Apigee vs Microsoft Azure API Management vs TIBCO Cloud API Management comparison

Google and Microsoft are both solutions in the API Management category. Google is ranked #3 with an average rating of 8.2, while Microsoft is ranked #1 with an average rating of 7.9. Google holds a 11.1% mindshare in APIM, compared to Microsoft’s 16.5% mindshare. Additionally, 92% of Google users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 91% of Microsoft users who would recommend it.

Apigee

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92% willing to recommend

Microsoft Azure API Management

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91% willing to recommend

TIBCO Cloud API Management

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86% willing to recommend

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We performed a comparison between Apigee, Microsoft Azure API Management, and TIBCO Cloud API Management based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the API Management category, the mindshare of Apigee is 11.1%, down from 15.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Microsoft Azure API Management is 16.5%, down from 19.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of TIBCO Cloud API Management is 1.0%, up from 0.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

API Management Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Microsoft Azure API Management	16.5%
Apigee	11.1%
TIBCO Cloud API Management	1.0%
Other	71.4%

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Featured Reviews

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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Abdul Ghani Shahzaib

Principal Consultant at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Ensures compliance and security in API integrations with a plug and play setup

We are working on almost everything Microsoft Businesses, Dynamics CRM and Dynamics FinOps ERP. We are utilizing Microsoft Azure hosting platform. We are using API service, Azure functions, event grid, API Management, and all types of Azure services on a need basis The integration and API Connect…

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AftabAlam

E2E Delivery Expert - Ignite Delivery & Technical Enablement at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

Trust and reliability have been established with long-term usage and significant integration benefits

TIBCO Cloud API Management offers API management plus the ability to orchestrate all inbound and outbound API calls. When an API is exposed to the external system, it functions as a single integration. Behind the scenes, you can perform extensive API modeling, aggregation, and downstream systems can have more than one API and give the response back to a single API call. It has many features such as orchestration rule engine, which makes it quite good. TIBCO Cloud API Management has brought numerous benefits for our organization, especially in product maturity and support. Sales and support are strong areas, and I think it is very good. If they do not get the right support, then they should consider other options. The sales and support also provides cost optimization.

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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 makes proxy management very simple."

"Apigee helps with API security and management."

"Deploying Apigee is straightforward and does not involve significant difficulties."

"There are just a lot of security features in general."

"I have not encountered instability with the product."

"A special feature is configuring target servers, proxy config, and Cert related security, which regularizes incoming traffic from cloud users or external applications to internal applications in a secured manner."

"It is a stable solution...It is a scalable solution."

"Highly scalable from any initial topology to horizontal extension"

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"I like that security features can be integrated with API Management. I also like that you can perform rate-limiting and throttling functions."

"The ability to create a subscription model for APIs allows companies to monetize valuable data and share it securely."

"Microsoft Azure API Management is 90 to 99 percent scalable. We have three instances running in parallel."

"Ease of integration into the entire Microsoft environment."

"The UI management is very easy to use."

"The solution's configuration capabilities are the most effective features for enhancing API security."

"I like API Management's ability to do hybrid cloud stuff."

"The tool's most valuable feature is the integration of CI/CD with the API gateway."

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"The solution is a good general API manager. They have a few propriety features but are offering items that are standard in the industry as well."

"Conversion to RESTful and SOAP protocols and management console (can manage individually throttled settings to manage our service levels for customers)."

"The most valuable aspect of Mashery is its stability."

"It has something called packages. In that way, it's good because we have some pre-built packages. So, if you want to onboard different APIs, we can just add them to the package, and it's there."

"The most valuable feature is the ability to have different packages based on the API keys. The same core system can have different packages based on different environments."

"It is easy to work with ."

"We can completely manage the APIs at the org level and BU (business unit) level."

"The control that we have and the security features are very valuable. With regard to API implementation or API orchestration, it works very well in the cloud because as soon as you create an API with one click, you can actually expose your APIs."

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Cons

"Apigee is not a solution compatible with public clouds, making it one of its shortcomings where improvements are required."

