# IBM API Connect Reviews **Vendor:** IBM **Category:** [API Marketplaces](https://www.g2.com/categories/api-marketplace) **Average Rating:** 4.3/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 163 ## About IBM API Connect IBM API Connect is a complete, intuitive and scalable API solution that lets organizations implement a robust API strategy by building, exposing, securing, and managing an entire API ecosystem across multiple clouds. IBM API Connect is available on AWS Marketplace. As businesses embrace their digital transformation journey, APIs become critical to unlock the value of business data and assets. With increasing adoption of APIs, consistency and governance are needed across the enterprise.  API Connect allows businesses to get new features to market fast, maintain continuous availability, meet changing user needs, and spur innovation. ## IBM API Connect Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users value the **seamless API management tools** of IBM API Connect for streamlined development and deployment throughout its lifecycle. (3 reviews) - Users value the **seamless API management and development** capabilities of IBM API Connect throughout the entire lifecycle. (3 reviews) - Users value the **user-friendly interface and robust security features** of IBM API Connect for effective API management. (3 reviews) - Users value the **seamless integration capabilities** of IBM API Connect, enhancing API management and service discoverability. (3 reviews) - Users appreciate the **high security features** of IBM API Connect, ensuring safe and reliable API management. (3 reviews) - Users value the **API integration capabilities** of IBM API Connect, enhancing application management and deployment ease. (2 reviews) - Deployment (2 reviews) - Design Ease (2 reviews) - Variety (2 reviews) - Cloud Computing (1 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users experience **slow performance** with API calls and the editor, impacting overall efficiency and integration speed. (3 reviews) - Users find **debugging issues** challenging with IBM API Connect, especially after deployment profile deprecation requiring more server resources. (2 reviews) - Users find the **complex features** of IBM API Connect challenging, affecting usability and integration efforts. (2 reviews) - Users find the **costly features** of IBM API Connect burdensome, especially for small businesses with limited budgets. (2 reviews) - Users find the **limitations of analytics data extraction** challenging, complicating the debugging of APIs within IBM API Connect. (2 reviews) - Integration Issues (2 reviews) - Users note that the **learning difficulty** is high for newcomers, requiring better tutorials and support for easier onboarding. (2 reviews) - API Issues (1 reviews) - API Management (1 reviews) - Bug Issues (1 reviews) ## IBM API Connect Reviews ### 1. Easy Setup and Quick Learning, but Pricey Compared to Alternatives **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mohit G. | Chief Information Security officer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 07, 2026 **What do you like best about IBM API Connect?** It’s easy to set up and not too complex to learn, so I was able to get started quickly. **What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?** It is very costly compared to other products. **What problems is IBM API Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** Rapidly design, create, and document APIs (REST, SOAP, GraphQL) using built-in developer tools and AI-powered generators. ### 2. User-Friendly with Great Integrations, but Debugging APIs Can Be Tricky **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Niki H. | Owner, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 17, 2025 **What do you like best about IBM API Connect?** It is very user-friendly. The product natively provides integrations with GraphQL and AsyncAPI, which enables a full service discoverability within the Dev Portal. This capability provides a self-service service consumption. **What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?** Debugging API's might get somewhat difficult **What problems is IBM API Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** securing API's (often proxies) to the public world ### 3. A solid API management platform that works well for basic to moderately complex solutions **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Francis C. | Small Business Owner, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 17, 2025 **What do you like best about IBM API Connect?** - It offers a good balance of features, security, and usability. - It has a User-Friendly Interface. - Solid for Mid-Level Use Cases **What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?** Learning Curve for New Users is a little high. While the interface is well-structured, beginners or those without prior exposure to IBM’s ecosystem may find the initial learning curve steep. Occasional Bugs: The platform does occasionally exhibit bugs or inconsistencies, which can impact the developer experience. Most issues are manageable, but they can be frustrating during critical development phases. **What problems is IBM API Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mainly centralized API management, Security and Access control. ### 4. IBM API Connect - Enhance & Secure your APIs **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Laxman Kumar P. | Middleware Administrator, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 26, 2024 **What do you like best about IBM API Connect?** IBM API Connect is a single API Management solution where it provides the high security, easy to develop the APIs, we can publish the APIs to socialize. IBM API Connect will be integrated with IBM DataPower Gateway where it will acts as gateway which provides high securtiy where it will be acts as a proxy. In the latest version of API Connect the advanced features are released where we can discover the APIs before moving to API lifecycle and we can governance the APIs using API & Product level rulesets. And the implementation for the administartor is quite easy and the support provided by the IBM Support center will be helpful which facing any production down issues. **What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?