We performed a comparison between MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager 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."The developer portal is easy to integrate. It is easy to use, easy to integrate, and I like the developer portal."
"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."
"The product improved data exchange processes by enhancing communication between various messaging queues. There was a heavy reliance on queues for indexing clusters and data transfer in this particular environment. The product facilitated the transfer of messages from one queue to another, ensuring data flow and processing across different topics."
"MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager has the most valuable data components and can integrate APIs across multiple microservices."
"Technical support has been helpful."
"The tool has a private area. It also has a cloud deployment option."
"Anypoint API Manager's most valuable feature is its connectors."
"WSO2 is very stable."
"Its open-source features are very good, especially for your production work."
"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."
"Most of the time, we need to install a plug-in without having any lapse in services or restarting the application. The WSO2 platform can do all deployments without any downtime."
"This is a flexible and versatile API management solution that has the power to integrate with more than just API."
"The main feature — the publication of the API, the management section — is great in general."
"WSO2 API Manager is a stable solution."
"The user interface is easy to navigate, and the documentation is extensive. It's open-source, so everything is available, and we can create what we need. That's not necessarily a feature, but it's an advantage."
"The solution is expensive."
"I would like to see more automation. Operations are done manually. It should also automate in the operation."
"When compared to other integration technologies, it is slightly higher."
"The pricing is quite expensive. It should be adjusted to make it more affordable for users."
"The solution's price is high."
"I would like to see MuleSoft expand the range of APIs you can manage with it beyond HTTP, GIPC, and others."
"The API gateway and API runtime are too heavy, which means that it is not suitable for microservices."
"Mulesoft Anypoint API Manager can improve some of the gateway features. We could use some more customization in creating rules. A lot of the policies are related to the APIs rather than the client. If I want to apply a policy based on a client that is not available."
"WSO2 API Manager can be improved a lot relating to usability"
"The stability is pretty good, but it could be improved."
"Providing easy configuration for email and SMS notifications, layout and customization of admin and developer landing pages."
"Based on our recent large scaling project, the latency needs to be improved."
"I think they could greatly improve the general UX with their solutions."
"From what I have experienced from the versions I have tried, they could improve on the multi-tenant environments to allow some kind of SSO single sign-on between tenant."
"We found WSO2 API Manager to be a bit complex."
"I would improve the product documentation. There are some gaps, and it can be difficult to find the proper documentation for the product if you need to solve something."
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MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager is ranked 4th in API Management with 47 reviews while WSO2 API Manager is ranked 8th in API Management with 33 reviews. MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager is rated 8.2, while WSO2 API Manager is rated 8.0. 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 WSO2 API Manager writes "Reliable with good capabilities and good support". MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, Amazon API Gateway, Apigee, IBM API Connect and SwaggerHub, whereas WSO2 API Manager is most compared with Apigee, Kong Gateway Enterprise, Amazon API Gateway, Microsoft Azure API Management and Gravitee. See our MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager vs. WSO2 API Manager report.
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We have evaluated WS02, APIGEE, MuleSoft in the past and based on our selection criteria all three scored pretty close with APIGEE with overall high score with a very small difference. However, based on the key driver each one has an advantage such as WS02 on licensing, APIGEE on performance throughput and MuleSoft on robust integration platform. For more information please reach out to me at ksrinivas@techwave.net