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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Amazon API Gateway

    Score7.2 out of 10
    N/AAWS offers the Amazon API Gateway supports the creation and publication of an API for web applications, as well as its monitoring and maintenance. The Amazon API Gateway is able to support thousands of API calls concurrently and provides traffic management, as well as monitoring and access control.

    $0.90

    Per Million

    IBM API Connect

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/AIBM API Connect is a scalable API solution that helps organizations implement a robust API strategy by creating, exposing, managing and monetizing an entire API ecosystem across multiple clouds. As businesses embrace their digital transformation journey, APIs become critical to unlock the value of business data and assets. With increasing adoption of APIs, consistency and governance are needed across the enterprise. API Connect aims to help businesses…

    $83

    per month

    Pricing
    Amazon API GatewayIBM API Connect
    Editions & Modules
    Past 300 Million
    $0.90
    Per Million
    First 300 Million
    $1.00
    Per Million
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Amazon API GatewayIBM API Connect
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Amazon API GatewayIBM API Connect
    Considered Both Products
    Amazon AWS
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    IBM
    Chose IBM API Connect
    Ease of use of the product and pricing of the product.
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM API Connect
    Brand reputation, product functions
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM API Connect
    There were multiple product we read and then shortlist were taken as POC against IBM API Connect.
    -Google Apigee : is good but in cross cloud there are concerns. Also, feature of reading & identifying the target system certificate was not available there.
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM API Connect
    It was organizational boundaries to use IBM API Connect but we have learnt so many think on this technology. Obviously, We have more experience on this it;s easy for us to configure and maintain the system.
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM API Connect
    Its depend on the business use case. Sometime we have to got through the in deep to technologies so we can;t use such built-in kind of services.
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM API Connect
    There are two main reasons for choosing IBM over others. 1) Pricing 2) The conversation during the sales stage. The team at IBM understood our requirements and acted as consultants instead of sales people. They genuinely focused on providing a solution to our pain points which …
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM API Connect
    As we have already have deep work relationship with IBM, when it comes to API gateway, we start looking at the API service IBM provides. And that is when we found out IBM API connect. It is very reliable and convenient tool to manage our API. It works with our cloud agnostic …
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    89%
    Would buy again
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    93%
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    Delivers good value for the price
    89%
    Delivers good value for the price
    8 Answers
    98%
    Delivers good value for the price
    40 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    89%
    Happy with the feature set
    8 Answers
    89%
    Happy with the feature set
    48 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    89%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    8 Answers
    92%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    36 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    89%
    Implementation went as expected
    8 Answers
    89%
    Implementation went as expected
    42 Answers
    Features
    Amazon API GatewayIBM API Connect
    API Management
    Comparison of API Management features of Amazon API Gateway and IBM API Connect
    Feature
    Amazon API Gateway
    9.1
    14 Ratings
    8% above category average
    IBM API Connect
    8.4
    57 Ratings
    0% below category average
    API access control9.013 Ratings8.957 Ratings
    Rate limits and usage policies10.013 Ratings9.152 Ratings
    API usage data8.013 Ratings8.755 Ratings
    API user onboarding8.013 Ratings8.756 Ratings
    API versioning9.013 Ratings8.456 Ratings
    Usage billing and payments10.012 Ratings7.645 Ratings
    API monitoring and logging10.014 Ratings7.856 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Amazon API GatewayIBM API Connect
    Small Businesses
    No answers on this topic
    Amazon API Gateway
    Score7.2 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Azure API Management
    Score9.1 out of 10
    Azure API Management
    Score9.1 out of 10
    Enterprises
    OCI API Management
    Score7.9 out of 10
    OCI API Management
    Score7.9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Amazon API GatewayIBM API Connect
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (14 ratings)
    9.0
    (50 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.4
    (4 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.6
    (43 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    User Testimonials
    Amazon API GatewayIBM API Connect
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Amazon AWS
    Experienced a lack of available programming languages while working on a minor project. I had to halt the project and wait for it to be added later. It took ages and had a hit on our productivity. It has a centralized management system which helps and an easy interface which helps to manage multiple tasks in case of large-scale operations and projects.
