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Azure API Management vs. IBM API Connect

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Azure API Management

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft's Azure API Management supports creation of API.

    $0.04

    per 10,000 calls

    IBM API Connect

    Score8.8 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…

    $83

    per month

    Pricing
    Azure API ManagementIBM API Connect
    Editions & Modules
    Consumption
    0.042 per 10,000 calls
    Lightweight and serverless version of API Management service, billed per execution
    Developer
    $48.04
    per month Non-production use cases and evaluations
    Basic
    $147.17
    per month Entry-level production use cases
    Standard
    $686.72
    per month Medium-volume production use cases
    Premium
    $2,795.17
    per month High-volume or enterprise production use cases
    Isolated
    TBA
    per month Enterprise production use cases requiring high degree of isolation
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Azure API ManagementIBM 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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    Azure API ManagementIBM API Connect
    Considered Both Products
    Microsoft
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    IBM
    Chose IBM API Connect
    IBM API Connect is more flexible and easy to use. It has a lot of features that differ in the market like API monetization & analytics.
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM API Connect
    There are two main reasons for choosing IBM over others. 1) Pricing 2) The conversation during the sales stage. The team at IBM understood our requirements and acted as consultants instead of sales people. They genuinely focused on providing a solution to our pain points which …
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM API Connect
    IBM APIC far and away blows the other two systems I've used out of the water. There really isn't any comparison, in my humble opinion. Ease of use, security, versioning, efficiency, accountability are basically 'forced' by APIC, which allows less burden on the users themselves.
    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 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
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    Azure API ManagementIBM API Connect
    API Management
    Comparison of API Management features of Azure API Management and IBM API Connect
    Feature
    Azure API Management
    8.0
    4 Ratings
    IBM API Connect
    8.3
    40 Ratings
    API access control8.94 Ratings8.640 Ratings
    Rate limits and usage policies5.44 Ratings8.035 Ratings
    API usage data8.94 Ratings8.639 Ratings
    API user onboarding9.03 Ratings8.240 Ratings
    API versioning8.94 Ratings8.340 Ratings
    Usage billing and payments5.23 Ratings7.330 Ratings
    API monitoring and logging9.84 Ratings8.940 Ratings
    User Ratings
    Azure API ManagementIBM API Connect
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (4 ratings)
    8.5
    (40 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.5
    (31 ratings)