Apigee and webMethods.io are competing in the API management solutions category. User feedback indicates that Apigee, with its extensive feature set, is slightly favored over webMethods.io, which excels in specific integration capabilities.
Features: Apigee offers comprehensive features like API Management, a Drupal-based Developer Portal, and Monetization capabilities. Its developer portal simplifies onboarding and documentation, while monetization supports various revenue models. Analytics features provide insights into API performance. On the other hand, webMethods.io strengths lie in application and data integration with adaptable integration server capabilities, making it ideal for complex integrations.
Room for Improvement: Apigee needs to improve its complex on-premise setup, integration with versioning systems, and role-based access management. Users find its support documentation and integration capacity lacking. webMethods.io could enhance automation capabilities, improve integration with modern tools, and offer more flexibility in orchestration and user experience.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Apigee provides deployment options in Public Cloud, Hybrid Cloud, and On-premises, but faces challenges in data locality in hybrid models. Reviews of Google’s technical support are mixed, with some users experiencing slow responses despite general satisfaction. webMethods.io also offers similar deployment options but lacks robust support, often needing third-party consultancy, though it benefits from a supportive partner ecosystem. Users desire better orchestration independence from the integration server.
Pricing and ROI: Apigee is considered expensive, targeting mid to large enterprises with features that can justify the cost, though this might deter smaller businesses. High operation costs and complex licensing are noted, but monetization offers ROI advantages. webMethods.io aligns similarly with larger enterprises, offering competitive pricing, though the cost complexity from licensing and add-ons can be a downside. Both report positive ROI from effective API management, albeit with concerns about pricing.
They are responsive and provide assistance even during production issues.
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.
Adding extra Cassandra databases is complex.
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.
Apigee is stable, and we have had the system running on Apigee servers for more than four years without any stability issues.
The features for API security have been significant with Apigee.
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.”
webMethods.io Integration is a powerful integration platform as a service (iPaaS) that provides a combination of capabilities offered by ESBs, data integration systems, API management tools, and B2B gateways.
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