** IBM API Connect in the latest version for the analytics server the deployment profile was deprecated which will needs to increase the additional RAM for the servers. **What problems is IBM API Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** Developing of APIs and publishing through the developer portal site is helping the APIs to reach more in the society and publicity. ### 5. API gateway for managing large amount of API's for multiple product **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dhruvesh R. | Senior System Integration Specialist, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 20, 2024 **What do you like best about IBM API Connect?** UI of IBM API developer and Admin portal is good for managing and viewing the available products. The configuration related to product subscription, API's endpoints and secrets is very easy through Adming portal. The best thing i like about this product is that it's very easy to configure and manage the access for specific product at individual and group level. It provides variety of security protocols and plans to expose your products. **What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?** Product needs improvement on the latency of API call.As, with this layer of APIC configuration it adds a bit more delay. Also, the platform is very slow if we import the API and try to view/edit in API editor. **What problems is IBM API Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have very large numbers of API which we are exposing the multiple vendors. With IBM API connect portal we are able to manage all the API's very easily. Also we are able to monitor the access and limit the usage of the API calls. Also, we are able to automate the cofiguration process of all the new API's. ### 6. Clean and organised monitoring of API! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Harshit B. | Software Engineer associate, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 27, 2024 **What do you like best about IBM API Connect?** Recently i got the oppurtunity to work with IBM API Connect, It comes very handly for management and deployments of API's.It provides seamless tools for API managing and developement, thoughout the API lifecycle starting from design to deployment and deprecation of API. **What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?** Though it provision end to end platform for management of API but still i feel more tutorials and walkthroughs can help beginners to learn the API integration faster. **What problems is IBM API Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** Using the build in tools offered by IBM API connect, we designed API for accessing product details and fetch order history, the design phase was quite easy, special thanks to OpenAPI support and also it helped us to deploy API gateway. ### 7. Trust the IBM API Connect product for all your API needs in the cloud **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 25, 2024 **What do you like best about IBM API Connect?** Its a one stop shop that allows us to create, manage and secure our application API's in the on-prem cloud or to other vendors like GCP, AWS. I found the neat little virtual machine appliance easy to deploy on our on-prem infrastructure and quick to get up and running. From there as part of the Websphere line the gui was clean and easy to navigate. **What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?** As yet and still part of PoC / sandpit setup no negative points to raise. **What problems is IBM API Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** With cyber security a big thing the API Connect is a secure platform to work on and manage the project API's. It also helps close the gap with Redhat OpenShift as the API can be deployed within the native container. The fact that is covers the full lifecycle also increased ease of management, maintenance and deployments of the API's. **Official Response from Alessandra Andrade:** > Thank you for your feedback! We're glad to hear that IBM API Connect has been easy to deploy and navigate, providing a secure platform for managing your project APIs. We appreciate your support and look forward to continuing to meet your API management needs. ### 8. Usefulness of IBM API Connect **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vasundhra B. | Project Associate, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 17, 2024 **What do you like best about IBM API Connect?** IBM API Connect is very useful for the analysis of the interface and helps in monitoring the API activities and use. Also, IBM API is very versatile as I can use it with other apps and products as well. **What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?** Although IBM API is very good and useful but customer support is not very efficient and the complex features are hard to understand sometimes. Also, IBM API connect subscription and licensing is sometimes very costly and sometimes not affordable. **What problems is IBM API Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** To keep track of the usage and design and monitor all these problems have vanished since I started using IBM API connect. Additionally, the feature that it can be used with other apps so efficiently is very useful and good. ### 9. Manage our APIs and monitor them easily with this great tool from IBM **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Steeve T. | Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 27, 2024 **What do you like best about IBM API Connect?** What I like the most is the analytics and API lifecycle management because it is easy to use and the data syncronization as well as testing and tracking from one place. On the other hand the security is good and with each update it has improved a lot, the execution times have also changed for the better and lastly I liked being able to manage multiple routes and have an analytics tab at the same time. **What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?** For new users it is a problem to adjust certain functions and also creating analyzes through different data can be a bit confusing. **What problems is IBM API Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** The problems mostly solved were in managing and analyzing APIs and different data source, improving data processing times, ensuring success and ending problems by automating APIs. ### 10. best for API Management life cycle **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kiran D. | Technology Architect, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 28, 2024 **What do you like best about IBM API Connect?