Apigee vs TIBCO Cloud API Management comparison

Google and TIBCO are both solutions in the API Management category. Google is ranked #3 with an average rating of 8.2, while TIBCO is ranked #27 with an average rating of 7.5. Google holds a 11.1% mindshare in APIM, compared to TIBCO’s 1.0% mindshare. Additionally, 92% of Google users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 86% of TIBCO users who would recommend it.

Apigee

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TIBCO Cloud API Management

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86% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 17, 2024

TIBCO Cloud API Management and Apigee compete in the API management category. Apigee has an advantage with its comprehensive feature set, making it ideal for buyers focused on functionality, while TIBCO offers better pricing and support features, appealing to budget-sensitive users.

Features: TIBCO Cloud API Management includes straightforward integration, strong security features, and ease of use. Apigee offers a wide range of features like advanced analytics and extensive developer support, making it suitable for organizations that require a robust set of tools for API management. Apigee also offers monetization features, a developer portal, and flexible deployment models.

Room for Improvement: TIBCO could improve by expanding its feature set and customization options, increasing stability within its containerized setup, and providing more detailed documentation. Apigee could benefit from a more streamlined deployment process, reducing complexity for new users, enhancing ease of use further, and focusing on the affordability of its extensive feature offerings.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: TIBCO Cloud API Management offers a smooth deployment and robust customer support, making it suitable for organizations with limited resources. Apigee provides extensive support and documentation and offers flexibility for complex environments, which aligns well with its comprehensive feature set.

Pricing and ROI: TIBCO Cloud API Management is cost-effective, especially for small to medium-sized businesses, offering favorable ROI aligned with its pricing structure. Apigee, with higher setup costs, offers a superior ROI for large enterprises needing a comprehensive API management solution due to its extensive feature set and performance capabilities.

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Categories and Ranking

Apigee

Ranking in API Management

3rd

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

API Testing Tools (8th)

TIBCO Cloud API Management

Ranking in API Management

27th

Average Rating

7.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

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 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 (%)
Apigee	11.1%
TIBCO Cloud API Management	1.0%
Other	87.9%

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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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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

"The usability is one of the best aspects of the product."

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

"Apigee is relatively easy to use for developers."

"I have found the most valuable features to be tracing a proxy, and managing proxy versions and revisions via the Edge UI component."

"Apigee is a strong-featured solution. It leads in Gartner Quadrant ratings and it is a full-slated API solution that has the features that an API gateway requires."

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

"Apigee is very easy to use, and you can code in any language."

"It is easy to deploy, configure, and monitor the APA."

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"The reason why we selected the solution originally was because of its ability to have a gateway both on-premise and in the cloud. This is the most valuable aspect of the solution for us."

"When we did the product evaluation, we saw that TIBCO Mashery offers end-to-end API life cycle management. It provides all API features that are required for managing the complete life cycle. It includes the developer portal and tools for API monitorization. The out-of-box security features that TIBCO Mashery provides are enterprise-grade, which gives it an edge over other API products."

"It is easy to work with ."

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

"TIBCO Cloud API Management has brought numerous benefits for our organization, especially in product maturity and support."

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

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Cons

"Apigee does not have a testing feature."

"I would like to see the monitoring, dashboards, and reports improve."

"The initial setup is not straightforward, particularly for hybrid solutions."

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

"Google isn't enthusiastic about supporting older versions. Google is now trying to move all of its clients to X within the cloud."

"Apigee's user interface could be more straightforward and have more options. Also, it would be nice if it were ready to work out of the box without so much configuration."

"I would like to see the support improved. I think the time frame should be shorter for responses when it comes to technical support. This is not the ideal situation you want to be in when you need support."

"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."

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"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."

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

"The security needs improvement, specifically, propagation of security to an API. Calling other APIs is something that is missing in the product and that makes us think about going to a competitor."

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

"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."

"There are some areas for improvement in TIBCO Cloud API Management, especially regarding network protocols such as SMPP, SMTP, GVI, SVI, and Diameter which could show performance issues in terms of handling and connection management pooling efficiency."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"My clients pay for a license."

"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."

"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 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."

"It is not suited for small companies. It's expensive."

"Since it was acquired by Google, we can get a license based on our requirements and the cost level will depend on cloud access and support."

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

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

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

"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."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

21%

Computer Software Company

11%

Manufacturing Company

Insurance Company

Financial Services Firm

15%

Computer Software Company

13%

Retailer

Government

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	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 cloud-based solution. Both solutions are easy to use. Apigee allows for the ability...

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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 can support thousands of simultaneous API calls, and it provides monitoring, ma...

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What do you like most about Apigee?

We can customize the dashboard.

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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 refresh, throttling, and enforcement of payloads.

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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 licensing cost.

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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 SMPP, SMTP, GVI, SVI, and Diameter which could show performance issues in terms of...

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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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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.

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Sample Customers

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