We performed a comparison between Apigee and MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Apigee has a slight edge in this comparison. Apigee is easy to deploy and received high marks for its analytics features. Some MuleSoft Anypoint users say that its deployment can be complex and that it needs better analytics tools.
"Apigee has better scalability than WSA."
"It's a good return on my investment."
"This is a front-layer gateway that helps to improve our overall performance."
"Apigee's best features are flexibility and breadth of capabilities."
"Apigee is very easy to use, and you can code in any language."
"It is easy to deploy, configure, and monitor the APA."
"Apigee is relatively easy to use for developers."
"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 most valuable feature is the scalability."
"Anypoint API Manager's most valuable feature is its connectors."
"MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager has the most valuable data components and can integrate APIs across multiple microservices."
"Mulesoft Anypoint API Manager's most valuable aspect is it has plenty of features."
"It can create high-cost solutions, allowing for a great deal of customization to make it well-suited for specific needs."
"It is a good management tool for controlling purposes."
"If you adopt the whole platform, you can build composable applications. This will cut your time creating new applications and updating them – once you have everything running – by up to 50%."
"The solution has been very stable."
"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."
"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."
"They need to work on the cost of the solution."
"The solution could add even more functionalities."
"We've encountered challenges in leveraging Connect functionality, prompting us to explore additional tools, such as Fergus, to address implementation and security issues."
"Drag and drop of features would be more beneficial, rather than manually working on the configuration and updates."
"The solution is pretty expensive."
"The company needs to better support webhooks. It used to support webhooks and their policies and they have since stopped. They had some issues in the product and they abandoned the support for them. It's not come back since."
"The most important thing that should be improved is that it is too heavy."
"When compared to other integration technologies, it is slightly higher."
"The dashboards in Mulesoft Anypoint API Manager could improve."
"The log management for this solution needs improvement."
"Their studio performance is very slow, it requires a lot of memory, and should be improved."
"One improvement is maybe to add a plugin in the API manager. Let's say an organisation is using SOAP services or legacy APIs. Maybe I don't want to migrate it to rest API, but my plugin should be able to convert Jason to XML. Basically, protocol transformation features in API Manager."
"We have issues with the tool's pricing. The product seemed to have most of the features required for the tasks I was working on. I didn't feel the need for additional features. However, one aspect that could be improved is making the platform more user-friendly for non-technical users. While it's not necessarily complex, it does require some familiarity. Unlike open-source tools available online, accessing and using this product may not be as straightforward. It needs to offer training to its users."
"I would like to see more automation. Operations are done manually. It should also automate in the operation."
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Apigee is ranked 2nd in API Management with 82 reviews while MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager is ranked 4th in API Management with 47 reviews. Apigee is rated 8.2, while MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Apigee writes "Has a robust community and outstanding performance". On the other hand, the top reviewer of MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager writes "Responsive technical support, low tickets issued showing great stability, and limitless expansion". Apigee is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, IBM API Connect, Amazon API Gateway, WSO2 API Manager and Layer7 API Management, whereas MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, Amazon API Gateway, Kong Gateway Enterprise, IBM API Connect and Layer7 API Management. See our Apigee vs. MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager report.
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Apigee for sure. Not only do you get the benefit of hybrid and on-prem deployments. As a gov entity, you will face those challenges. Over time you might want to use AWS/Azure clouds so you can migrate it accordingly or just use the PAYG on GCP with all the security Bells and Whistles. https://www.gartner.com/review...
I will choose MuleSoft due to its ease of use, integration extendibility, and product roadmap.
MuleSoft API Management is better because of the following reasons:
* Ease of initial setup & configuration
* Most robust features in API management: oath, throttling, and access levels can be done very easily.
* MuleSoft API-led connectivity & Integration solution (you can extend the API management solution with a flexible integration option). You can very easily extend APIM to integration.
* Very Clear Product roadmap including APIM, RPA and multi-cloud implementation.
The cost of both MuleSoft APIM & APIGEE is similar.
Compared to 3scale, Apigee API Management has a better API gateway for security and traffic management.
Apigee is better for API policy enablement compared to 3scale API Management. Apigee provides better support for GraphQL, OData, OAS2.