** IBM API Connect is IBM Cloud based technology useful for API management lifecycle including development and administration. **What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?** Limitations of Analytics data extraction **What problems is IBM API Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** For SOAP and RESTful APIs, API development and management is easy with IBM API connect. IBM Analytics helps to keep the data for monitoring and troubleshooting. ### 11. One tools for all API solutions it refers IBM API Connect!! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Utkarsh D. | Customer Service Representative, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 25, 2024 **What do you like best about IBM API Connect?** I had alot of issues related to connecting multiple devices but all thanks to IBM API Connect, now i am worry free. The tutorials are real friends which makes this IBM API Connect super convenient and usuaful for everyone. I am not a coder and was sceptical before buying it but this was super easy and quick to start when compared to other API solutions. I am very impressed with the customer support that they provide to the clients and they are quick to action. **What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?** IBM API Connect really is a gem for the price but still it is big money for a small organisation so i would love a price drop of few bucks. **What problems is IBM API Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** Other API solutions don't provide tutorials to help the non coders but this has the tutorials which makes it fairly easy to connect and integrate. I like the light weight interface of IBM API Connect. ### 12. I am a senior software developer. I have worked as full stack developer and DevOps Engineer **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Satish K. | DevOps Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 07, 2024 **What do you like best about IBM API Connect?** I love security features and features like rate limiting and throttling **What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?** UI can be improved and pricing is a bit higher comparatively **What problems is IBM API Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** Overall API creation and management. It helps us in security and scalability of our APIs. ### 13. Tool to manage all our APIs and monitor easily **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Angelique M. | Project Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 20, 2024 **What do you like best about IBM API Connect?** IBM API Connect is great for managing APIs seamlessly and doesnt require a lot of expertise or maintenance. I like that it meets our needs, offers the possibility of customization and the developer portal is flexible and excellent. **What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?** Sometimes it can be confusing, especially when switching from one function to another. **What problems is IBM API Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** This is a tool that is used to manage our APIs easily and quickly and address the landscape in microservices and we noticed a growth in productivity getting the best benefits. ### 14. Insightful Learnings on APIs **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** DEVENDRA G. | Software Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 24, 2024 **What do you like best about IBM API Connect?** It helps streamline the usgaes process of APIs with minimal code and enhance great functionality **What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?** Nothing. It was all great learnings about the product **What problems is IBM API Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps in improving the agility and efficiency with its low code approach and great result ### 15. You can solve any issue if you choose to connect - Green button IBM API Connect **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sumit B. | Associate Recruiter, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 15, 2024 **What do you like best about IBM API Connect?** We will start from the basic feature and go till last of its quality . So, the major thing which consumer want in any product is the cost , durability , usage , interpretatiion and system to use. So, talking about the cost it starts from Zero , talks about durability it is very light in storage and can be user in any device. Moreover , the link which provide us to interperatte with the different softwares is very easy and commanding. **What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?** Well this is very well said if you have any product so it will have both bad or good side of its use. But , In my experience till the last use of this application I have find out that only its speed of use hangs when it about downloading the updates . otherwise in all other customs it is very good to use. **What problems is IBM API Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** Well it is only giving me benefits in the terms of using different platforms . As, it was really difficult for me to manage and communicate with in different software but once I got to know about IBM API connect I got way very easy on doing my work as I thought it would be very costly and heavy tool but I was wrong it was very affordable and light in terms of space. I can use this anywhere at anytime in any device ### 16. IBM API Connect **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ashitha P. | developer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 18, 2024 **What do you like best about IBM API Connect?** it helped me to creating and managing Api's the best thing is it is easy to create and have different deploying options **What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?** some of the features are hard to understand **What problems is IBM API Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** provide better user experience and give security ### 17. It was very fast and what i likes is built-in security protocol (OAuth) **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 19, 2024 **What do you like best about IBM API Connect?