We performed a comparison between Apigee vs IBM API Connect based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Apigee has an edge in this comparison because it received higher marks than IBM API Connect in the ease of deployment and support categories.
"The most valuable feature of Apigee is its simplicity of deploying an API and restricting access, like rate limit, with the API."
"The most valuable feature of the current version of Apigee, such as Apigee Edge, is that the maintenance and scalability of the service are not our responsibility. As a SaaS platform, Google takes care of it, ensuring the system is stable. Another valuable feature is the ability to customize the platform extensively. We can add JavaScript functionality to cater to any use case that is not available out of the box."
"Apigee provides out-of-the-box policies, so it is ready to use with minimal configuration to those policies. You can govern your API and manage the life cycle of the API completely with the Apigee tool."
"It is a stable solution...It is a scalable solution."
"It has all the features necessary to work in anything from a basic scenario to advanced applications."
"It's stable."
"The security provided by the solution is excellent."
"The ability to convert from language to language using a single tool."
"One of the most valuable features of this solution is that it protects our backend system. We are exposing services to external parties and using this solution to protect the backend system, and to have a navigation in between."
"It is a very scalable solution."
"The ability for all of our web applications to share standard functions and documents easily is valuable."
"The most valuable features are stability and security."
"We are able to share those APIs instantly within the organization; even if we want to share it outside publicly, then we can have those capabilities."
"The most valuable feature for me is the ability to distribute work among our API developers, so we don't have to do all the work as IBM API Connect administrators and IBM DataPower administrators."
"It has all of the tools that are needed for the specific mission."
"The statistics component is easy to use."
"I am still struggling to understand how we can use Apigee as a hybrid system. The pricing of this solution could also be improved as there are multiple new products coming onto the market at competitive price points."
"Apigee could improve by integrating with more identity providers and offering a default authentication module."
"What my clients don't like is that the on-premises solution is not being treated and maintained as well as the cloud solution."
"The integration could be improved within the solution. There is a need to pay more attention to this."
"The entire user across all the layers should be singly authenticated through an external authentication system."
"Apigee is demanding on the infrastructure so the setup cost is very high for an on-premises deployment."
"The user interface could be better. It could be easier to navigate and more user-friendly."
"We are experiencing some performance issues."
"IBM info-center help documentation also needs improvement. Competitive product like Apigee provide out of the box policies to run Javascript, JAVA and better/flexible logging policies."
"IBM API Connect could improve the security of the application and the integration."
"We've had some issues upgrading to the latest version of the solution."
"The design time setup has a lot of customizable fields, but we need certain standard fields to be added, such as what all of the consuming systems are. This needs to be very clearly articulated during the design time."
"Business applications could be exposed to users."
"The installation was difficult with the IBM toolkit."
"Extracting the data could be improved."
"There is room for improvement regarding the connectivity of the DevOps."
Apigee is ranked 2nd in API Management with 82 reviews while IBM API Connect is ranked 5th in API Management with 73 reviews. Apigee is rated 8.2, while IBM API Connect is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Apigee writes "Has a robust community and outstanding performance". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM API Connect writes "Offers basic API orchestration and provides robust security and governance features". Apigee is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, WSO2 API Manager, Amazon API Gateway, Layer7 API Management and MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, whereas IBM API Connect is most compared with IBM DataPower Gateway, Microsoft Azure API Management, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, Amazon API Gateway and 3scale API Management. See our Apigee vs. IBM API Connect report.
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Of those three: MuleSoft Anypoint. But, cost-friendly is another term, I would choose a different solution. We are happy with Gravitee.