Apigee Edge vs Layer7 API Gateway Comparison

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Apigee Edge

API Management Software

4.5 42 user ratings

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88% SW Score The SW Score ranks the products within a particular category on a variety of parameters, to provide a definite ranking system. Read more

Layer7 API Gateway

API Management Software

4.7 3 user ratings

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Overview

Description	Apigee Edge is a powerful and easy to use API management software. It can offer API developer management, development, operations, and analytics automation functionalities. The software is capable of smartly handling sudden and massive peaks in user access to your website and applications. Apigee Edge software is featured with an internal API development portal to trigger up information sharing among your users. The tool can defend messages, APIs and backends with policies like XML/JSON threat protection, OAuth, API key verification and access control. The software is available both as a cloud-based and as an on-premise solution. Read more	Layer7 API Gateway is a high-performance, expandable, scalable gateway that connects your most essential data and applications across any mix of cloud, container, and on-premises environments. It can be purchased alone or as part of Layer7 API Management. It enables you to create 5-star IoT-ready applications that engage users, provide industry-leading security, and enable new digital experiences. Layer7 Mobile API Gateway (previously CA Mobile API Gateway) streamlines the essential mobile security and administration procedures, decreases developer effort, and delivers the scalability and integration required to support mobile-first organizations and enable IoT with a robust toolkit to expedite app development. It scales and deploys quickly for high availability, ensuring that your key APIs are always available. It provides a unified, real-time view of all business gateways. With global management tools, the platform manages migrations across development, testing, and production. It integrates with business intelligence, analytics, and reporting software and allows for more utilization and scalability. Additionally, Layer7 API platform provides centralized access control that protects your company's assets by effortlessly connecting enterprise grade security standards. Read more
Pricing Options	Free Trial Not Available Offers Free-forever and Custom plan.	Free Trial Not Available Offers Custom plan.
SW Score & Breakdown	93% SW Score The SW Score ranks the products within a particular category on a variety of parameters, to provide a definite ranking system. Read more Features The Feature Score % is calculated using the weighted average method, where core features hold more weight in the final calculation. Read more 100% Reviews 80% Momentum 67% Popularity 73%	88% SW Score The SW Score ranks the products within a particular category on a variety of parameters, to provide a definite ranking system. Read more Features The Feature Score % is calculated using the weighted average method, where core features hold more weight in the final calculation. Read more 97% Reviews 74% Momentum 60% Popularity 68%
SaaSworthy Awards	# 7 Highly Rated # 7 Most Popular	Not Available

Features

Total Features	10 Features	9 Features
Common Features for All	API Design Helps in creating an interface to distribute the data systematically to other applications API Lifecycle Management Helps to monitor and managing all the life cycles of an API Access Control Defines application access to various users. Includes role-based system that controls options to be displayed to different users based on their role Analytics Allows integration with other analytical tools or has it inbuilt Dashboard A digital insight of reports and other workings on a single screen Developer Portal Provides API and app performance analytics to developers, and offers a self-service platform Testing Management Helps you in managing, tracking and organizing all tests and reports in one place Threat Protection This feature will defend the system and application from cyber threats Traffic Control Helpful in controlling the API traffic spikes Version Control It gives the team the ability to recall specific versions of a document, code, content, file, or folder that records changes over time. + 7 More - Show Less	API Design Helps in creating an interface to distribute the data systematically to other applications API Lifecycle Management Helps to monitor and managing all the life cycles of an API Access Control Defines application access to various users. Includes role-based system that controls options to be displayed to different users based on their role Analytics Allows integration with other analytical tools or has it inbuilt Dashboard A digital insight of reports and other workings on a single screen Developer Portal Provides API and app performance analytics to developers, and offers a self-service platform Testing Management Helps you in managing, tracking and organizing all tests and reports in one place Threat Protection This feature will defend the system and application from cyber threats Traffic Control Helpful in controlling the API traffic spikes Version Control It gives the team the ability to recall specific versions of a document, code, content, file, or folder that records changes over time. + 6 More - Show Less

Technical Details

Organization Types Supported	Large Enterprises Medium Business Small Business	Large Enterprises Medium Business Small Business
Platforms Supported	SaaS/Web/Cloud Installed - Windows Installed - Mac	SaaS/Web/Cloud Installed - Windows Installed - Mac
Modes of Support	Online	Online
API Support	Available	Available

Reviews & Ratings

User Rating	4.5/5 42 user ratings	4.7/5 3 user ratings
Rating Distribution	Excellent 54.8% Very Good 38.1% Average 7.1% Poor 0% Terrible 0%	Excellent 66.7% Very Good 33.3% Average 0% Poor 0% Terrible 0%
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Pricing

Pricing Options	Free Trial Not Available Offers Free-forever and Custom plan.	Free Trial Not Available Offers Custom plan.
Pricing Plans Monthly Plans Annual Plans	Standard Custom Enterprise Custom Enterprise Plus Custom Evaluation Free Pay-as-you-go Custom	Layer7 API Gateway Custom
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