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."It is helpful to have a central API that is hosted and managed."
"The most valuable feature is the security with its out-of-the-box policies."
"The benefits are rapid development and deployment of APIs, which means that your information, your ability to handle information, to receive it and to send it, to visualize it, to report on it, to get intelligence out of it, happens fast and happens with accuracy."
"The speed and versatility in the implementation of APIs without writing a line of code in any programming language."
"API discovery using CA Live API Creator is helpful for integrating with multiple backends, for discovering and kickstarting the API creation process. It is a very good feature."
"Tech support is fast and responsive."
"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."
"Has great drag-and-drop features and requires minimal coding."
"It's very scalable, which is one of the best features."
"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."
"Its open-source features are very good, especially for your production work."
"The most interesting feature is its Mac-based function."
"WSO2 API Manager's most valuable features are the simple interface that is easy to use and the APIs lifecycle."
"Yes WSO2 API Manager is scalable"
"Functionality-wise, I like WSO2 API Manager - Publisher API and WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus."
"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."
"They need a multifactor authentication solution for the API layer and the other layers, as well."
"The solution should prioritize ease of use and align with the growing trend of cloud-native environments."
"As the number of instances increases, its complexity of installation increases if you do not use the OVA."
"Layer7 API Management should give a clear roadmap of the product and where it is going, and they should not change the underlying layers."
"There is still room for improvement for the CA API Developer Portal. It is still not on par with what the competencies are."
"The initial setup was very complex."
"More developer focused tools. They have a nice debugger inside of the program, but when you are developing code with their policies, it is tough to visualize that sometimes as a developer."
"Needs to work better with DB2 UDB."
"Providing easy configuration for email and SMS notifications, layout and customization of admin and developer landing pages."
"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."
"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."
"Basically, mTLS is a certificate-based communication protocol that WSO2 API Manager doesn't support."
"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 think they could greatly improve the general UX with their solutions."
"The solution could be more user friendly for engineers."
"WSO2 API Manager should improve its marketplace subscription model and documentation in order to reach a higher level in the market."
Layer7 API Management is ranked 10th in API Management with 110 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, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, Amazon API Gateway and Axway AMPLIFY API Management, whereas WSO2 API Manager is most compared with Apigee, Kong Gateway Enterprise, Amazon API Gateway, Apache APISIX and Axway AMPLIFY API Management. See our Layer7 API Management vs. WSO2 API Manager report.
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