IBM API Connect Review
October 09, 2025

IBM API Connect Review

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review

Overall Satisfaction with IBM API Connect

I use IBM API Connect to help customers implement API First Strategy.
IBM API Connect helps discover the APIs in the organization and help manage lifecycle of APIs. It helps in socializing the APIs with wider range of audience within organization as well as it helps to expose APIs to external world. Developer portal helps partner onboarding easy as partners can try out the APIs before actually entering into contract with the clients.

Pros

  • API lifecycle management
  • API Discovery
  • Developer portal experience

Cons

  • More visualization in how policies/APIs and products are being connected
  • Simplify the components or at least better visualization of IBM API Connect subsystems like API Manager, Analytics, gateways
  • I think we can simplify the GUI and jumping from developers portal to analytics to API manager etc
  • API automated testing
  • It helped discover the APIs
  • OpenAPI specification helps with portability of APIs
Considering the use case of IBM API Connect - it addresses most questions and provides solution. The confusion happens with similar capabilities of IBM API Connect and AppConnect.

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

Not sure

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

Yes

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

Yes

Did implementation of IBM API Connect go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy IBM API Connect again?

Yes

IBM API Connect was really helpful in creating proxy API layers around functionality implemented in ACE as well as other applications.
API security features were easy to implement.
It was not suitable tool for transformation of he messages - the functionality is limited but that is understandable. Overall for converting existing application into API and exposing them internally or externally securely was important use case for IBM API Connect.

IBM API Connect Feature Ratings

API access control
10
Rate limits and usage policies
10
API usage data
8
API user onboarding
8
API versioning
8
Usage billing and payments
8
API monitoring and logging
8

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