Mule ESB vs WSO2 Enterprise Integrator comparison

Mule ESB

Read 46 Mule ESB reviews

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85% willing to recommend

WSO2 Enterprise Integrator

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1,180 Comparison Views

75% willing to recommend

Mule ESB

WSO2 Enterprise Integrator

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Mule ESB and WSO2 Enterprise Integrator based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

To learn more, read our detailed Mule ESB vs. WSO2 Enterprise Integrator Report (Updated: May 2024).

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Mule ESB vs. WSO2 Enterprise Integrator

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Categories and Ranking

Mule ESB

Ranking in Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)

2nd

Average Rating

8.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

WSO2 Enterprise Integrator

Ranking in Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)

7th

Average Rating

7.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Data Integration (19th)

Market share comparison

As of June 2024, in the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) category, the market share of Mule ESB is 26.5% and it increased by 15.9% compared to the previous year. The market share of WSO2 Enterprise Integrator is 3.5% and it decreased by 21.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)

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Data Integration

0.5%

Featured Reviews

Santosh Solapurkar

Manager at Deloitte

Jun 8, 2022

Plenty of documentation, flexible, and reliable

We use Mule ESB for integrating with third-party vendors. Mule ESB bridge between internal systems and third-party systems. Additionally, we use it for enterprise, web, and APIs services The most valuable features of Mule ESB are its ease of use, documentation, ease to adapt to newer security and…

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Christopher Lebuso

Senior Software Developer at FROSTBYTE

Sep 27, 2022

A helpful solution in improving our time management as development is quicker

Our primary use case for this solution is building APIs to integrate with other systems. It has improved our time management because development is quicker. The drag-and-drop features for connectors are very valuable. You cannot include the validation of XPath. We have been using this solution…

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The architecture based on events has several connectors which allow integration from external and internal applications of the company."

"The product offers a community edition that is free of cost."

"Mule ESB is a very easy-to-use and user-friendly solution."

"What Mule provides out-of-box is a sufficient product."

"Everything runs in Java, which is a useful feature."

"The solution offers multiple deployment options."

"It was pretty fast to develop APIs on this platform, which is something I liked about it. So, the time to value was pretty good."

"I'm not using ESB directly. It is the integration layer, so it's running under the hood. However, the conversion and transformation performance is excellent. Anypoint Enterprise Security is also solid."

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"Currently, I find the configuration part quite valuable, where you can easily configure things."

"It was mostly easy to set up the product."

"WSO2's analytics capability is good, considering the ELC support they provide."

"The learning curve for this solution is very good."

"The customer service executives are very responsive."

"The solution's technical support is very knowledgeable."

"The solution's customer service is good."

"The solution basically conforms to our standards."

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Cons

"The initial setup is not easy."

"In an upcoming release, I would like to see more additional concept for exception handling, batch processing, and increased integration with other application."

"Mule ESB is more into the latest REST APIs, not much into the SOAP web services. Developing is all about web services and not easy with Mule."

"There are limitations with the subscription model that comes with the product."

"There are some issues with both stability and scalability."

"The current version will not be supported for much longer."

"There are some features on the commercial version of the solution that would be great if they were on the community version. Additionally, if they added more authorization features it would be helpful."

"Mule ESB could be more user-friendly. I think users must learn about the architecture before they start coding. The price could be better. In the next release, I would like to see an EDIFACT integration."

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"The integration capabilities need to be improved."

"WSO2 libraries are not mature enough. For example, if you want to integrate with Kafka using its Kafka library, it often has many bugs."

"I would like to see them bring back a feature, from earlier versions, that was very useful in debugging and finding issues."

"The server is very specific and it is very difficult to get experience with it."

"The product's price is an area of concern where improvements are required."

"One of the reasons that we are looking for a replacement is their way of defining integration. The language of the XML structures that I use to describe the integrations are not that standard, and it's not easy to find people who are familiar with this approach."

"In my opinion, the administration model and interface, of Carbon, are lacking in terms of its features and user experience."

"You cannot include the validation of XPath."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The licensing is yearly, and there are additional fees for services."

"I think the price is very high. If you use TIBCO BW, the license is for the CPU usage, then the IPS, and support. I also think the license for the product is a one-time expense."

"Plan your licensing model (cloud or on-premises or hybrid) that will allow seamless integration with new partners."

"Most of the challenges that I had with this solution were for smaller customers. There is not a good licensing model or pricing model. It is more expensive than other solutions, and that's the downside of MuleSoft. I had to be creative to be able to sell it to the business, but we did. This is something they have to work on because for large companies, it's affordable, but for small and medium businesses, it's very hard to sell."

"This product is cheaper than some offered by other vendors, although there is a problem because you have to pay for some third-party adapters."

"The pricing must be improved."

"Mule ESB is an expensive solution."

"The price of the Mule ESB commercial version is expensive. However, they have a free community version."

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"The solution costs about 20,000 or 30,000 euros per year, per instance."

"I rate the product price a six on a scale of one to ten, where one is low price and ten is high price."

"The pricing of WSO2 Enterprise Integrator for enterprise subscriptions can be considered expensive, especially from the perspective of someone who prefers open-source software."

"It is a low-cost solution."

"The open-source, unsupported version is available free of charge."

"The cost is better than IBM Cloud Pak."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

17%

Financial Services Firm

15%

Manufacturing Company

Insurance Company

Computer Software Company

26%

Financial Services Firm

15%

Government

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

Migration from IBM Integration Bus to Mulesoft ESB for a large enterprise tech services company

I was previously part of the Oracle SOA/OSB development team. In my current capacity I architected solutions using MuleSoft Anypoint Platform on cloud / on-premises and hybrid modes and on PCE/RTF ...

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IBM Integration Bus vs Mule ESB - which to choose?

Our team ran a comparison of IBM’s Integration Bus vs. Mule ESB in order to determine what sort of ESB software was the best fit for our organization. Ultimately we decided to choose IBM Integratio...

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What do you like most about Mule ESB?

The solution's drag-and-drop interface and data viewer helped us quite a lot.

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What do you like most about WSO2 Enterprise Integrator?

WSO2's analytics capability is good, considering the ELC support they provide.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for WSO2 Enterprise Integrator?

The product has reasonable and competitive pricing for enterprise customers. It is expensive for small businesses especially. They are using the open-source solution, and they find it expensive sin...

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What needs improvement with WSO2 Enterprise Integrator?

The micro integrator should be improved. There is room for enhancement considering alternative integration components. Some workloads may benefit from optimization or additional features. Additiona...

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Overview

For companies looking to modernize and unlock the value of existing on-premises systems and applications, an enterprise service bus (ESB) architecture serves as a critical foundation layer for SOA. When deployed as an ESB, the Mule runtime engine of Anypoint Platform combines the power of data and application integration across legacy systems and SaaS applications, with a seamless path to the other capabilities of Anypoint Platform and the full power of API-led connectivity.

WSO2 Enterprise Integrator, core to the WSO2 Integration Agile Platform, is an open source Integration product for cloud native and container-native projects. It enables enterprise integration experts to build, scale, and secure sophisticated integration solutions to achieve digital agility. Unlike other integration products, WSO2 Enterprise Integrator already contains integration runtimes, message brokering, business process modeling, analytics and visual tooling capabilities.

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Ube, PacificComp, University of Witwatersrand, Justice Systems, Camelot

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