We performed a comparison between Akana API Management and Apigee 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."The tool's authentication mechanism is easy to implement. We had to define a few parameters."
"It allowed us to publish and replace pre-essential transactions in one place, with a uniformity in terms of control and policies."
"Good interface, intuitive solution."
"The usability is one of the best aspects of the product."
"Apigee is a pioneer in the industry and has good features and functionalities. It is a good tool for API management and it has more advancements than all other tools in the market in certain areas."
"The analytics feature is quite good."
"Tracing in Apigee is a very good feature."
"The most valuable feature is monetization."
"Apigee is a very lightweight solution."
"There is plenty of support documentation available."
"The most valuable features of Apigee for me are analytics, security, ease of use, and integration capabilities."
"Akana API Management needs to improve its documentation."
"The product has new features that we are going to implement in the next few months, such as API management and analytic reporting."
"Lacks an integrated billing feature."
"I see some lagging in regards to integration capacity"
"The setup and installation process could be improved with a container-based system."
"They need to work on the cost of the solution."
"Areas like traffic handling of incoming requests, security features between third-parties and Apigee, and between Apigee and internal network servers, resources, or JSON areas, etc."
"Integration should be improved."
"The analytical aspect of it could be better. I think it is fair if Apigee lets you configure some of the metrics of the key details you want to monitor in terms of analytics."
"Unlike WSA, Apigee does not have a partnership model, something which makes it a bit easier for companies such as ours to go with the former solution."
"The account simplification process can be improved."
Akana API Management is ranked 28th in API Management with 3 reviews while Apigee is ranked 2nd in API Management with 82 reviews. Akana API Management is rated 8.4, while Apigee is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Akana API Management writes "Authentication mechanism is easy to implement but improvement is needed in documentation ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Apigee writes "Has a robust community and outstanding performance". Akana API Management is most compared with MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, Amazon API Gateway, Microsoft Azure API Management, Kong Gateway Enterprise and IBM API Connect, whereas Apigee is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, IBM API Connect, Amazon API Gateway, WSO2 API Manager and Layer7 API Management.
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