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Top 27 API Management Platforms

API management platforms are necessary for ensuring something very crucial; security of APIs. Every service provider is faced with the challenge of making sure that their APIs are secure especially when they expose their system’s backends. The platform only ensures that authorized persons access the APIs.

It also makes sure that delicate data does not end up in the wrong hands, which generally prevents the APIs from being compromised. API management platforms also see to it that spikes in traffic are managed well.

They could be deliberate, that is, attacks from malicious users, or could be a result of users sending in too many requests at any one given time. IF such spikes get out of hand, they could slow down the system or lead to malfunctions which may cause undesired results on the business’s system.

What are the Top API Management Platforms: Mulesoft Anypoint Platform, Apigee, Azure API Management, Kong, SwaggerHub, CA API Management, WSO2 App Cloud, Akana, SnapLogic Enterprise Integration Cloud, Mashery, Postman, Agama API, Dell Boomi, Apiary, Oracle API Manager, Google Cloud Endpoints, Tyk, Cloud Elements, 3scale, webMethods, AWS CloudTrail, Sentinet, SAP Cloud Platform, RepreZen API Studio, Stoplight, Workato, API2Cart are some of the Top API Management Platforms.

What are API Management Platforms?

API Management Platform enables companies to secure, scale, manage, and analyze their digital business, and grow API programs to meet the increase in demand. API Management Platform enables enterprises to design and build the APIs that securely share their services and data.

API management platform protect the APIs from threats such as hacks and sudden spikes in traffic and other applications interact with your API. The platform makes sure that they are regulated so that the system is not brought down by too many queries. API management platforms are also useful when you are trying to control which applications, partners or developers that can access your firm’s API. This is done by authentication which only allows authorized people or programs to access your system’s backend. They ensure that your company’s data complies with any set standards or regulations.

  • Analytics and usage reporting: The API management platform provides insight on the number of requests coming and their sources. Reports on this usage are essential in formulation and implementation of measures to deal with traffic spikes that could cripple the API.
  • API key and authorization management: The platform has a function that sees to it that only authorized personnel and program have access to the API. This is for security as well as business purposes.
  • Developer community management: API management platforms also offer capabilities to build your own developer community to use your API. It also allows you to share your API with other authorized developers using similar APIs.
  • API Security: Features to manage security such as threat protection, schema validation, encryption, and signatures.
  • App connection provisioning: The platform enables applications to connect to your API but creating identifiers for each, but also controls how they use it.

Top API Management Platforms

Mulesoft Anypoint Platform, Apigee, Azure API Management, Kong, SwaggerHub, CA API Management, WSO2 App Cloud, Akana, SnapLogic Enterprise Integration Cloud, Mashery, Postman, Agama API, Dell Boomi, Apiary, Oracle API Manager, Google Cloud Endpoints, Tyk, Cloud Elements, 3scale, webMethods, AWS CloudTrail, Sentinet, SAP Cloud Platform, RepreZen API Studio, Stoplight, Workato, API2Cart are some of the Top API Management Platforms.
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Mulesoft Anypoint Platform

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Anypoint Platform solves the most challenging connectivity problems across SOA, SaaS, and APIs. It's a unified, highly productive, hybrid integration platform that creates a seamless application network of apps, data and devices with API-led connectivity. Anypoint is a unified platform that combines data and application integration across legacy systems, SaaS applications, and APIs with hybrid deployment options for maximum flexibility. Mule combines connectivity and orchestration with a managed API in one package. An industry leader, providing hybrid integration both on-premises and in the cloud. Mule scales to support millions of transactions in the largest clouds, yet is light rnough to…

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Features

Unified connectivity
Compose, not code, with pre-built templates, components and other reusable building blocks.
Connect apps, data and devices anywhere.
Design, run and analyze services and APIs.
Robust enterprise security enforcement capabilities
Service flow analyzer for rapid debugging
Access sensitive data behind the firewall
Secure Data Gateway for cloud/on-premise connectivity
Web-based dashboard for control of your integrations
Role-based access (integrates with LDAP)
Mainstream Java development tool framework

Price

Starter:
$1,200/ per month

professional
$3,600/ per month

enterprise
Contact company for Price

Bottom Line

With Mule as its core runtime engine, Anypoint Platform is built with open technologies to promote reusability, modularity and collaboration – increasing developer productivity and project speed.

7.6
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Apigee

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Apigee let to design, secure, analyze, and scale your APIs with the Apigee API platform. Apigee easily create and deploy API proxies in the cloud from your Open API (Swagger) specs, transform your SOAP services into scalable, REST APIs with out-of-the-box policies and deploy and run your APIs where your apps are, but manage them centrally. Apigee is the leading provider of API technology and services for enterprises and developers. Hundreds of companies including Walgreens, Bechtel, eBay, Pearson, and Gilt Groupe as well as tens of thousands of developers use Apigee to simplify the delivery, management and analysis of APIs…

Overview
Features

•Deploy modern APIs in a few clicks
•Protect APIs
•Engage users
•Gain instant visibility into APIs
•Automate API operations
•Expand platform
•Quick Start Business APIs

Price

•Start pack- from $300/mo.
•Pro pack-from $2250/mo.
•Enterprise pack- contact

What is best?

•Deploy modern APIs in a few clicks
•Protect APIs
•Engage users

What are the benefits?

