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 #2 with an average rating of 8.2, while Microsoft is ranked #1 with an average rating of 7.9. Google holds a 13.7% mindshare in APIM, compared to Microsoft’s 17.9% 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

Read 81 Microsoft Azure API Management reviews

22,700 Views
19,159 Comparison Views

91% willing to recommend

TIBCO Cloud API Management

Read 11 TIBCO Cloud API Management reviews

1,083 Views
953 Comparison Views

85% 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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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the API Management category, the mindshare of Apigee is 13.7%, down from 15.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Microsoft Azure API Management is 17.9%, down from 19.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of TIBCO Cloud API Management is 0.9%, down from 1.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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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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Rajiv Bala Balasubramanian

Specialist PCC at Danfoss

Efficiently manages and monetizes API

It is a scalable solution. You can add more computing power to your APM gateway. It also gives you the ability to have VNet integrations with your on-prem. It is one of the leading products in the API management space. It is not just software for users but software to handle requests. For example, for a B2C e-commerce store, all requests that users make from within the store pass through this API gateway. So it is defined by the number of requests to the API gateway, not by the number of actual users who use it. If you look at the number of requests, it would be a lot from all the different systems we have within Pampers.

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Amitava Roy

Principal Enterprise Architect (Cognizant Digital Business) at Cognizant

Offers pre-built packages for quick and easy onboarding of APIs but configuration is not that easy

The configuration is not that 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. There are certain things where the performance is not that great. When the traffic is huge, we see some lag in performance.

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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

"The solution is stable and reliable."

"It is scalable."

"I like implementing different policies, for example, rate-limiting policy."

"It's a good return on my investment."

"The following features are most valuable: API Management, Analytics, Quota, and the Developer Portal."

"The security provided by the solution is excellent."

"It has a very efficient logging system which is easy to maintain."

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

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"Everything is already available and ready to operate without a lot of preparation work."

"The Azure Active Directory Synchronization is quite good."

"The API management is very good."

"API Management does not take long to deploy."

"There were no scalability issues."

"The solution has significantly improved our organization by providing a user-friendly and easy-to-deploy API management system."

"I like API Management's sandbox feature. It's an environment where you can test out the API before putting it into production and connecting it to a live environment."

"The solution is reliable and very stable."

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

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

"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."

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

"This has provided a new stream of traffic and exposure of our catalogue beyond the normal web store offering."

"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."

"The platform's most valuable features are its capabilities to support security measures such as tokenization, token refresh, throttling, and enforcement of payloads."

"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."

More TIBCO Cloud API Management pros

Cons

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

"I have heard there maybe be some security issues that need to be addressed. If this is the situation I would encourage taking a look at the security matters."

"They need to work on the cost of the solution."

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

"I would like them to add features, such as caching and mediation policies."

"Better functionality for validating inputs and outputs would be helpful."

"GCP is improving the regular version control. There have been some challenges when we talk about the hybrid deployment model. For example, some runtime services' data was available only on the cloud, but financial institutions and other customers have requested more on-site data storage. This is especially important in regions where Google data centers are unavailable, such as certain areas in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East."

"More documentation on the Open Banking Standard will help."

More Apigee cons

"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."

"Technical support could be more helpful and responsive."

"The pricing model needs improvement, as some enterprise features are expensive."

"Expansion to global regions is a point for improvement, as licensing is costly."

"The product's navigation feature needs enhancement."

"The documentation could be improved for the customer."

"Multi-tenant functionalities is missing from the system, especially when it comes to the developer code of features."

"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."

More Microsoft Azure API Management cons

"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."

"I'd like to see TIBCO integrate authentication and security features into Mashery."

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

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

"We observed delays under heavy load conditions, and without proper tuning, changes could take an extended period to filter and become effective."

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

"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."

More TIBCO Cloud API Management cons

Pricing and Cost Advice

"My clients pay for a license."

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

"Pricing options need to be chosen on a case-by-case basis."

"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."

"The product's pricing is fair. You need to pay additional costs for the support."

"The cost of the licensing is based on the number of API calls that are made."

"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."

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

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

"The licensing fees are expensive."

"On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive, I rate the solution's pricing a five out of ten."

"Because of our partner relationship, our pricing is pretty decent. But in general, if I compare pricing, I think the initial offer that we got from Microsoft until the relationship kicked in was more expensive than AWS. There were some unexpected expenses because we had to pause. This was due to our inexperience and because we were doing this significant public cloud migration for the first time. We were using SAP on a public cloud for the first time."

"The solution is highly expensive. Our customers worry about the costs. The price should be a lot less."

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

"Based on the resources that we are leveraging, the price we are paying to use this solution is slightly higher than other competitors. In a few cases, it has its own advantage in some resources."

"It's free for less than ten users. If you want to go beyond that, it's around $3.50 per user per month. If you want a DevOps integration, it's about $7.50 per user per month. Costs depend on the size, complexity, usage, and what facility you want to integrate. So, we use Microsoft Azure and have the entire DevOps and Visual Studio on the cloud. We get all three flavors for $7.50 per user per month."

More Microsoft Azure API Management pricing and cost advice

"Licensing is quite flexible."

"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."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

22%

Computer Software Company

12%

Manufacturing Company

Insurance Company

Financial Services Firm

16%

Computer Software Company

13%

Manufacturing Company

Insurance Company

Computer Software Company

21%

Financial Services Firm

16%

Manufacturing Company

10%

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Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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?

The configuration is not that easy. It's not that user-friendly, and security-wise when you try to implement the secu...

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Comparisons

IBM API Connect vs Apigee

Compared 10% of the time

WSO2 API Manager vs Apigee

Compared 8% of the time

Layer7 API Management vs Apigee

Compared 6% of the time

Amazon API Gateway vs Apigee

Compared 6% of the time

SwaggerHub vs Apigee

Compared 2% of the time

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Amazon API Gateway vs Microsoft Azure API Management

Compared 45% of the time

IBM API Connect vs Microsoft Azure API Management

Compared 6% of the time

Kong Gateway Enterprise vs Microsoft Azure API Management

Compared 5% 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 22% of the time

Kong Gateway Enterprise vs TIBCO Cloud API Management

Compared 12% of the time

Amazon API Gateway vs TIBCO Cloud API Management

Compared 10% of the time

MuleSoft API Manager vs TIBCO Cloud API Management

Compared 10% of the time

webMethods.io vs TIBCO Cloud API Management

Compared 4% of the time

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Apigee

May 2025

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Microsoft Azure API Management

April 2025

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TIBCO Cloud API Management

April 2025

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Azure API Management, MS Azure API Management

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.”

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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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