Apigee vs Tyk vs WSO2 API Manager comparison

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We performed a comparison between Apigee, Tyk, and WSO2 API Manager based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the API Management category, the mindshare of Apigee is 14.2%, down from 15.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Tyk is 2.0%, up from 1.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of WSO2 API Manager is 4.8%, up from 4.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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ShawkyFoda

Senior Consultant at Goverment

Provides high visibility and control with good traffic monitoring

Analytics is one of the areas needing enhancement, specifically more visibility and control over traffic to improve capacity management and high availability. The replication process between Master and Slave for disaster recovery takes too long. Dependencies on analytics impact the performance of the user interface, which should be separate. The complex setup process on-premises, especially with multi-node installations, could also be improved. Additional control in product declarations, based on operations like POST and GET, is needed.

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MarkDoherty

Founding Director at Point Group

Fastest to get up and running and fewer idiosyncrasies than competitors

In terms of our usage, the main area of concern is that they tend to build enhancements slightly ahead of the considerations for what those enhancements and extensions are. So it could be slightly better communication with the customer base that would be my main issue with them. But as a product, it's very difficult to find any major faults.

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VishalSingh14

IT Engineer at Reliance Industries Ltd

Easy to deploy APIs and easy to manage CORS configuration

I have used WSO2 Store and WSO2 API Manager at the architecture level. I worked on two versions, namely WSO2 API Manager 2.6.0 and 5.7.0. I have also worked with WSO2 Identity Server versions 5.7 and 5.11. There are certain things that Apigee handles better than WSO2 API Manager. The user interface of WSO2 API Manager is much easier than that of Apigee. The scope of flexibility was much greater in Apigee. In WSO2 API Manager, we had little flexibility and were restricted to a specific software or tool. On the other hand, we had the scope of customization in Apigee.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The most valuable features are scalability and technical support."

"The most important feature is the security capabilities and the way it integrates very quickly with other security providers. We have integrated it with Azure and it integrates quite seamlessly."

"The most valuable feature of Apigee is its simplicity of deploying an API and restricting access, like rate limit, with the API."

"Lifecycle management."

"If you have numerous applications and high traffic, Apigee is a strong choice for its excellent features and outstanding performance."

"The most valuable feature is monetization."

"The flexibility allows you to quickly run a cloud-native application architecture."

"Its customer service is good."

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"The most valuable feature is the load balancing with the circuit-breaker function."

"It is a good product for API management."

"You can set up workflows and write limited pieces of logic."

"The scalability is very good. That was a key factor in the selection, like how it could be pushed to high volume and scalability, which seemed to be very good."

"The portal for developers that this solution provides has great functionality."

"The feature I find most valuable is that this solution allows us to manage our security."

"It is a scalable solution because it can be scaled horizontally and vertically."

"We could easily deploy APIs on WSO2 API Manager, and CORS configuration was easy to manage."

"The documentation is good."

"The main feature — the publication of the API, the management section — is great in general."

"The solution is open source and easy to configure."

"The user interface is easy to navigate, and the documentation is extensive. It's open-source, so everything is available, and we can create what we need. That's not necessarily a feature, but it's an advantage."

"This solution is a little bit faster, easier to use, and has better integration than the other solutions I have experienced."

"WSO2 is very stable."

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Cons

"Apigee could improve by integrating with more identity providers and offering a default authentication module."

"Maintaining and deploying revisions need to be more defined."

"Drag and drop of features would be more beneficial, rather than manually working on the configuration and updates."

"An area for improvement would be to provide more information while troubleshooting."

"The pricing of the solution could be improved upon. We'd like it if it was less costly."

"Compared to its competitors, such as Axway AMPLIFY API Management and Layer7 API Management, Apigee could benefit from having more policies to cater to various use cases. This would reduce the need for writing custom JavaScripts. If more features come straight out of the box, we can leverage them instead of writing custom code to achieve the same functionality."

"It would be good if the Apigee management allowed us to be able to consolidate many operations into single one for the gateway functionality."

"Sometimes there are glitches, which means there's still room for improvement in the platform."

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"It is a young product and does not have the kind of brand recognition that would make it a more popular solution with our clients."

"I would like to see some additional features like having some extensions for .NET core because we use it for our back-end language."

"We ran it for a while, but then we decided to move away from Tyk, because Tyk's cloud version, the SaaS version, has a significant limitation of limited flexibility, so you can't program very much."

"In terms of our usage, the main area of concern is that they tend to build enhancements slightly ahead of the considerations for what those enhancements and extensions are. So it could be slightly better communication with the customer base that would be my main issue with them."

"We would like a better tool for generating documentation for the APIs to be developed."

"Sometimes when new features are released, they are not immediately stable."

"Basically, mTLS is a certificate-based communication protocol that WSO2 API Manager doesn't support."

