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Apigee API Management

byGoogle
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4.5
Market Presence: API Management, API Protection

Overview

Product Information on Apigee API Management

Updated 13th October 2025

What is Apigee API Management?

Apigee API Management is a software that enables organizations to design, secure, deploy, monitor, and scale application programming interfaces. The software provides tools for API traffic management, security protocols, analytics, and developer engagement, supporting both internal and external API use cases. It assists businesses in managing digital connections between various services and applications, helping them streamline integration, enforce access policies, and gain insights from API analytics. Apigee API Management addresses challenges related to API scalability, reliability, and governance, while aiding in the efficient delivery and operation of digital services.

Apigee API Management Pricing

Apigee API Management is a software offered with tiered pricing plans based on usage levels, which commonly include features such as API traffic volume, analytics, security, and support. The software provides options for both subscription-based models and custom enterprise pricing, allowing organizations to select plans aligned to their API management requirements and projected usage.

Overall experience with Apigee API Management

CLOUD APPLICATION SECURITY ENGINEER
Gov't/PS/ED <5,000 Employees, Education
FAVORABLE

“Apigee Enforces Secure API Gateway Policies and Eases Threat Mitigation Efforts”

5.0
Nov 24, 2025
Overall, my experience with Apigee has been incredibly positive. Its ability to protect high-traffic APIs and enforce consistent gateway policies across different teams and APIs has been nothing short of a game changer. There has been some friction with cost due to size, but the security and management gains outweigh the spend.
CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER
<50M USD, IT Services
CRITICAL

“it actually works, but didn't suite good for ours case”

3.0
Jan 29, 2024
Actually pricing estimation was wrong due to some misunderstanding of pricing model

About Company

Company Description

Updated 25th July 2024

Googlers is a company that creates products intended to create opportunities for an extensive audience, regardless of their location across the globe. The company values diverse perspectives, imaginations and non-conformity to predefined norms and impossibilities. The goal is to build products while incorporating uniqueness of each individual involved in this process, aiming to make their products accessible and useful to all.

Company Details

Updated 11th November 2024
Company type
Public
Year Founded
1998
Head office location
Mountain View, CA, United States
Annual Revenue
30B+ USD
Website
www.google.com

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Apigee API Management Likes & Dislikes

Like

1. Policy-driven protection. This makes it simple and straightforward to enforce multiple types of authentication and a variety of traffic controls at the gateway layer, rather than having to write and push that logic onto every service in your stack. 2. Threat Protection w/ OWASP aligned controls. The built-in policies focused on the OWASP API Top 10 Risks helped us to mitigate actual risk without spending endless cycles churning over security controls. 3. Governance for multi-team programs. The ability to implement RBAC with Apigee's proxy/product model helped us to separate responsibilities cleanly within the management tool. It's always a plus when a security product follows security principles.

Like

it's easy to integrate with Cloud Run (good integration with another google products)

Like

Strong security controls for authentication, rate limiting, and traffic management. Detailed analytics and monitoring, which make it easy to understand the API usage and performance. Scales very well, handling high traffic and complex API ecosystems reliably.

Dislike

1. As with any tool like this, there is often a risk of policy sprawl. Given the amount of customization that is available, it can be easy to get lost in the weeds setting up per-proxy rules. 2. Tuning rate limiting is a powerful feature set, but it is finicky and needs to be implemented carefully to consider burst traffic. 3. The biggest issue, however, is that it is expensive. The base API management pricing is not bad, but specifically with the Advanced API Security if you have multiple environments with high traffic loads your costs can quickly exceed your initial expectations.

Dislike

pricing model

Dislike

Steep learning curve, especially for teams new to API management or Apigees policy-based approach. Complex setup and configuration, which could require experienced developers. Pricing can be high, making it less ideal for smaller teams or low-volume use cases.

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Peer Discussions

Apigee API Management Reviews and Ratings

Showing data for 75 ratings and reviews for API Protection market. View all 313 ratings and reviews across markets for a complete picture.

4.5

(75 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

5 Star
47%
4 Star
51%
3 Star
3%
2 Star
0%
1 Star
0%
Why ratings and reviews count differ?

Customer Experience

Evaluation & Contracting

4.5

Integration & Deployment

4.4

Service & Support

4.4

Product Capabilities

4.7

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  • CLOUD APPLICATION SECURITY ENGINEER
    Gov't/PS/Ed
    Education
    Review Source

    Apigee Enforces Secure API Gateway Policies and Eases Threat Mitigation Efforts

    5.0
    Nov 24, 2025
    Overall, my experience with Apigee has been incredibly positive. Its ability to protect high-traffic APIs and enforce consistent gateway policies across different teams and APIs has been nothing short of a game changer. There has been some friction with cost due to size, but the security and management gains outweigh the spend.
  • SALES MANAGER
    50M-1B USD
    Banking
    Review Source

    Apigee Excels at Scale but Setup and Pricing May Challenge Smaller Teams

    4.0
    Dec 15, 2025
    Apigee is a powerful platform for managing and securing APIs, especially at scale. It’s very reliable once set up, but the learning curve and configuration complexity can be a bit heavy for smaller teams or first-time users.
  • IT SECURITY & RISK MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATE
    1B-10B USD
    Telecommunication
    Review Source

    Extensive Policy Features in Apigee Offset by Concerns Over Cumulative Pricing

    5.0
    Dec 17, 2025
    Our overall experience with Apigee has trasformative for our API-first strategy. Before implementaion, we struggled with a fragmented landscape of point-topoint intergrations that were difficult to secure and monitor. Since adopting Apigee.
  • MARKETING MANAGER
    Gov't/PS/Ed
    Education
    Review Source

    Reliable Performance and Advanced Insights With Apigee, Yet Configuration Remains Complex

    4.0
    Dec 19, 2025
    My overall experience with Apigee API management has been positive. It provides a robust and scalable foundation for API governance, security and life cycle management. Once set up, the platform is reliable and capable of handling high volumes of traffic with strong performance. While there is a learning curve, especially for teens new to enterprise API management. It has to be a dependable solution for production environments.
  • Software Engineer
    50M-1B USD
    Software
    Review Source

    A Robust API Gateway with Exceptional Policy Control and Analytics

    4.0
    Nov 25, 2025
    Apigee provides a highly reliable and scalable API Gateway that performs consistently even under heavy workloads. It is a very Robust and Scalable API gateway. Apart from that it is strong in features like OAuth, JWT, Validation, threat detection, rate limiting etc And the things haven't worked well like initial learning curve, pricing can be high,
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