Apigee vs. MuleSoft Comparison

Who should you choose and why?

✋ Most important consideration

• Apigee and MuleSoft provide most of the features you’d want to support the entire API lifecycle, however, Apigee is better suited for microservices-based architectures while also being more expensive than MuleSoft.

🤔 Strongly consider Apigee over MuleSoft if

• You want a better API design tool with best-in-class API versioning features.
• You’re using GraphQL, OAS 2.0, and/or OAS 3.0.
• You’re focussed on monetizing your APIs.

🤔 Strongly consider MuleSoft over Apigee if

• You want your APIs to be able to be generated automatically by the platform.
• You want a test console for your APIs that doesn’t require you to write code.
• You’re looking for API mediation features related to message transformation, protocol conversion, and service call formatting.
• You need prebuilt API specifications and mappings based on specific business functions and industry verticals.

📝Other Notes

• Apigee has better API traffic management.
• Access to logs and documentation is much easier in Apigee compared to MuleSoft.
• Apigee provides better support for single sign-on using SAML 2.0 in comparison to MuleSoft.
• Both Apigee and Mulesoft Anypoint API Manager are expensive products, but they differ in how they price. Apigee comes with a consumption-based pricing model and MuleSoft’s is based on deployed API volume.
• MuleSoft Anypoint Manager provides a client SDK to auto-generate client-side code whereas Apigee does not provide such capabilities.