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Apigee vs Retrofit: What are the differences?

Developers describe Apigee as "Intelligent and complete API platform". API management, design, analytics, and security are at the heart of modern digital architecture. The Apigee intelligent API platform is a complete solution for moving business to the digital world. On the other hand, Retrofit is detailed as "A type-safe HTTP client for Android and Java". Retrofit turns your HTTP API into a Java interface.

Apigee and Retrofit belong to "API Tools" category of the tech stack.

Some of the features offered by Apigee are:

  • Design, secure, analyze, and scale your APIs with the Apigee Edge API management platform.
  • Predictive analytics to ensure intelligent and customized interactions.
  • Connect devices to the Internet, and enable partners and developers to access device functionality and data with APIs.

On the other hand, Retrofit provides the following key features:

  • URL parameter replacement and query parameter support
  • Object conversion to request body (e.g., JSON, protocol buffers)
  • Multipart request body and file upload

Retrofit is an open source tool with 33K GitHub stars and 6.13K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Retrofit's open source repository on GitHub.

According to the StackShare community, Retrofit has a broader approval, being mentioned in 19 company stacks & 7 developers stacks; compared to Apigee, which is listed in 5 company stacks and 11 developer stacks.

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Pros of Apigee
Pros of Retrofit
  • 12
    Highly scalable and secure API Management Platform
  • 6
    Good documentation
  • 6
    Quick jumpstart
  • 3
    Fast and adjustable caching
  • 3
    Easy to use
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    Cons of Apigee
    Cons of Retrofit
    • 11
      Expensive
    • 1
      Doesn't support hybrid natively
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      What is Apigee?

      API management, design, analytics, and security are at the heart of modern digital architecture. The Apigee intelligent API platform is a complete solution for moving business to the digital world.

      What is Retrofit?

      Retrofit turns your HTTP API into a Java interface

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