We performed a comparison between Apigee 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."It is easy to deploy, configure, and monitor the APA."
"Items around the mobilization of the API interface and the ability to automate validations for our APIs are the most valuable aspects."
"Apigee is a great product with good feedback and recommendations from clients."
"Its customer service is good."
"The developer portal is very useful to customers."
"I have found the most valuable features to be tracing a proxy, and managing proxy versions and revisions via the Edge UI component."
"Tracing in Apigee is a very good feature."
"The most valuable features of Apigee for me are analytics, security, ease of use, and integration capabilities."
"It is easy and simple to use and install. It is compatible with Linux, Mac or Windows."
"Postman lets you create, manage, and validate a suite of tests. It has several features to help you organize your test suite. You can also automate stuff with a lot of validations and assertions. Postman supports GraphQL, and you can do various kinds of calls."
"The interface and the different types of API methods you can use are the most valuable aspects of this solution."
"Postman allows you to incorporate and export the test cases we create. It enables me to share the test cases with my colleagues, so I don't have to copy them into an Excel sheet. Postman lets me export the dataset and share it with my team. They can use my test case for their testing."
"Simple to use and you can easily store your projects."
"Postman helps us to automate the API testing in the team."
"The variables part is good. We can easily define the variables and we don't have to manually do a change every time, it gets automatically updated."
"This solution offers a free version."
"We need better performance monitoring."
"I'd like this solution to improve on releasing new features; I'd like it to be more frequent."
"The solution is pretty expensive."
"The analytical aspect of it could be better. I think it is fair if Apigee lets you configure some of the metrics of the key details you want to monitor in terms of analytics."
"In terms of the functionalities of a typical API gateway, Apigee is actually doing its job, but when it involves integration with backend applications, which some gateways have, I don't believe it has this functionality. You have to do Java or do some other low-level coding before you are able to do the integration. Apigee has a lot of components, which means that management will be a bit difficult. It probably has ten different components, and all of these components leverage open-source utilities, such as NGINX. When those open-source vendors upgrade their utility, Apigee usually lags behind because they need to do a lot of tests and any required development in their own platform. They need to do rigorous testing to make sure that nothing breaks. Because of that, it takes them a while to upgrade whatever components have been upgraded by the open-source vendor that owns the utility. We've been chasing them for a particular upgrade for well over a year and a half, and they have not done that upgrade. It is creating a security risk for us as an enterprise, but that upgrade has not been done, even though the open-source vendor, the owner of the utility, has upgraded it a long time ago."
"I would like to see the monitoring, dashboards, and reports improve."
"I would like them to add features, such as caching and mediation policies."
"Access restrictions can be improved."
"The tool needs to have a reporting feature."
"Version management could be simplified."
"Integration of the solution towards Bitbucket, BitHub, and CI pipelines is difficult."
"Postman quality assurance could improve when doing tests."
"Testing API is pretty straightforward in Postman, but it falls short when testing web services. For example, when we test web services, there is a visual component that we can import in SoapUI but not in Postman."
"Multi-part requests should be handled in the octet-stream."
"Could be more user friendly."
"Reporting can be better. If you have bigger APIs, it takes time."
Apigee is ranked 2nd in API Management with 82 reviews while Postman is ranked 9th in API Management with 52 reviews. Apigee is rated 8.2, while Postman is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Apigee writes "Has a robust community and outstanding performance". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Postman writes "Reliable and easy to expand with a helpful API network". Apigee is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, IBM API Connect, Amazon API Gateway, WSO2 API Manager and 3scale API Management, whereas Postman is most compared with Apache JMeter, ReadyAPI Test, Tricentis Tosca, Katalon Studio and Parasoft SOAtest. See our Apigee vs. Postman report.
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