** Very simple UI and best thing i liked is built-in Security protocol (OAUTH). Also Best thing is that i can analyze API usage, Errors rates. **What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?** It is little bit costly for small businesses because sometimes they can't pay that much. **What problems is IBM API Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** Sometimes it's hard to manage API manually likeAPI Usage, Error rates, API Response time etc. but IBM Provides simplete UI for API management and analysis. ### 18. Excellent **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Broadcast Media | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 18, 2024 **What do you like best about IBM API Connect?** I liked that it is easy to use and has simple documentation with a breadth of features. It was simple to integrate into my projects **What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?** When I had a highly specific error or question related to a project that was not found in the documentation the answers were difficult to find across the web **What problems is IBM API Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is helping me simulate reducing costs on projects. ### 19. I had an amazing experience with respect to IBM API Connect. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Muhammad Uzair A. | Senior Software Engineer - Integrations, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 07, 2024 **What do you like best about IBM API Connect?** The best what I like about API Connect was the analytics section, in diagnoising issues in production, our go to approach would be to check the API Connect logs. In the latest API Connect 10 version we had on our Cloud Pak. That version had the capability to show the processing time the request spent on each policy with in the API, so it gave us really good insights in identifying bottlenecks whether it was our gateway script or the downstream system itself and then take appropriate action. The other feature was the capability of synchronizing data such as client ids and secrets. We had two seperate API connect deployments (Active and DR) and using the internal sub system backups of the main deployement and backup in the other cluster we were able to onboard one client and the same id and secret could be used in the other cluster, in case of enabling DR traffic. Since most of our integrations were routed from the API Connect, it was a touch point for all the services for the organization so it was able to handle immense workloads. It was also relatively easy to develop APIs and deploy it on the products. And with the role based access control we were able to make sure that only relevant users after review could publish the API's. **What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?** The only problem which I observed was where we had two deployments (Active and DR) running in two seperate clusters, we had issues of analytics availaiblity at one place, other than that there weren't any issues from the development and deployment perspective. **What problems is IBM API Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** The main problem that API Connect was solving was authentication and authorization, since we want the consumers to only access only those services for which they were provided the access to, furthermore the other direction which the organization was thinking was to use monetization capability with the API Connect to avoid API abuse by the consumers. From the analytics perspective we onboarded the clients with perspective to business domain and region, so we were able to also have the stats on hand if the management team wanted to inquire the numbers for the calls from a certain region or domain or both. ### 20. My review on IBM API CONNECT **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** atokoose t. | Self Employed, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 14, 2023 **What do you like best about IBM API Connect?** The first thing i would love to mention about this software is the ease of integration, i was able to easily integrate it with our company website and during the process of integration, i found out that IBM API has a huge web of external systems that it could be easily integrated into and not just a company website. with IBM API CONNECT . we were able to easily control, manage, create, anaylse all our API link services... it allowed us to easily upscale and downscale at any moment of need... the tool that helped us in easily creating these API was very user-friendly without it taking so much time to set up. IBM API CONNECT provides us with a very strongly secured gateway to manage all our internal to external data send and requests... The customer care support team was also very responsive and very professionally knowledgeble **What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?** The software implementation and structure can get so complicated at any moment especially with a lot of API on board.. which does lead to more hands on deck **What problems is IBM API Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** The biggest problems we had issue with was security .. IBM API CONNECT really saved our side on that. ### 21. Setup process is straightforward with its solid documentation **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Satish K. | Senior Product Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 24, 2024 **What do you like best about IBM API Connect?** features like load balancing, security, rate limiting **What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?** Complexity in advanced configuration in custom integration **What problems is IBM API Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** API testing ### 22. Best of the top api management solution for our aws projects !! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Callie B. | Team manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 11, 2024 **What do you like best about IBM API Connect?** We find ibm to be one of the best API solution we have used among others . We could able to easily manage entire system which is cloud based and real time which is the best part.It was easy to install and integration with datapower was a plus for us. Support is also quite helpful. **What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?