"I'd like this solution to improve on releasing new features; I'd like it to be more frequent."

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

"We are experiencing issues with automation; the production in Apigee is quite time-consuming."

"The solution’s scalability could be improved."

"The analytical aspect of it could be better. I think it is fair if Apigee lets you configure some of the metrics of the key details you want to monitor in terms of analytics."

"Apigee could do more to make users aware of what is available in the add-ons."

"The solution is pretty expensive."

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"It should be easier to integrate."

"The implementation has room for improvement and can be more user-friendly."

"The developer portal can be improved."

"In the API you need to delete the suffix. It is annoying that you need to have a suffix. We can add a suffix at the API level, not at the operation level, and that could be improved on."

"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."

"When you start with Azure API management, you also need to onboard the Azure console and the Azure cloud environment, which comes with a price."

"There is room for improvement in the user interface and workflow for hosting APIs, especially third-party APIs."

"Maybe the customization could be a bit better."

More Microsoft Azure API Management cons

"They can fix some stability issues and probably make it more user-friendly so that not only an IT savvy person but an end-user can also easily navigate through this solution."

"The way agile life cycle is working needs improvement. I also want to see more support for open API standards. I want to see some improvement on the protocol transformation. That is quite missing now. These are the three main issues."

"It lacks many features at the API gateway compared to other solutions."

"The management console of API and customers' applications are not the most intuitive."

"Monetization is not that great in API management. You need customization. Improvements are needed with sandbox local as well as with monetization. Those features are missing."

"TIBCO Cloud API Management should improve its installation and make it easy."

"It's not that user-friendly, and security-wise when you try to implement the security layer on top of it, it's not that easy either."

"Policy management has been a bit of a concern."

More TIBCO Cloud API Management cons

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The current version of Apigee is not too expensive, but we are currently in talks with Google to understand their roadmap for Apigee X. However, we anticipate that with the introduction of Apigee X, the pricing will likely increase."

"As most of the customers say, the tool is a bit expensive."

"Apigee is a pretty expensive solution."

"If the budget is not a concern then I will choose to go with Apigee over WSA-2, but if it is then I would prefer the latter solution."

"The solution is a bit expensive. It's not for organizations in the early stages of their lifecycle but is more suited for mid- to enterprise-level platforms. Pricing varies by deployment model, with SaaS being the cheapest, costing around $100,000 per year for a subscription. For hybrid and on-prem deployments, the price increases. The on-prem model includes a license and additional installation and configuration professional service costs, which can be at least $40,000 to $60,000 for the initial setup. While it's not cheap, it offers long-term value and can be worthwhile."

"Apigee is subject to licensing fees."

"The price of Apigee could be less expensive. The solution can be purchased monthly or annually."

"Its price is reasonable for the features they provide and the maturity of the platform."

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"We pay for a yearly license."

"Azure API Management is the most expensive solution on the market."

"The developer and standard pricing tiers of Azure API Management are very competitive compared to other products."

"Compared to other solutions the cost is a seven out of ten."

"Microsoft Azure is an expensive solution not for the large enterprises but for the medium and small."

"The licensing cost for Microsoft Azure API Management is publicly available and goes from a developer edition that costs $26 to $30 per month. It may have changed, but it's in the neighborhood of $30 per month. I believe there's also the enterprise edition, which is highly capable and costs $2,500 per month."

"We are paying standard fees to use Microsoft Azure API Management."

"I rate the solution's pricing between three and four, as it could be more competitive."

More Microsoft Azure API Management pricing and cost advice

"Its price is pretty reasonable. There are some lightweight API options available in the market, but given the feature set that TIBCO provides, its price is really reasonable."

"TIBCO Cloud API Management is not an expensive solution."

"We have secured terms on which we have been happy to renew for a number of years."

"Licensing is quite flexible."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

22%

Computer Software Company

11%

Manufacturing Company

Insurance Company

Financial Services Firm

16%

Computer Software Company

12%

Manufacturing Company

Insurance Company

Financial Services Firm

15%

Computer Software Company

13%

Government

Retailer

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	23
Midsize Enterprise	11
Large Enterprise	52

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	2
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	9

Questions from the Community

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...

