We performed a comparison between IBM API Connect and MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager 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 most valuable feature of IBM API Connect is the security of the protocol."
"It offers enhanced security features to protect APIs, enforce access control, and secure sensitive data."
"The most valuable features of IBM API Connect are its performance and user-friendliness."
"DataPower Gateway holds significant value for us as it serves as the cornerstone of our enterprise security controls."
"In-built policies and security functions."
"Publishers can easily identify, create, and publish APIs on the developer portal, defining plans, packages, and potentially billing rules."
"It is a very scalable solution."
"API Connect is a very good platform for the development of APIs."
"MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager has the most valuable data components and can integrate APIs across multiple microservices."
"The auto-creation of the API documentation is useful."
"Its best feature is that its plugins are somewhat unique in the market. We have budgets, Prime membership, and pre-plugins available in the marketplace that we can use immediately."
"Mulesoft Anypoint API Manager's most valuable aspect is it has plenty of features."
"The integration process was straightforward."
"I believe the API connectivity within the cloud marketplace is most valuable."
"If you adopt the whole platform, you can build composable applications. This will cut your time creating new applications and updating them – once you have everything running – by up to 50%."
"The most valuable features of the solution for securing APIs stem from the tool's ability to allow users to deploy policies."
"IBM API Connect could improve the security of the application and the integration."
"In the next version, I don't know if they've already been included it or not, but the designer and all the tools should be on the cloud. I don't want any external installation or local installation."
"In terms of what needs improvement, some of the product documentation could be better."
"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."
"There are issues with upgrading in the cloud version. The cloud version is extremely buggy. We prefer to use the on-premise version."
"The design time setup has a lot of customizable fields, but we need certain standard fields to be added, such as what all of the consuming systems are. This needs to be very clearly articulated during the design time."
"The solution is not scalable."
"The developmental process is not quite user-friendly."
"I think that they can bring some transparency in reference to the terms of the microservices architecture."
"The setup process could be simpler."
"I'd like more monitoring and analyzing features included in the future."
"It can offer workflows, orchestration, and webhooks."
"The initial setup is very complex."
"Mulesoft Anypoint API Manager could improve the monitoring because it is very poor quality and not user-friendly. It is not as good as other solutions on the market."
"The solution is missing a monetization module."
"The dashboards in Mulesoft Anypoint API Manager could improve."
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IBM API Connect is ranked 5th in API Management with 73 reviews while MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager is ranked 4th in API Management with 49 reviews. IBM API Connect is rated 8.0, while MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of IBM API Connect writes "Offers basic API orchestration and provides robust security and governance features". On the other hand, the top reviewer of MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager writes "Responsive technical support, low tickets issued showing great stability, and limitless expansion". IBM API Connect is most compared with IBM DataPower Gateway, Apigee, Microsoft Azure API Management, Amazon API Gateway and 3scale API Management, whereas MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, Amazon API Gateway, Apigee, Kong Gateway Enterprise and Layer7 API Management. See our IBM API Connect vs. MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager report.
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Of those three: MuleSoft Anypoint. But, cost-friendly is another term, I would choose a different solution. We are happy with Gravitee.