"For fresh graduates and engineers, the setup process can be very difficult."

"I think they could greatly improve the general UX with their solutions."

"They don't have different URLs for administrators."

"I would improve the product documentation. There are some gaps, and it can be difficult to find the proper documentation for the product if you need to solve something."

"From a product perspective, the first thing is that although the documentation provided by WSO2 is good, it could be much better. We're in the middle of a complex migration, moving away from VMs to Kubernetes with the latest version of WSO2 and good documentation is essential to us right now."

"Lacks some new features and updated functionalities."

"Based on our recent large scaling project, the latency needs to be improved."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"In Latin America, Apigee is expensive. It's not for small businesses; it's more for big businesses."

"I would like to see the implementation of further options for billing because as it is now, the opportunities you have in terms of a package are limited."

"Its price is reasonable for the features they provide and the maturity of the platform."

"The solution’s pricing could be more competitive."

"Based on your usage of the APIs you can take a decision to go with either an on-cloud or OPDK version. Get in touch with the sales representatives of Apigee."

"Pricing options need to be chosen on a case-by-case basis."

"It was fairly expensive. I don't know what the standard pricing is. I want to say that it's something like $80,000 for 800 million requests (approximately) a year."

"Apigee is slightly expensive, but again, it can depend on the type of usage. All things considered, it is slightly expensive."

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"There are different versions and plans available depending on the requirements, so there is flexibility in terms of the pricing."

"It had a free version, which suited many of our needs, but not all, but we were happy to go ahead with the licensed version as well, which is the paid version."

"The cost curve is far smoother, both in terms of volume and the number of calls it's running on, compared to most competitors. So it's a tad more expensive at the very low end, but the curve is nothing like Apigee or some of the others."

"We are using the open-source version of this product, so there are no licensing costs for its use."

"The price is low compared to other products of a similar type."

"It's not expensive, but it could be cheaper."

"It is an open-source product."

"For our projects, we found the pricing to be a little high."

"We have not opted for the paid version of WSO2 but we have implemented the free and open source WSO2 software to a great extent and it is working as per our expectation."

"WSO2 API Manager is an open-source solution."

"WSO2 API Manager is a costly solution, and its pricing is not competitive enough compared to other products."

"I am using the free version."

"WSO2 API Manager is a low-cost solution. It is one of the most affordable solutions."

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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm

22%

Computer Software Company

12%

Manufacturing Company

Insurance Company

Financial Services Firm

27%

Computer Software Company

16%

Healthcare Company

Comms Service Provider

Financial Services Firm

18%

Computer Software Company

18%

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Questions from the Community

How does Apigee differ from Azure API Management?

Apigee offers both cloud-based and on-prem options while Microsoft Azure API Management currently only offers a clou...

Which is better - Apigee or Amazon API Gateway?

Amazon API Gateway is a platform that supports the creation and publication of API for web applications. The platform...

What do you like most about Apigee?

We can customize the dashboard.

What do you like most about Tyk?

The scalability is very good. That was a key factor in the selection, like how it could be pushed to high volume and ...

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Tyk?

The pricing is actually quite competitive. In Azure environments, it gets beaten by Microsoft API Gateway, but on the...

What needs improvement with Tyk?

In terms of our usage, the main area of concern is that they tend to build enhancements slightly ahead of the conside...

What do you like most about WSO2 API Manager?

It is possible to scale up and scale down with the solution...I can say that I have not seen any issues related to sc...

What needs improvement with WSO2 API Manager?

One area for improvement is monitoring. Dashboards for application monitoring of the APIs would be beneficial, allowi...

What is your primary use case for WSO2 API Manager?

We use WSO2 API Manager for our microservices and our APIs, both internally and externally.

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Overview

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:

Security: Protect APIs, messages, and backends with configurable policies such as OAuth, API key verification, XML/JSON threat protection, and access control.
API gateway: Secure and mediate the traffic between clients and backends, and between a company’s APIs and the developers who use the APIs.
Developer portal: Attract and engage application developers, enabling them to discover, explore, purchase, and test APIs and register to access and use the APIs.
API console: The console helps developers learn and work with APIs.
API lifecycle management: Manage the process of designing, developing, publishing, deploying, and versioning APIs.
Automated documentation: Automate the development of API documentation and software development kits.
Machine learning: Utilize machine learning and analytics to generate actionable insights and reports.

API monitoring: Apigee offers monitoring tools for API troubleshooting, security, and optimization.

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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Tyk is an open source API Gateway that is fast and scalable, an API management platform featuring an API gateway, analytics, developer portal and dashboard. Available in three flavours to best suit your architecture and governance. We offer full cloud or on-premises options, and the best of both worlds with our unique hybrid model. www.tyk.io