WSO2 vs. Apigee Comparison

Who should you choose and why?

✋ Most important consideration

• Apigee is better for the design, development, security, and analytics parts of the API lifecycle. However, it is costly. Buyers may want to consider WSO2 API Manager if cost is a major concern.

🤔 Strongly consider WSO2 over Apigee if

• You need a client SDK to auto-generate client-side code.
• You need to have API test automation to automatically generate and execute tests.
• You need to have catalogs of API services to be built.
• You need support for AsyncAPIs and support webhooks and WebSockets.
• You’re sensitive to cost.

🤔 Strongly consider Apigee over WSO2 if

• You value scalable products with better orchestration capabilities.
• You’re aggregating results from backend services and focusing on API composition.
• You want to generate API specs from code automatically.

📝 Other Notes

• Apigee’s user interface is much better than WSO2’s.
• It’s easier to maintain different API versions in Apigee compared to WSO2 API Manager.