** I think we have smoothly used it for around 9 months and we find no such problems other than bit of learning time for complete beginers. **What problems is IBM API Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** We were finding a platform to shift for one place solution of API management which is also cloud based and can be updated live , IBM really helped in that area.Api management was also quite efficient within workspace. ### 23. All in one solution for api in company ,it is worth it !! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rishabh P. | Marketing Intern, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 08, 2024 **What do you like best about IBM API Connect?** We are using it for securely api connection between softwares in company projects , Developer portal is very consise and user friendly , and best is we find it easy to install.The documentation is very useful while going through and support is also responsive. **What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?** We find some problem while editing policies once it has been created but other than that we find no major problem. **What problems is IBM API Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is all in one api solution for our projects , the feature of securely share api is very amazing features.We could able to make application more acessible through imb api .We also like using data insights and market intelligence features and it really helped our team. ### 24. Full feature packed software for all in one api solution !! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Neha k. | Team leader, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 13, 2024 **What do you like best about IBM API Connect?** Super helpful solution for our api data exchange between application projects . IBM is extremely easy to use and can be learned by non coders . Security and contact support is also best . The main thing is its budget which we seems good value for features. **What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?** As of now no such problem within our usage of 8 months **What problems is IBM API Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** It really helped us when we needed to share data through API with security to developers and users. Also helpful in public sector. ### 25. It was a great dealing with. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 19, 2024 **What do you like best about IBM API Connect?** Yeah ofcouse in few words it was an excellent experience. **What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?** The latency should be more improvice in terms of efficiency. **What problems is IBM API Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** Solving the daily usauge related to the documentation resolution. ### 26. Peaceful and wonderful experience **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rohit V. | Customer Service Coordinator, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 10, 2024 **What do you like best about IBM API Connect?** Customer support is awesome, multiple fantastic features, very useful and easy to operate, helps to manage frequency of multiple types of use, Implementation of useful ideas, very useful in integrating planning regarding achieving goals, meets target and leads to successful result. **What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?** Cost is high, intensive resources, market competition and challenges, concerns regarding scalability, risk of security, community and ecosystem and needs to improve the support and maintenance. **What problems is IBM API Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** Provides technology solutions to upgrade small and medium sized businesses to lage size businesses. ### 27. Easy to use and manage API's. Doesn't require much expertise. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 12, 2024 **What do you like best about IBM API Connect?** It is user-friendly and doesn't require much expertise **What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?** You may encounter slow integration sometimes, maybe due to bugs. **What problems is IBM API Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easy to use and implement API designs. ### 28. Integrating the API Connect Managements Services **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Pankaj Rao G. | Software Developer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 08, 2023 **What do you like best about IBM API Connect?** IBM API Connect is a handy toolkit for software developers making it easy to create, secure, integrate and manage connections like REST API and it speeds up the process. Customer support is very good. **What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?** IBM API Connect mostly works fine but sometimes it makes the computer slow and closes by itself. It's a bit expensive, especially for small organizations and they should make it cheaper. **What problems is IBM API Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** Although IBM API Connect can be a little confusing at first but it comes with very useful tutorials. Compared to manual data integration, it provided a faster and more secure solution to my challenge of obtaining information and data from one location to another. ### 29. Gatekeeper of Applications **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kishore K. | Associate Consultant, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 17, 2024 **What do you like best about IBM API Connect?** IBM API connect is used to safeguard your application . It securely exposes our application data by configuring restrictive set of security policies. It helps protect your api at runtime and it's also logs and api interaction as well. Reduces Cost and complexity. **What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?** It has restrictions over character length of instance name ( won't allow if instance name have more than 25 letters) **What problems is IBM API Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** Managing enterprise level api's ### 30. IBM API CONNECT- A REVOLUTION IN API DEVELOPMENT **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shaswat N. | Consultant, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 02, 2024 **What do you like best about IBM API Connect?