Azure API Management is Microsoft's managed API gateway, developer portal and management plane, sold in classic and v2 tiers. Pages here cover moving APIs and policies to self-hosted Apache APISIX, Gravitee, WSO2 API Manager or Kong Gateway.
Comparing Azure API Management with self-hosted Apache APISIX: policies against plugins, gateway performance and deployment modes, developer portal coverage, tier-based pricing against running your own cluster, and operating APISIX outside Azure.
For teams that want a full API management suite they host themselves: Gravitee's gateway, management console and developer portal against Azure API Management's tiers, policy model, Entra ID integration and the editions each charges for.
Comparing Azure API Management with WSO2 API Manager for enterprises with many internal and partner APIs: publisher and developer portals, policy and mediation features, on-premises deployment, licensing and support options.
What the Apache-2.0 Kong Gateway gives you against Azure API Management: routing and plugins, declarative configuration with decK, which features need Kong's paid editions, and the portal and analytics you must add yourself.
Moving APIs off Azure API Management: extracting APIs and policy XML with APIOps, mapping policies such as rate limits, JWT validation and transformations to APISIX plugins, moving subscriptions and keys, and switching DNS API by API.
Moving an API program with a developer portal and many consumers to WSO2 API Manager: importing OpenAPI definitions, re-creating products as API products and subscription tiers, migrating developer accounts and applications, and re-issuing credentials.
Cost of ownership by component: tier and unit pricing, Premium for multi-region and the self-hosted gateway, virtual network requirements and data transfer, against a self-hosted APISIX or Gravitee cluster, migration and the team to run it.
Getting your configuration out before you leave: extracting APIs, policy XML, products, named values and diagnostics with the open-source APIOps CLI, handling secrets and developer portal content, and turning the export into a migration plan.
The self-hosted gateway keeps traffic local but needs Premium or Developer, outbound Azure connectivity every minute and Azure's management plane. This page compares it with running the gateway, control plane and portal yourself for sovereignty or air-gapped needs.
Replacing the API Management developer portal: API documentation, sign-up, subscriptions and keys in the portals of Gravitee or WSO2 API Manager, or in Backstage's API catalog for internal APIs, and moving existing developer accounts.
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