Google Apigee vs Mulesoft comparison – Which API Management platform to select?

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.

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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!

4. 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.

5. Plug-in support

We don’t tell you how to run your business – we fit around the way you like to do things. That’s why we support the development of plug-ins using a range of different languages. And because we support gRPC, Whether you use Javascript, .NET, Python, C++ or another language, Tyk will work with your plugin. Tyk fits into the way you operate today, putting your existing team in control.

6. Platform

Businesses need to flex and change over time. They also operate in a huge range of ways. That’s why Tyk offers a range of solutions. Our self-managed solution doesn’t ‘call home,’ giving users 100% control over Tyk. And our cloud-native and hybrid solutions delivery ultimate flexibility, as you can move seamlessly from self-managed, to hybrid, to full cloud – or mix and match them across your teams, it’s all the same Tyk stack!

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. 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.