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    Apigee API Management

    Score7.6 out of 10
    N/AApigee API Management is Google Cloud's managed platform for building, managing, and securing application programming interfaces (APIs). It places an API proxy layer between backend services and the internal or external clients that call them. Security, traffic management, data mediation, and analytics are applied at the proxy, so the backend services can change without disrupting the applications that consume them. The primary users are API producers, who build and operate APIs, and the…N/A

    Azure API Management

    Score9.1 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft's Azure API Management supports creation of API.

    $0.04

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    Pricing
    Apigee API ManagementAzure API Management
    Editions & Modules
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    Consumption
    0.042 per 10,000 calls
    Lightweight and serverless version of API Management service, billed per execution
    Developer
    $48.04
    per month Non-production use cases and evaluations
    Basic
    $147.17
    per month Entry-level production use cases
    Standard
    $686.72
    per month Medium-volume production use cases
    Premium
    $2,795.17
    per month High-volume or enterprise production use cases
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    TBA
    per month Enterprise production use cases requiring high degree of isolation
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    Apigee API ManagementAzure API Management
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    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Apigee API ManagementAzure API Management
    Considered Both Products
    Google
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    Microsoft
    Chose Azure API Management
    Apigee is by Google and seems to be promising. The cost seems high though. With Azure, we do not have to make any special purchases. CapEx vs OpEx! But, Apigee could be more environment independent compared to Azure APIM. The promise of speed by Apigee is also better compared …
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    Features
    Apigee API ManagementAzure API Management
    API Management
    Comparison of API Management features of Apigee API Management and Azure API Management
    Feature
    Apigee API Management
    9.4
    7 Ratings
    10% above category average
    Azure API Management
    8.0
    4 Ratings
    6% below category average
    API access control9.07 Ratings8.94 Ratings
    Rate limits and usage policies9.07 Ratings5.44 Ratings
    API usage data9.07 Ratings8.94 Ratings
    API user onboarding9.97 Ratings9.03 Ratings
    API versioning9.97 Ratings8.94 Ratings
    Usage billing and payments9.06 Ratings5.23 Ratings
    API monitoring and logging9.97 Ratings9.84 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Apigee API ManagementAzure API Management
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (7 ratings)
    8.0
    (4 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
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    Usability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
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    Support Rating
    6.0
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    User Testimonials
    Apigee API ManagementAzure API Management
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Google
    Few scenarios 1. For viewing API analytics, I think it is best in the market 2. For earning money via API monetization 3. Securing API 4. Onboarding legacy APIs to provide modern REST endpoints
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    Microsoft
    APIM is useful for the standard scenarios:
    1) Securing your back-end APIs - If you have a legacy back-end web service that has a basic authentication scheme, you can add some additional security by placing APIM in front, and requiring subscription keys. Leverage your existing firewall to ensure only your APIM instance can communicate with your back-end API, and you've basically added a layer of protection.
    2) Lift and shift - there are always going to be clients that don't want to update their clients to use a newer API; in some cases you can make a newer API look like an older one by implementing some complex policies in APIM. You can also do the opposite, making older APIs look new, such as making an XML back-end accept both JSON and XML.
    3) Centralizing your APIs - if you've acquired another company and want to make their API set look as if it's a part of the larger whole, APIM is an easy way to provide a consistent front-end interface for developers.
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    Pros
    Google
    • Better exception handling with the Raise exception policies help to monitor the flow by setting up the flow conditions.
    • Easy development of a Proxy and APIs with much less tutoring and helps make getting started for new users easy.
    • Very good documentation and blog with details of most common failures and error handling.
    • A very very easy to use console.
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    Microsoft
    • Easy commissioning of APIs.
    • Great policies to control access.
    • Easy mock services for testing.
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    Cons
    Google
    • Only one user can be active in a proxy at a time
    • No version control
    • Prohibited from using JSON.stringify on Apigee objects (tokens)
    • Debugging is difficult
    • Unable to rename or delete policies without bumping revision
    • Why would anyone give a js policy one name, display name something else, and script a different name?
    • 'Trace' limited to only 20 transactions
    • UI allows users to add target servers, but users must utilize the api to turn on SSL.
    • I'm sure there's more, they just aren't coming to mind right now.
    • Apigee forgets (expires?) your password at random intervals without notice. Every few weeks, or days, sometimes even three times in one day, I'll attempt to login to Apigee and my password will be 'wrong'. I've reset my password and Apigee still claims it's wrong. I've had to reset my password three times before it finally let me log back in.
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    Microsoft
    • Lack of robustness is a bit of an issue. Several other providers offer more options and capabilities, but then, they are lacking in interface ease.
    • As with anything Azure, pricing is really hard to stay on top of. I always find that you really don’t know what you’re paying for until you get the bill. Having an excellent Azure Administrator can help resolve that.
    • Integrating with app services outside of Azure can be a challenge, or at least much more challenging than just using Azure App Services.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Google
    I am not the one deciding whether to use apigee or not really. But personally, I would recommend the use of it as developing APIs on it is easy. And as a mediator between backend servers, we could easily modify request and responses in it without touching any backend code while having a centralize gateway to access our backend APIs too.
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    Microsoft
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    Usability
    Google
    Support has helped us to resolved all the queries and community support was also good.
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    Microsoft
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    Support Rating
    Google
    Quite hard to get support, at least on the coding side, when we encounter blockers. But general concerns, they would schedule a call to you for them to get a whole picture of your concern. Albeit in my experience, bad really as they haven't replied about the progress, but otherwise seems to have been fixed.
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    Microsoft
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    Alternatives Considered
    Google
    Apigee is the best in the market in terms of API Analytics Apigee is having wonderful Documentation with short videos Security is a major concern and Apigee provides an easily configurable policy to secure API Quota and rate-limit is again very easy to configure on every API basis It provides various policies to transform the response from one form to another form e.g. JSON to XML or XML to JSON
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    Microsoft
    Azure APIM vs Amazon API Gateway:
    1) Azure APIM was a complete package that included a developer portal.
    2) We are very Microsoft centric - so the Microsoft product suite aligned very well with our business needs.
    3) It was faster and easier to stand up Azure APIM for testing than it was for the Amazon API Gateway.
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    Return on Investment
    Google
    • As a public entity it is hard to say how much ROI we can have. We have yet to create a billing and ROI plan. We are thinking of other ways to create ROI, possibly through data/service barter.
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    Microsoft
    • We can always think of positive ROI impact on business
    • It helps to easily facilitate the design, deployment, and maintenance of our APIs
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