** IBM API CONNECT enables user to use any website and application API in any cloud environment, on premise environment which is fully deployed on AWS.it requires no automation.just simple understanding of "how does an api works " ? will be enough for deploying any API. **What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?** As of now, i found nothing as such.everything looks smooth and fine. **What problems is IBM API Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** It offers a platform which doesn't require any kind of development practice from a user. It offers a "no coding" platform to user for a quick and errorless api development. ### 31. IBM API to connect and interact **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Arabinda D. | VP - Technology Services and Engineering, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 21, 2024 **What do you like best about IBM API Connect?** Easy to build an API by drag and drop way , any user can leverage the low code and no code powerful capability to build its own api . The api can be exposed to outside with just click several button **What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?** No dislike but it can further enhance by being more useful products and capability **What problems is IBM API Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** Great way solving integration problem effectively. Salesforce can be easily interact with service now like n number of use cases can be solved ### 32. Review for API Connect **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jai J. | Consultant, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 26, 2024 **What do you like best about IBM API Connect?** The buffere time reduction in gathering data **What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?** The UI can be improvised a bit, and apart from that else is fine **What problems is IBM API Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** IT is providing an smooth api integration and hence solving multiple problems ### 33. A good option for API management **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Aman P. | Executive, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 16, 2024 **What do you like best about IBM API Connect?** It is really easy to create, test and deploy all of our APIs in a single place. **What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?** As of now I did not find any drawbacks. Although documationation can be improved. **What problems is IBM API Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps our organization to create and manage all our APIs and integrate those APIs to different external resources. ### 34. A great tool connecting the dot **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Victor J. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 10, 2023 **What do you like best about IBM API Connect?** IBM API connect is a great tool that has helped us in fetching, analysing data securely and hassle free. It's a great tool to meet our business day to day activities. **What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?** I don't have any challenges using the API software so far. **What problems is IBM API Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** IBM API Connect help solve the problem of fetching data and information from one point to another securely and faster compare to manual data integration. It has helped to faten the business process by fetching data securely and faster ### 35. Secure IBM API Connect tool **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Abhishek R. | Software Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 15, 2023 **What do you like best about IBM API Connect?** I used IBM API Connect for making computer things called REST APIs in my last project. It helped keep them safe connect different computer stuff together easily and liked it because it's simple and works well for big companies. **What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?** Sometimes it makes the computer slow and shuts down on its own. It's a bit expensive compared to other options. **What problems is IBM API Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** It secures API Connect, streamlines API design and excels in application integration with strong performance. ### 36. Usage in the Current Project **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bobby M. | Staff Software Test Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 21, 2024 **What do you like best about IBM API Connect?** The IBM API connect helps in the modernization of the traditional ways in connecting the API thru Mainframes or any Distributed system if the data stored in DB2. The Ease of work in defining the parameters is very good. **What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?** At times people working with mainframes are only aware of IBM API connect. **What problems is IBM API Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** To connect to the Distributed systems with mainframes or legacy applications. ### 37. Comprehensive review of IBM API Connect **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Subash C. | Human resource, Education Management, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 12, 2023 **What do you like best about IBM API Connect?** The initial feature I liked was its robust yet simple user friendly interface. IBM API not only creates REST API but also secures and manages all of our API, maintaining a secure system. Integrating with other system has been seamless as well. **What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?** Pricing can be a bit flexible which could be helpful for small startups. Loved all other features. **What problems is IBM API Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** We can create API from different sources and helps is securing them. ### 38. A complete package of tools under one roof. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Aman K. | Staff Software Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 20, 2024 **What do you like best about IBM API Connect?** -Multiple features such as api management, microservices architecure, REST/SOAP APIs handling. -Subscription based model and platform independant and easy to integrate. - Easily adaptable and available to use. - Great customer support and escalations handled ontime. **What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?