We performed a comparison between Microsoft Azure API Management and Apigee based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Based on the parameters we compared, Apigee received higher ratings than Microsoft Azure API Management. Although Apigee is the more expensive solution, it comes out on top with more favorable features and good technical support.
"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's best features are flexibility and breadth of capabilities."
"A very functional solution."
"Apigee makes proxy management very simple."
"The capabilities are very powerful."
"Apigee is very easy to use, and you can code in any language."
"We can customize the dashboard."
"I like implementing different policies, for example, rate-limiting policy."
"The solution has overall high performance."
"The package as a whole is useful for our customers."
"There were no scalability issues."
"The most valuable feature is the developer portal, which has source code examples in various programming languages to help developers learn the API."
"It's a very robust tool. So you see that there is a developer portal which can be used by developer or the vendors as well. And other external partners to create keys and manage their own APIs. The other thing is that they have a lot of policies there are too many options within API. So I do the difficult to tell one, but probably I would say, like, proxy sorry. The policies is one of the thing wherein you can just configure the policies and modify the behavior of the APIs."
"The ease of setting up a new solution is the most valuable feature. It's very easy to set up a new solution and to deploy it to production."
"It is easy to use."
"Microsoft Azure API Management is better because it has a DevOps integration by default."
"Sometimes there are glitches, which means there's still room for improvement in the platform."
"The Apigee cloud admin UI could be more user-friendly by adding a few more features."
"The solution could add even more functionalities."
"I would like to see SOAP services and socket-based connectivity developed."
"The entire user across all the layers should be singly authenticated through an external authentication system."
"We've encountered challenges in leveraging Connect functionality, prompting us to explore additional tools, such as Fergus, to address implementation and security issues."
"Role-based access management needs to be improved. It would also be nice if the solution could be integrated with code versioning systems like Git/Bitbucket."
"The solution tends to hide the limitations to keep selling the product."
"I would like to see more integration with other platforms, as well as increased security."
"Could use clearer configuration when it comes to API policies."
"They should improve the inbuilt policies that they have and that should properly create a deployment architecture as well."
"The licensing fees should be cheaper."
"There is always room for improvement. There should be more analytics abilities so you can know how much traffic there is. Log Analyzer isn't well integrated with this solution."
"The product needs to introduce a developer portal."
"The implementation has room for improvement and can be more user-friendly."
"The cloud deployment performance could be better."
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Apigee is ranked 2nd in API Management with 82 reviews while Microsoft Azure API Management is ranked 1st in API Management with 68 reviews. Apigee is rated 8.2, while Microsoft Azure API Management is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Apigee writes "Has a robust community and outstanding performance". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Azure API Management writes "Efficiently manages and monetizes API ". Apigee is most compared with IBM API Connect, Amazon API Gateway, WSO2 API Manager, Layer7 API Management and MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, whereas Microsoft Azure API Management is most compared with Amazon API Gateway, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, Kong Gateway Enterprise, IBM API Connect and WSO2 API Manager. See our Apigee vs. Microsoft Azure API Management report.
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