• Connected experiences.
• Build apps faster.
• Self-service onboarding.

Bottom Line

Apigee easily create and deploy API proxies in the cloud from your Open API (Swagger) specs, transform your SOAP services into scalable, REST APIs with out-of-the-box policies and deploy and run your APIs where your apps are, but manage them centrally.

7.6
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Azure API Management

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API Management (APIM) helps organizations publish APIs to external, partner, and internal developers to unlock the potential of their data and services and also provides the core competencies to ensure a successful API program through developer engagement, business insights, analytics, security, and protection. API Management offers features such as Self-service API key management, Auto-generated API catalog, documentation, and code samples, OAuth-enabled API console for exploring APIs without writing a line of code, Signing in using popular Internet identity providers and Azure Active Directory, Simplified and optimized requests and responses with transformation policies, Secure APIs with key, JSON Web Token (JWT)…

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Features

• Self-service API key management
• Auto-generated API catalog, documentation, and code samples
• Secure APIs with key, JSON Web Token (JWT) validation, and IP filtering
• Protect your APIs from overload and overuse with quotas and rate limits
• Automate management and integrate using REST API, PowerShell, and Git
• Client certificate authentication

Price

• Developer - $0.09/hour
• Basic - $0.25/hour
• Standard - $1.15/hour
• Premium - $4.66/hour

What is best?

• Self-service API key management
• Auto-generated API catalog, documentation, and code samples
• Secure APIs with key, JSON Web Token (JWT) validation, and IP filtering

What are the benefits?

• Work with any host, API, and scale
• Use a self-service developer portal
• Secure your APIs using a key, token, and IP filtering

Bottom Line

API Management offers features such IP filtering, quotas and rate limits, a single static IP and domain, real-time usage, performance and health analytics, automated management, Client certificate authentication, Azure virtual networks and Azure ExpressRoute.

7.6
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Kong

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Kong is a most widely adopted open-source Microservice API gateway which makes securing, managing and orchestrating microservice APIs easier and faster than ever. Kong features Kong Community Edition which offers a blazingly fast open source microservice API gateway and Kong Enterprise Edition which is microservice API platform for large organizations. Kong Community Edition offers features such as API & Microservices Gateway, Open-Source Plugins, Load Balancing, Service Discovery, Health Checks and Community Support. Kong Enterprise Edition offers features such as Powerful One-Click Operations, Manage Kong Cluster, Manage Kong Plugins, Manage APIs, Manage Consumers, Admin RBAC, Open ID Connect, Oauth 2.0 Introspection.…

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Features

• Fully operated with a simple and easy to use restful API
• Add powerful functionality through Kong Plugins, in one command
• Kong runs anywhere, in containers, cloud or on-premise - in a single, hybrid or multi-datacenter setup

Price

Contact for Pricing

What is best?

• Fully operated with a simple and easy to use restful API
• Add powerful functionality through Kong Plugins, in one command
• Kong runs anywhere, in containers, cloud or on-premise - in a single, hybrid or multi-datacenter setup

What are the benefits?

• Kong centralizes and unifies functionality into one place
• Build efficient distributed architectures ready to scale
• Expand functionality from one place with a simple command

Bottom Line

Kong powers trillions of API transactions where technology companies, major banks, e-commerce innovators, and government agencies put Kong in front of their most important web workloads.

7.6
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SwaggerHub

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SwaggerHub is an integrated API management platform that provides a faster and standardized API design. SwaggerHub facilitates accelerating the team's design process without any loss in quality or organizational style consistency by using a powerful editor that is fully compliant with the latest Swagger standards. In supporting a team's API design workflow, SwaggerHub offers features such as a powerful editor equipped with smart error feedback and syntax auto-completion and API mocking to virtualize operations without any code. SwaggerHub also gives style validators for ensuring design consistency across multiple APIs, domains for reusing, referencing, and storing common Swagger syntax across numerous…

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Features

• A powerful editor equipped with smart error feedback and syntax auto completion
• API mocking to virtualize operations without any code
• Real-time comments to communicate with collaborators and track open issues
• Forking, comparing and merging for tight control on the collaborative workflow
• Automatic generation from the workflow
• Versioning to maintain and update multiple API doc versions

Price

• Free - $0
• Team - $75/mo
• Enterprise – Contact Us

What is best?

• API mocking to virtualize operations without any code
• Real-time comments to communicate with collaborators and track open issues
• Forking, comparing and merging for tight control on the collaborative workflow

What are the benefits?

• Accelerate your team’s design process without any loss in quality or organizational consistency
• Have your API design and development centralized on a single location
• Allow teams to seamlessly collaborate on new APIs

Bottom Line

SwaggerHub is an integrated API management platform with a design and documentation built for teams to drive consistency and discipline across the API development workflow.

7.6
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7.3
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CA API Management

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CA API Management accelerates digital transformation by providing the capabilities the users need to bring systems together, secure these integrations, deliver better customer experiences faster and capitalize on new opportunities. CA API Management helps the users solve the challenge of integrating systems, adapting services, orchestrating data and rapidly creating modern, enterprise-grade APIs from different sources. CA API Management offers trusted, consistent and repeatable security when integrating across apps, devices and businesses. CA API Management provides the capabilities and tools needed to streamline development and reduce app time-to-market. CA API Management provides a foundation for these efforts with robust analytics, monetization…

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• Solve the challenge of integrating systems, adapting services,
• Offers trusted, consistent and repeatable security
• Provides the capabilities and tools needed to streamline development
• Reach new customers, develop new products and create new revenue channels

Price

Contact for Pricing

What is best?