** - Bad pricing marketvalue and low speed. - Less number of repeat customers. **What problems is IBM API Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** - API Management -> Effortlessly manage and monitor all of your APIs from a one location. ### 39. Amazing and next level experience **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Adrija M. | Social Media Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 15, 2024 **What do you like best about IBM API Connect?** It is very easy to navigate and use. It is very adaptive and flexible. It is digital transformation for finance. It helps us govern our APIs and assets. **What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?** A bit complex for beginner's, but amazing **What problems is IBM API Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is helping me to manage product life cycle. It's very flexible to use and easy to manage. ### 40. Best API management solution **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** jitendra kumar p. | Senior Software Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 27, 2023 **What do you like best about IBM API Connect?** API Connect offers a set of tools and capabilities that support the entire API lifecycle,it is easy to use. and also implimentaion process is very easy .user integration is also good. we can manage.if i am saying about no. of features 1.API Gateway 2.Security and Authentication 3.Developer Portal 4.Customization 5.Multi-Cloud Deployment 6.Analytics. if i am talking about customer support part is also good if are facing any problem. if i am talking about frequency of use we can use this tool always **What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?** some time customer support response time is delay **What problems is IBM API Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** Security and Compliance there is some issue rest of all is ok there is no issue issue.if i am talking about benefiting its Improved Developer Productivity and Monetization Opportunities ### 41. manage you API in a central platform. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jatin B. | Junior Research Analyst, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 08, 2023 **What do you like best about IBM API Connect?** we are using IBM API connect for managing all our prod as well as pre production API, API connect offers a single platform to manage all our API's with central control. it's quite easy to use and very helpful in monetering our API with real time updates. **What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?** While there are so many good feature that API connect offers still i think setup time to add API can be time consuming and requires support from tech team. **What problems is IBM API Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** helping our team to manage and create API for prod as well as non prod environments. ### 42. IBM API Connect - one solution for API Managmenet **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Pratik G. | Sr Tech analyst, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 21, 2024 **What do you like best about IBM API Connect?** Request and Response bodies can be changed to different xml, json formats. Also testing the API's are convienent **What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?** UI /UX interface can be made more user friendly eg Postman **What problems is IBM API Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** Its helping us to test different API's we are developing and its integration with application. Good alternative to POSTMAN and reducing dependency ### 43. Automation engineer **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mahesh G. | Software Engineer, Computer Software, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 20, 2024 **What do you like best about IBM API Connect?** Good the IBM api to fetch the details using title and some details related and respond faster **What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?** Basically i am developer and i not fscing any issue like disadvantages **What problems is IBM API Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** I using API for the some testcase write or any script created for automation and development then useful for me ### 44. One of the best ways to manage APIs **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gaurav G. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 07, 2023 **What do you like best about IBM API Connect?** I think this is one of the best thought out way to manage the large scale APIs. It's really intuitive and managing APIs is very easy with this one. Securing APIs is a very cumbersome task but with this it's really easy. It has numerous features and there's something for everyone. **What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?** The UI can be a litter better and the Integration of other platforms can be a little easier **What problems is IBM API Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have a multitude of APIs and this acts as the central hub for all our APIs. We design and manage our APIs through IBM API Connect. ### 45. Scalable API management tool. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jasleen K. | Analytics Executive, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 14, 2023 **What do you like best about IBM API Connect?** It's helping our company to build and manage API, it's quite helpful when it comes to management of API, It offers traffic control through API gateway and allow monitoring of all traffic by providing meaningful insights. **What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?** Overall experience is good but I think use of AI for auto manage of API and trigger actions based on AI detection can improve overall system. **What problems is IBM API Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** Helping in creating as well as managing API with secure means and helping in traffic monitoring of API and ensuring secure connectivity and protects from any kind of intrusion. ### 46. Management of API made easier. