We performed a comparison between IBM API Connect and Microsoft Azure API Management based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Azure API Management provides DevOps by default and has a robust marketplace where users can easily integrate with existing APIs and begin work immediately. It scales easily and integrates seamlessly with Azure cloud infrastructure. In contrast, many users feel IBM is a bit dated and is lacking cloud-focused tools.It is also more difficult to deploy.
"The gateway is the most valuable aspect of this solution."
"The support is good and active. I rate the technical support a nine out of ten."
"WSRR is a powerful component for getting the endpoints."
"API Connect is a good product, and everything works fine. All the analytics are good, and it is easy to follow up. I like it in that sense. I'm more focused on following up on analytics by seeing how many API calls we are getting and where we see a lot of problems. I was working on that API level."
"Easy to configure security and generate API keys."
"The capabilities are very good."
"I have found the API Management to be most valuable."
"Its speed and performance are valuable."
"The most valuable features of the solution are its importing and publishing."
"The initial setup is not that complex, but there are certain challenges."
"The most valuable features of Microsoft Azure API Management are the easy configuration and deployment with automation."
"API Management does not take long to deploy."
"There were no scalability issues."
"The tool's most valuable feature is the integration of CI/CD with the API gateway."
"Easy to integrate API management platform. It is a stable and scalable solution."
"The solution has overall high performance."
"The documentation needs to be a bit better."
"Improving the documentation would be beneficial as it currently presents navigation challenges. Incorporating a step-by-step guide could facilitate the integration or migration of various systems, including databases. The existing documentation only comprises plain text, hence incorporating more interactive instructions could enhance its usefulness."
"Extracting the data could be improved."
"The solution is overly complex."
"It would be nice to have a SaaS solution that can be deployed into the cloud."
"Different versions of the same thing can mean unnecessary duplication."
"Business applications could be exposed to users."
"I would like to see automation of the installation. If there could be a single-click function where you could automate everything, that would be helpful."
"The API gateway can be very complex."
"Microsoft Azure API Management could improve by having better integration with third-party solutions."
"What would make Microsoft Azure API Management better are more APIs. They keep updating their APIs, but it would be better if the solution had more APIs for the services and more integration with other platforms."
"In the API you need to delete the suffix. It is annoying that you need to have a suffix. We can add a suffix at the API level, not at the operation level, and that could be improved on."
"Some of the DevOps stuff could be easier to work with. The migration paths are a little complicated, and moving code around could be more seamless. There should be less manual migration when several teams work together to publish code to the DevOps."
"There is room for improvement in the user interface and workflow for hosting APIs, especially third-party APIs."
"It can be quite complex, somewhat lacking in flexibility."
"The developer console for external users could be improved, especially in the testing site."
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IBM API Connect is ranked 5th in API Management with 73 reviews while Microsoft Azure API Management is ranked 1st in API Management with 68 reviews. IBM API Connect is rated 8.0, while Microsoft Azure API Management is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of IBM API Connect writes "Good speed and performance, but it's based on a bit dated architecture". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Azure API Management writes "Efficiently manages and monetizes API ". IBM API Connect is most compared with IBM DataPower Gateway, Apigee, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, Amazon API Gateway and Kong Gateway Enterprise, whereas Microsoft Azure API Management is most compared with Amazon API Gateway, Apigee, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, Kong Gateway Enterprise and WSO2 API Manager. See our IBM API Connect vs. Microsoft Azure API Management report.
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