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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 Tyk is 1.8%, down from 2.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

API Management Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Apigee	7.0%
MuleSoft API Manager	4.2%
Tyk	1.8%
Other	87.0%

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Imtiyaz M

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.

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D.Rajesh Kumar

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.

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reviewer2113719

Technical Support Analyst at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

Internal API gateway has improved security frameworks and now provides unified API visibility

The best features Tyk offers are highly customizable options, effective traffic management, and security, making it easy to configure and use. The customizability of Tyk is evident in our validation of the token—specifically with our internal identity and access management. There were challenges on the network side and in managing token validity and the public key, but Tyk allowed us to configure these aspects effectively. I believe those are the standard out-of-the-box capabilities provided by Tyk that we are using, particularly regarding traffic management and security. Tyk has positively impacted my organization by providing standard API management capabilities, such as a single view for all APIs, discoverability, and role-based access control for overseeing who can see which APIs.

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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's customer support is excellent."

"The customer service and support are cooperative and effective in providing insights and solutions during challenges."

"It is scalable."

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

"I'm still evaluating, but in terms of overall performance and stability, it's quite good."

"The opportunity for customization is really vast and it is a really good feature built into the product."

"Implementation success would depend on having a good API architecture and design, using analytics, and following best practices of the lifecycle management provided by tool."

"The pricing is okay."

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"The documentation is great; it is always up to date and well-presented."

"Its best feature is that its plugins are somewhat unique in the market. We have budgets, Prime membership, and pre-plugins available in the marketplace that we can use immediately."

"It can create high-cost solutions, allowing for a great deal of customization to make it well-suited for specific needs."

"As a B2B2C company, our goal is to provide a clean interface to our systems, and with Anypoint API Manager we have been able to quickly develop a standard API gateway while reusing most of the components to build a custom API solution for our key client."

"I like the approach of MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager and the kind of integration and flexibility it offers."

"It provides various advantages in the integration field, including support for Azure services and cloud integrations."

"Mulesoft Anypoint API Manager's most valuable aspect is it has plenty of features."

"The most valuable features of the solution for securing APIs stem from the tool's ability to allow users to deploy policies."

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"Other than the limitations with the cloud version everything else is fantastic."

"You can set up workflows and write limited pieces of logic."

"The most valuable feature is the load balancing with the circuit-breaker function."

"It is a good product for API management."

"Our customers are happy with the features and performance, and I have not heard any complaints with respect to technical support."

"The portal for developers that this solution provides has great functionality."

"Tyk looked like a good product."

"The feature I find most valuable is that this solution allows us to manage our security, I like that it is open-source and that we can expand it in the future, and we also have all the functionalities to manage our APIs."

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Cons

"Support of integration is what is most challenging in Apigee, as well as the complexity of the components."

"Unlike WSA, Apigee does not have a partnership model, something which makes it a bit easier for companies such as ours to go with the former solution."

"The pricing of the solution could be improved upon. We'd like it if it was less costly."

"Apigee is costlier compared to other solutions. For government organizations, especially those that do not want cloud-based solutions and prefer on-premise implementations, we recommend WSO2 due to its cost-effectiveness and suitability for private cloud environments."

"I think the portal could offer a better user experience. It's functional and does what it's supposed to but it's not user friendly."

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

"When compared with other products and tools in the market like MuleSoft or other API management solutions, I see some lagging in regards to integration capacity — where we don't have all of the connectors."

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

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"We find that the enterprise level is lacking scalability."

"The initial setup is very complex."

"To improve Anypoint API Manager for the next release, it should focus on better consumption scalability, especially for smaller APIs."

"Their analytics needs a lot of improvement. It's really lacking right now."

"The cost for using MuleSoft is approximately $500,000 USD per year. It includes various subscriptions like the signature success plan and platinum subscriptions, making it a costly infrastructure."

"When compared to other integration technologies, it is slightly higher."

"They should develop on MuleSoft as it would be a good way of improving API monetization."

"The cost model could be improved."

