We performed a comparison between Amazon API Gateway and Mulesoft Anypoint API Manager based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Amazon API Gateway has a slight edge in this comparison because it received higher marks than Mulesoft Anypoint API in the setup and pricing categories.
"It's easy to integrate and provide support for existing AWS services if I use the AWS API gateway."
"The solution is user-friendly."
"The initial setup is pretty easy. Deployment only takes five minutes."
"The solution is solid, robust, and scalable."
"Amazon stack is easy to use in combination with other Amazon services, so it was a logical continuity."
"t is easy for integrations if it is deployed in AWS Services."
"The most valuable feature is it has lots of integration."
"This solution gives you a unified way to have your API accessed."
"I believe the API connectivity within the cloud marketplace is most valuable."
"It can create high-cost solutions, allowing for a great deal of customization to make it well-suited for specific needs."
"The ease of policy maintenance and API functionality are key features for me. They streamline business processes by allowing configurable control over policies, instead of writing codes and making maintenance more straightforward."
"The solution has been very stable."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"The most effective features of Anypoint API Manager for policy enforcement include security enforcement, rate limiting, client enforcement, traffic control, service level agreement policies, and caching policies."
"The ESB, the enterprise service bus is what we primarily use. In addition to that, the API management. These are the two tools which we have been using extensively. The enterprise platform."
"When using the Mulesoft Anypoint Platform, it has a wide range of connectors that are readily available to connect with the multiple applications."
"API Gateway lacks some governance features that MuleSoft offers, and there are additional features that could make it even better."
"The pricing could be improved. In cases where customers require real-time sync or real-time calling groups with IoT, the volume of data and time lag become a concern."
"When working with XML payloads, there can be issues due to the lack of a seamless connection between API Gateway and Lambda functions."
"It would be useful to have a more complete development environment for the developer, with different integrative capabilities to manage all the life cycles for the API. I think the full version formula for that is really useful. They should improve the development environment for easier integration."
"The course management needs improvement. It's always an issue to set up the course management, especially when you use data form."
"Its performance and scalability could be better compared to one of its competitors."
"There should be more videos and documentation about the new features that are released every month."
"They could include more support tools in the product."
"The log management for this solution needs improvement."
"The initial setup, if you go back three or three and a half years, definitely, for us, was complex."
"Not many stand-out features."
"They should develop on MuleSoft as it would be a good way of improving API monetization."
"I would like to see MuleSoft expand the range of APIs you can manage with it beyond HTTP, GIPC, and others."
"Licensing costs should be reduced, it's quite expensive."
"I'd suggest more control over MQ restarts and greater transparency in traffic management."
"Better documentation to help explain each of the features would be really helpful."
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Amazon API Gateway is ranked 3rd in API Management with 37 reviews while MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager is ranked 4th in API Management with 47 reviews. Amazon API Gateway is rated 8.2, while MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Amazon API Gateway writes "Easy initial setup and highly stable solution". On the other hand, the top reviewer of MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager writes "Responsive technical support, low tickets issued showing great stability, and limitless expansion". Amazon API Gateway is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, Apigee, WSO2 API Manager, Layer7 API Management and Kong Gateway Enterprise, whereas MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, Apigee, IBM API Connect, Kong Gateway Enterprise and Layer7 API Management. See our Amazon API Gateway vs. MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager report.
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