• Solve the challenge of integrating systems, adapting services,
• Offers trusted, consistent and repeatable security
• Provides the capabilities and tools needed to streamline development

What are the benefits?

• 95% of surveyed IT organizations who evaluated Apigee (Google) rate CA API Management’s security as superior compared to the competition.
• 88% of surveyed IT organizations who evaluated Apigee (Google) rated CA API Management’s mobile capabilities as superior compared to competitors.
• 71% of surveyed IT organizations rate CA API Management’s scalability as superior compared to the competition.

Bottom Line

CA API Management offers speed, handles the extreme scale of IoT, offers flexibility support for APIs and apps and also offers support for the entire API lifecycle.

7.6
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WSO2 App Cloud

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WSO2 App Cloud provides a more comprehensive cloud ecosystem that evolves to enable easy and efficient integration, identity and API management for your digital enterprise. WSO2 App Cloud provides the ability to host applications written in multiple languages in multiple runtimes. This eliminates time and cost overheads of procuring, configuring and managing infrastructure while promoting resource optimization. It also integrates with popular build and continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) systems such as Maven and Jenkins. WSO2 App Cloud is an enterprise-ready, self-service runtime for hosting different types of applications. The App Cloud's controlled runtimes enable high availability, auto scaling, and load…

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Features

Create a Store of all Available APIs.
Publishing and Governing API Use.
Route API Traffic.
Manage Developer Community.
Govern Complete API Lifecycle.
Monitor API Usage and Performance.
Pluggable, Extensible, and Themeable.
Easily Deployable in Enterprise Setting.
Support for Creating multitenanted APIs.

Price

Trial free for two weeks

Starter $129/month

Getting traction $298/month

Medium $698/month

Large $2980/month

Extra-large $9980/month

Bottom Line

WSO2 App Cloud provides the ability to host applications written in multiple languages in multiple runtimes. This eliminates time and cost overheads of procuring, configuring and managing infrastructure while promoting resource optimization.

7.7
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Akana

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Akana helps businesses accelerate digital transformation by securely extending their reach across multiple channels – mobile, cloud and Internet of Things. Akana enables enterprises to share data as APIs, connect and integrate applications, drive partner adoption, monetize their assets, and provide intelligent insights into their business and operations.The Akana Platform provides a comprehensive API design platform. Users can use a graphical tool to design their API from scratch or even import API descriptor language of their choice. Once the company has their design completed, the platform will then automatically generate all the common API descriptor documents for the users. The…

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Features

API Management
API Security
Microservices Management and DevOps
Mediation & Integration
Threat Protection
Analytics and Monitoring
Deploy in the Cloud, or On-Premises

Price

Contact for Pricing

Bottom Line

Akana’s comprehensive suite of API management, API security, SOA Governance, and Microservices solutions helps businesses accelerate digital transformation by securely extending their reach across multiple channels – mobile, cloud and Internet of Things.

7.6
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SnapLogic Enterprise Integration Cloud

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SnapLogic is a web-based solution that is open-source. It offers an innovative data flow solution for your organization that allows you to connect with popular SaaS applications like Salesforce, Newsuite including SugarCRM, with limitless connectors that are available through SnapStore. SnapLogic also has a scalable architecture which handles your organizations data flow from any number of sources to any number of destinations. This is beneficial to your business in that you will be able to acquire, keep and grow your customers. This SnapLogic architecture scales and works just like web servers do. SnapLogic also offers versatility for your organization. For…

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Features

• Integrate any source (Web, SaaS, on-premise)
• Infinitely extensible Snap Component API
• Ability to build Snaps and re-sell on the SnapStore
• Deploy on-premise or in the cloud
• Browser-based design drag-and-drop GUI
• Enterprise ETL functionality Scheduler
• Multiple user support
• Social media integration

What is best?

• Integrate any source (Web, SaaS, on-premise)
• Infinitely extensible Snap Component API
• Ability to build Snaps and re-sell on the SnapStore

What are the benefits?

• Allows for easy tracking of feeds into your system.
• Speed of development and deployment
• Infinite connectivity

Bottom Line

SnapLogic is a web-based solution that is open-source that offers an innovative data flow solution for your organization that allows you to connect with popular SaaS applications like Salesforce, Newsuite including SugarCRM, with limitless connectors that are available through SnapStore.

8.6
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Mashery

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Mashery delivers key API management capabilities needed for successful digital transformation initiatives which offers full range of capabilities including API creation, packaging, testing, and management of APIs and community of users where API security is provided via an embedded or optional on-premise API gateway. Mashery offers features such as REST APIs, SOAP APIs creation, Cloud or On-Premise Data connection, API & Payload Transformations definition, Specific Routing Rules, Model API Choreography, Support for API Composition, Define API Packaging, On-Board and Manage Partners, Interactive API Documentation, Delegated Administration, Define Security and Operational Policies, Support for Geo-Caching, Hybrid Gateway Option, PCI and HITRUST…

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Features

• Support role enables better troubleshooting without the risk of someone making unwanted changes.
• Receive low-level API transaction details via automated, ongoing exports
• Support import of Swagger 2.0 specifications
• Supports integration with API Fortress to provide extended API testing capabilities
• Enables on-premise control of SSL termination and secrets management

Price

• Mashery Professional - Starting at $1995/month
• Masery API Management - Starting at $5000/month
• Mashery Enterprise – Contact sales for pricing

What is best?

