Apigee Edge vs. F5 NGINX Management Suite

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Apigee Edge
Score 8.0 out of 10
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Apigee Edge is an API management platform now owned and offered by Google, since Google acquired Apigee in 2016.N/A
F5 NGINX Management Suite
Score 6.0 out of 10
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NGINX Management Suite provides holistic visibility and control of NGINX instances, application delivery services, API management workflows, and security solutions. It is used to streamline four key areas: Scale – Intelligently scale NGINX instances and services with global policy controls using CI/CD automation to drive workflows, service configuration and provisioning, and multi‑cloud management Insight – Improve business decisions,…N/A
Pricing
Apigee EdgeF5 NGINX Management Suite
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Apigee EdgeF5 NGINX Management Suite
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Apigee EdgeF5 NGINX Management Suite
Features
Apigee EdgeF5 NGINX Management Suite
API Management
Comparison of API Management features of Product A and Product B
Apigee Edge
9.4
Ratings
12% above category average
F5 NGINX Management Suite
-
Ratings
API access control9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Rate limits and usage policies9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
API usage data9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
API user onboarding9.90 Ratings00 Ratings
API versioning9.90 Ratings00 Ratings
Usage billing and payments9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
API monitoring and logging9.90 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Apigee EdgeF5 NGINX Management Suite
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
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Likelihood to Renew
9.0
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Usability
9.0
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Support Rating
6.0
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User Testimonials
Apigee EdgeF5 NGINX Management Suite
Likelihood to Recommend
Apigee has been great when managing the quota based access to the APIs. It is really good and suitable when considering proxying the in-house server endpoints access with the way it provides security with API Key validation and OAuth.
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Pros
  • Manage user access, we can allow specific access to users based on their need and even customize requests of services based on user requirements.
  • Allow branding, so that SFO can maintain its look and feel but still get the support and functionalities we need from Apigee.
  • Integrates well with other platforms we use.
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Cons
  • Might need to bring in more features that a gateway performs, such a orchestration to some extent.
  • May seem to be costly at start for small scale enterprises.
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Likelihood to Renew
I am not the one deciding whether to use apigee or not really. But personally, I would recommend the use of it as developing APIs on it is easy. And as a mediator between backend servers, we could easily modify request and responses in it without touching any backend code while having a centralize gateway to access our backend APIs too.
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Usability
Support has helped us to resolved all the queries and community support was also good.
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Support Rating
Quite hard to get support, at least on the coding side, when we encounter blockers. But general concerns, they would schedule a call to you for them to get a whole picture of your concern. Albeit in my experience, bad really as they haven't replied about the progress, but otherwise seems to have been fixed.
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Alternatives Considered
Apigee is the best in the market in terms of API Analytics Apigee is having wonderful Documentation with short videos Security is a major concern and Apigee provides an easily configurable policy to secure API Quota and rate-limit is again very easy to configure on every API basis It provides various policies to transform the response from one form to another form e.g. JSON to XML or XML to JSON
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Return on Investment
  • Unruly, difficult to maintain, unable to test, difficult to troubleshoot and debug. Every ticket that requires Apigee work increases stress and anxiety.
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ScreenShots

F5 NGINX Management Suite Screenshots

Screenshot of NMS Security Monitoring Main DashboardScreenshot of NMS IM Instance Group ShotScreenshot of API Connectivity ManagerScreenshot of Global Policies