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"In terms of our usage, the main area of concern is that they tend to build enhancements slightly ahead of the considerations for what those enhancements and extensions are. So it could be slightly better communication with the customer base that would be my main issue with them."

"I would like to see some additional features like having some extensions for .NET core because we use it for our back-end language."

"We would like a better tool for generating documentation for the APIs to be developed."

"We ran it for a while, but then we decided to move away from Tyk, because Tyk's cloud version, the SaaS version, has a significant limitation of limited flexibility, so you can't program very much."

"Compared to Apigee or Kong, I find they excel beyond Tyk, which is the reason for my score."

"Sometimes when new features are released, they are not immediately stable."

"It is a young product and does not have the kind of brand recognition that would make it a more popular solution with our clients."

Pricing and Cost Advice

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

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

"Apigee has several different licenses you can obtain depending on your needs."

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

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

"It was fairly expensive. I don't know what the standard pricing is. I want to say that it's something like $80,000 for 800 million requests (approximately) a year."

"The solution’s pricing could be more competitive."

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

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"I'm unsure about licensing costs because I'm not the person who handles this. But, ballpark, it's probably somewhere around $300,000-$400,000 or something like that."

"I think that it is pretty expensive."

"If one is cheap and ten is expensive, I rate the product price as six and a half to seven."

"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."

"Licensing fees are paid on a yearly basis."

"The price of Mulesoft Anypoint API Manager is very high."

"The pricing for this solution is cheaper than GCP and Bluemix."

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"It had a free version, which suited many of our needs, but not all, but we were happy to go ahead with the licensed version as well, which is the paid version."

"The price is low compared to other products of a similar type."

"We are using the open-source version of this product, so there are no licensing costs for its use."

"The cost curve is far smoother, both in terms of volume and the number of calls it's running on, compared to most competitors. So it's a tad more expensive at the very low end, but the curve is nothing like Apigee or some of the others."

"There are different versions and plans available depending on the requirements, so there is flexibility in terms of the pricing."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

19%

Computer Software Company

Manufacturing Company

Insurance Company

Financial Services Firm

15%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Computer Software Company

Government

Financial Services Firm

20%

Computer Software Company

Comms Service Provider

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	20
Midsize Enterprise	9
Large Enterprise	66

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	17
Midsize Enterprise	5
Large Enterprise	44

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	5
Large Enterprise	2

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 Tyk?

Tyk can improve in terms of AI capabilities, and the developer portal could benefit from enhancements such as user on...

What is your primary use case for Tyk?

My main use case for Tyk is for internal API gateway. For a banking customer, I have internal APIs and external APIs,...

What advice do you have for others considering Tyk?

While we could not quantify any commercial improvement, developer experience has definitely improved. I would rate Ty...

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Overview

Apigee offers API management, analytics, and developer portals with robust security, scalability, and flexibility. Its hybrid deployment ensures data privacy, while analytics tools support insightful decision-making, making it suitable for organizations seeking comprehensive API solutions.

Apigee provides a seamless platform for managing APIs, integrating external and internal applications. It serves as an API gateway, featuring robust security and scalability, supporting OAuth and rate-limiting policies. Organizations appreciate its ease of use, integration capabilities, and documented resources. The hybrid deployment model ensures private data remains on-premise, while the orchestration layer increases security. With a drag-and-drop interface and customization options, policy management becomes straightforward. Its analytics and monitoring tools offer insights into traffic patterns and API performance. However, users desire improvements in role-based access, code versioning integration, and traffic handling. Suggestions include enhanced security, support, automation, and a more flexible pricing model.

What are Apigee's Key Features?

API Management: Simplifies API exposure and manages internal and external APIs efficiently.
Analytics: Provides insights into traffic patterns and API performance for informed decision-making.
Security: Enforces OAuth, rate-limiting, and other protocols to secure data.
Developer Portals: Supports developer onboarding with comprehensive tools and documentation.
Hybrid Deployment: Ensures data privacy by keeping sensitive information on-premise.

What Benefits Can Organizations Gain from Apigee?

