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toran vs Apigee

Apigee is Google Cloud's API management platform. Enterprises use it to design, secure, analyze, and scale APIs they expose, with comprehensive lifecycle management and analytics.

What Apigee is good at

  • Enterprise API lifecycle management and governance
  • Comprehensive security policies, OAuth, and API key management
  • API analytics, monetization, and developer portal features
  • Scaling and managing APIs across large organizations

Where it falls short for API debugging

  • Designed for APIs you expose, not third-party APIs you consume
  • Significant setup and operational complexity
  • Focused on governance and analytics rather than real-time debugging

How toran is different

  • toran observes outbound API requests with minimal setup
  • Passive inspection: no governance, policies, or lifecycle management
  • Activated by swapping a base URL, not configuring an API platform
  • Read-only by design: no analytics, monetization, or developer portals
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Quick decision rule

Use Apigee for enterprise API management, governance, and monetization of APIs you expose. Use toran to quickly observe and debug outbound API calls your application makes to third-party services.

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