We performed a comparison between Apigee vs IBM API Connect based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Apigee has an edge in this comparison because it received higher marks than IBM API Connect in the ease of deployment and support categories.
"We have been using Apigee mostly for proxy FGIs. We also use its security features as well as traffic control features."
"There is plenty of support documentation available."
"Apigee makes proxy management very simple."
"Apigee is a strong-featured solution. It leads in Gartner Quadrant ratings and it is a full-slated API solution that has the features that an API gateway requires."
"The most important feature is the security capabilities and the way it integrates very quickly with other security providers. We have integrated it with Azure and it integrates quite seamlessly."
"It has a very efficient logging system which is easy to maintain."
"The most valuable features of Apigee for me are analytics, security, ease of use, and integration capabilities."
"API/proxy lifecycle workflow for API providers is quite good and one of Apigee's strongest features."
"The product gathers data to measure API performance."
"It's quite flexible and easy to deploy, especially for beginners. It has almost all the features that an API gateway should have."
"The services that I consume through IBM API Connect are beneficial. It can handle multiple API management."
"The technical support is good. Whenever we need anything, we have our IT team work with IBM to change whatever requirement is needed."
"The centralized management: this provides a management module that can deploy and apply security policies to all APIs, including all the gateways that are deployed on-premises and on any cloud because the gateway component can run at a VMware or in a Kubernetes cluster."
"Scalable and stable API platform for creating and managing APIs."
"Its speed and performance are valuable."
"The statistics component is easy to use."
"Apigee is more of an entry level solution that does basic things pretty well, but if you want to go more customizable, you want to really look for another solution."
"I would like to see SOAP services and socket-based connectivity developed."
"I don't have any notes for improvement."
"I'd like this solution to improve on releasing new features; I'd like it to be more frequent."
"The technical support could be improved because their response time is slow."
"As it is now, the rotation of certificates is a manual task and is something that can be improved."
"Access restrictions can be improved."
"Proxy versioning seems a bit confusing/buried in the publishing experience, especially for the URI-based versioning approach."
"In the next version, I don't know if they've already been included it or not, but the designer and all the tools should be on the cloud. I don't want any external installation or local installation."
"The design time setup has a lot of customizable fields, but we need certain standard fields to be added, such as what all of the consuming systems are. This needs to be very clearly articulated during the design time."
"Installation is weak."
"We ran it on top of the Kubernetes cluster, so it wasn't a standalone service. In the worst-case scenario, API Connect couldn't stay online if all the containers went down. We had to restart all the services. We shut down all the containers automatically one by one."
"It would be helpful to have access monitoring."
"We have asked IBM for scalability and for some other features that we wanted. We had a dialogue with them and in the end, they have agreed to provide us with features related to API setup and security."
"In terms of what needs improvement, some of the product documentation could be better."
"The installation was difficult with the IBM toolkit."
Apigee is ranked 2nd in API Management with 82 reviews while IBM API Connect is ranked 5th in API Management with 73 reviews. Apigee is rated 8.2, while IBM API Connect is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Apigee writes "Has a robust community and outstanding performance". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM API Connect writes "Good speed and performance, but it's based on a bit dated architecture". Apigee is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, Amazon API Gateway, WSO2 API Manager, Layer7 API Management and MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, whereas IBM API Connect is most compared with IBM DataPower Gateway, Microsoft Azure API Management, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, Amazon API Gateway and Kong Gateway Enterprise. See our Apigee vs. IBM API Connect report.
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Of those three: MuleSoft Anypoint. But, cost-friendly is another term, I would choose a different solution. We are happy with Gravitee.