We performed a comparison between 3scale API Management and IBM API Connect based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two API Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The standard deployment is very simple."
"The product is stable."
"It's good that they aren't adding a lot of features like ESP, etc. It's okay with just being a gateway."
"To me, the most valuable feature of 3scale API Management is that it lets you add a backend to the product. I also like that you can integrate it well with OpenShift clusters, making 3scale API Management a useful solution."
"The most valuable features are the gateway and security features."
"The gateway is the most valuable feature because it makes it possible for us to gather all traffic into one proxy, which is a good thing."
"The solution is quite lightweight, and the installation is very easy. It's like a two-click installation."
"3scale API Management's best feature is API management."
"Easy to configure security and generate API keys."
"The most valuable feature of IBM API Connect is the security of the protocol."
"The capabilities are very good."
"One of the most valuable features is that we can seamlessly and harmoniously expose our capabilities, from a security point of view."
"The most valuable feature is the security we get from this solution. I know of a bank that uses it to ensure that everything is secure. The second feature I like is the retail environment, where we actually want to be able to provide as many suppliers and consumers with APIs as possible. If you are well-trained in the writing of RESTful API's, you can actually publish an API in a matter of minutes, test it, and publish it."
"API Connect's data gateway is one of the strongest in the market."
"This is a very easy to use solution."
"WSRR is a powerful component for getting the endpoints."
"The user experience could be better. The developer portal is too complex and hard to configure."
"It would be helpful to improve the customization features so that the customer can do it based on their own needs."
"I believe the CMS part of it has room for improvement though. That is where you write a couple of things if you want to publish your API. It's based on liquid scripting, which doesn't seem like the obvious ones to script with."
"What I'd like to improve in 3scale API Management is its route-limiting feature. Currently, I don't know how to do that effectively on the solution, but in Kong, I know how to do it, so I would love to see route-limiting being easily done on 3scale API Management. It would also be good if there was some authentication that you could do from 3scale API Management because Kong offers that functionality out of the box. What I'd love to see in the next release of 3scale API Management is the ability to integrate more plug-ins easily onto the platform, so you'll be able to extend it, and even do customs management. If Red Hat could offer that extension where it allows the internal organization where 3scale API Management is deployed on-premise to integrate its tools on top of 3scale API Management and provide an API for that, that will make the solution very powerful."
"What was suggested by Red Hat was a crucial part of the configuration, but when we started to ask about the supportability of this configuration, Red Hat said only some parts of the configuration would be supported."
"The product is not that flexible for developers. It's less flexible and rigid. It's not easy to make changes or customize it."
"We tried to use the portal, but we decided that it wasn't enough. The content management system (CMS) is not easy to use if you want to customize things, and it's hard to get someone who has the knowledge to work with the CMS."
"3scale API Management only supports restful APIs and doesn't support SOAP."
"In terms of what needs improvement, some of the product documentation could be better."
"Our main pain points are in these two areas: creating a better developer portal and improving stability in terms of synchronization and monetization."
"It needs to be less taxing on compute resources."
"There are issues with upgrading in the cloud version. The cloud version is extremely buggy. We prefer to use the on-premise version."
"I would like to see support for non-Java based services. We struggle a bit to be able to deploy and connect our .NET services because of things like data types. We had to map a couple of things. For one solution provider, we had to move them to .NET Core before we could use it properly. I would like to see more agnostic tool service platforms rather than moving it more towards Java or open source."
"The new version is very unstable."
"The only disadvantage I can see is that it requires heavy hardware support."
"The implementation of IBM API Connect is complex, as it's an enterprise solution with many components that require more than one person. It's not a single product that you work on, and this is an area for improvement, but normally, it's good. Having a more structured model for IBM API Connect support is also room for improvement that would help customers better."
3scale API Management is ranked 14th in API Management with 10 reviews while IBM API Connect is ranked 5th in API Management with 73 reviews. 3scale API Management is rated 7.4, while IBM API Connect is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of 3scale API Management writes "Useful as it lets you add a backend to the product, it integrates well with clusters, and it has exceptional technical support, but route-limiting isn't easy to do on it". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM API Connect writes "Offers basic API orchestration and provides robust security and governance features". 3scale API Management is most compared with Amazon API Gateway, Kong Gateway Enterprise, Apigee, Microsoft Azure API Management and WSO2 API Manager, whereas IBM API Connect is most compared with IBM DataPower Gateway, Apigee, Microsoft Azure API Management, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager and Kong Gateway Enterprise. See our 3scale API Management vs. IBM API Connect report.
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