• Support role enables better troubleshooting without the risk of someone making unwanted changes.
• Receive low-level API transaction details via automated, ongoing exports
• Support import of Swagger 2.0 specifications

What are the benefits?

• Search for API or endpoint definitions, methods, API packages, and API Plans
• Docker support improvements and Do-It-Yourself (DIY) SDK 2.0
• Log file data has been joined with Mashery metadata related to packages, plans, and services

Bottom Line

Mashery offers features such as REST APIs, SOAP APIs creation, Cloud or On-Premise Data connection, API & Payload Transformations definition, Specific Routing Rules, Model API Choreography, Out-of-the-box Analytics and Platform API for Interoperability.

7.6
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Postman

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Postman comprises of collections. Workspaces, and built-in tools. The workspaces make the development teams to work easier. Individual devs can use the workspace provided by Postman for their private projects, experiments, and WIPS. The shared workspace given by Postman are excellent for teams as they can shared workspace supports ongoing development and encourages collaboration. Postman also offers admins and team leads with a useful platform for getting project-specific insight, permissions, and oversight. The design and mock feature facilitates designing and mocking APIs directly in Postman. The publish feature enables on-boarding of developers to a business’s API. The debug feature offers…

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Features

• Design and mock APIs directly in Postman
• On-board developers to your API with Postman
• Debug new and published APIs with scripts, tests, variables
• Monitor APIs for more than just uptime
• Automated testing with Postman, and integrated into your CI/CD pipeline
• Create and publish web-viewable and machine readable documentation

Price

• Postman – Free
• Postman Pro - $8/user/mo
• Postman enterprise - $18/user/mo

What is best?

• Design and mock APIs directly in Postman
• On-board developers to your API with Postman
• Debug new and published APIs with scripts, tests, variables

What are the benefits?

• An executable API description format
• Powerful collaboration spaces for teams of any size
• Provides everything a developer needs to work with APIs

Bottom Line

Postman is an API management platform that provides built-in tools that developers need to work with APIs and supports sharing collections, setting permissions, and managing participation in multiple workspaces.

7.6
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Agama API

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Agama API is an API management platform that is entirely applicable to management of API and offers a modular structure that ensures customization of the user's needs. Agama API provides full control to users to allow them to access configuration and source codes easily to help them to avoid the locking effect. Agama API has the infinite flexibility that gives the possibility to users to use the platform for both external and internal purposes. Agama API high performance offers a solution architecture that allows for both vertical and horizontal scalability. The API management platform is widely transferable due to containerization…

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Features

• Widely transferable due to a containerization mechanism it is possible to implement the platform both at a local server room and in cloud
• Horizontal and vertical scaling to maintain financial independence
• Secure both in terms of technology and content
• Configurable and flexible due to containerization and an approach that is in line with the micro services paradigm
• Built-in monetization and settlement mechanisms
• Allows operation of multiple authorization and authentication scenarios

Price

Contact for pricing

What is best?

• Horizontal and vertical scaling to maintain financial independence
• Secure both in terms of technology and content
• Configurable and flexible due to containerization and an approach that is in line with the micro services paradigm

What are the benefits?

• Easy access to configuration and source code allows avoiding the locking effect
• Allows for both vertical and horizontal scalability due to its solution architecture
• Possibility to use the platform for both external and internal purposes

Bottom Line

Agama API is an API management platform that is designed for comprehensive service management and has a modular structure that ensures customization to the user’s needs

7.6
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Dell Boomi

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Dell Boomi offers key features that include application and data integration, a master data hub, B2B/EDI management, API design and management, and workflow automation and app development. The integrate platform offers an excellent platform for connecting all the applications and data sources across the hybrid IT landscape. Through this, developers can unlock data silos and achieve pervasive integration. The master data hub facilitates synchronizing and enrich the data used through the data hub. With this, organizations have trusted data to make business decisions. The B2B/EDI management feature allows organizations to achieve interoperability between their internal systems and their ecosystem of…

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Features

• Connect all your applications and data sources across your hybrid and IT landscape
• Synchronize and enrich your data through a data hub
• Achieve interoperability between the internal systems and the ecosystem of trading partners
• Modernize ad expose underlying data as APIs
• Automate workflows on any channel, device or platform
• Error resolution
• Data mapping
• Regression testing

Price

Contact for pricing

What is best?

• Connect all your applications and data sources across your hybrid and IT landscape
• Synchronize and enrich your data through a data hub
• Achieve interoperability between the internal systems and the ecosystem of trading partners

What are the benefits?

• Transform and automate your processes
• Control and govern data access
• Lower total cost of ownership

Bottom Line

Dell Boomi is an API management platform that provides revolutionary development speed with its low-code environment that is powered by crowd-sourced intelligence, pre-built templates, and developer SDKs.

