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Apigee vs MuleSoft API Manager vs SwaggerHub comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

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

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2026, in the API Management category, the mindshare of Apigee is 7.0%, down from 13.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of MuleSoft API Manager is 4.2%, down from 4.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SwaggerHub is 1.7%, up from 1.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
API Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Apigee7.0%
MuleSoft API Manager4.2%
SwaggerHub1.7%
Other87.1%
API Management
 

Featured Reviews

IM
consultant at Allstate
Apigee empowers effective API management while needing improvements in technical support
There is room for improvement with Apigee as OPDK private cloud enhancements have stopped, focusing only on Apigee hybrid and Apigee X, with Google no longer adding new features to OPDK private cloud. I am not currently utilizing AI in the private cloud with Apigee, but I'm unsure about hybrid and Apigee X.
D.Rajesh Kumar - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Architect at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
Improved Integration Efficiency and Potential for Further Enhancements in Monitoring and User Experience
The policies in MuleSoft API Manager are significant features. We get the policies by default, with more than 25 out-of-the-box policies. If any additional requirement exists specific to the customer, there is a custom policy framework. We can build the policy according to our requirement, and deploy and enable it at the API Manager level to consume across different business groups, environments, or organizations altogether within the platform. Developing the custom policy is not challenging; you just need to follow the custom policy framework to implement. The custom policy and the different levels of SLAs of the API Manager are notable. Regarding the monitoring side of the API Manager, MuleSoft provides substantial monitoring with logs, offering search capability, raw data accessibility, and different subscriptions. With the top tier, integration with third-party platforms such as ELK or Splunk becomes unnecessary because all search capabilities, dashboards, and functional monitoring can be built within the platform itself. This is excellent from the monitoring perspective, and there have been recent improvements focusing on observability. For DevOps, if you want to make your continuous integration and continuous deployment effective, irrespective of the tool, there are options to integrate. For example, you can use the Maven plugin, platform APIs, or CLI to build your end-to-end DevOps cycle.
Manish Indupuri - PeerSpot reviewer
senior DevOps engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Has streamlined API documentation and integration workflows across cross-functional teams
Documenting SwaggerHub has a standard and consistent structure of API definitions, and it automatically generates interactive documentation which helps the developers to understand everything. There are certain areas where SwaggerHub can go beyond here as formatting options for documentation pages are restricted, and the import and export options of API collections are complex in SwaggerHub. It provides various collaboration tools where we can work and do it. The strong validation against the API maintains conformity and reduces errors. That part is very great in SwaggerHub. Overall, scalability and stability-wise, it varies high compared to the competitors, but there are still certain areas where competitors are providing various customizations. SwaggerHub can understand those aspects and implement them as well. The complex import and export of API calls and collaborations can be challenging in SwaggerHub. If they can make it easier for us, that would be great. Their performance is degraded if there is too much load on the API. The customization and doc formatting options for documentation pages are restricted in SwaggerHub. A few of my teammates have complained that they find the UI unintuitive where it requires multiple clicks for simple tasks. SwaggerHub is a great tool, but these limitations can be addressed to make things better and easier.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The usability is one of the best aspects of the product and it is broadly used in different functional areas, almost in all the contexts that we have."
"Great flexibility with its features."
"Apigee has proven to be one of the best of the breed."
"We have been using Apigee mostly for proxy FGIs. We also use its security features as well as traffic control features."
"Items around the mobilization of the API interface and the ability to automate validations for our APIs are the most valuable aspects."
"I would definitely recommend this product over any other products available in the market in this category."
"I'm confident in the stability of the solution, as it is very reliable and has good performance."
"We use it to build API proxies for securing targeted back-ends with an emphasis on Continuous Integration/Continuous Development (CI/CD)."
"I believe the API connectivity within the cloud marketplace is most valuable."
"The developer portal is easy to integrate. It is easy to use, easy to integrate, and I like the developer portal."
"The most valuable feature of Mulesoft Anypoint API Manager is the gateway that is provided."
"My primary use case is investigating the pros and cons of different platforms for the benefit of the application lifecycle."
"There are a lot of products available on the market, Mulesoft is very good, it's an amazing product, no doubt about it, there's quality in the standard version, and the acumen and the technology are very good."
"Technical support has been helpful."
"The gateway service to ingress the traffic is great."
"It is a good management tool for controlling purposes."
"You can click & play and add the notation in a human-readable form. Spotlight is also very good in the graphical design of APIs."
"The product's initial setup phase was easy and not at all difficult."
"SwaggerHub has significantly improved how my organization designs, documents, and manages APIs, centralizing API management so that all API definitions are stored in one location, which makes it easy for stakeholders, developers, QA, DevOps, and products to access the latest version."
"It is quite a useful tool. It is quite good with the validation of the spec. It works quite well in terms of errors and conformity to the OpenAPI standard. It is better than Visual Studio Code in terms of editing."
"It is a stable solution."
"The tool's most valuable feature is licensing."
"The scalability is endless."
"One of the best features of SwaggerHub is how it allows me to create APIs and control the evolution of APIs within an organization."
 

