We performed a comparison between Microsoft Azure API Management 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: Based on the parameters we compared, Mulesoft Anypoint API Manager seems to be the more desirable product. With overwhelming responses applauding its stability and reliability, it is evident that users of Mulesoft Anypoint API Manager are happy with the solution. In addition, users had only positive experiences with service and support, and were satisfied with the ROI. Users consider it to be expensive, but worth the expense.
"Microsoft Azure API Management is better because it has a DevOps integration by default."
"The package as a whole is useful for our customers."
"Azure APIM's best features are its straightforward access management (it's a single point of access for all monitoring and logging and for policy implementation) and its integration with the Azure Cloud infrastructure."
"I like the stability and the ease of use."
"I have found this solution to be easy to configure, simple to use, and flexible."
"Allows the possibility of VPN technology to connect your gateway directly with on-prem services"
"The ability to easily connect back to Service Fabric is the most important for us."
"The most valuable features of the solution are its importing and publishing."
"One of the more valuable features is the stability of the platform."
"We use it heavily because Azure offers better pricing than its competitors."
"The scalability is good. It's passable."
"Technical support has been helpful."
"Whenever there was an issue, the support was excellent."
"Mulesoft Anypoint API Manager's most valuable aspect is it has plenty of features."
"The most valuable features of Mulesoft Anypoint API Manager are the API gateway, rate limiting, and orchestration."
"I believe the API connectivity within the cloud marketplace is most valuable."
"An area for improvement in Microsoft Azure API Management is deployment, in particular, the deployment of versions in Oryx. The development to production instance isn't adequate for me and needs to be improved. Microsoft Azure API Management lacks automation, which is another area for improvement."
"Specific to API development, I think Microsoft is still far behind AWS. AWS has grown by leaps and bounds, and Microsoft is a close second. But in terms of features and other stuff they provide, Microsoft's compatibility with publicly available APIs is a little limited. So, that is a little bit of a constraint. But what they provide is good, it's just that they need to build more on their API suite. I think Google is doing a really good job at that."
"The licensing fees should be cheaper."
"The solution's integration suite needs improvement."
"Technical support could be more helpful and responsive."
"Maybe the customization could be a bit better."
"The user interface needs improvement."
"They need to work on the third party integrations."
"Mulesoft Anypoint API Manager can improve some of the gateway features. We could use some more customization in creating rules. A lot of the policies are related to the APIs rather than the client. If I want to apply a policy based on a client that is not available."
"When compared to other integration technologies, it is slightly higher."
"Not many stand-out features."
"The cost model could be improved."
"Mulesoft Anypoint API Manager could improve the monitoring because it is very poor quality and not user-friendly. It is not as good as other solutions on the market."
"The log management for this solution needs improvement."
"Their studio performance is very slow, it requires a lot of memory, and should be improved."
"We find that the enterprise level is lacking scalability."
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Microsoft Azure API Management is ranked 1st in API Management with 68 reviews while MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager is ranked 4th in API Management with 47 reviews. Microsoft Azure API Management is rated 7.8, while MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Microsoft Azure API Management writes "Efficiently manages and monetizes API ". 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". Microsoft Azure API Management is most compared with Amazon API Gateway, Apigee, Kong Gateway Enterprise, IBM API Connect and WSO2 API Manager, whereas MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager is most compared with Amazon API Gateway, Apigee, IBM API Connect, Kong Gateway Enterprise and Layer7 API Management. See our Microsoft Azure API Management vs. MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager report.
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