Why use Apigee and pay more for complexity? With DigitalAPI, you can design and deploy your APIs seamlessly, elevate developer experience, and manage your entire API lifecycle all from a unified developer portal.

















Legacy gateways like Apigee come with high setup, maintenance, and licensing costs but deliver limited ROI.
Teams rely on manual setup and configuration, making onboarding slow and error-prone.
Rigid contracts make it hard to move APIs between gateways or adopt hybrid-cloud architectures.
Lack of an integrated API marketplace blocks monetization and discovery opportunities.
Built by former Apigee engineers who understand the toughest challenges in API management, DigitalAPI eliminates vendor lock-in, streamlines API management, and reduces cost.
Give your developers a single developer portal to discover, test, and subscribe to APIs across any gateway.
Build new offerings by bundling APIs as products and monetizing them with billing and pricing support via your branded portal.
Migrate from Apigee to Helix Gateway within weeks and go live with low and predictable subscription costs.
Here’s why you should choose Digital API over Apigee!
Feature
Lightest API Gateway
DigitalAPI’s native API gateway, Helix, is fast and easy to use with zero learning curve!
Apigee has a steep learning curve and is much more complex to set up.
Developer experience
Unified self-serve portal to discover, test, and subscribe to APIs, with sandboxing and built-in documentation generator.
Requires separate portal setup for other gateways and natively only supports Apigee.
Flexible deployment options
SaaS , Private SaaS, Hybrid , On Premise for API Marketplace
Only limited to Google Cloud!
Multi-gateway management
Manage APIs across multiple gateways, all from one developer portal.
Restricted to Apigee’s own gateway and environment.
Feature
Lightest API Gateway
Developer experience
Flexible deployment options
Multi-gateway management
RBAC & governance
API monetization
AI Affinity (API Sprawl mitigation)
Unified analytics
Migration & extensibility
DigitalAPI’s native API gateway, Helix, is fast and easy to use with zero learning curve!
Unified self-serve portal to discover, test, and subscribe to APIs, with sandboxing and built-in documentation generator.
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Manage APIs across multiple gateways, all from one developer portal.
Enterprise-grade RBAC, access policies, and governance across all gateways.
Monetize API products directly through a branded portal with support for billing and multiple pricing models.
Identify duplicate APIs and prevent API sprawl.
Get in-depth insights and performance metrics across every gateway.
Migrate from legacy gateways in one click.
DigitalAPI’s native API gateway, Helix, is fast and easy to use with zero learning curve!
Requires separate portal setup for other gateways and natively only supports Apigee.
Only limited to Google Cloud!
Restricted to Apigee’s own gateway and environment.
Role management is confined within Apigee’s scope.
Basic monetization features with much higher licensing costs if opted for.
Doesn’t have an API duplicate finder.
Analytics is limited to APIs managed within Apigee.
Closed ecosystem with limited extensibility options.

Most enterprises today have outgrown Apigee. It’s heavy to operate, slow to set-up, costly to scale, and definetely not built for the era of distributed, AI-ready systems.
DigitalAPI is built for that reality. It’s offers a lightweight, intelligent API gateway that manages APIs, events (Kafka, Solace), and MCP servers seamlessly across environments. Unlike Apigee’s complex model, DigitalAPI automates governance, scales effortlessly, and provides unified analytics.
Built with an AI-native core, multi-protocol flexibility, and a developer-first experience, DigitalAPI streamlines enterprise API operations, freeing teams to deliver value instead of maintaining legacy infrastructure.