We performed a comparison between Layer7 API Management and Postman based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two API Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The solution fills our two most important concerns in seeking an API solution by providing a reliable gateway and security options."
"The level of technical support is good."
"Every API that we get from external or from internal goes through this layer first, and it should not be a bottleneck. That was the problem we had before. Now it's no longer a bottleneck. It's more like a throughput, this process is less than 10 milliseconds for any particular API."
"Compared to other vendors, this product is much faster in coming up with new features, which is good."
"We can get more visibility into our data."
"The product documentation helps the client and/or user to evolve quickly while using the tool."
"For developers to be able to come, sign up, or find APIs."
"The most valuable feature is that it enables me to present data in the format that the client wants to consume it. That client might be a visualization tool, that client might be a report, that client might be a customer's API requirements."
"We use it for REST API testing. Feature-wise, it is pretty lightweight. It is pretty fast, and we don't have to do a lot of things. We can just simply go and post our endpoint, and it gives different kinds of authorizations. We usually use authentication 2.0, which is the most common industry practice. So, it has the support for authorization through 2.0."
"The most valuable features of the solution are that it is easy to use and user-friendly."
"The environment variables are a valuable feature because I can easily switch them and see all the developments in different cycles and stages."
"Postman uses the DRY framework of JavaScript and that framework is easy and a good way to put assertions on responses."
"Good at simulating the API code from a fictitious client application to check API behavior."
"The most valuable feature is that JavaScript can be included as tests."
"It is nice to have different workspaces. You have your personal workspace, and then you have a team workspace. In general, I like its UI. It is quite cool."
"The tool is simple and easy."
"From the last version, they have added more dashboard support, but there is still a lot they need to improve. In terms of monitoring, it's almost all covered. The interface can be improved, though."
"The cloud-native architecture of the product needs improvement."
"More developer focused tools. They have a nice debugger inside of the program, but when you are developing code with their policies, it is tough to visualize that sometimes as a developer."
"As the number of instances increases, its complexity of installation increases if you do not use the OVA."
"Layer7 API Management could have a live API creator feature, so my team can easily create APIs. Right now, the product doesn't have that feature."
"On the monitoring side, we need a better way to monitor it. CA has not given a clear understanding of what external tools we can use to do this."
"Some problems with response time."
"Provide complete documentation with examples of usage on its build in assertion/function."
"If there is any way to have a record and playback feature through UI, as we do in Selenium and IDEs such as Eclipse, it would be great."
"If we have a certain build on one machine it won't work with another build even if we are using the same URL. It would give us a connection refuse. So developing environment compatibility would make it better."
"The solution can be improved by providing detailed error logs including the line the error took place to make it easier to correct."
"If they could implement auto-validations and assertions from SoapUI, that would be a very good feature."
"Postman quality assurance could improve when doing tests."
"I have recently noticed that, for some reason, I am not able to import collections in JSON. It is weird because I was able to do it before. When you create a new collection and documentation, in tests, you usually have to click Save. If you don't click Save, your collections don't sync with other devices, which is something I don't like. It is not clear for the users in a shared workspace, and I usually forget to click Save and end up losing all the collections that I created. I create a lot of routes, and clicking Save all the time isn't efficient. Instead of clicking Save all the time, there should be an option to save everything in one go."
"We do the implementation of Postman and give support. We had to use two engineers for the implementation, one senior and one junior for the process."
"The performance needs to be improved."
Layer7 API Management is ranked 10th in API Management with 109 reviews while Postman is ranked 9th in API Management with 52 reviews. Layer7 API Management is rated 8.4, while Postman is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Layer7 API Management writes "Has great drag-and-drop features and it requires minimal coding ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Postman writes "Reliable and easy to expand with a helpful API network". Layer7 API Management is most compared with Apigee, Kong Gateway Enterprise, Amazon API Gateway, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager and Microsoft Azure API Management, whereas Postman is most compared with Apache JMeter, ReadyAPI Test, Tricentis Tosca, Katalon Studio and Apigee. See our Layer7 API Management vs. Postman report.
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