7.6
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7.0
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Apiary

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Apiary is an API management platform that offers the following features; a dashboard, access control, roles, provisioning, templates, and customization. Apiary is ideal for any team either large or small as it ensures everyone is in the right role to edit or view API blueprints and enables the administrators to have administrative oversight of the people on the project. The dashboard feature offers an excellent platform for having access to a dedicated, web-based team, and API blueprint management. The access control feature provides role-based access control over the API documents. The roles feature provided by Apiary comprises of the admin…

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Features

• Dedicated, web-based team and API Blueprint management dashboard
• Role based access control over API documents
• Admin, editor, and viewer roles
• Add and remove team members from API design projects
• Shared API Blueprint templates to bootstrap new projects
• Default settings for API Blueprint visibility and new team member provisioning

Price

Contact for pricing

What is best?

• Role based access control over API documents
• Admin, editor, and viewer roles
• Add and remove team members from API design projects

What are the benefits?

• Enables you to control settings for new API blueprints
• Ensures the API Blueprints remain secure
• Allows you to centralize and manage all those API blueprints in a single dashboard

Bottom Line

Apiary is an API management platform that enable testers, developers, product managers, clients, and partners to build great APIs through effective collaboration and use of excellent perspectives over the API design.

7.6
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Oracle API Manager

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Oracle API Manager is an API management platform that facilitates the creation of APIs that expose the functionality of back-end systems and services. Oracle API Manager enables the created APIs to be published for use by application developers and is monitored and managed at runtime. Oracle API Manager offers several benefits such as creation and securing of APIs easily that provide access to backend services, supporting both SOAP and REST APIs, facilitating the understanding, discovery, and use of APIs, and controlling runtime access to APIs and tracking their performance. The API catalog provided by Oracle API Manager offers an excellent…

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Features

• Easily collect and publish APIs from Oracle and non-Oracle environments to build catalog of APIs
• Streamline processes and optimize reuse to foster API adoption
• Facilitates the discovery, understanding and use of APIs
• Provides the technical and non-technical information needed to discover, understand and use APIs
• Easily build an API catalog to gain visibility of APId both on-premise and externally.
• Integration with Oracle JDeveloper makes it easy to discover and use APIs

Price

Contact for pricing

What is best?

• Streamline processes and optimize reuse to foster API adoption
• Facilitates the discovery, understanding and use of APIs
• Provides the technical and non-technical information needed to discover, understand and use APIs

What are the benefits?

• Easily create and secure APIs that provide access to backend services
• Supports both REST and SOAP APIs
• Facilitates the discovery, understanding, and use of APIs

Bottom Line

Oracle API Manager is an API management platform that facilitates the creation, publishing, and management of APIs for use by application developers who monitor the APIs at runtime.

7.6
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Google Cloud Endpoints

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Google Cloud Endpoints uses three steps when dealing with APIs, which are develop, deploy, and manage APIs on any Google Cloud Backend. Google Cloud Endpoints provide an excellent platform to develop, deploy, protect, and monitor API. Google Cloud Endpoints uses an open API specification to provide users with the tools they need for every phase of API development and offers insight with Stackdriver monitoring, Trace, and Logging. Google Cloud Endpoint ensures businesses have control of who has access to their APIs and validating every call by using JSON Web Tokens and Google API keys. Google Cloud Endpoints uses an extensible…

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Features

• JSON Web token validation and a streamlined developer experience
• Automated deployment of API within your application
• Monitor traffic, error rates, and latency
• Use Stackdriver Trace to dive into performance and BigQuery for analysis
• Generate API key in Google Cloud Platform
• Console and validate on every API call
• Share your API with other developers to allow them to generate their own keys

Price

Contact for pricing

What is best?

• JSON Web token validation and a streamlined developer experience
• Automated deployment of API within your application
• Monitor traffic, error rates, and latency

What are the benefits?

• Monitors critical operations metrics
• Gain insight into your users and usage
• Choose your own framework

Bottom Line

Google Cloud Endpoints is an API management platform that offers an excellent platform to develop, deploy, and manage APIs on any cloud backend and reduces the time and effort needed to build great APIs.

7.6
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Tyk

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Tyk is an open source API Gateway, that puts you in control of API Management. Tyk offers an API Gateway, simple to use API Management Dashboard, API analytics and developer portal. Tyk can be installed On-Premises, purchased as a Cloud service, or as a Multi-Cloud for the best of both worlds. Deploy to AWS, Google, Azure, Heroku or your own bare metal. Tyk is independent, scalable and runs on commodity hardware and the public cloud. Tyk is API Management for a Dev Ops and Microservice World - Docker and Kubernetes supported out of the box, plug into your CI/CD pipeline,…

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Features

•Detailed Monitoring and Analytics
•Containerisation and DevOps built in
•Notifications and Events
• On-the-fly Transforms
•Microservice Focus
•Virtual Endpoints
•API Sharding
•Service Discovery
•Custom plugins & middleware

Price

•POC Licences - Free
•Pro licences - $3000-$15000 per year
•Enterprise licences - Contact us

What is best?

•Detailed Monitoring and Analytics
•API Developer Portal
•API Documentation

What are the benefits?

•API Management designed for containers & micro-services from day one.
•Flexible deployment options: On-Premise, Cloud, Multi-Cloud SaaS
•Prices start at FREE and scale transparently and affordably.

Bottom Line

Tyk is API Management for a Dev Ops and Microservice World - Docker and Kubernetes supported out of the box, plug into your CI/CD pipeline, with Tyk-Git Open source component, or via Jenkins, etc. With Circuit breakers, hard timeouts and load balancing, all designed to integrate your microservices.

