We performed a comparison between Apigee vs IBM API Connect based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Apigee has an edge in this comparison because it received higher marks than IBM API Connect in the ease of deployment and support categories.
"A simple platform that's easier to work with than IBM API Connect. Support for it is really good and gives it advantage over other providers."
"The following features are most valuable: API Management, Analytics, Quota, and the Developer Portal."
"This is a front-layer gateway that helps to improve our overall performance."
"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."
"Apigee's best features are flexibility and breadth of capabilities."
"It nice and easy for the clients and those using the product to access the product's help resources."
"The security that you have with Apigee is very good and aligns with compliance."
"Apigee is relatively easy to use for developers."
"The solution is very scalable because it's on the cloud."
"Our version supports containerized integration. I can write APIs, which can be moved into a testing environment without needing a forklift. It can check if APIs are compliant before moving them into production."
"Security is well organized and managed within the solution."
"The statistics component is easy to use."
"It has all of the tools that are needed for the specific mission."
"API Connect's most valuable feature is its ability to act as a gateway. It's very easy to configure security and everything else in it. You don't have to kill yourself implementing custom configurations."
"API Connect is a good product, and everything works fine. All the analytics are good, and it is easy to follow up. I like it in that sense. I'm more focused on following up on analytics by seeing how many API calls we are getting and where we see a lot of problems. I was working on that API level."
"Since it runs on top of Datapower, all Datapower based custom policies can be utilized and exported to API connect but its not straightforward/simple process."
"I don't have any notes for improvement."
"When it comes to the rate limit, we don't have a specific category for rate limits for a particular customer."
"Apigee's user interface could be more straightforward and have more options. Also, it would be nice if it were ready to work out of the box without so much configuration."
"They should improve the monitoring tools for on-premises environments."
"I would like to see better integration and some architectural improvements in future releases of the solution."
"I would like to see the monitoring, dashboards, and reports improve."
"The account simplification process can be improved."
"The initial setup is not straightforward, particularly for hybrid solutions."
"The documentation needs to be a bit better."
"IBM API Connect could improve the security of the application and the integration."
"Improving the documentation would be beneficial as it currently presents navigation challenges. Incorporating a step-by-step guide could facilitate the integration or migration of various systems, including databases. The existing documentation only comprises plain text, hence incorporating more interactive instructions could enhance its usefulness."
"The administration of the user interface and the technical documentation are areas of concern in the solution where improvements are required."
"The automation and the simplicity could be improved."
"The installation was difficult with the IBM toolkit."
"One thing about API Connect that could be improved is the security schemes. There are so many security schemes, and from a product perspective, IBM could improve the user experience of the configuration security scheme."
"The solution could improve security and performance."
Apigee is ranked 2nd in API Management with 82 reviews while IBM API Connect is ranked 5th in API Management with 73 reviews. Apigee is rated 8.2, while IBM API Connect is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Apigee writes "Has a robust community and outstanding performance". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM API Connect writes "Good speed and performance, but it's based on a bit dated architecture". Apigee is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, Amazon API Gateway, WSO2 API Manager, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager and Layer7 API Management, whereas IBM API Connect is most compared with IBM DataPower Gateway, Microsoft Azure API Management, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, Amazon API Gateway and Kong Gateway Enterprise. See our Apigee vs. IBM API Connect report.
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Of those three: MuleSoft Anypoint. But, cost-friendly is another term, I would choose a different solution. We are happy with Gravitee.