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The demand for APIs, which is powered by new business models, application development trends, and the necessity of modernization, is directing software engineering executives to the broad and developing market for full life cycle API management technologies. This research evaluates 17 vendors so that you may make an informed decision.
Definition/Description of the Market
The whole life cycle application programming interface (API) management market is defined by the market for software that supports all phases of an API's life cycle, including planning and design, development and testing, deployment and operation, and versioning and retirement.
Central to the capabilities of full life cycle API management services is support for the following functional areas:
> Developer portals: A self-service catalogue of APIs for enabling, marketing to, and controlling API-producing and -consuming developer ecosystems.
> API Gateway: Runtime administration, security, and usage monitoring for APIs.
> Policy Management and Analytics: Security configuration, API mediation, and API usage analytics.
> API design and development: A meaningful developer experience and tools for creating and developing APIs, as well as for integrating APIs into existing systems.
> API Testing: From mock testing to functional, performance, and security testing of APIs, API testing ranges from simple to advanced.
As described in the subsequent sections of this list, some suppliers specialise in portions of the API life cycle, such as runtime API gateways and API testing, and others focus on the whole life cycle.
Top Trending Vendors
Amazon Web Hosting
Amazon API Gateway is widely used in tandem with AWS Lambda and the AWS container services. Amazon API Gateway offers both REST APIs and "HTTP APIs," with the latter being the simpler, cheaper, and lower-latency option. AWS remains committed to enhancing its developer portal, administration interface, and Kubernetes integration.
The operations of AWS are geographically dispersed. AWS prioritises use cases that link APIs with other AWS components.
Axway
It provides the Amplify API Management Platform, which consists of the Amplify Catalog, the Amplify Marketplace, the API Portal, the low-code API Builder, Amplify Analytics, and agents for discovery, subscription, and traceability. Axway additionally offers Amplify Integration Builder, Amplify Streams for event-driven capabilities, and Axway Mesh, which is built on Istio. The offering of Axway is deployable on-premises, as well as in private, public, and hybrid clouds. It is also accessible as SaaS and in a cloud maintained by Axway.
Axway's businesses span the globe. The majority of its clients reside in Europe, the Americas, Australia, and Asia.
Boomi
It offers API management as a component of the AtomSphere system. In addition, AtomSphere offers integration platform as a service (iPaaS), master data management (MDM), workflow, a data catalogue, and low-code development. It enables hybrid/multicloud, on-premises/private cloud, and hybrid/multicloud Atom runtime installations with cloud administration.
The operations of Boomi are regionally dispersed. The majority of its clientele are medium or large businesses.
Broadcom
API Hub (a developer site), CA Live API Creator (for generating APIs from databases), CA Mobile API Gateway (and SDK), OAuth Toolkit, CA Rapid App Security, BlazeMeter (for API testing), and AIOps are also included in the Layer7 API Management platform (for operational intelligence and application performance monitoring). BlazeMeter and AIOps are deployment tools for SaaS. The remaining solutions can be deployed via SaaS, customer-managed cloud, or on-premises.
Broadcom's operations are regionally diversified as a global provider of semiconductor and infrastructure software technologies. Using a portfolio licencing strategy, the company focuses on its top 2,000 worldwide enterprises and public sector agencies. A robust team of partners provides assistance to smaller enterprises.
Google (Apigee)
Apigee is a robust API management solution that can be deployed in a public cloud on Google Cloud Platform, a private cloud, or a data centre. Apigee hybrid is an option for deployment at the Enterprise and Enterprise Plus levels. Apigee hybrid permits a customer-managed runtime on Azure, AWS, GCP, or a private cloud utilising the Google Anthos platform, with an Apigee-managed control plane on GCP. Apigee X, a GCP-based SaaS deployment that combines Apigee with other GCP products such as Cloud Armor and reCAPTCHA, was introduced by Google in February 2021.
Google additionally provides two distinct API gateways: Google Cloud Endpoints, a low-end API gateway (based on NGINX) for GCP clients, and Google Cloud API Gateway (based on Envoy) for managing API requests to GCP's serverless solutions. The operations of Google are geographically dispersed. The majority of its API management customers are based in the Americas, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and India.
IBM
IBM API Connect enables businesses to manage their APIs across integration, cloud-native microservices, and developer ecosystem situations. It is offered as a SaaS service as well as a customer-managed or IBM-managed implementation in a hybrid environment. API Connect is also included in the IBM Cloud Pak for Integration, a Red Hat OpenShift-based packaged product.
IBM purchased Red Hat in 2019, however Red Hat continues to independently manage and market its 3scale API Management service. Therefore, Red Hat is evaluated independently in this API Management Segment. IBM has regionally dispersed operations. The majority of its clients are midrange and big enterprises in the banking, retail, and government sectors.
Kong
Kong's API management solution is Kong Konnect, which consists of Kong Gateway, a commercial version of its open-source Kong API Gateway based on NGINX with the OpenResty plug-in, the Kong Developer Portal, and the Insomnia API design and testing tool. Kong also provides Kong Mesh, an Envoy-based service mesh based on their open-source Kuma project. As part of Kong's platform, which is available both on-premises and in the cloud, Kong Vitals for monitoring and Kong Immunity for anomaly detection are also available.
Kong's operations are dispersed geographically. The majority of Kong's clientele are in the financial, services, and technology sectors.
Microsoft
It provides Azure API Management, which is utilised extensively within the Microsoft Azure cloud. Its gateway and portal components can also be implemented via Azure Arc or directly on Kubernetes.
