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Apigee vs WSO2 API Manager comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Apr 20, 2025

Review summaries and opinions

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

ROI

Sentiment score
7.2
Apigee enhances security, centralizes management, and boosts ROI, benefiting larger organizations through seamless integration and new revenue opportunities.
Sentiment score
7.6
WSO2 API Manager offers high ROI with cost efficiency, operational improvements, and valuable support, though perceptions may vary.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
6.3
Apigee's technical support is mixed, with varying response times and effectiveness, improving for high-priority issues and larger customers.
Sentiment score
6.6
Customer service varies with subscription level, with helpful responses often, while open-source users rely on forums and documentation.
They are responsive and provide assistance even during production issues.
The support is good, with well-defined documentation and helpful blogs.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.6
Apigee excels in scalability with features for high demand but requires careful configuration and may face cost challenges.
Sentiment score
7.5
WSO2 API Manager is scalable, supporting container deployments, horizontal and vertical scaling, but involves manual provisioning challenges.
Adding extra Cassandra databases is complex.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.1
Apigee is praised for stability and reliability, with minimal disruptions and high performance, especially post-Google acquisition.
Sentiment score
7.3
WSO2 API Manager is stable with minor issues, quick bug fixes, and high ratings, benefiting from Tomcat's foundation.
Apigee is stable, and we have had the system running on Apigee servers for more than four years without any stability issues.
The system is stable for our low-concurrency use cases.
 

Room For Improvement

Apigee needs improvements in integration, usability, support, and hybrid deployment, with enhanced monitoring, caching, and identity provider integration.
WSO2 API Manager requires UI improvements, better documentation, competitive pricing, enhanced support, and solutions for stability, performance, and integration 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.
Our integrations do not handle high-volume transactions.
 

Setup Cost

Apigee is costly, ideal for large enterprises, with pricing based on usage and deployment, starting at $100,000/year.
WSO2 API Manager offers an open-source version and a subscription model, with costs varying based on features and usage.
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 costlier compared to other solutions.
 

Valuable Features

Apigee excels in API management with strong security, scalability, usability, and robust analytics, offering a rich developer experience.
WSO2 API Manager provides robust security, flexibility, scalability, and powerful integration with user-friendly features for seamless API management.
The features for API security have been significant with Apigee.
Apigee provides catalog management, onboarding of new customers, an API portal, and security features.
The product's capabilities for integrating with REST APIs are valuable.
 

Categories and Ranking

Apigee
Ranking in API Management
2nd
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
87
Ranking in other categories
API Testing Tools (8th)
WSO2 API Manager
Ranking in API Management
9th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
41
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

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 WSO2 API Manager is 4.8%, up from 4.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
API Management
 

Featured Reviews

ShawkyFoda  - PeerSpot reviewer
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.
VishalSingh14 - PeerSpot reviewer
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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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
22%
Computer Software Company
12%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Insurance Company
7%
Computer Software Company
18%
Financial Services Firm
18%
Government
6%
Manufacturing Company
5%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

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 cloud-based solution. Both solutions are easy to use. Apigee allows for the ability...
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 can support thousands of simultaneous API calls, and it provides monitoring, ma...
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 scalability.
What needs improvement with WSO2 API Manager?
One area for improvement is monitoring. Dashboards for application monitoring of the APIs would be beneficial, allowing us to check for faulty APIs.
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.
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

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