IBM API Connect Review
Updated June 25, 2025

IBM API Connect Review

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with IBM API Connect

We use it to manage all available API in our org. By using API connect we are able to introduce an API as a product resulting in ease of use for consumer. Also it solve our problem of pricing model of "pay as you use" and "pay for what you subscribe". It gives a platform to showcase all available products or a set of API's as product for consumer which helps in determining the business on the sales side. The biggest problem that IBM API Connect resolves for our org is that we have huge number of API's due to which it is very hard to manage all of them at a time, but APIC portal solve this problem by providing a very easy integration to a UI portal. Both Developer and Product portal UI is very simple and easy to navigate for user.

Pros

  • We have a project for of a notification system which has a bunch of API's in it. Using API connect we have introduced a product as whole with all this API for consumers to use with different pricing plans.
  • Another use case is for a single API which is integrated with multiple backend routing system which we have added to our product marketplace in API connect. This is available with some rate limit and different pricing plans for consumer to use.
  • We have a project with multiple API's where we have create a product with all the API's in it. In this case, Consumer can subscribe to each individual API withing this group or it can subscribe to whole product as one depending on their need. This scenario also has different pricing plans.

Cons

  • Onboarding a new org or consumer is a bit of hard using IBM API Connect. It can be improved in the UI.
  • The portal has some bugs while configuring different gateways in design tab when we create a new product which can be fixed.
  • It definitely reduced man power required to manage different set of systems for business
  • It has reduced the overall cost of the business.
As previously mentioned it really helped our business to grow.
Ease of use of the product and pricing of the product.

Do you think IBM API Connect delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with IBM API Connect's feature set?

Yes

Did IBM API Connect live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of IBM API Connect go as expected?

I wasn't involved with the implementation phase

Would you buy IBM API Connect again?

Yes

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1)If the Org has very large number of API's then IBM API Connect is best platform to use for managing those API's.
2) If you want to use features like access control and market place for your product than IBM API Connect is useful.
3) If you need to introduce some pricing models for consumers related to your product than IBM API Connect can be used.

IBM API Connect Feature Ratings

API Management
7.1
API access control
7
Rate limits and usage policies
7
API usage data
7
API user onboarding
7
API versioning
7
Usage billing and payments
7
API monitoring and logging
8

Using IBM API Connect

25 - Developer and Product owner
20 - API management, API lifecycle, Business requirement, Stakeholder management
  • API Management

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