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Akamai API Gateway vs. Mashery (now part of Boomi)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Akamai API Gateway
Score 8.6 out of 10
N/A
Akamai offers their API Gateway, touting easy control and access to enterprise applications via their services.N/A
Mashery (now part of Boomi)
Score 10.0 out of 10
N/A
Mashery, for a time sold as TIBCO Cloud API Management, was an API management solution whose former capabilities have been added to Boomi's enterprise platform.N/A
Pricing
Akamai API GatewayMashery (now part of Boomi)
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Akamai API GatewayMashery (now part of Boomi)
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
Akamai API GatewayMashery (now part of Boomi)
Considered Both Products
Akamai API Gateway
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Akamai API Gateway
Akamai [API Gateway] helps better in terms of representation of graphQL and its consumption in monitoring system making a package for deployment speed with monitoring and scaling application with all services and utilizing most of a system without much knowledge of other …
Mashery (now part of Boomi)
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Mashery (now part of Boomi)
AWS API Gateway
Azure API Gateway
MD
Mateusz Dampc
Sr. DevOps Engineer
Chose Mashery (now part of Boomi)
Far more expensive than Mashery, no support on migrating data from Mashery to Apigee. If you wish to migrate you are on your own.
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Mashery (now part of Boomi)
We've use Red Hat CloudForms, but we prefer TIBCO Mashery.
Harry Vyt | TrustRadius Reviewer
Harry Vyt
IT Product Manager
Chose Mashery (now part of Boomi)
Other providers have been considered, such as Mulesoft and IBM. The choice for Tibco was primarily inspired because of the existing partnership, and the flexibility of their offering.
DP
Dejan Pust
Development Team Lead
Chose Mashery (now part of Boomi)
For us, it was an easy decision as we used other TIBCO solutions that well integrated with TIBCO Cloud Mashery.
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Mashery (now part of Boomi)
Mashery, in its deploy anywhere approach, protects web and non-web applications. It is flexible and holds its own against AWS's Web Application Firewall.
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Mashery (now part of Boomi)
Amazon API Gateway mainly. We find AWS is innovating very fast in the space. For the user's already with workloads running in AWS, it's easier to integrate with many other value add services like security and monitoring.
Chose Mashery (now part of Boomi)
TIBCO Cloud Mashery rates easier to use in API implementation and deployment. It also allows combining multiple APIs into packages which can be consumed by different applications.
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Mashery (now part of Boomi)
We use session management with TIBCO Cloud Mashery and we really love it.
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Mashery (now part of Boomi)
TIBCO Cloud Mashery is equal to or better than each of these competitors in many areas.
Oldrich Novak | TrustRadius Reviewer
Oldrich Novak
Director Platform Engineering at Adidas
Chose Mashery (now part of Boomi)
Our selection process happened in 2016. TIBCO Mashery's easy hybrid deployment model was the reason why we decided on Mashery over Apigee. AKAMAI API gateway is now a new tool on the market evolving really fast but was not available yet when we went through the selection …
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Mashery (now part of Boomi)
When the evaluation of API Management was done, the market for a cloud, SaaS offering was limited. The short timeline for setting up TIBCO Cloud Mashery and the quick enablement of the developer portal have been major decision criteria.
Manny Rechani | TrustRadius Reviewer
Manny Rechani
Program Manager (Consultant) - Application Programming Interface (API)
Chose Mashery (now part of Boomi)
Mashery was already installed when I took over the project. I have not worked extensively with other platforms.
Ali Dalloul | TrustRadius Reviewer
Ali Dalloul
Director of Software Development
Chose Mashery (now part of Boomi)
I've really only looked at Mashery since it has been around a very long time and has a rich feature set. I do know our platform teams are looking into AWS gateway but not sure this product has everything we need.
JP
Justin Peterson
Senior Development Manager
Chose Mashery (now part of Boomi)
When we were first trying to identify an API Gateway provider, we evaluated Mashery and Apigee and chose Mashery because they were more competitive on cost. Now that we are with Mashery, we have not considered other vendors.