Azure API Management is a component of Microsoft's Azure Integration Services and is offered at five distinct pricing tiers: Consumption, Developer, Basic, Standard, and Premium. Users incur a flat hourly rate based on their resource consumption and feature set. The Premium tier supports installations across many regions. Pricing for consumption is determined by the number of API calls. Geographically, Microsoft's operations are diversified. Azure API Management is accessible for usage by the U.S. government and Department of Defense in Azure public cloud regions.
MuleSoft
The Salesforce-owned but independently operated MuleSoft provides the Anypoint Platform, which combines API management and integration features. MuleSoft only provides a package for API management. It also provides Anypoint API Community Manager, which facilitates the formation of an ecosystem of API users and promotes the adoption of API products, and Anypoint Exchange, an enterprise-wide platform for sharing APIs and integration-related assets.
Geographically, MuleSoft has operations primarily in North America, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. The majority of its clients are medium and large businesses.
Postman
Postman, a new addition to the API Management Segment, is a well-known API testing vendor and creator of Postman Collections, a method for organising APIs for development and testing. In addition, Postman now provides the Postman API Platform, a SaaS platform focused on API design, API testing, and the development of API developer portals. Postman hired the AsyncAPI maintainers in late 2020, demonstrating the importance of asynchronous APIs to the company.
Postman, unlike the majority of vendors in this API Management Segment, does not offer an API gateway but rather partners with API gateway providers. Postman operates primarily in the United States, the United Kingdom, India, and Germany. It serves customers in all industries and regions.
Red Hat
Red Hat Integration offers Red Hat 3scale API Management as one of its solutions. Red Hat 3scale API Management is generally installed in a hybrid architecture alongside on-premises NGINX-based API gateways with a small footprint and cloud administration. It can also operate locally on the OpenShift container management platform from Red Hat.
Red Hat furthermore provides a fully managed Red Hat OpenShift API Management service based on 3scale API Management. Red Hat's operations are dispersed geographically. Red Hat has clients around the globe.
Red Hat is owned by IBM, however Red Hat separately operates and markets 3scale API Management. Therefore, Red Hat is evaluated independently of IBM in this API Management Segment. Red Hat did not respond to our information requests. Our analysis is supported by additional trustworthy and acceptable public sources.
SAP
It provides SAP API Management as part of the SAP Integration Suite, which is a component of the SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP). BTP is a comprehensive PaaS with integration, portal, mobile application development, and data management features. SAP's cloud-only service leverages an OEM version of Google's Apigee Edge API gateway as the runtime component. SAP has created its own full life cycle API administration tools, including analytics and an API developer portal, around this gateway (called API Business Hub Enterprise). SAP API Management is offered to all customers, independent of their prior association with SAP; nevertheless, the majority of its users are already SAP customers.
SAP's operations are dispersed geographically. SAP has clients in every industry.
SmartBear
SmartBear SwaggerHub, SmartBear ReadyAPI (for testing, security, performance testing, and virtualization), and SmartBear AlertSite are all provided (for API monitoring). These commercial products incorporate the open-source Swagger Editor (for API design) and SoapUI tool (for API testing), which are based on the SmartBear-sponsored open-source communities Swagger.io and SOAPUI.org.
SmartBear focuses on the life cycle of API development. Although it does not offer an API gateway, its product suite is compatible with a variety of API gateways, such as AWS API Gateway, IBM API Connect, Microsoft Azure API Gateway, and Google Apigee. SmartBear's API management products are available both on-premises and as SaaS, but the majority of customers prefer the latter. SmartBear's goods are available globally. It has offices in the United States, Europe, Australia, and India.
Software AG
It provides the webMethods API management platform (for implementation on-premises) and the webMethods.io API (for the cloud). This vendor focuses on facilitating API-based integrations and maintaining API-based product ecosystems. In addition to its enterprise iPaaS, webMethods.io API, and/or Cumulocity IoT platform, Software AG's API management platform is frequently employed as a standalone product.
The operations of Software AG are geographically dispersed. The majority of its clients are huge organisations in the banking, retail, manufacturing, and government sectors.
TIBCO Software
TIBCO's API management offering is TIBCO Cloud Mashery, an integrated solution that is available as an on-premises, hybrid, or cloud service. TIBCO Cloud Mashery contains API modelling and API mocking capabilities, a developer portal, a control centre, analytics, a microgateway, and API proxy applications (Node.js and Flogo). The extensive range of TIBCO consists of tools for API-driven integration, event-driven applications, MDM, an in-memory data platform, and analytics.
The operations of TIBCO are geographically dispersed. The majority of its clients are global midsize and big businesses.
Tyk
It provides an open-source API gateway, API analytics, a closed-source developer site, and a dashboard for managing APIs. It focuses on allowing cloud-native microservices, API governance across many development teams, and GraphQL-based API-based data connectors.
Tyk is a "remote-first" enterprise with global operations and sales centres in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Singapore. The bulk of its clients are midrange and big enterprises in the financial services, retail, and telecommunications industries.
WSO2
It offers the open-source API administration solution WSO2 API Manager. In addition, WSO2 introduced Choreo in 2021, a cloud-based API management solution with a traditional PaaS subscription model. The WSO2 API Manager Analytics capability is supplied as a Microsoft Azure-based service.
WSO2 integrates API management and integration with WSO2 API Manager and Choreo. This enables integrations to be accessible across cloud, on-premises, container-native, and hybrid systems as controlled APIs. WSO2 also offers the opportunity to employ Micro Integrator (for microservices situations) and Streaming Integrator (for extraction, transformation, and loading, and streaming) as stand-alone solutions, in addition to a stand-alone identity management platform (WSO2 Identity Server). WSO2 provides its products globally. South America, South Asia, and the Middle East account for the vast majority of its users.
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