Apigee Reviews

We are a telecom-based organization, so our use cases are generally based on telecom functionalities like the MF APIs. I'm a technical architect and we partner with Google. 

Apigee is a front-layer gateway and it helps to improve our overall performance.
We can repair requests and respond to vacant needs and that's a big help to us. 

Many of the features available are valuable to us including out-of-the-box policies, the vacant creation, throttling and more. We are using authentication and authorization which are also good features. 

Integration should be improved as we'd be able to use solutions such as NewSoft or Del Boomi. It would be helpful if Apigee would lower their licensing costs. I'd like to see a cloud-based solution and some new features similar to those available with TD cloud or Salesforce.

I've been using this solution for over six years. 

The solution is stable.

To date, our use cases have been limited so we haven't had significant scalability requirements. We have no plans for expanding the use of this product. 

On a number of occasions we've needed some immediate help or a quick turnaround, but the technical support response was quite slow. 

Initially, we figured out how to deploy the solution on the job and it required some external assistance, but because we've been working with Apigee for so long, deployment is relatively easy for us these days and is carried out in-house. 

Apigee has so many servers nowadays that are based on requirements. Much of the information is available on Apigee documentation which is good. 

I rate this solution eight out of 10. 

We use the Apigee platform for analytics, specifically for retail customers. We have used this solution to enhance the capability of some of our legacy systems. We have 300 users on this platform. 

One of the best parts of this solution is the implementation as we did not need to use code or out-of-box policies. When it comes to the cloud-based architecture, there is a high level of reliability.

When it comes to the rate limit, we don't have a specific category for rate limits for a particular customer.

I have been using Apigee for more than seven years.

This is a stable solution. 

This is a scalable solution. 

The customer support for this solution is very good. We have received immediate responses from the technical team.

Neutral

The initial setup is not that straightforward. 

This solution offers annual licensing.

I would recommend this solution for API management and is one of the best on the market.

I would rate it an eight out of ten.

It is easy to use from a developer perspective and a customer perspective. 

It is easy to set up. It is on Google Platform, and there are multiple deployment models they support, which is great.

There should be an integrated continuous integration and continuous deployment approach with Apigee. Currently, for development at a more integrated level, you have set it up yourself.

It lacks the connectors and connectivity. That's something that would be good to have. 

I have been using this solution for 10 years.

I have not faced any stability issues.

Their support is good.

For on-premise, there is complexity, but the cloud version is easy to set up.

Its price is reasonable for the features they provide and the maturity of the platform.

I would rate it a nine out of ten.

One feature I found most valuable in Apigee is its simplicity. All features remain the same in all of the API tools, and I have experience with IBM API Connect and Apigee, but Apigee is easier to work with, plus the learning curve is not that steep.

Another thing I like about this solution is that the support is really good, and this gives Apigee advantage over other providers.

I like the development feature of Apigee. You will find it easier to work with Apigee than IBM API Connect.

We found a glitch in Apigee, and we raised it with them: It's the response overlapping from the API with high traffic.

They have been working on that, and they have shared a patch with us, but I'm not sure if that is publicly available for all users. It was made available to our organization: one single patch of Apigee.

I've been using Apigee for over two years, and I've used it in the last 12 months.

This product is is stable.

Apigee is a scalable product.

Technical support for Apigee is very good.

I used IBM API Connect, but found it easier to work with Apigee.

I evaluated IBM API Connect.

I'm both a user and an integrator of Apigee.

We have deployments both on-premises and via cloud. We use both, like Google SaaS and the on-premises solution.

We are a consultant for different organizations. Some organizations prefer on-premises deployment, with everything on their private cloud, and this means they use the older version of Apigee. Some organizations use the latest version because they're using Google SaaS directly.

My advice to people who are looking into implementing Apigee in their organization: If it fits your budget, then it is a good product. If it fits into your ecosystem, e.g. you are in that ecosystem, not in IBM or other CA-based ones, Apigee is something you can go for. It is a good platform.

I haven't worked with CA, and there are others, e.g. MuleSoft, so I can't comment on how Apigee compares with those competitors, but compared to IBM API Connect, Apigee is a good one.

I'm rating Apigee eight over ten. There's still room for improvement, so it's an eight for me.

Apigee is a platform for API management.

Apigee is a pioneer in the industry and has good features and functionalities. It is a good tool for API management and it has more advancements than all other tools in the market in certain areas.

It has many features, such as flexibility, coding writing, and JavaScripting.

I have been using Apigee for approximately four years.

Apigee is stable. In the entire API management world, I feel this is one of the best tools for pure API management. If there are any orchestrations or business processes to be involved, then Mulesoft or Boomi can be used, but comparatively, all the security and governance policies that are available on the dashboards and the reports make Apigee the best tool for pure API management.

The installation is good. I won't say it is complex, but it has many configurations and types of policies that are available. However, it can be easily done.

Apigee is slightly expensive, but again, it can depend on the type of usage. All things considered, it is slightly expensive. 

AWS is winning in the cost category, they have many packages and services but when using all these services together I am not sure what the cost would be.