7.6
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Cloud Elements

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Cloud Elements is the leading API integration platform for SaaS companies and the digital enterprise which is built from the ground up to bring API integration and management together with a data-centric approach. Cloud Elements offers products such as API Integration Platform, Unified APIs, Virtual Data Model, Elements Catalog, Element Builder and Integration Marketplace UI. Cloud Elements creates a unified API layer and standards-based implementation across every environment which ensures that developers, integration users, and their use cases are decoupled from the backend services on which they rely. Cloud Elements has taken a unique approach to application and API integration…

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Features

• Normalized and consistent APIs to manage all of the integrations and tooling you need to customize your experience.
• 100% REST APIs. Development languages that developers understand and appreciate.
• Embeddable in your app so your customers won’t even know we’re there.

Price

• Tin – Free Trial
• Aluminum - $2995
• Copper - $5995
• Titanium - $11995
• Tungsten – Contact sales

What is best?

• Normalized and consistent APIs to manage all of the integrations and tooling you need to customize your experience.
• 100% REST APIs. Development languages that developers understand and appreciate.
• Embeddable in your app so your customers won’t even know we’re there.

What are the benefits?

• Connect your app to the ecosystem of services your customers are already using.
• Integrate the 1000+ apps that the typical enterprise uses internally to run their business.
• Create a new ecosystem through an innovative, digital platform.

Bottom Line

Cloud Elements is an API integration platform for companies and enterprises which can be used to connect to the ecosystem of applications that the user’s customers and partners rely on every day and turn integration into the user’s greatest advantage.

7.6
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3scale

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3scale is an API management platform that delivers flexible, highly scalable solutions to package, distribute, control, and monetize users’ APIs, giving them the power to make the most of their API program. The users of 3scale can use it to share company data, content, or services through Web or mobile applications and provide an API to external organizations, internal teams, or both. It also helps users avoid the hassle and constant maintenance of building a solution from scratch. 3scale delivers centralized API management features through a distributed, cloud-hosted layer. The platform includes built-in features to help users build a more…

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Features

• API Traffic controls
• Deployment options
• Authentication patterns and credentials
• Access controls
• Developer portal
• Rate limits
• ActiveDocs live presentation
• Monetization tools
• Analytical insights

Price

• Pro- $750/month

What is best?

• API Traffic controls
• Deployment options
• Authentication patterns and credentials

What are the benefits?

• Unmatched flexibility
• High performance and availability
• Powerful adaptive infrastructure

Bottom Line

3scale is an API management platform that delivers flexible, highly scalable solutions to package, distribute, control, and monetize users’ APIs, giving them the power to make the most of their API program.

7.6
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webMethods

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webMethods uses an easy to use user interface. The user interface runs in all the latest browsers and supports guided development and wizards to help users to create integrations. The interface provided by webMethods also uses standard-based HTML 5, therefore, making it accessible from tablets and mobile devices. The sophisticated service orchestration feature automates processes or synchronizes data in real-time. The feature decouples applications from each other to allow managing and monitoring of integrations from a central location. webMethods offers built-in mapping and transformation functions to facilitate rapid development of agile applications that use software and resources from the entire…

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Features

• Easy to use user interface
• Sophisticated service orchestration
• Application connectors
• Light weight agents
• Stages and the development cycle
• Mapping, transformation and enrichment
• Multi-tenant architecture
• On-premises activity

Price

• Basic - $1000/mo
• Advanced - $2250/mo
• Enterprise – contact us
• Container – contact us

What is best?

• Easy to use user interface
• Sophisticated service orchestration
• Application connectors

What are the benefits?

• Create reliable and secure cloud-to-on premises integrations
• Manage and monitor integrations from a central location
• Rapidly develop agile applications that use resources and software from your entire IT landscape

Bottom Line

webMethods is an API management platform that uses an integration cloud to provide organizations with complete integrations capabilities by using tools that serve both IT professionals and business users.

7.6
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AWS CloudTrail

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AWS CloudTrail is a service that simplifies the compliance audits by automatically recording and storing event logs for actions made within a user’s AWS account. AWS CloudTrail integrates with Amazon CloudWatch Logs to provide a convenient way to search through log data, accelerate incident investigations, expedite responses to auditor requests, and identify out-of-compliance events. AWS CloudTrail also offers visibility into user and resource activity by recording API calls and AWS management console actions. The event history feature offers an excellent platform to view, search, and download the recent AWS account activity. The event history feature allows gaining of visibility into…

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Features

• View, search, and download your recent AWS account activity
• Configure AWS CloudTrail to deliver log files from multiple regions
• Log file integrity validation
• Insights into the resource operations performed on or within the resource itself
• Insights into the management operations performed on resources
• Encrypt all log files delivered to your specified Amazon S3 bucket

Price

• Management events - $2 per 100,000 events
• Data events - $0.10 per 100,000 events

What is best?

• View, search, and download your recent AWS account activity
• Configure AWS CloudTrail to deliver log files from multiple regions
• Log file integrity validation

What are the benefits?

• Simplified compliance
• Visibility into user and resource activity
• Security analysis and troubleshooting

Bottom Line

AWS CloudTrail is an API management platform that enables governance, compliance, operational auditing, and risk auditing of AWS account as well as allow users to continuously monitor and retain account activity.

