We performed a comparison between Apiary and Microsoft Azure API Management based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Google, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and others in API Management."In two years, there was one time the service was down for an hour or so."
"I find the generation of mock services very useful, especially when demonstrating for new consumers."
"Quick and easy way to share a new API design with teams."
"I do like the overall performance of the solution."
"Git integration"
"I have found this solution to be easy to configure, simple to use, and flexible."
"The documentation and configuration of APIs."
"Most of the features are valuable to me."
"Microsoft Azure API Management is a good, comprehensive solution for enterprise implementation."
"The Azure Active Directory Synchronization is quite good."
"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."
"The ease of setting up a new solution is the most valuable feature. It's very easy to set up a new solution and to deploy it to production."
"The package as a whole is useful for our customers."
"I would like an integrated option to download a Swagger version of the definition."
"Swagger (OpenAPI Specification) and Blueprint Support"
"The Oracle release cycle is very bad because the patches only update once a year."
"I would like to see more integration with other platforms, as well as increased security."
"The cloud deployment performance could be better."
"When you start with Azure API management, you also need to onboard the Azure console and the Azure cloud environment, which comes with a price."
"Performance issues from this platform need to be sorted out."
"Support for GraphQL could be better."
"Microsoft Azure API Management could improve the documentation. The documentation feels like marketing information and not sufficient technical information. Your easiest option is to purchase services from a Microsoft partner and this is their marketing."
"This solution is only available as a cloud-based deployment and it would be very helpful to have an on-premises version."
"The scalability of this solution could be improved. The volume which the API Management task service can handle needs to be improved. Cost wise, this solution could be optimized."
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Apiary is ranked 36th in API Management while Microsoft Azure API Management is ranked 1st in API Management with 68 reviews. Apiary is rated 8.2, while Microsoft Azure API Management is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Apiary writes "The ability to configure rules to check for consistency has helped". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Azure API Management writes "Efficiently manages and monetizes API ". Apiary is most compared with SwaggerHub, Oracle API Platform Cloud Service and Apigee, whereas Microsoft Azure API Management is most compared with Amazon API Gateway, Apigee, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, Kong Gateway Enterprise and IBM API Connect.
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