Apigee and Postman are major competitors in the API management space. Postman appears to have the upper hand due to its ease of use and collaboration capabilities, while Apigee is strong in scalability and security.
Features: Apigee offers robust API management and advanced security features which are critical for enterprise users. It provides extensive analytics and supports complex API traffic management. Postman has an intuitive design, powerful collaboration tools, and a vast API network, making API development efficient. Its user-friendly interface and seamless team environment are highly valued.
Room for Improvement: Apigee users highlight the need for better documentation, improved customer support responsiveness, and more user-friendly interfaces. They also mention a steep learning curve. Postman users suggest enhancing performance, integrating more seamlessly with other tools, and improving load handling capabilities. They point out occasional issues with stability and reliability.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Apigee has a comprehensive deployment model suitable for large enterprises but can be complex, requiring specialized knowledge. Its customer service is noted to be less responsive. Postman offers a simpler deployment process that benefits small teams and individual developers. Its customer service is generally mentioned as more responsive and helpful.
Pricing and ROI: Apigee has a higher setup cost which some users justify with its long-term scalability and robust features. Postman is a more cost-effective solution with a quicker return on investment due to its lower setup cost and efficient collaboration features. Users generally feel Postman delivers better value for money despite Apigee's strong capabilities.
They are responsive and provide assistance even during production issues.
I appreciate the ease of using Postman, especially its desktop version, due to the features it offers such as cookie management and environment synchronization.
Adding extra Cassandra databases is complex.
Apigee is stable, and we have had the system running on Apigee servers for more than four years without any stability issues.
I have not experienced any issues or downtimes.
The tool is generally stable.
Apigee only allows validation of transactions up to a four-hour period, which requires manual hovering over the date and time.
Analytics is one of the areas needing enhancement, specifically more visibility and control over traffic to improve capacity management and high availability.
One of the primary challenges with Postman is handling authentication issues, especially relating to tokens and passwords.
Something that could be better is the inclusion of another type of test, for example, end-to-end tests.
Apigee is perceived as slightly costly compared to other tools in the market.
Apigee is high-priced, suitable for large enterprises where the benefit aligns with the cost.
Postman's pricing model includes a basic free version, which is favorable given the Professional enterprise options offered.
The price is low, making it a reasonable price for the product.
The features for API security have been significant with Apigee.
The desktop version's features like cookie management, environment compatibility, security settings, proxy integration, and data synchronization add significant value.
In Postman, we have collections that contain multiple endpoints that I can test.
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:
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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