IBM API Connect

IBM API Connect

IBM
4.0 out of 5 stars
Postman

Postman

4.8 out of 5 stars
IBM API Connect Postman

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IBM API Connect:

About

IBM API Connect is a scalable API solution that helps organizations implement a robust API strategy by creating, exposing, managing and monetizing an entire API ecosystem across multiple clouds. 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 aims to help businesses to get new features to market fast, maintain continuous availability, meet changing user needs, and spur innovation.
Postman:

About

The collaboration platform for API development. Simplify each step of building an API and streamline collaboration so you can create better APIs—faster. Postman is a collaboration platform for API development. Postman's features simplify each step of building an API and streamline collaboration so you can create better APIs—faster. Quickly and easily send REST, SOAP, and GraphQL requests directly within Postman. Automate manual tests and integrate them into your CI/CD pipeline to ensure that any code changes won't break the API in production. Communicate the expected behavior of an API by simulating endpoints and their responses without having to set up a backend server. Generate and publish beautiful, machine-readable documentation to make your API easier to consume. Stay up-to-date on the health of your API by checking performance and response times at scheduled intervals. Provide a shared context for building and consuming APIs, and collaborate in real-time.
IBM API Connect:

Platforms Supported

Windows Not Supported
Mac Not Supported
Linux Not Supported
Cloud Supported
On-Premises Not Supported
iPhone Not Supported
iPad Not Supported
Android Not Supported
Chromebook Not Supported
Postman:

Platforms Supported

Windows Supported
Mac Supported
Linux Not Supported
Cloud Supported
On-Premises Not Supported
iPhone Not Supported
iPad Not Supported
Android Not Supported
Chromebook Not Supported
IBM API Connect:

Audience

Businesses wanting to secure and manage their entire API ecosystem across multiple clouds
Postman:

Audience

Organizations of all sizes
IBM API Connect:

Support

Phone Support Not Supported
24/7 Live Support Supported
Online Supported
Postman:

Support

Phone Support Not Supported
24/7 Live Support Supported
Online Supported
IBM API Connect:

API

Offers API Supported
Postman:

API

Offers API Not Supported
IBM API Connect:

Screenshots and Videos

Postman:

Screenshots and Videos

IBM API Connect:

Pricing

No information available.
Free Version Supported
Free Trial Supported
Postman:

Pricing

$12 per user per month
Free Version Supported
Free Trial Supported
IBM API Connect:

Reviews/Ratings

Overall 4.0 / 5
ease 5.0 / 5
features 5.0 / 5
design 5.0 / 5
support 5.0 / 5
Postman:

Reviews/Ratings

Overall 4.8 / 5
ease 4.9 / 5
features 4.8 / 5
design 4.9 / 5
support 5.0 / 5
IBM API Connect:

Pros & Cons from Real Users

Pros

  • Firstly talking about their tutorials, I'd like to say that they are your true guide and it is quite easy to implement them. They offer smooth integration and their blockchain offers quite an efficient and secure gateway for transparent transactions. It is the best option for new startups as they have comprehensive Support and the dashboard is quite intuitive and accessible.

Cons

  • This platform is a blessing in disguise. However, still, it is a bit costly for small organizations. Therefore, a bit of discount would work for them.
Postman:

Pros & Cons from Real Users

Pros

  • I have used Postman for more than 5 years now and never have i faced any lags or stutters in my usage, even with low end computers. Earlier it was available as only desktop application but now it is also available as web application making it more accessible and easy to use, i can login from anywhere and test my endpoints. It keeps my collection and environments saved so i wont have to worry about that also.
  • 1. The application's user interface is intuitive and easy to learn for a new user. 2. Collection and environment can be easily imported. 3. It gives detailed information about each API call with a brief response body which can also be converted into different formats like raw, text or JSON. 4. It supports dark mode which is very useful for all of us developers who likes to work late nights.
  • This is our go-to solution for API testing. It is easy to set up endpoints and save them to a shared workspace.
  • Postman is an excellent software for running APIs. Usage for me, it excelled at was running quick requests and then being able to transform the call into multiple formats. For example, by running a cURL request, you can get the NodeJS, Python, Axios code quite easily. You can also store requests in folders, something that always came in handy was Postman storing a history of previous made requests, so if you didn't save or lost a request, you could always go back to it.
  • The user interface and experience of the application is simplified and curated in such a way that all the necessary features gets highlighted on the screen. It has all the required tools to test the APIs extensively and further share or collaborate with other team members on a project. It has all the requests options for testing like, GET, POST, PUT, DELETE etc. The load time of the requests are pretty quick. All in all, a great tool to test APIs on a live server as well as in a mocking environment.

Cons

  • If you are using an free account it does not allow collaboration with many people. I can only think of this cons as of now, also, if you have a company or do serious freelance work you would have business account anyways.
  • I have faced a weird problem with Postman, sometimes when I do an API call I modify the request body and does not save it, and if I close the app and reopen it the request body and API endpoint gets replaced with some random endpoint from the collection that I am using.
  • Would like to see a better mock server implementation.
  • There are no real cons to Postman, it does its job exceptionally well with every feature.
  • For testing SOAP APIs, there are still a lot of improvements needed to be done in the application.
IBM API Connect:

Training

Documentation Supported
Webinars Not Supported
Live Online Not Supported
In Person Not Supported
Postman:

Training

Documentation Supported
Webinars Supported
Live Online Not Supported
In Person Supported
IBM API Connect:

Company Information

IBM
Founded: 1911
United States
www.ibm.com/products/api-connect
Postman:

Company Information

Postman
Founded: 2014
United States
www.postman.com
IBM API Connect:

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IBM API Connect:

Categories

API Design Supported
API Management Supported
API Marketplaces Supported
API Monetization Supported
Postman:

Categories

Agentic AI Supported
AI Agent Builders Supported
API Clients Supported
API Design Supported
API Documentation Supported
API Management Supported
API Monitoring Supported
API Testing Supported
Microservices Supported
Webhook Supported
Postman:

API Management Features

Access Control Not Supported
Analytics Not Supported
API Design Supported
API Lifecycle Management Supported
Dashboard Supported
Developer Portal Not Supported
Testing Management Supported
Threat Protection Not Supported
Traffic Control Not Supported
Version Control Supported
IBM API Connect:

Integrations

Dropbox Supported
AI Gateway for IBM API Connect Supported
API Agent Supported
Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) Supported
BigPanda Not Supported
Blink Not Supported
DataImpulse Not Supported
Detectnix Vision Not Supported
EmpirioLabs AI Not Supported
MuukTest Not Supported
Nexfy Not Supported
OpenCage Geocoding API Not Supported
PagerDuty Not Supported
Pynt Not Supported
Redocly Not Supported
Speakatoo Not Supported
Sports Game Odds API Not Supported
Switch Automation Supported
Tracetest Not Supported
Workers by Delos Not Supported
Postman:

Integrations

Dropbox Supported
AI Gateway for IBM API Connect Not Supported
API Agent Not Supported
Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) Not Supported
BigPanda Supported
Blink Supported
DataImpulse Supported
Detectnix Vision Supported
EmpirioLabs AI Supported
MuukTest Supported
Nexfy Supported
OpenCage Geocoding API Supported
PagerDuty Supported
Pynt Supported
Redocly Supported
Speakatoo Supported
Sports Game Odds API Supported
Switch Automation Not Supported
Tracetest Supported
Workers by Delos Supported
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