We do use Amazon's API Gateway service for some …
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Mashery (now part of Boomi)
I use Mashery because it is very easy to use and it can help some of the older people in my firm to understand how to use Mashery in the new programs in terms of back end and front end development. It also allows other competitors to not be needed and allows me to use other …
Features
Akamai API GatewayMashery (now part of Boomi)
API Management
Comparison of API Management features of Product A and Product B
Akamai API Gateway
7.7
Ratings
7% below category average
Mashery (now part of Boomi)
6.9
Ratings
18% below category average
API access control8.00 Ratings8.40 Ratings
Rate limits and usage policies7.00 Ratings7.70 Ratings
API usage data8.00 Ratings7.20 Ratings
API user onboarding8.00 Ratings7.50 Ratings
API versioning7.00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Usage billing and payments7.00 Ratings4.00 Ratings
API monitoring and logging9.00 Ratings6.50 Ratings
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User Ratings
Akamai API GatewayMashery (now part of Boomi)
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
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7.6
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Likelihood to Renew
-
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10.0
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Usability
-
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6.0
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
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7.0
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User Testimonials
Akamai API GatewayMashery (now part of Boomi)
Likelihood to Recommend
It is really helpful for managing [the] scaling of systems with need and utilizing resources when needed. Also, DevOps support for deployment plans is quite useful when deploying applications. Monitoring systems with graphQL and utilizing them in APIs is quite helpful when used in Microservices systems to identify system capabilities and user utilization of applications.
Verified User
Anonymous
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TIBCO Cloud Mashery allows you to quickly enable API access control and management together with quick and easy setup of the developer portal. It focuses on core API management with limited integration features (filters, adapters, orchestration) - so TIBCO Cloud Mashery is mostly suited in a setup which already addresses integration features with other products.
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Anonymous
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Pros
  • Graphically representation in GraphQL
  • Scaling system
  • DevOps management
Verified User
Anonymous
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  • Throttling of requests helps prevent DOS attacks. Attackers try to wreak havoc wherever they can. Mashery helps you control your environments to throttle every endpoint independently.
  • The interface for setting endpoints is very intuitive and makes real-time adjustment easy to do.
  • TIBCO Cloud Mashery support is superb. I do not have to go to their website to know of any issues. They are proactive in communicating with their customers
Verified User
Anonymous
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Cons
  • Quota enforcement can be simplified
  • Caching mechanism for API with akamai can be improved
  • Gateway configuration can be simplified as details are not much elaborate
Verified User
Anonymous
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  • Mashery should allow orchestration and transformation out of the box rather than it being a service or having to buy additional services.
  • The dashboard is easy to use but I think it needs a face lift and it needs to start using TIBCO Spotfire to make it more of a analytical engine.
Bradley Likes | TrustRadius Reviewer
Bradley Likes
Enterprise Services Manager
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Likelihood to Renew
No answers on this topic
Ease of use.
Manny Rechani | TrustRadius Reviewer
Manny Rechani
Program Manager (Consultant) - Application Programming Interface (API)
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Usability
No answers on this topic
i find some of the package adding and key are complex . UI experience is bad . Every step need front and backward navigation too much. It would be better if endpoint itself contain package and key addiction option
Verified User
Anonymous
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Support Rating
No answers on this topic
Support has been good overall.
Manny Rechani | TrustRadius Reviewer
Manny Rechani
Program Manager (Consultant) - Application Programming Interface (API)
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Implementation Rating
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Initially it was difficult to understand . after few day , it was easy
Verified User
Anonymous
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Alternatives Considered
Akamai [API Gateway] helps better in terms of representation of graphQL and its consumption in monitoring system making a package for deployment speed with monitoring and scaling application with all services and utilizing most of a system without much knowledge of other aspects. Also, [a] user-friendly system helps people to handle [the] system with necessary options
Verified User
Anonymous
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Our selection process happened in 2016. TIBCO Mashery's easy hybrid deployment model was the reason why we decided on Mashery over Apigee. Akamai API Gateway is now a new tool on the market evolving really fast but was not available yet when we went through the selection process. Tyk is open source and evolving very fast, but 2 years back, it was not mature enough. That might have changed now.
Oldrich Novak | TrustRadius Reviewer
Oldrich Novak
Director Platform Engineering at Adidas
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Return on Investment
  • Decrease in time required for deployment and monitoring by significant amount causing less support resources needed
  • Scaling applications on month-end at high usage time has reduced TAT time for issues and no of issues occurring
  • Quota enforcement has allowed [managing] multiple systems and their needs in respective stakeholders hands and reduced infra teams involvement in [the] management of reoccurring problems
Verified User
Anonymous
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  • Mashery enabled us to go to market quicker because we didn't have to write systems for authentication and security for ourselves.
  • Mashery helps our MTTR when we have issues because we can use their transaction logs to identify and troubleshoot issues.
JP
Justin Peterson
Senior Development Manager
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