We performed a comparison between IBM API Connect 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."It's quite flexible and easy to deploy, especially for beginners. It has almost all the features that an API gateway should have."
"What's best about IBM API Connect is the excellent administration. The development tool that builds the API is also very simple, and user-friendly, and it doesn't consume too much time. Another valuable feature in IBM API Connect is its good reporting feature, particularly for operations, but the most valuable feature of the solution for the customer is security. IBM API Connect provides a DMZ and a security gateway between the external and internal environment, so you can publish your API safely. IBM API Connect can also integrate with any tool or middleware that works on open standards without the need for development or coding, so integration with the solution is easier."
"This is a very easy to use solution."
"The statistics component is easy to use."
"The most valuable features are stability and security."
"API Connect's most valuable feature is its ability to act as a gateway. It's very easy to configure security and everything else in it. You don't have to kill yourself implementing custom configurations."
"It acts as a central gateway for both external APIs and underlying systems. It's basically a central middleware for hosting APIs to the internet and consuming APIs from internal systems. It provides central governance for any APIs going outside the network, ensuring security and a common contract for API definitions."
"The most valuable feature of IBM API Connect is the security of the protocol."
"The solution is open source and easy to configure."
"The solution is open-source."
"The scalability is fine for our purposes."
"As far as I am aware this solution is the first API Publisher that allows you to create and publish API and to manage the API lifecycle."
"WSO2 API Manager is easy to use."
"WSO2 API Manager has a user-friendly model."
"This is a flexible and versatile API management solution that has the power to integrate with more than just API."
"This solution is a little bit faster, easier to use, and has better integration than the other solutions I have experienced."
"We have asked IBM for scalability and for some other features that we wanted. We had a dialogue with them and in the end, they have agreed to provide us with features related to API setup and security."
"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."
"IBM API Connect could improve the security of the application and the integration."
"The product's setup phase and its setup for the users in different environments, along with DevOps integration, are areas of concern where there is a need for improvement."
"We would have more capability to interact with the catalog and inventories, so a more DevOps-friendly solution is needed."
"The installation was difficult with the IBM toolkit."
"The platform’s integration with the payment gateway needs enhancement. The setup process and support services could be improved."
"There is room for improvement regarding the connectivity of the DevOps."
"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."
"Providing easy configuration for email and SMS notifications, layout and customization of admin and developer landing pages."
"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."
"I would like it to be a more stable solution. Maybe in the last version that is approved. For me it would be good if they had a community established version."
"The user interface could be a bit better."
"WSO2 API Manager could increase their security compliance."
"WSO2 API Manager should improve its marketplace subscription model and documentation in order to reach a higher level in the market."
"The solution could be more user friendly for engineers."
IBM API Connect is ranked 5th in API Management with 73 reviews while WSO2 API Manager is ranked 8th in API Management with 33 reviews. IBM API Connect is rated 8.0, while WSO2 API Manager is rated 8.0. 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 WSO2 API Manager writes "Reliable with good capabilities and good support". IBM API Connect is most compared with IBM DataPower Gateway, Apigee, Microsoft Azure API Management, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager and webMethods API Portal, whereas WSO2 API Manager is most compared with Apigee, Kong Gateway Enterprise, Amazon API Gateway, Apache APISIX and MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager. See our IBM API Connect vs. WSO2 API Manager report.
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