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.
"Apigee provides good documentation."
"Lifecycle management."
"I think the most valuable features are the security features. Of course, the user access control is the same as the security. The other very important issue is the sandboxing capability of Apigee."
"Its customer service is good."
"We have been using Apigee mostly for proxy FGIs. We also use its security features as well as traffic control features."
"A special feature is configuring target servers, proxy config, and Cert related security, which regularizes incoming traffic from cloud users or external applications to internal applications in a secured manner."
"Apigee is very easy to use, and you can code in any language."
"The most valuable features are low-code play, quick packaging, and production."
"WSO2 is very stable."
"Based on the information I have, the solution's most valuable feature is its capability of implementing custom solutions."
"The main feature — the publication of the API, the management section — is great in general."
"The product is easy to use."
"The solution is open source and easy to configure."
"The solution is open-source."
"The documentation is good."
"The user interface is easy to navigate, and the documentation is extensive. It's open-source, so everything is available, and we can create what we need. That's not necessarily a feature, but it's an advantage."
"One feature they have to invest time into is the developer portal they use."
"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 entire user across all the layers should be singly authenticated through an external authentication system."
"The solution could add even more functionalities."
"Development IDE, especially for Architect Review."
"Better functionality for validating inputs and outputs would be helpful."
"Apigee is not a solution compatible with public clouds, making it one of its shortcomings where improvements are required."
"I have heard there maybe be some security issues that need to be addressed. If this is the situation I would encourage taking a look at the security matters."
"Lacks some new features and updated functionalities."
"Integration is an area that needs to be improved."
"From a product perspective, the first thing is that although the documentation provided by WSO2 is good, it could be much better. We're in the middle of a complex migration, moving away from VMs to Kubernetes with the latest version of WSO2 and good documentation is essential to us right now."
"We had some problems with the reverse proxy not being able to invoke fully qualified domain names, so we have to build some custom scripts to solve this issue."
"The professional support and licensing aspects of WSO have been a challenge."
"WSO2 API Manager can be improved a lot relating to usability"
"I can say that user management is not really flexible. So, if I want to create 1,000 store users, I can't do it as a publisher. You have to register as a store user using the store URL."
"They don't have different URLs for administrators."
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, Apache APISIX, Microsoft Azure API Management and 3scale API Management. See our Apigee vs. WSO2 API Manager report.
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