Moesif vs Apigee
Monetize your APIs with usage-based API billing. Moesif powerful data infrastructure enables you to build complex billing rules whether it's API usage, compute time, unique users, payload size, percentage of orders, and more.
With native plugins for most API gateways and languages, scale to billions of events without vendor lock-in. Automatically invoice though popular billing providers like Stripe or in-house billing systems. With Moesif open-source developer portal, makes it easy for customers to subscribe to your APIs.
End-to-End API Monetization Loved By Engineers
Meter Any Metric
Meter any metric such as API call volume, payload size, gross payments, unique users, and more.
Implement prepaid, postpaid, tiered, PAYG, and other pricing models with a few clicks.
With scripted fields and formulas, create complex metrics like multiplying two API payload fields.
Invoice Automatically via Existing Platforms
Connect Moesif to a billing provider like Stripe in minutes for automatic invoicing and payments.
Integrate with legacy and in-house invoicing solutions through simple webhook triggers.
With bi-directional sync, get analytics on subscriptions and how it translates to revenue.
Leverage Your Existing API Gateway
Install in minutes with native plugins for most API gateways that scale to billions of events.
Agnostic to API gateway or cloud vendor. Gain a unified view of usage regardless of tech stack
Automatically enforce quotas and contract terms with API Governance
Provide A Great Signup Experience
Leverage Moesif's open-source developer portal to rapidly setup a subscription portal for customers.
Provide metrics to customers on their quota and current usage with a few lines of code.
Automatically email customers on their quota usage or issue with their integration
Create Entirely Custom Meters
Meter using fields in your API payloads, HTTP Headers, using custom events, and more.
With a powerful scripting language, create new metrics from multiple fields, even retroactively.
Moesif supports date math and numeric math, aggregations, windowing functions, and more.
| Moesif | Apigee | |
| API Monetization | Moesif API Analytics | Apigee |
| Usage-based metering (body fields, headers, and more) | Only on Request Count | |
| Custom Metering with Scripted Fields and Formulas | ||
| Multiple billable metrics per API | ||
| Automatic Invoicing via Stripe, Chargebee, Recurly, and more | Manual Process | |
| Automatic Invoicing via In-House Billing Systems | ||
| Open-source Developer Portal | ||
| Available on all plans | Must Purchase Add-on | |
| Quotas & Governance | Moesif API Analytics | Apigee |
| Quota Enforcement | Only on Request Count | |
| API Analytics | Moesif API Analytics | Apigee |
| API Product Analytics | Only 90 Days of Basic Metrics | |
| Subscription Usage Analytics | ||
| API Logs and Metrics | ||
| Insights on Query Params, Payload Fields, and more | ||
| Funnel Analysis | ||
| Cohort Retention Analysis | ||
| Customer Experience | Moesif API Analytics | Apigee |
| Behavioral Emails | ||
| Embedded Usage Metrics in your Developer Portal | ||
| Behavioral Cohorts | ||
| Dashboards and Collaboration | Moesif API Analytics | Apigee |
| Custom Dashboards | ||
| Customer Profile Dashboards | ||
| Public Share Links | ||
| Implementation | Moesif API Analytics | Apigee |
| Plugins for most API Gateways | Must use Apigee | |
| SDKs for In-House Gateways | ||
| Track Activity in UIs and Backend Jobs | ||
| Client-Side Encryption for Sensitive Data | ||
| Sync with your CRM, Payment Providers, Marketing Tools, and More | ||
| Multi-year data retention | ||
| Managed SaaS with zero maintenance | ||
| Requires data store like Cassandra and Redis | ||
| Moesif API Analytics | Apigee |
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