3scale vs. Apigee Comparison

Who should you choose and why?

✋ Most important consideration

• Apigee API Management is one of the best overall products in the API Management category, but it’s usually much more expensive than 3scale API Management.

🤔 Slightly consider 3scale over Apigee if

• You need fine-grained access control for your APIs (i.e., limit user access based on operations).
• You have a hybrid cloud model. 3scale integrates well with OpenShift.
• You’re cost-sensitive.

🤔 Strongly consider Apigee over 3scale if

• You want better tooling for API versioning.
• You’re productizing and publishing your APIs to external consumers.
• You need an API catalog.
• You have more rigid compliance standards to meet for procurement.

📝 Other Notes

• Apigee API Management has a better API gateway for security and traffic management compared to 3scale.
• Apigee is better for API policy enablement compared to 3scale API Management.
• Apigee provides better support for GraphQL, OData, OAS2.0, OAS3.0, and gRPC compared to 3scale.