We performed a comparison between Apigee 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: Apigee has a slight edge in this comparison. Apigee is easy to deploy and received high marks for its analytics features. Some MuleSoft Anypoint users say that its deployment can be complex and that it needs better analytics tools.
"Easy interface to monetize and deliver APIs with very easy integration for third-party development environments/delivery."
"The initial setup isn't too complex."
"Tracing in Apigee is a very good feature."
"The tool is one of the earliest API management products and is good. It reduces the Time To Market aspects of products."
"Apigee provides good documentation."
"Lifecycle management."
"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 solution has been very stable."
"The most valuable features of the solution for securing APIs stem from the tool's ability to allow users to deploy policies."
"Both the cloud and on-premises options are available. Customers can leverage the MuleSoft Cloud platform to deploy the applications or set up their own online infrastructure to deploy applications."
"Whenever there was an issue, the support was excellent."
"We have all the policies available via drag and drop. It made it very easy."
"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."
"The auto-creation of the API documentation is useful."
"The documentation is great; it is always up to date and well-presented."
"I would recommend this solution to those who want to start using it, but it depends on the requirements and automation."
"When it comes to the rate limit, we don't have a specific category for rate limits for a particular customer."
"Apigee is demanding on the infrastructure so the setup cost is very high for an on-premises deployment."
"Access restrictions can be improved."
"I don't have any notes for improvement."
"The solution’s scalability could be improved."
"Apigee could do more to make users aware of what is available in the add-ons."
"Since it is based on various open sourced projects, we might have to depend on the fixes provided by those components rather than Apigee directly fixing the issues."
"They should develop on MuleSoft as it would be a good way of improving API monetization."
"We find that the enterprise level is lacking scalability."
"There should be more pricing options or certain discounts for the education sector."
"The product's price should be available for public review since it is not currently available for others to see, making it one of the areas where the product has certain shortcomings."
"Licensing costs should be reduced, it's quite expensive."
"The initial setup is very complex."
"Rather than focusing on numbers, they should focus more on the customer support service."
"The solution is expensive."
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Apigee is ranked 2nd in API Management with 82 reviews while MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager is ranked 4th in API Management with 47 reviews. Apigee is rated 8.2, while MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Apigee writes "Has a robust community and outstanding performance". 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". Apigee is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, IBM API Connect, Amazon API Gateway, WSO2 API Manager and IBM DataPower Gateway, whereas MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, Amazon API Gateway, IBM API Connect, Kong Gateway Enterprise and Layer7 API Management. See our Apigee vs. MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager report.
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Apigee for sure. Not only do you get the benefit of hybrid and on-prem deployments. As a gov entity, you will face those challenges. Over time you might want to use AWS/Azure clouds so you can migrate it accordingly or just use the PAYG on GCP with all the security Bells and Whistles. https://www.gartner.com/review...
I will choose MuleSoft due to its ease of use, integration extendibility, and product roadmap.
MuleSoft API Management is better because of the following reasons:
* Ease of initial setup & configuration
* Most robust features in API management: oath, throttling, and access levels can be done very easily.
* MuleSoft API-led connectivity & Integration solution (you can extend the API management solution with a flexible integration option). You can very easily extend APIM to integration.
* Very Clear Product roadmap including APIM, RPA and multi-cloud implementation.
The cost of both MuleSoft APIM & APIGEE is similar.
Compared to 3scale, Apigee API Management has a better API gateway for security and traffic management.
Apigee is better for API policy enablement compared to 3scale API Management. Apigee provides better support for GraphQL, OData, OAS2.