We performed a comparison between Apigee vs. WSO2 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 the winning edge in this comparison. Apigee has better ratings when it comes to ease of deployment, features, and service and support.
"The security that you have with Apigee is very good and aligns with compliance."
"Lifecycle management."
"The most valuable feature is the API gateway."
"It is scalable."
"The ease of creating policies has been the most useful of the solution's features. It's a quick ramp-up time. It's easy for our support staff to implement the policies in the API management layer."
"It has all the features necessary to work in anything from a basic scenario to advanced applications."
"I use it because it's simple, it automatically updates, and It hasn't given me any issues."
"The pricing is okay."
"WSO2 API Manager has a user-friendly model."
"There are a lot of tools to help the manager. WSO2 is very easy to install. It has all the principal functionalities that you think about when you want to put up the management solution. It's a very friendly tool."
"WSO2 API Manager is a stable solution."
"Yes WSO2 API Manager is scalable"
"The product is easy to use."
"The flexibility is definitely a highlight. We have flexible mapping capabilities, allowing us to provide common mappings or create custom ones as needed."
"API management lifecycle is the most valuable."
"The documentation is good."
"Apigee could do more to make users aware of what is available in the add-ons."
"Better functionality for validating inputs and outputs would be helpful."
"Development IDE, especially for Architect Review."
"It is an expensive 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."
"The account simplification process can be improved."
"The entire user across all the layers should be singly authenticated through an external authentication system."
"The initial setup for the on-prem solution is a little complex."
"We found WSO2 API Manager to be a bit complex."
"They don't have different URLs for administrators."
"The user interface could be a bit better."
"They are developing another platform called Choreo that allows you to create API itself using the WSO2 programming language Ballerina. It would be great if they added a direct connection between Choreo and API Manager, that would be great. I think they are working on that, but I'm not sure."
"The stability is pretty good, but it could be improved."
"The interface needs to be modernized and made more user friendly so the product continues to have a growing community of users."
"WSO2 API Manager could increase their security compliance."
"Providing easy configuration for email and SMS notifications, layout and customization of admin and developer landing pages."
Apigee is ranked 2nd in API Management with 82 reviews while WSO2 API Manager is ranked 8th in API Management with 33 reviews. Apigee is rated 8.2, while WSO2 API Manager 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 WSO2 API Manager writes "Reliable with good capabilities and good support". Apigee is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, IBM API Connect, Amazon API Gateway, Layer7 API Management and MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, whereas WSO2 API Manager is most compared with Kong Gateway Enterprise, Amazon API Gateway, Microsoft Azure API Management, Apache APISIX and 3scale API Management. See our Apigee vs. WSO2 API Manager report.
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