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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Apigee Edge

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AApigee Edge is an API management platform now owned and offered by Google, since Google acquired Apigee in 2016.N/A

    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…

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    Apigee EdgeIBM API Connect
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    Apigee EdgeIBM 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
    Apigee EdgeIBM API Connect
    Considered Both Products
    Google
    No answer on this topic
    IBM
    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.
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    Chose IBM API Connect
    We choice IBM API Connect because Apigee is more manual when you create an API Proxy
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM API Connect
    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 …
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM API Connect
    The power of IBM APIC is much more in contrast to Apigee or any other product of the same domain because it is having DataPower as the backbone which allows for easy integrating with almost any platform, providing the highest level of security, handling millions of transactions …
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM API Connect
    Ease of use of the product and pricing of the product.
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM API Connect
    Mulesoft seemed to take a lot longer to implement and reach any real ROI attribution. For the other competitors, I'd say they are easier to administrate, but this isn't as important to us as a business user. It was easier to explore APIs with IBM than it was with others.
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM API Connect
    IBM API Connect have more feature compared to other solutions like from one platform we can create APIs on the API Manager, we can publish the APIs to the products/portal server, we can secure the APIs using IBM DataPower Gateway, we can socalize the APIs using developer …
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM API Connect
    IBM API CONNECT competitors have the following advantages:

    • Cost advantage
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM API Connect
    API Connect provides the most complete feature set out of all the above mentioned
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM API Connect
    IBM API connect leverage existing installation of IBM DataPower Gateway.
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM API Connect
    IBM API Connect is very mature and offers lot of flexibility for enterprise requirements, highlighted in the following key areas:
    1. Consumer management
    2. Workflow on product lifecycle
    3. Intuitive UI-based development options
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM API Connect
    We selected API connect as both tools have more or less same features, the differentiation was we also use IIB, and seamless integration with IIB was the major factor
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    93%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    98%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    89%
    Happy with the feature set
    48 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    92%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    36 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
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    89%
    Implementation went as expected
    42 Answers
    Features
    Apigee EdgeIBM API Connect
    API Management
    Comparison of API Management features of Apigee Edge and IBM API Connect
    Feature
    Apigee Edge
    9.4
    7 Ratings
    11% above category average
    IBM API Connect
    8.4
    57 Ratings
    0% below category average
    API access control9.07 Ratings8.957 Ratings
    Rate limits and usage policies9.07 Ratings9.152 Ratings
    API usage data9.07 Ratings8.755 Ratings
    API user onboarding9.97 Ratings8.756 Ratings
    API versioning9.97 Ratings8.456 Ratings
    Usage billing and payments9.06 Ratings7.645 Ratings
    API monitoring and logging9.97 Ratings7.856 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Apigee EdgeIBM API Connect
    Small Businesses
    Amazon API Gateway
    Score7.2 out of 10
    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
    Apigee EdgeIBM API Connect
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (7 ratings)
    9.0
    (50 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.4
    (4 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.7
    (43 ratings)
    Support Rating
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Apigee EdgeIBM API Connect
    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
    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
    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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    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.
    Incentivized
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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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    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.
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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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    IBM
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    Google
    Support has helped us to resolved all the queries and community support was also good.
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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
    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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    IBM
    No answers on this topic
    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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    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
    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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    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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    IBM API Connect Screenshots

    Screenshot of API tests and insightsScreenshot of API Manager customization interfaceScreenshot of the API designer