We performed a comparison between Apigee, IBM API Connect, and MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Google, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and others in API Management."This is a front-layer gateway that helps to improve our overall performance."
"Its flexibility allows seamless management of different products, showcasing scalability to handle extensive solutions."
"It has all the features necessary to work in anything from a basic scenario to advanced applications."
"It nice and easy for the clients and those using the product to access the product's help resources."
"Apigee has proven to be one of the best of the breed."
"It is easy to deploy, configure, and monitor the APA."
"Its customer service is good."
"Apigee Analytics dashboard is useful to monitor transactions, error percentage, transaction latency, etc."
"It acts as a central gateway for both external APIs and underlying systems. It's basically a central middleware for hosting APIs to the internet and consuming APIs from internal systems. It provides central governance for any APIs going outside the network, ensuring security and a common contract for API definitions."
"It is a complete all-in-one solution."
"Scalable and stable API platform for creating and managing APIs."
"Its speed and performance are valuable."
"IBM API Connect is a reliable and scalable solution."
"This is a very easy to use solution."
"WSRR is a powerful component for getting the endpoints."
"Using API Connect allows us to quickly create proxy APIs and saves time on end-to-end testing, which lets us deliver quickly to clients."
"The ease of policy maintenance and API functionality are key features for me. They streamline business processes by allowing configurable control over policies, instead of writing codes and making maintenance more straightforward."
"When using the Mulesoft Anypoint Platform, it has a wide range of connectors that are readily available to connect with the multiple applications."
"MuleSoft has given the API solution a 3-tiered architecture. This means that there are multiple channels available in one application. The usability is very high."
"I believe the API connectivity within the cloud marketplace is most valuable."
"The tool has a private area. It also has a cloud deployment option."
"It provides various advantages in the integration field, including support for Azure services and cloud integrations."
"The most valuable features of Mulesoft Anypoint API Manager are the API gateway, rate limiting, and orchestration."
"The most valuable features are API development and API management."
"Drag and drop of features would be more beneficial, rather than manually working on the configuration and updates."
"When there is an update on a new version or an automatic update, you have to be present and double-check that the update is reflected in the environment with no issues."
"The Apigee cloud admin UI could be more user-friendly by adding a few more features."
"We need better performance monitoring."
"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 solution could add even more functionalities."
"We are experiencing some performance issues."
"Better functionality for validating inputs and outputs would be helpful."
"The integration of an API gateway that implements the sidecar pattern, which can be deployed in cloud applications, and expose the microservices directly in each pod, this can be more decentralized components."
"The solution is overly complex."
"There are issues with upgrading in the cloud version. The cloud version is extremely buggy. We prefer to use the on-premise version."
"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."
"Business applications could be exposed to users."
"I would like to see support for non-Java based services. We struggle a bit to be able to deploy and connect our .NET services because of things like data types. We had to map a couple of things. For one solution provider, we had to move them to .NET Core before we could use it properly. I would like to see more agnostic tool service platforms rather than moving it more towards Java or open source."
"The product's setup phase and its setup for the users in different environments, along with DevOps integration, are areas of concern where there is a need for improvement."
"We've had some issues upgrading to the latest version of the solution."
"It is not a very scalable solution."
"The solution is expensive."
"I'd suggest more control over MQ restarts and greater transparency in traffic management."
"Their studio performance is very slow, it requires a lot of memory, and should be improved."
"I'd like more monitoring and analyzing features included in the future."
"The initial setup, if you go back three or three and a half years, definitely, for us, was complex."
"MuleSoft has advanced features but is slower."
"The solution is missing a monetization module."
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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.