Apigee

Overview

Apigee is one of the most popular API platforms used currently. Apigee provides the free Developer environment (developer.apigee.com ) and then the commercial environment. The differences can be found on the feature comparison listhttp://apigee.com/docs/developer-vs-edge

Licensing & Openness

Mostly commercial, partially open. According to developers.apigee.com "Apigee contributes several open source projects and tools including apigee-127, Volos NPMs, Apache Usergrid, SDKs, and many other tools and utilities for API deployment and documentation. "

Type

Apigee provides a proxy environment.

Lifecycle management

Language

I couldn't find what programming language Apigee bases on.

UI

Screenshot of their dashboard and the traffic statistics. ![](https://hackpad-attachments.s3.amazonaws.com/hackpad.com_XXSctw9HGUO_p.373935_1429881527565_screenshot-blog apigee com 2015-04-24 16-18-00.png)

Strengths

  • Apigee's monitoring tools are really powerful and well made.

Weaknesses

  • Very unclear technical documentation. Pricing is also very unclear.