Apigee vs IBM Rational Test Workbench comparison

Google and IBM are both solutions in the API Testing Tools category. Google is ranked #8 with an average rating of 8.2, while IBM is ranked #16. Google holds a 1.1% mindshare in APIT, compared to IBM’s 1.1% mindshare. Additionally, 92% of Google users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of IBM users who would recommend it.

Apigee

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92% willing to recommend

IBM Rational Test Workbench

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100% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 11, 2024

IBM Rational Test Workbench and Apigee are both popular tools for testing and API management. IBM Rational Test Workbench is favored for its comprehensive testing capabilities, while Apigee is preferred for its API management expertise.

Features: IBM Rational Test Workbench offers extensive test automation, integration with various programming environments, and robust reporting tools. Apigee includes powerful API management features, traffic management, security, and analytics.

Room for Improvement: IBM Rational Test Workbench users suggest enhancements in test execution speed and more intuitive navigation. Apigee users need improved documentation and reduced complexity in configuration.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Deployment of IBM Rational Test Workbench is complex, with some users needing more support. Apigee's deployment process is smoother thanks to clear instructions and efficient customer service.

Pricing and ROI: IBM Rational Test Workbench has a higher initial setup cost but delivers a solid return on investment. Apigee presents a more cost-effective setup with a faster path to ROI through efficient API management and analytics.

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Categories and Ranking

Apigee

Ranking in API Testing Tools

8th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

API Management (3rd)

IBM Rational Test Workbench

Ranking in API Testing Tools

16th

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Performance Testing Tools (20th), Test Automation Tools (36th)

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2025, in the API Testing Tools category, the mindshare of Apigee is 1.1%, down from 1.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of IBM Rational Test Workbench is 1.1%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

API Testing Tools Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Apigee	1.1%
IBM Rational Test Workbench	1.1%
Other	97.8%

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ShawkyFoda

Senior Consultant at Goverment

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.

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KashifJamil

CEO at Xcelliti

Good integration with other tools, stable, scales easily

There are a number of things that they can do to simplify the tools, but the most important thing that they need to do is simplify the installation. This includes the workbench as well as the other tools. In the future, I would like to see the other types of tests supported, that are not already covered in the DevOps approach. This would include, for example, penetration testing.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Apigee has better scalability than WSA."

"The ease of creating policies has been the most useful of the solution's features. It's a quick ramp-up time. It's easy for our support staff to implement the policies in the API management layer."

"Apigee is stable, and we have had the system running on Apigee servers for more than four years without any stability issues."

"Apigee is an easy-to-use solution."

"The most valuable feature of Apigee is its simplicity of deploying an API and restricting access, like rate limit, with the API."

"I simply like how you can personalize your products and put them into product categories. That's what I like the most."

"It is scalable."

"The usability is one of the best aspects of the product."

More Apigee pros

"This solution provides for API testing, functional UI testing, performance testing, and service virtualization."

"Reporting is pretty good. Its interface is also good. I'm overall pretty happy with the functionality and use of IBM Rational Test Workbench."

Cons

"Compared to its competitors, such as Axway AMPLIFY API Management and Layer7 API Management, Apigee could benefit from having more policies to cater to various use cases. This would reduce the need for writing custom JavaScripts. If more features come straight out of the box, we can leverage them instead of writing custom code to achieve the same functionality."

"We've encountered challenges in leveraging Connect functionality, prompting us to explore additional tools, such as Fergus, to address implementation and security issues."

"The integration could be improved within the solution. There is a need to pay more attention to this."

"It would be good if the Apigee management allowed us to be able to consolidate many operations into single one for the gateway functionality."

"Analytics is one of the areas needing enhancement, specifically more visibility and control over traffic to improve capacity management and high availability."

"Apigee is demanding on the infrastructure so the setup cost is very high for an on-premises deployment."

"The ability to work across different management solutions in a plug and play fashion would make it easier for faster uptake."

"Apigee's product cost is quite high compared to other products. Customers think that going with Google ensures quick resolution of security or performance issues."

