Google Apigee vs Mulesoft comparison
Evaluating API management alternatives
Tyk isn’t the only cloud-native full lifecycle API management solution on the market. But we do like to think we add a whole heap of value that other providers don’t. Here, we weigh the pros and cons of Apigee versus Mulesoft; there’s plenty to think about.
The world’s biggest companies trust Tyk to deliver exceptional API experiences.
Mulesoft
Let’s start our Apigee vs Mulesoft comparison with a look at Mulesoft. Part of Salesforce since 2018, the Mulesoft Anypoint Platform is for building automations and integrations in enterprise settings. The Mulesoft Anypoint Platform includes components like Anypoint Flex Gateway, Anypoint API Manager, API Designer, Anypoint API Governance, Anypoint API Experience Hub and Anypoint Exchange, offering a comprehensive API management suite with a range of key features.
Google Apigee
Acquired by Google in 2016, Apigee supports full API lifecycle management, offering testing tools, usage analytics for actionable insights through Apigee Edge and a developer portal. Integrated into the Google Cloud Platform, Apigee facilitates efficient API design, deployment, and scaling. It offers options like Apigee X for SaaS and Apigee hybrid for flexible customer-managed runtimes across various clouds or private environments. Apigee is no longer available as a self-managed deployment – it is a fully managed API management solution from Google Cloud.
Let’s start with the fundamentals
Weighing the pros and cons: Apigee vs Mulesoft and other API management alternatives.
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Nine benefits of Tyk – key features
Cloud deployment
Tyk is platform agnostic and cloud native. This means we can be deployed as a self-managed service, purchased as a cloud service or as a hybrid solution, and importantly the same deployment can span AWS, GCP, Azure, your own DCs… whatever you need. Whichever deployment you choose, you can manage it all from a single control plane, even for multi-region, multi-cloud approaches. All with the same robust access control and rigorous approach to API security that ensures you can sleep at night.
Flexible deployment options
Global businesses can have complex setups. Thankfully, with Tyk, your API management doesn’t need to be complicated. You can use Tyk to componentise your architecture, resulting in easy deployment and management, whether across multi-data centre, multi-region, multi-cloud or hybrid environments.
Underlying technology
Tyk is built in GoLang. We don’t rely on any third-party software and we’re not limited by any dependencies. We’re lightweight, lean and highly performant, unlike memory-intensive Java-based solutions. We own our own stack from top to bottom and offer a host of open source tools in addition to our core platform. These enhance the Tyk experience and deliver impressive results for your business. As part of our open source philosophy, we invite all of our users to interact with our OS repos and development team. If you need a feature, want to suggest an enhancement or have an idea for a custom plug-in, just let us know!
Product feature APIs
Tyk has REST APIs available for all product features. If you can do it through the GUI, you can do it through an API call. This supports DevOps and automation, delivering an enhanced API management experience. No other API Management platform offers this level of control, automation and integration.
Flexible and scalable architecture
Tyk’s API Gateways can be sharded to handle multiple services and versions. This makes it easy for you to scale up rapidly and manage your APIs as they proliferate, including outstanding version control. Micro-gateways can only support a single service. This is restrictive and less cost-effective for complex microservices use cases.
Pricing
Tyk has one open source API Gateway. Whether you’re a micro-business or a globe-spanning behemoth, the Tyk Gateway is the same. It’s powerful and it’s free, forever. Our customers confirm that Tyk has a significantly lower total cost of ownership.
Platform agnosticism
Tyk is platform agnostic. We don’t lock you in to particular vendors or try to force you to do things a certain way. Instead, we work easily as a single solution to all of your API management needs. We work across all cloud platforms and architectures. It’s one of the reasons so many global companies rely on Tyk.
Google Apigee vs MuleSoft Gartner Peer Insights
Based on Gartner Peer Insights’s verified reviews from real users in the API Management market. Google Apigee has a rating of 4.5 stars with 173 reviews. MuleSoft (Salesforce) has a rating of 4.3 stars with 194 reviews. Tyk has a rating of 4.7 stars with 82 reviews. See side-by-side comparisons of product capabilities, key features, customer experience, pros and cons, and reviewer demographics to find the best API solution for your organisation.
Have a look at Gartner Peer Insights comparison page for more about Google Apigee vs Mulesoft.
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