We performed a comparison between Microsoft Azure API Management and WSO2 API Manager based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Many users are heavily invested in Microsoft Azure products, making Microsoft Azure API Management more widely used and trusted. Additionally, WSO2 API lacks some new features and updated functionalities that other API solutions commonly provide. In terms of pricing, however, users are happier with WSO2.
"The most valuable feature is the developer portal, which has source code examples in various programming languages to help developers learn the API."
"I like the support they provide for the APIs more than the solution itself. First of all, documentation-wise, both Microsoft Azure and even Google Cloud are up there. But in comparison, the real-time consulting and support for APIs make Microsoft stand out a little. I also like the performance. Standard public cloud provider-built APIs are more resilient and flexible in terms of what feature you want to use and what feature you don't want to use, and they're more customizable. They are more resilient in terms of performance in that particular environment because that is the design aspect of the offering. When public clouds build APIs and deploy them after testing them on their framework for a certain amount of time, I feel there is a massive difference in the product's performance. On the interface, everything is strong."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Azure API Management is the developer portal because it's very quick and easy to get something published."
"The most valuable features of the solution are its importing and publishing."
"The UI management is very easy to use."
"We're pretty much using all of the monetizations features out of the API manager so we can put up a portal and have a dev portal and then a prod portal and do rate limiting."
"It’s easy to set up."
"The tool's most valuable feature is the integration of CI/CD with the API gateway."
"The most interesting feature is its Mac-based function."
"The main feature — the publication of the API, the management section — is great in general."
"WSO2 is very stable."
"The scalability is fine for our purposes."
"This is a flexible and versatile API management solution that has the power to integrate with more than just API."
"This solution is a little bit faster, easier to use, and has better integration than the other solutions I have experienced."
"The solution is open-source."
"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."
"Technical support could be more flexible and try to meet the client's needs a bit more effectively."
"I would like to see better scalability and better performance."
"The licensing fees should be cheaper."
"The API gateway can be very complex."
"Multi-tenant functionalities is missing from the system, especially when it comes to the developer code of features."
"It can be quite complex, somewhat lacking in flexibility."
"An area for improvement in Microsoft Azure API Management is deployment, in particular, the deployment of versions in Oryx. The development to production instance isn't adequate for me and needs to be improved. Microsoft Azure API Management lacks automation, which is another area for improvement."
"In terms of improvement, it would be helpful if they could develop an on-premises option."
"WSO2 API Manager should improve its marketplace subscription model and documentation in order to reach a higher level in the market."
"The user interface needs to improve, it is a bit outdated."
"I would like it to be a more stable solution. Maybe in the last version that is approved. For me it would be good if they had a community established version."
"The stability is pretty good, but it could be improved."
"The interface needs to be modernized and made more user friendly so the product continues to have a growing community of users."
"For fresh graduates and engineers, the setup process can be very difficult."
"We had some problems with the reverse proxy not being able to invoke fully qualified domain names, so we have to build some custom scripts to solve this issue."
"The initial setup can be difficult."
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Microsoft Azure API Management is ranked 1st in API Management with 68 reviews while WSO2 API Manager is ranked 8th in API Management with 33 reviews. Microsoft Azure API Management is rated 7.8, while WSO2 API Manager is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Microsoft Azure API Management writes "Efficiently manages and monetizes API ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of WSO2 API Manager writes "Reliable with good capabilities and good support". Microsoft Azure API Management is most compared with Amazon API Gateway, Apigee, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, Kong Gateway Enterprise and IBM DataPower Gateway, whereas WSO2 API Manager is most compared with Apigee, Kong Gateway Enterprise, Amazon API Gateway, Apache APISIX and 3scale API Management. See our Microsoft Azure API Management vs. WSO2 API Manager report.
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