More Apigee cons

"It should have more interfaces. In terms of interfaces or protocols, what you can do with Rational is far limited as compared to other products out there. What it does, it does great, but it only gives you limited types of protocols. It supports between 8 to 15 types of protocols, whereas other test tools give you 20 to 30 types of protocols with which you can do testing and convert to script. It records Javascript-based scripts, and you got to know a little bit of Java to basically be able to edit them, but the level of editing you got to do is very low. I like that, but the ability to edit the script is not as good as Parasoft or LoadRunner, which have C-Script."

"There are a number of things that they can do to simplify the tools, but the most important thing that they need to do is simplify the installation."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The cost increases as the usage increases."

"Apigee is expensive and not cost-effective. On a scale of one to ten, I would rate it an eight for the high cost. The changes individuals need to make on their side are costly."

"You do not necessarily pay for the license. The cloud solution is based more on transactions. So, you pay for it either way."

"Since it was acquired by Google, we can get a license based on our requirements and the cost level will depend on cloud access and support."

"The iicense is subscription-based."

"We have a contract for three years. I don't know the cost."

"It is a bit on the expensive side. Its licensing cost is a bit high, and that's where we've seen people going back on their decisions."

"It is an expensive solution."

More Apigee pricing and cost advice

"The pricing is a little bit on the higher side, although it is really good."

"It doesn't really concern me. Licensing is on a yearly basis."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

21%

Computer Software Company

11%

Manufacturing Company

Insurance Company

Financial Services Firm

30%

Manufacturing Company

13%

Non Profit

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	20
Midsize Enterprise	9
Large Enterprise	65

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Compared 8% of the time

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Compared 7% of the time

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Overview

Apigee is a platform for developing and managing APIs. Apigee offers an interface for your core services by wrapping them with a proxy layer which is then accessed by other developers. With Apigee, you can design and build APIs and then securely share their services and data without exposing any code.

Because app developers make HTTP requests to an API proxy rather than directly to your services, your services are separated from the developers. All the developer needs to know is the URL of the API proxy endpoint, necessary query parameters, authorization credentials (if they exist), and the response data format.

The API proxy isolates the app developer from your backend service. Therefore, you are free to change the service implementation if the public API remains consistent. By maintaining a consistent frontend API, existing client apps will continue to work regardless of changes on the backend.

Key capabilities of the Apigee API management platform include:

Security: Protect APIs, messages, and backends with configurable policies such as OAuth, API key verification, XML/JSON threat protection, and access control.
API gateway: Secure and mediate the traffic between clients and backends, and between a company’s APIs and the developers who use the APIs.
Developer portal: Attract and engage application developers, enabling them to discover, explore, purchase, and test APIs and register to access and use the APIs.
API console: The console helps developers learn and work with APIs.
API lifecycle management: Manage the process of designing, developing, publishing, deploying, and versioning APIs.
Automated documentation: Automate the development of API documentation and software development kits.
Machine learning: Utilize machine learning and analytics to generate actionable insights and reports.

API monitoring: Apigee offers monitoring tools for API troubleshooting, security, and optimization.

Reviews from Real Users:

Apigee stands out among its competitors for a number of reasons. Several major ones are its rich developer portal, its advanced analytics, and its central monitoring system.

Carlos R., a software architect at Caja Los Andes writes, “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.”

An associate vice president at a tech services company notes, “The analytics function and the developer portal are the two valuable features of Apigee. The analytics part is very good, and the developer portal is quite rich in features. The authentication mechanisms are quite easily built into Apigee, which is something that most of the other products have also now started supporting.”

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IBM Rational Test Workbench provides a comprehensive test automation solution for mobile applications, regression testing, integration technologies and performance and scalability testing. It helps you build intelligent and interconnected enterprise applications that can be deployed on traditional and cloud infrastructures. With Rational Test Workbench, you can significantly reduce test cycle times, moving integration testing earlier in the development lifecycle.

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