We performed a comparison between Layer7 API Management and WSO2 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."Scalability: API Gateway is easily scalable horizontally and managed easily."
"The Portal API helps us with deployments. It also helps to have a catalog of everything. The replication is also a critical feature for us. It helps to have a more robust architecture and makes our systems are highly available."
"It is fairly stable for the Gateway side."
"The most valuable feature is that it enables me to present data in the format that the client wants to consume it. That client might be a visualization tool, that client might be a report, that client might be a customer's API requirements."
"The speed and versatility in the implementation of APIs without writing a line of code in any programming language."
"It impresses me as a product because it never goes down. It always does what it is supposed to do."
"We can get more visibility into our data."
"Ease of use."
"The flexibility is definitely a highlight. We have flexible mapping capabilities, allowing us to provide common mappings or create custom ones as needed."
"This solution is a little bit faster, easier to use, and has better integration than the other solutions I have experienced."
"WSO2 API Manager is easy to use."
"Functionality-wise, I like WSO2 API Manager - Publisher API and WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus."
"The solution is open-source."
"Based on the information I have, the solution's most valuable feature is its capability of implementing custom solutions."
"Helped us to quickly publish our Microservice APIs and enforcing different policies against them, it comes up with features like Security, Throttling policy and it provides complete access to customize API's which actually saves development effort and time."
"One of the great things about WSO2 API Manager is that it is so easy to adopt. And because it's an open source solution, we're able to extend the implementation any time to suit our company needs better."
"Layer7 API Management should improve the quota policy for the number of API calls."
"The architecture of the solution does not allow for flexibility in using different components for the gateway architecture."
"There are old algorithms that the tool does not support - and it shouldn't, in my opinion. But sometimes customers need old algorithms, from old use cases and old applications, migrated to the platform. At those times, there are hiccups that happen."
"Layer7 API Management could have a live API creator feature, so my team can easily create APIs. Right now, the product doesn't have that feature."
"I feel there is a lot to improve in terms of providing plug-and-play functionalities, as at the moment it requires a lot of coding in their specific language for implementing a medium-complexity use case."
"Layer7 API Management’s price could be reduced."
"The CA API Management solution has good security features, but when it comes to being used in areas like enterprise integration, where it is being used as middleware for all the IT environments, that particular feature is quite limited. It doesn't support as many protocols as an industry standard, competing product should."
"The development portal could be improved."
"They are developing another platform called Choreo that allows you to create API itself using the WSO2 programming language Ballerina. It would be great if they added a direct connection between Choreo and API Manager, that would be great. I think they are working on that, but I'm not sure."
"The stability is pretty good, but it could be improved."
"The product hasn’t been updated for some time."
"From a product perspective, the first thing is that although the documentation provided by WSO2 is good, it could be much better. We're in the middle of a complex migration, moving away from VMs to Kubernetes with the latest version of WSO2 and good documentation is essential to us right now."
"The technical support must be improved."
"WSO2 API Manager could improve the API approval system."
"We found WSO2 API Manager to be a bit complex."
"The professional support and licensing aspects of WSO have been a challenge."
Layer7 API Management is ranked 10th in API Management with 109 reviews while WSO2 API Manager is ranked 8th in API Management with 33 reviews. Layer7 API Management is rated 8.4, while WSO2 API Manager is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Layer7 API Management writes "Has great drag-and-drop features and it requires minimal coding ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of WSO2 API Manager writes "Reliable with good capabilities and good support". Layer7 API Management is most compared with Apigee, Kong Gateway Enterprise, Amazon API Gateway, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager and Tyk, whereas WSO2 API Manager is most compared with Apigee, Kong Gateway Enterprise, Amazon API Gateway, Microsoft Azure API Management and Axway AMPLIFY API Management. See our Layer7 API Management vs. WSO2 API Manager report.
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