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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...

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What do you like most about Apigee?

We can customize the dashboard.

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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...

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What do you like most about Microsoft Azure API Management?

Microsoft Azure API Management is a good, comprehensive solution for enterprise implementation.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Microsoft Azure API Management?

The pricing is medium, which I find to be reasonable for the value we receive.

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What do you like most about TIBCO Cloud API Management?

The platform's most valuable features are its capabilities to support security measures such as tokenization, token r...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for TIBCO Cloud API Management?

My primary role was to assess the solution from a capability perspective. So, there are some issues with the licensin...

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What needs improvement with TIBCO Cloud API Management?

There are some areas for improvement in TIBCO Cloud API Management, especially regarding network protocols such as SM...

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Comparisons

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Compared 11% of the time

MuleSoft API Manager vs Apigee

Compared 8% of the time

WSO2 API Manager vs Apigee

Compared 7% of the time

Kong Gateway Enterprise vs Apigee

Compared 7% of the time

Tyk vs Apigee

Compared 2% of the time

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Amazon API Gateway vs Microsoft Azure API Management

Compared 52% of the time

IBM API Connect vs Microsoft Azure API Management

Compared 5% of the time

Kong Gateway Enterprise vs Microsoft Azure API Management

Compared 4% of the time

MuleSoft API Manager vs Microsoft Azure API Management

Compared 4% of the time

WSO2 API Manager vs Microsoft Azure API Management

Compared 3% of the time

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Layer7 API Management vs TIBCO Cloud API Management

Compared 23% of the time

MuleSoft API Manager vs TIBCO Cloud API Management

Compared 11% of the time

Kong Gateway Enterprise vs TIBCO Cloud API Management

Compared 9% of the time

Amazon API Gateway vs TIBCO Cloud API Management

Compared 8% of the time

IBM API Connect vs TIBCO Cloud API Management

Compared 5% of the time

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Mashery API Management

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.”

Google

Microsoft Azure API Management is essential for managing APIs, facilitating integration, and ensuring secure internal and external communication.

Organizations leverage Microsoft Azure API Management for seamless integration and effective API management. It supports microservices, legacy modernization, and platform orchestration in sectors like healthcare, telecom, and finance. Features such as developer portals and centralized libraries simplify usage. While it showcases strengths in hybrid cloud support and scalability, improvements are suggested in versioning and multi-tenancy.

What key features does it offer?

Integration with Microsoft services ensures robust access control and user-friendly deployment.
Developer portal and documentation improve usability and learning.
Hybrid cloud support offers seamless on-premise connectivity.
Scalability and security features are well-regarded.
Centralized API library simplifies management.

What benefits or ROI should users consider?

Facilitates API lifecycle management enhancing user experience.
Simplifies authentication and subscription models.
Enhances data exchange and real-time monitoring.
Streamlines API mapping and orchestration across platforms.
Promotes flexibility and transparency in system integration.

Microsoft Azure API Management aids modernization across healthcare, telecom, and financial services by enabling legacy system updates and facilitating smooth platform orchestration.

Microsoft

APIs are critical business assets that form the foundation of digital business enabling new business models, improved operational efficiency, and connected customer experiences. TIBCO Cloud API Management empowers users to maximize the business value of their APIs products through an end-to-end solution that provides full lifecycle API management alongside capabilities for API discovery, implementation and analytics that speed business value realization across your digital ecosystem.

TIBCO

Sample Customers

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

adnymics GmbH, LG CNS, Centrebet, netfabb GmbH, MedPlast, Accelera Solutions, Sochi Organizing Committee, realzeit GmbH, Opensistemas

uShip, Sabre, TouchTunes, Best Buy, Cisco, Comcast, athenahealth, Coca-Cola Enterprises, CentralIndex.com, Constant Contact, Edmunds.com, FoodEssentials, Getty Images, Klout, Rovi, Rotten Tomatoes, Sportradar, TomTom, ACTIVE.com

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