I have evaluated Mulesoft and Boomi. I have found these two solutions are being used secondarily to Apigee. Additionally, AWS and Azure's Gateways are becoming popular in the market. From the cost perspective, in the two years, AWS gateway is widely being used. These four solutions are widely being used in the market but Apigee is much far ahead than all other tools.

AWS and Apigee have similar features. I don't see any significant change in the difference at the moment. The choice is more about convenience and cost.

I rate Apigee an eight out of ten.

We use Apigee an API gateway solution. It can be used in many areas or industries. For example, in Indian, the railway and finance sector, or in Australia, for the Oil Industry.

Apigee is a strong-featured solution. It leads in Gartner Quadrant ratings and it is a full-slated API solution that has the features that an API gateway requires.

I have been using Apigee for approximately three years.

Apigee has been stable.

I have found Apigee to be scalable.

We have more customers using Apigee than other API gateway solutions.

The technical support for Apigee is very good.

There is installation documentation available.

We have standard administrators teams for the deployment. We can also receive support from the Apogee team. If we are unsure of the requirement for deployment, we have one person from Apogee for two months and they will do the job and leave afterward.  

The price of Apigee could be less expensive. The solution can be purchased monthly or annually. 

I would recommend this solution to others, it is a good choice.

I rate Apigee a nine out of ten.

I'm a part of a service provider company, and we basically provide all kinds of services for our customers. One of the areas for which we provide services is API management. We work a lot with Apigee, and we have experience and a good team working with Apigee.

In terms of use cases, we've created a good marketplace for one of the clients. They are a logistics company, and they have a lot of vendors and partners with whom they work. So, we have created a marketplace where the vendor's partners can integrate for their shipments and other things. They can integrate their applications into this marketplace.

We have also implemented developer portals where we do the onboarding of developers. They can create their code SDKs, etc.

Currently, we are at a customer site, and we are migrating the on-premise version H to Apigee X, which is the latest one.

The analytics function and the developer portal are the two valuable features of Apigee. The analytics part is very good, and the developer portal is quite rich in features.

The authentication mechanisms are quite easily built into Apigee, which is something that most of the other products have also now started supporting.

iPaaS is something that we would like to see. For example, MuleSoft is kind of an integrated platform as a service (iPaaS), and it provides a lot of out-of-the-box connectors and other such things. This is where Apigee lacks. I'm not sure if that's the roadmap for Apigee, but any improvements on those lines would be helpful where things become easier to implement.

It has been four to five years.

It is definitely stable. Performance-wise, we have not seen any major bottlenecks. What we have realized is that the performance is not just because of the tool itself. If you take any API management tool, the performance also depends on the way the integrations are done. So, if implemented correctly, performance is not really an issue.

With the SaaS model, scalability is there. 

It is suitable for large companies because it is a bit pricey. It is definitely not for small companies, but it might be suitable for medium companies.

We have not been in touch with them much because we mostly have done development, but they do provide good support. Their support during the initial design architecture phase is also very good. So, if you have bought the licenses, they do provide an architect to come in and define the whole architecture. That way, the support is good.

We work on multiple API management tools based on the requirement of a particular customer. We have worked on Apigee, Dotcom, MuleSoft, to name a few.

Managing an on-premise setup themselves can be a huge overhead for customers. Apigee, I believe, releases patches very frequently, and those upgrades and maintenance activities are quite an overhead. Having said that, it has good support. They provide a lot of scripts through which the installation and other things can be automated, but obviously, we have to tailor those to our needs. On-premise is definitely a little bit of overhead. We have to have a team to manage that, but now with Apigee X going on SaaS, most of the implementations are on SaaS. So, this overhead is minimized a lot, and you just have to do the configurations.

It is a bit on the expensive side. Its licensing cost is a bit high, and that's where we've seen people going back on their decisions.

In the latest version of Apigee, they've broadened the support for socket communication, which was previously missing in Apigee Hybrid.

I wouldn't recommend Apigee for simple situations because sometimes, it does become an overhead. It is overkill for simple situations. If you have very complex scenarios where you are trying to embark on a cloud journey and you still have systems on-premise or some systems are hosted on some other cloud and you want to do an integration, Apigee is really good. It provides support for the mesh architecture, and with that, it becomes quite easy.

The advice that we normally give is that when you are starting on an Apigee journey, you should not think of it just as an API management tool. We try to give it as an enterprise API platform that a large customer with different lines and businesses, such as a bank, would eventually leverage as a whole. You should not treat it in a way where only a particular group is using Apigee. It is an enterprise platform. So, you should treat it as a platform.

I would rate Apigee an eight out of 10.

Apigee is a platform for developing and managing APIs.

Overall the solution works well, it is one of the best solutions on the market. There is plenty of support documentation available.

The Apigee cloud admin UI could be more user-friendly by adding a few more features.

I have been working with Apigee for one and a half years.

The solution is highly stable.

We have built an API platform o over 2,000 different partners and all of them are using the gateways.

The technical support is very good.

The installation was not difficult.

I rate Apigee an eight out of ten.