understanding is that it easily goes to $14,000 or $15,000 USD each month for each account, and we have several such accounts.
It is a really cheap product, but if used incorrectly, it can become expensive.
It is expensive.
Apigee is perceived as slightly costly compared to other tools in the market.
Apigee is high-priced, suitable for large enterprises where the benefit aligns with the cost.
Apigee is costlier compared to other solutions.
Seeing other products makes the tool's pricing seem high.
 

Valuable Features

Amazon API Gateway provides scalable integration with AWS, robust security, and cost-effective management for API applications.
Apigee offers robust API management, strong security, scalability, easy deployment, extensive analytics, and seamless cloud integration with customization options.
Layer7 API Management excels with robust security, scalability, and features like content routing and drag-and-drop functionality.
Rest API provides robust and more secure authentication features.
Additionally, it's cost-effective, even as our workload and the number of APIs we manage have increased.
It acts as a master tool, offering easy configuration and excellent integration capabilities with third-party services.
It provides all the necessary capabilities for current technologies, enabling communication and translation between protocols, along with supporting stringent security features.
The features for API security have been significant with Apigee.
Apigee provides catalog management, onboarding of new customers, an API portal, and security features.
The flexibility to develop APIs for various platforms, from front-end applications to ATM machines, is valuable.
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2025, in the API Management category, the mindshare of Amazon API Gateway is 12.7%, down from 14.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Apigee is 13.4%, down from 15.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Layer7 API Management is 2.9%, down from 3.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Featured Reviews

Rahul Kundu - PeerSpot reviewer
Cost-effective serverless routing with room for extended timeout settings
We are using API Gateway to route the traffic to our Lambdas. Every API pass is linked to some of the Lambdas. When traffic hits CloudFront, it redirects it to API Gateway, which then redirects it to the respective Lambda server. We have different kinds of services invoked through these Lambdas…
ShawkyFoda  - PeerSpot reviewer
Provides high visibility and control with good traffic monitoring
Analytics is one of the areas needing enhancement, specifically more visibility and control over traffic to improve capacity management and high availability. The replication process between Master and Slave for disaster recovery takes too long. Dependencies on analytics impact the performance of the user interface, which should be separate. The complex setup process on-premises, especially with multi-node installations, could also be improved. Additional control in product declarations, based on operations like POST and GET, is needed.
NikhilChaudhari - PeerSpot reviewer
Valued for its drag-and-drop functionalities, the available policy options, and the excellent security features
I work as a PG developer, primarily dealing with Layer7 API Management and MuleSoft API management. My focus is mainly on VM management platforms such as Layer7 and Apigee Layer7 API Management is most valued for its drag-and-drop functionalities, the available policy options, and the excellent…
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
15%
Computer Software Company
14%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Government
5%
Financial Services Firm
21%
Computer Software Company
12%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Insurance Company
7%
Financial Services Firm
19%
Computer Software Company
12%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Healthcare Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

Which is better - Apigee or Amazon API Gateway?
Amazon API Gateway is a platform that supports the creation and publication of API for web applications. The platform...
How does Mulesoft Anypoint API Manager compare with Amazon API Gateway?
I have found that Mulesoft Anypoint API Manager is the best integration tool out there for API management. It is easy...
Which is better - Azure API Management or Amazon API Gateway?
If you use Azure products, API Management is a great solution. It solves many of the problems of externalizing web se...
How does Apigee differ from Azure API Management?
Apigee offers both cloud-based and on-prem options while Microsoft Azure API Management currently only offers a clou...
What needs improvement with Apigee?
I am not in a position to give any recommendations for additional features or improvements at this point.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Layer7 API Management?
Pricing is more than average. While I am used to Layer7 API Management ( /products/layer7-api-management-reviews ), s...
What needs improvement with Layer7 API Management?
Broadcom's push for upgrades from version nine to ten, ten to 10.3, and onwards to twelve needs improvement in migrat...
 

Also Known As

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CA API Management, CA Live API Creator, Espresso Logic, CA API Gateway
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Autodesk, Fox Digital Consumer Group, iFlix, UK Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA), Miovision, Olympusat, PhotoVogue, Royale International Group, Veracode
Adobe, advance.net, Amadeus, AT&T, Bechtel, Belly, Burberry, Chegg, Citrix, Dell, eBay, Equifax, GameStop, First Data, Globe, HCSC, Intralinks, Kao, Meredith, Mitchell, Orange, Pearson
1. IBM  2. Microsoft  3. Oracle  4. Salesforce  5. SAP  6. Cisco  7. Dell  8. HP  9. Adobe  10. VMware  11. Accenture  12. Capgemini  13. Deloitte  14. PwC  15. Ernst & Young  16. Infosys  17. TCS (Tata Consultancy Services)  18. Wipro  19. Cognizant  20. HCL Technologies  21. Tech Mahindra  22. Fujitsu  23. Hitachi  24. NEC  25. NTT Data  26. Ericsson  27. Nokia  28. Siemens  29. AT&T  30. Verizon  31. Vodafone  32. Orange
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