Cons

"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."
"There should be an integrated continuous integration and continuous deployment approach with Apigee. Currently, for development at a more integrated level, you have set it up yourself."
"Pricing is an area that can be improved, as it is a little on the higher side."
"The Apigee cloud admin UI could be more user-friendly by adding a few more features."
"Integration should be improved."
"The cost of the solution is quite high."
"The number one area this solution could be improved is by implementing support. Support is not a part of this solution."
"The initial setup is not straightforward, particularly for hybrid solutions."
"With respect to the live help, I have language issues because I can't understand some of the things that I hear."
"The log management for this solution needs improvement."
"Mulesoft Anypoint API Manager does not have out-of-the-box scalability and it is not something that you can receive readily."
"The solution could be improved in educational and onboarding areas."
"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."
"An area for improvement in MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager is the process of applying policies because it's manual. It would be great if MuleSoft could make the process easier, particularly by automating it."
"The initial setup is complex compared to solutions such as Kong or Tyk."
"Anypoint could be improved by making it more open and configurable for small companies, who tend not to consider the solution as it's expensive and requires a lot of costs upfront."
"More integration and usability with the cloud microservices would be nice."
"SwaggerHub's UI needs to be improved as it looks very old school."
"The review process should be improved. There seem to be some gaps, at least for us, for the editing part because we would like to have a full request review mechanism. They support some comments, but it is really hard to manage those comments. We would like to use the full request. Therefore, we are now looking to integrate with repositories. It has integration with Bitbucket and GitHub, but we have some internal constraints, and we need to move some of the repositories to GitHub. Our source code is on-premise in Bitbucket, and it was a bit of a problem for us to integrate. Now we are transitioning our repositories to GitHub, and hopefully, we can enable the integration. This will probably solve the problem with the review and approval. Its customization should also be improved. There are limitations around the support for the developer portal. There should be more customization options for the website that you can use as a developer portal. Currently, it has only Swagger UI with minimal customization. You cannot actually add additional pages and documentation for explaining concepts and general things. That's why we have started to look around to see what other tools are doing. They should also allow tagging on the API. We would like to add some tagging on the API to reflect certain things. Currently, any metadata that you would like to have has to be a part of the spec. You cannot do anything else. It should also have support for Open API 3.1, which was released at the beginning of the year. It would be great to be able to switch to that."
"SwaggerHub can be improved since the API testing features are limited compared to Postman, and it is somewhat expensive for small teams as paid plans cost a lot."
"One of the most difficult things about SwaggerHub is the user interface and its usability, as it can feel quite complex and require too many clicks for simple actions."
"The review process should be improved. There seem to be some gaps, at least for us, for the editing part because we would like to have a full request review mechanism."
"In SwaggerHub, I appreciate that it is a powerful platform for API design and collaboration, but currently, the access control is somewhat limited."
"It has limited functionality...Unfortunately, some of its features are not what we need."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Apigee is slightly expensive, but again, it can depend on the type of usage. All things considered, it is slightly expensive."
"Compared to other products, Apigee had higher pricing."
"Apigee is a pretty expensive solution."
"Apigee has several different licenses you can obtain depending on your needs."
"Pricing options need to be chosen on a case-by-case basis."
"The cost increases as the usage increases."
"It is not suited for small companies. It's expensive."
"As most of the customers say, the tool is a bit expensive."
"Anypoint is the most expensive solution on the market, as far as I know, though it's also the most capable."
"It's not very expensive, reasonably priced. There are no additional costs."
"Licensing fees are paid on a yearly basis."
"MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager is an expensive solution."
"The licensing fees are approximately $80,000 USD per year and there are costs for additional functionality, as well as premiums for connectors to systems such as Oracle and SAP."
"When it comes to determining price, the pre-sales team interacts with the customer's primary integration team and the price is negotiated based on the specific usage of the system."
"The pricing for this solution is cheaper than GCP and Bluemix."
"Our customers have a lot of concerns about the increased pricing. The customer feels MuleSoft is very costly, and they are also exploring other integration tools for a lesser price. Maybe we should retain the existing customers by offering some discounts. At least the existing customers can be retained this way. This is regarding the licensing part only because customers based out of North America and Europe have shown many concerns recently. They are a bit concerned about pricing."
"The tool is cheap."
"It has a yearly subscription, but I am not sure."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
19%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Computer Software Company
9%
Insurance Company
6%
Financial Services Firm
15%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Computer Software Company
9%
Government
6%
Financial Services Firm
14%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Computer Software Company
9%
Healthcare Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business20
Midsize Enterprise9
Large Enterprise66
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business17
Midsize Enterprise5
Large Enterprise44
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business4
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise9
 

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...
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...
What needs improvement with Apigee?
There is room for improvement with Apigee as OPDK private cloud enhancements have stopped, focusing only on Apigee hy...
How does Kong Enterprise compare with Mulesoft Anypoint API Manager?
The Mulesoft Anypoint API Manager was designed with its users in mind. Though it is a reasonably complex piece of sof...
How does Mulesoft Anypoint API Manager compare with Amazon API Gateway?
I have found that Mulesoft Anypoint API Manager is the best integration tool out there for API management. It is easy...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Mulesoft Anypoint API Manager?
When it comes to pricing, I find it always expensive. The pricing is high, which is the biggest point where some cust...
What needs improvement with SwaggerHub?
SwaggerHub can be improved since the API testing features are limited compared to Postman, and it is somewhat expensi...
What is your primary use case for SwaggerHub?
My main use case for SwaggerHub is to design and review API specifications, as I test endpoints with the help of Swag...
What advice do you have for others considering SwaggerHub?
Before using SwaggerHub, I advise having basic API knowledge, as those with API knowledge can easily use SwaggerHub. ...
 

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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
Coca-Cola, Splunk, Citrix, UCSF, Vertu, State of Colorado, National Post, TiVo, Deakin, LLS, Oldcastle Precast, ParcelPoint, Justice Systems, Ube, Sumitomo Corporation, PacificComp, University of Witwatersrand, Groupe Initiatives, Camelot, Panviva
Sonic, Zuora, Woolworths, CrowdFlower
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