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3scale API Management Platform vs. Akamai API Gateway

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
3scale API Management Platform
Score 7.8 out of 10
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3scale headquartered in San Francisco, California offers an API Management Platform.
$750
per month
Akamai API Gateway
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
Akamai offers their API Gateway, touting easy control and access to enterprise applications via their services.N/A
Pricing
3scale API Management PlatformAkamai API Gateway
Editions & Modules
Pro
$750.00
per month
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
3scale API Management PlatformAkamai API Gateway
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Features
3scale API Management PlatformAkamai API Gateway
API Management
Comparison of API Management features of Product A and Product B
3scale API Management Platform
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Ratings
Akamai API Gateway
7.7
1 Ratings
9% below category average
API access control00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Rate limits and usage policies00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
API usage data00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
API user onboarding00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
API versioning00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Usage billing and payments00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
API monitoring and logging00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
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User Ratings
3scale API Management PlatformAkamai API Gateway
Likelihood to Recommend
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(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
3scale API Management PlatformAkamai API Gateway
Likelihood to Recommend
Red Hat
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Akamai
It is really helpful for managing [the] scaling of systems with need and utilizing resources when needed. Also, DevOps support for deployment plans is quite useful when deploying applications. Monitoring systems with graphQL and utilizing them in APIs is quite helpful when used in Microservices systems to identify system capabilities and user utilization of applications.
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Pros
Red Hat
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Akamai
  • Graphically representation in GraphQL
  • Scaling system
  • DevOps management
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Cons
Red Hat
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Akamai
  • Quota enforcement can be simplified
  • Caching mechanism for API with akamai can be improved
  • Gateway configuration can be simplified as details are not much elaborate
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Alternatives Considered
Red Hat
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Akamai
Akamai [API Gateway] helps better in terms of representation of graphQL and its consumption in monitoring system making a package for deployment speed with monitoring and scaling application with all services and utilizing most of a system without much knowledge of other aspects. Also, [a] user-friendly system helps people to handle [the] system with necessary options
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Return on Investment
Red Hat
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Akamai
  • Decrease in time required for deployment and monitoring by significant amount causing less support resources needed
  • Scaling applications on month-end at high usage time has reduced TAT time for issues and no of issues occurring
  • Quota enforcement has allowed [managing] multiple systems and their needs in respective stakeholders hands and reduced infra teams involvement in [the] management of reoccurring problems
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