7.6
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Sentinet

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Sentinet security feature facilitates securing of communications between applications and APIs regardless of the integration environments such as public exposure of APIs to business partners. The security feature offers managed authorization and authentication for API calls by supporting all custom security and standard modules. With the security feature, businesses have hold of security-pass through and advanced security mediation scenarios. The monitoring feature enables monitoring of the usage and performance of the SOA services and REST APIs in real-time as well as allow building of historical and analytical reports. The monitoring feature facilitates configuring of monitoring metrics and their thresholds with…

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Features

• Supports simple security pass-through and advanced security mediation scenarios
• Monitor usage and performance of SOA service and REST APIs in real-time
• Automatic and continuous data collection and data aggregation for extensive reporting and comprehensive analytics
• Configurable and automated conversions from different communication and message exchange protocols
• Route messages to different APIs or different versions of the same API
• Discover SOAP services and REST APIs from the Sentinet API repository
• Track dependencies between services
• Track and audit changes to your API versions
• Audit and change notifications

Price

Contact for pricing

What is best?

• Supports simple security pass-through and advanced security mediation scenarios
• Monitor usage and performance of SOA service and REST APIs in real-time
• Automatic and continuous data collection and data aggregation for extensive reporting and comprehensive analytics

What are the benefits?

• Unique user interface that makes API management as simple as never before
• Helps to protect services and APIs with managed access and control
• Built in capabilities combined with unprecedented level of extensibility

Bottom Line

Sentinet is an API management platform that is entirely built on the Microsoft platform and manages web service or API regardless of the platform it is built or deployed on.

7.6
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SAP Cloud Platform

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SAP Cloud Platform offers features like analytics, business services, collaboration tools, data and storage, and integration services. The analytics feature enables gaining of real-time insight into daily business processes. The analytics feature includes a predictive service that enables performing of predictive analysis on the data stored on SAP HANA database. The analytics feature offers streaming analytics that enables processing of continuous streams of event data in real-time and act on the results. The business services makes it easy to accelerate development of applications and leverage best practices of SAP and its ecosystem. The data quality services enable embedding data quality…

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Features

• Perform predictive analysis on data stored on SAP HANA database
• Process continuous streams of event data in real-time and act on the results
• Determine and calculate applicable country-specific taxes
• Introduce gamification concepts into applications
• Build socially-infused apps and benefit from secure, social collaboration
• Store and manage all documents
• Ready-to-use, fully managed Hadoop and Spark

Price

Get started packages
• Developer edition – free
• Starter edition (32GB) - £399/mo
• Starter edition (64GB) - £499/mo
Enterprise package
• Standard edition - £1500/mo
• Professional edition - £4000/mo
• Premium edition - £15,000/mo

What is best?

• Perform predictive analysis on data stored on SAP HANA database
• Process continuous streams of event data in real-time and act on the results
• Determine and calculate applicable country-specific taxes

What are the benefits?

• Bring people together, and securely access and share business content
• Eliminate the divide between transactions and analytics
• Increase developer productivity by simplifying development and operations

Bottom Line

SAP Cloud Platform is an API management platform that provides customers and partners with in-memory capabilities, core platform services, and unique business services for building and extending personalized applications.

7.6
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RepreZen API Studio

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RepreZen API Studio is an API management platform that offers best-in-class OpenApi editor that keeps the API design in focus. The full featured OpenAPI offers customizable templates, content assist, and outlines the navigation to achieve fast focused API design. The live documentation view feature offers a useful platform for achieving immediate clarity and insight from the API user’s perspective. The interactive diagrams offered by RepreZen API Studio facilitate visualizing the API during its design. The interactive diagrams also help to generate and view the design of the API in any browser to give API users a fast and intuitive view.…

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Features

• Full-featured OpenApi editor
• Live documentation view gives you immediate clarity and insight from the API user’s perspective
• Interactive diagram to visualize the API
• Split a larger swagger API spec into multiple files
• Edit, navigate, document, and generate, all fully compliant with OpenAPI standards
• Consolidate and simplify complex multi-file projects to a single file

Price

Contact for pricing

What is best?

• Full-featured OpenApi editor
• Live documentation view gives you immediate clarity and insight from the API user’s perspective
• Interactive diagram to visualize the API

What are the benefits?

• Best-in-class OpenApi editor to keep API design in focus
• Unique multi-file support for large and complex capabilities
• Simple, powerful, and extensible code generation

Bottom Line

RepreZen API Studio is an integrated workbench that brings API-first design into focus for the whole team, harmonizes API designs, and generates APIs that click into client apps effortlessly.

7.6
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Stoplight

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Stoplight offers the API designer that enables describing endpoints, creating models, perform flexible mocking, and performing dynamic mocking. The API designer offers an excellent platform to build up complex models quickly with the JSON schema editor and then referencing the models. The flexible mocking platform allows mocking the entire API or particular endpoints. The dynamic mocking facilitates defining of responses schemas for endpoints. The hosted docs feature comprises several tools such as basic authentication, custom JavaScript, enabling some integrations, and mocking. The layout and theming tools offers an excellent platform for choosing between large or constrained layout. The tool also…

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Features

• Simulates real server behaviour by automatically validating incoming request headers
• Turn any OAS file into a mock server
• Validate any OAS file from the terminal
• Send HTTP traffic
• Define response schemas for your endpoints
• Mock the entire API, or just particular endpoints

Price

Core platform
• Standard - $0
• Enterprise – contact for pricing
Hosted docs
• Standard - $59
• Pro - $129

What is best?

