We performed a comparison between Apigee and Layer 7 API Management based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Apigee has very high availability and makes it easy for users to manage the entire lifecycle of the API. It offers vast opportunities for easy customization. Users find some of Layer 7 API Management’s tools and features difficult to implement and bulky, causing processes to slow down. Layer 7 could also use more cloud-native features.
"Apigee is very easy to use, and you can code in any language."
"The most valuable features of Apigee for me are analytics, security, ease of use, and integration capabilities."
"I simply like how you can personalize your products and put them into product categories. That's what I like the most."
"The most valuable feature is the API gateway."
"The pricing is okay."
"The most important feature is the security capabilities and the way it integrates very quickly with other security providers. We have integrated it with Azure and it integrates quite seamlessly."
"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."
"It is scalable."
"The solution has numerous configuration options to increase security in communication."
"It has its own language, which make it possible to design and implement the complete flow using existing services and databases, and to create and aggregate fine-and coarse-grained APIs."
"The latest version that just came out at the first of October really was a powerful move in the right direction. I was very, very pleased with that because it allows now beginning to use information of things. We've got this IOT infrastructure that we can plug into, and for my use cases there are a lot of outdoor sensors that provide valuable information to my customers."
"Tech support is fast and responsive."
"It is a stable product."
"We definitely get good responses from the technical team and they are quite responsive."
"As an organization grow, you can use CA API Management for authentication purposes through the CA API Gateway. It allows for multiple identity providers with different Active Directories."
"The administration interface (Policy Manager) is very easy to understand and use."
"I see some lagging in regards to integration capacity"
"It is an expensive solution."
"The pricing for the product was a bit higher. I also found it challenging to manage sometimes."
"Drag and drop of features would be more beneficial, rather than manually working on the configuration and updates."
"Technical support model for OPDK should be more exposed and mature in terms of providing support during installation, run, and debug of Apigee in production on OPDK mode."
"The solution tends to hide the limitations to keep selling the product."
"The developer portal's adoption of the OpenAPI standard needs to be improved. In the latest version of the developer portal, they have adopted the OpenAPI standard. This feature, however, can be improved by supporting more characteristics of the OpenAPI standard."
"There should be an integrated continuous integration and continuous deployment approach with Apigee. Currently, for development at a more integrated level, you have set it up yourself."
"The only issue we have is that we have to buy an APM license separately for end-to-end monitoring."
"Layer7 API Management should improve the quota policy for the number of API calls."
"The interface is Java which is difficult to make look very nice."
"Some users say that the API lacks some features and is lagging behind the competition although that has not been my personal experience."
"They need a workflow for the API Developer Portal, where the process only allows requests to go to the correct person."
"Increase tools for manipulation of JSON messages."
"More developer focused tools. They have a nice debugger inside of the program, but when you are developing code with their policies, it is tough to visualize that sometimes as a developer."
"I would like for the new release to allow us to speed up code generation. The integration with CICD could also be more seamless."
Apigee is ranked 2nd in API Management with 82 reviews while Layer7 API Management is ranked 10th in API Management with 110 reviews. Apigee is rated 8.2, while Layer7 API Management is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Apigee writes "Has a robust community and outstanding performance". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Layer7 API Management writes "Has great drag-and-drop features and it requires minimal coding ". Apigee is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, IBM API Connect, WSO2 API Manager, Amazon API Gateway and MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, whereas Layer7 API Management is most compared with Kong Gateway Enterprise, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, Amazon API Gateway, Microsoft Azure API Management and IBM API Connect. See our Apigee vs. Layer7 API Management report.
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