We performed a comparison between MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager and webMethods API Gateway 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."MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager is a great solution. I like it very much because of its speed of delivery and because it allows API-led integration."
"The most valuable feature of Mulesoft Anypoint API Manager is the gateway that is provided."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to investigate APIs."
"We have all the policies available via drag and drop. It made it very easy."
"We can use both on-premises and cloud setups."
"The auto-creation of the API documentation is useful."
"The most valuable features are API development and API management."
"It provides various advantages in the integration field, including support for Azure services and cloud integrations."
"There were no complexities involved in the setup phase...The product is able to meet my company's API protection needs."
"The most valuable aspect of this solution for me has been the configuration-based UI. Once you get the hang of it, it enables you to easily develop an API. In addition, it has many in-built policies that are quite handy."
"Within the new version, webMethods API Gateway gives us an end-to-end lifecycle from the creation of the API up into the development, deployment, and promotion into production/live. The current end-to-end lifecycle of the API gives us enough authority and governance of the API. We know what are currently live services, what is in the testing stage of development, and what version that has been commissioned. So, the full life cycle itself gives us full authority and governance of the API."
"I like the solution's policies, transformation, mediation, and routing features."
"The developer portal is a valuable feature."
"In the API gateway, there is a new feature that allows us to filter logs within a payload. This has been a useful feature."
"What I like the most about the solution is that it comes with ready-made tools like handling security tokens and OAuth."
"It's a good tool, and it has a stable messaging broker."
"The cost model could be improved."
"The solution's price is high."
"The solution is missing a monetization module."
"It is not a very scalable solution."
"We have issues with the tool's pricing. The product seemed to have most of the features required for the tasks I was working on. I didn't feel the need for additional features. However, one aspect that could be improved is making the platform more user-friendly for non-technical users. While it's not necessarily complex, it does require some familiarity. Unlike open-source tools available online, accessing and using this product may not be as straightforward. It needs to offer training to its users."
"The pricing is a bit expensive."
"Rather than focusing on numbers, they should focus more on the customer support service."
"One improvement is maybe to add a plugin in the API manager. Let's say an organisation is using SOAP services or legacy APIs. Maybe I don't want to migrate it to rest API, but my plugin should be able to convert Jason to XML. Basically, protocol transformation features in API Manager."
"The configuring of the JWT token would be improved as it is a confusing process. We require more information on this part of the solution."
"Understanding the overall architecture is difficult."
"The price has room for improvement."
"The high price of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"There are things that could be improved with the webMethods API gateway. One thing is that it's too attached to the integration service and we'd like it to be a little bit more independent. We would like for them to separate operations so that it doesn't rely on the bulky integration server and so that it can be used everywhere."
"It is an expensive solution and not very suitable for smaller businesses."
"In terms of improvements, maybe on the API monetization side, having users able to create separate consumption plans and throttle all those consumption plans towards the run time could be better."
"They should develop clear visibility for the onboarding."
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MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager is ranked 4th in API Management with 47 reviews while webMethods API Gateway is ranked 11th in API Management with 10 reviews. MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager is rated 8.2, while webMethods API Gateway is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager writes "Responsive technical support, low tickets issued showing great stability, and limitless expansion". On the other hand, the top reviewer of webMethods API Gateway writes "We developed several services in the cloud using a sandbox environment for our last hackathon". MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, Amazon API Gateway, Apigee, IBM API Connect and Kong Gateway Enterprise, whereas webMethods API Gateway is most compared with Apigee, webMethods.io Integration, Kong Gateway Enterprise, 3scale API Management and Microsoft Azure API Management. See our MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager vs. webMethods API Gateway report.
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