• Simulates real server behaviour by automatically validating incoming request headers
• Turn any OAS file into a mock server
• Validate any OAS file from the terminal

What are the benefits?

• Quickly model your APIs using visual tools on top of open standards
• Increase customer adoption with beautiful, functional documentation
• The painless way to test, automate, and debug web APIs

Bottom Line

Stoplight is an API management platform that takes out the hassle of API strategy by offering features such as an API designer, hosted docs, scenarios and prism.

7.6
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Workato

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Workato is an API management platform that offers features that include a recipe IQ, responsive integrations, automation with clicks not code, more than 225K ready to use community recipes, reusable integrations, and smart versioning. Workato enables businesses to create integrations and automation with no programming skills required. The recipe IQ feature allows Workato to use machine learning algorithms based on billions of integration events and hundreds of thousands of integration use cases that are useful in building effective automations and integrations. The responsive integrations feature offers an excellent platform to design workflows either simple or complex using any triggers and…

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Features

• Uses machine learning algorithms based on billions of integration events
• Design workflows either simple or complex by using any combination of apps, triggers, and actions
• Empower technical and non-technical users to build integrations to automate business processes
• Jump start integration by cloning and customizing community recipes
• Easily clone and share integrations recipes for faster deployment and improved collaboration
• Build integrations iteratively with automatic version control

Price

• Professional - $599/mo
• Business - $1499/mo
• Business plus - $2499/mo

What is best?

• Design workflows either simple or complex by using any combination of apps, triggers, and actions
• Empower technical and non-technical users to build integrations to automate business processes
• Jump start integration by cloning and customizing community recipes

What are the benefits?

• Build workflows to automate business processes that require secure and verified human interaction
• Enable users to complete tasks and workflows directly form chat
• Allows business and IT to collaborate and use the same tool with security and governance

Bottom Line

Workato is an API management platform that uses a single platform to automate work and powers innovation across business and allows collaboration between IT and business and use the same tool with security and governance

7.6
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API2Cart

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API2Cart is an online solution that provides a unified API to perform integration with 35+ shopping carts and marketplaces including such industry leaders like Magento, WooCommerce, BigCommerce, Shopify, PrestaShop, OpenCart, Amazon and others. Users can synchronize and manipulate a variety of client store information including products, customers, orders, shipments, and categories. Organizations will be able to retrieve, add, update, delete and sync all store data needed from any of the supported platforms to their current business solution in a unified way. The number of online shops that can be added is unlimited. In fact, API2Cart is currently serving more than…

Overview
Features

- A unified API to integrate with multiple shopping carts and marketplaces
- Integration with 35+ shopping carts and marketplaces
- 100+ methods to manage data from stores
- SDK, detailed documentation and full tech support
- SSL certificate and OAuth which make data interaction secure
- Flexible architecture to add a growing number of customer stores
- Webhooks
- Free trial

Price

- Standard: $500 /month
- Dedicated: $1500 /month
- Premium: $2500 /month
- Enterprise: Contact API2Cart

Demo

Available

What is best?

•Enables e-commerce businesses to connect with more than 30 shopping carts via a single API
•SSL certificate and OAuth make data interaction security
•Easy to connect with popular shopping carts, there is no need for your company to develop separate integrations

What are the benefits?

•Save time and costs on integrations
•Enjoy wider and happier clientele
•Access the data needed

Bottom Line

It makes it easy to retrieve, add, update, delete and sync all needed information from the customers’ stores and integrate it with your business soft. The number of online shops that can be added is unlimited.

7.6
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What are API Management Platforms?

API Management Platform enables companies to secure, scale, manage, and analyze their digital business, and grow API programs to meet the increase in demand. API Management Platform enables enterprises to design and build the APIs that securely share their services and data.

What are the Top API Management Platforms?

Mulesoft Anypoint Platform, Apigee, Azure API Management, Kong, SwaggerHub, CA API Management, WSO2 App Cloud, Akana, SnapLogic Enterprise Integration Cloud, Mashery, Postman, Agama API, Dell Boomi, Apiary, Oracle API Manager, Google Cloud Endpoints, Tyk, Cloud Elements, 3scale, webMethods, AWS CloudTrail, Sentinet, SAP Cloud Platform, RepreZen API Studio, Stoplight, Workato, API2Cart are some of the Top API Management Platforms.

2 Reviews
  • November 9, 2018 at 4:36 am

    ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
    Hi
    Can you also add Ceptor API Management to your list? It is a full-featured API Management product, with API Gateway and API Developer Portal.
    Best regards

  • Petar Banicevic
    February 13, 2020 at 12:47 pm

    ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
    1) Looking at Gartner Magic upper right quadrant – Axway gateway missing. How have you managed to forget that?
    2) Please use same criteria’s of them and see matrix; e.g. which gateway supports
    – raw tcp routing (needed Avaya telephony)
    – which one has more filters/features per protocol ?
    – Screnshot of policy (to see if we like policy designer, folder based, diagram, flow)
    – which db connectors each have
    – how many docker images i must install to have all working (months of basic installation or appliance)

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