    Incentivized
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    IBM
    Based on our experience, IBM API Connect clearly excels in large enterprises navigating complex B2B ecosystems, especially within the Fintech and Banking sectors. Its capabilities are particularly valuable for achieving Open Banking compliance, facilitating the monetization of data and services, and seamlessly operating in hybrid cloud environments. However, it's crucial to understand that IBM API Connect primarily functions as an API management and orchestration tool. This means that backend integrations with providers like databases are best handled by dedicated integration middleware, such as IBM App Connect, allowing API Connect to then securely and efficiently expose those functionalities to external entities.
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    Pros
    Amazon AWS
    • API Gateway integrates well with AWS Lambda. This allows us to build a web server in the language and framework of our choice, deploy it as a Lambda function, and expose it through API Gateway.
    • API Gateway manages API keys. Building rate limiting and request quota features are not trivial (or interesting).
    • API Gateway's pricing can be very attractive for services that are accessed infrequently.
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    IBM
    • API discovery feature is very helpful to allow us to scope the work required before diving into things.
    • The ability to set permissions and rulesets at a user level is essential to restrict access to specific datasets.
    • Ability for external users (those from outside our organisation) to leverage the API in more restrictive manner.
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    Cons
    Amazon AWS
    • Client certificates are troublesome when trying to attach them to API GW stages.
    • Debugging across several services can be difficult when API GW is integrated with Route 53 and another service like Lambda or EC2/ELB.
    • Creating internal/private APIs, particularly with custom domains, can be unintuitive.
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    IBM
    • Improvement can come in the interface of the tool, which is sometimes complex and requires a deep understanding of the tool.
    • Improving the different levels of access to the playroom could be helpful because product owners and developers need to see other information.
    • Publishing API and integration of API can be more straightforward.
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    Amazon AWS
    It is a great product very reliable and stable for connecting various aws services like we connected with lambda function and it is working very well, never faced any issue after the setup. It also saves out lots of money as well as time after we implemented the automatic ec2 server recovery system
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    IBM
    I can honestly say that the availability of the platform has been incredible, with almost no disruptions during the two years of the implementation. Availability is provided through the distributed architecture that may be deployed in multiple zones. We have had almost no cases of unplanned outages, and most maintenance operations were done during planned downtimes.
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    Support Rating
    Amazon AWS
    We always had a great experience with the AWS support team. They were always on time and very dependable. It was a good partnership while we worked to resolve our issues.
    Incentivized
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    IBM
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    Amazon AWS
    When we tested Azure API Management at the time, it had serious connectivity issues, it was very unstable, and it needed to do a lot using the command line. Comparing with the AWS solution, which was more mature, and the fact that we have services in use on AWS, we ended up choosing to continue using AWS products. This so as not to run the risk of increasing latency in accesses, and of some functionality not working, due to being developed yet.
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    IBM
    IBM API Connect and Apigee are both robust API management platforms. IBM API Connect was selected for its strong integration capabilities, hybrid cloud deployment options, and comprehensive analytics. It aligns well with organizations seeking flexibility and control over their API ecosystems, especially when dealing with complex integration scenarios across diverse environments.
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    Return on Investment
    Amazon AWS
    • ROI is negative, you need either to hire them to work with you or spend days/weeks to figure out issues.
    • For some of the projects in the end it is not worth it, it is just a "buzz" to use serverless but not practical.
    • Service is easy to set up authorization and it is easy to manage.
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    IBM
    • Our company benefited from IBM API Connect's assistance in establishing cooperation with our outside providers and efficiently managing the API. As a result, we were able to expand our vendor ecosystem.
    • Additionally, creating APIs and implementing them on the goods was not too difficult. Additionally, we were able to ensure that only appropriate people could publish the APIs following evaluation by using role-based access control.
    • Our teams were able to reuse and share departmental APIs and services with each other thanks to the simple, self-service developer site.
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