Ease of Use: Streamlined integration and policy management with a drag-and-drop interface.
Scalability: Adapts to increase in traffic and ensures performance consistency.
Flexibility: Offers customizable options to suit unique API management needs.
Comprehensive Insights: Analytics tools for monitoring API performance and user engagement.

In industries like finance, healthcare, and telecommunications, Apigee is extensively used for developing proxies, implementing security protocols, and managing APIs. Organizations leverage its capabilities to facilitate seamless API interactions, fostering developer onboarding and API customization. The platform supports API gateways for enhanced security, scalability, and insights, proving crucial for managing extensive application networks.

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MuleSoft API Manager offers a user-friendly platform with comprehensive integration capabilities, strong security, and scalable architecture. It's designed to streamline API management and development processes through robust analytics and a rich interface.

MuleSoft API Manager stands out with its lightweight design, offering extensive connector libraries and ease of applying policies via drag-and-drop functionality. Its robust analytics enhance operational efficiency. Users can implement custom policies, benefit from advanced integration needs like OAuth authentication, and manage extensive API inventories. While facing challenges like high costs and complex upgrades, MuleSoft API Manager is vital for managing APIs across sectors, supporting data exchange between systems such as SAP and Salesforce, and modernizing legacy systems.

What are the standout features of MuleSoft API Manager?

Lightweight Design: Ensures easy deployment and usability.
Robust API Management: Provides strong capability in handling API processes.
Strong Security: Offers extensive protection for API applications.
Scalable Architecture: Supports growth and adaptation to changing needs.
Comprehensive Integration Options: Facilitates seamless data exchange.
Extensive Library of Connectors: Enhances flexibility and connectivity.
Ease of Applying Policies: Simplifies management with intuitive drag-and-drop functions.
Robust Analytics: Aids in monitoring and operational efficiency.
Custom Policies: Supports advanced integration with OAuth authentication.

What benefits and ROI should reviewers consider?

Usability: Promotes ease of use for technical teams.
Integration Efficiency: Accelerates connections to essential systems.
Security: Ensures data integrity and protection.
Scalability: Provides potential for growing business needs.
Policy Management: Simplifies and enforces compliance across APIs.

MuleSoft API Manager is widely implemented in sectors seeking to integrate services like SAP and Salesforce quickly and securely. Its use in automating processes and enhancing API governance makes it a go-to API gateway. Organizations rely on it to modernize systems and manage interconnectivity, facilitating traffic control and robust policy management.

Salesforce

Tyk provides customizable API management solutions with strong security and traffic management features, appealing to technological enterprises. Its open-source nature ensures adaptability, while competitive pricing supports scalability across multiple industries.

Enterprises value Tyk for its flexibility and integration capabilities. Known for robust security and effective traffic control, it offers a unified API view and ensures seamless API integration within various ecosystems. Tyk is deployed both on-premises and in cloud settings, commonly on Kubernetes, to support financial institutions and other industries requiring secure and scalable microservices management. With an easy-to-use dashboard and developer portal, Tyk guarantees role-based access and smooth API discoverability, enhancing the internal identity management process.

What are Tyk's key features?

Highly Customizable Options: Tailor API management settings to fit specific organizational requirements.
Traffic Management: Efficiently handle API calls to maintain optimal performance.
Robust Security: Protects API endpoints from unauthorized access.
API Versioning: Manage different API iterations with ease.
Open-Source Nature: Allows for community-developed extensions and improvements.
Gateway Handling: Ensures secure and efficient message routing.
Developer Portal: Simplifies API management and developer collaboration.

What benefits should users look for in reviews?

Ease of Use: Intuitive interface aiding swift learning curves.
Integration Capabilities: Seamless operation alongside existing systems.
Scalability: Supports growth phases without significant additional costs.
Role-Based Access: Enhanced security and management customization.

Commonly implemented in financial and banking sectors, Tyk acts as an internal API gateway on public clouds, enabling seamless integration of new technologies with legacy systems. It manages customer-interface microservices, efficiently scales API usage, and is vital for organizations handling medium to high API call volumes. In these industries, Tyk is strategically used to fortify security frameworks and provide scalable solutions for evolving technological landscapes.