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rohan K. | Associate Quality Assurance Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 13, 2023 **What do you like best about IBM API Connect?** IBM API connect offers multiple tools to manage API through out it's lifecycle. Offers some key security features to manage authentication with the use of Oauth also provides traffic management through API gateway with secured connection. **What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?** Though there is not much to dislike about IBM API connect but I think they can implement use of AI for analytics and monitoring which can optimise performance. **What problems is IBM API Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** IBM API connect is helping in optimising use of API by introducing central access for all API with the use of secure network API gateway. ### 47. Resilience and monitoring service on IBM APIC **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jovanini U. | Solutions Architect Leader, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 16, 2023 **What do you like best about IBM API Connect?** We have very good experience in IBM APIC v10 with analytical support to explore data within the request body to convert into business knowledge. We are exploring the power of implementing new features to improve information security and control access to identity provider resources through RHSSO. **What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?** We had a lot of difficulty updating the 2018 APIC to v10 and the v10 fixes. We will appreciate it if the evolution process is in progress. **What problems is IBM API Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** control and coordination of the API environment for the evolution of digital business transformation. ### 48. Secure and reliable API management solutions. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vinit G. | Accountant, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 07, 2023 **What do you like best about IBM API Connect?** I am supervising a team of 3 developers and we are quite happy with IBM API connect performance it's fast secure and makes it really easy to manage all our API's. **What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?** Their is not much to dislike about this product but my team reported that secure gateway connectivity can sometimes take extra time to run API **What problems is IBM API Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** IBM API is helping us in many ways including designing our API and management of all API and therefore deploy them using secure gateway which protects our data and saves our API to be exploited. ### 49. Good tool for Api management **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rakesh G. | Application Development Analyst, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 26, 2023 **What do you like best about IBM API Connect?** IBM API Connect is good tool for api Management ,create rest api or integration with other external system.It also provides all types of features from api design to api manager. I have used in my project to connect or integrate with other external system. **What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?** In IBM API connect almost all services is good but pricing and licensing is high as comapre to other tool. And due to regular or continues updates needs to update configuration as well. **What problems is IBM API Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** Using IBM API connect I have integrated many external resources and I have managed api and applied different policies. ### 50. Securely manage API using IBM API connect. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Priyanshu K. | Web Designer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 07, 2023 **What do you like best about IBM API Connect?** We are using IBM API connect from past 1 year now, It's quite useful for analyzing and creating API and helps in overall management of our API, We have deployed API's for our Stage URL. Overall it's quite easy to use and provides central managment of all our API's **What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?** I think IBM API connect can improve integration of their application with other API managment tools. **What problems is IBM API Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** IBM API connect is helping our development team to desgin and manage API for all our environments incuding Stage and production. ## IBM API Connect Discussions - [How does API Connect work?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/how-does-api-connect-work) - 3 comments - [View IBM API Connect pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/ibm-api-connect/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-31+00%3A07%3A51+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=571f619b-563d-42d4-9267-2aa84bd443a0&secure%5Btoken%5D=0c8d7f333c22f08b5e37863150d9162ce16375c500af43006ec52c43f46139cf&format=llm_user) ## IBM API Connect Features **Development** - API Testing - Data Security - Orchestration - Scalability **Development - API Platforms** - API Testing - Scalability - Orchestration - Data Security **Traffic Management & Performance - AI Gateways** - Token-Aware Rate Limiting - Semantic Caching - Multi-Model Routing & Fallbacks **API Construction** - API Testing - Data Security - Orchestration - Scalability **Collaboration** - Design Management - Access Control - Visibility **Collaboration - API Platforms** - Visibility - Access Control - Design Management **Governance & Observability - AI Gateways** - Data Privacy - Cost Tracking - Centralized API Key Security **API Management** - Traffic Control - Logs/Documentation - API Monitoring - Monetization - Gateway **API Management - API Platforms** - API Monitoring - Traffic Control - Gateway - Logs/Documentation - Monetization **Data Integration** - App Integration - Data Transformation - Plugins ## Top IBM API Connect Alternatives - [MuleSoft Anypoint Platform](https://www.g2.com/products/mulesoft-anypoint-platform/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (628 reviews) - [Kong Gateway](https://www.g2.com/products/kong-gateway/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (307 reviews) - [WSO2 API Platform](https://www.g2.com/products/wso2-api-platform/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (135 reviews)