MuleSoft vs. Azure API Management Comparison

Who should you choose and why?

✋ Most important consideration

• Azure and MuleSoft have a relatively simple and intuitive developer and administration portal, however, Azure API Manager is mostly limited to working with Azure environments and the related ecosystem.

🤔 Strongly consider MuleSoft over Azure if

• You want stronger API discovery and automatic API generation.
• You need better features for defining, implementing, and validating consistent design standards for APIs across your organization.
• You want to enforce policies using custom workflows. 
• You’re managing API metadata.

🤔 Strongly consider Azure over MuleSoft if

• You’re looking to customize the developer portal to suit different API teams.
• You want to manage the API terms of service.
• You want to monetize your APIs effectively with tools like invoice generation, tiered billing, billing categories, etc.

📝 Other Notes

• Compared to Azure API Manager, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager provides better support for OpenID, basic authentication, and WS-Security.
• Azure has better API caching capability compared to MuleSoft.
• MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager is more expensive than Azure API Manager.
• MuleSoft has better documentation compared to Azure API Manager.