We performed a comparison between webMethods API Gateway 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 a good tool, and it has a stable messaging broker."
"This solution has given us a competitive advantage because we have better automation and insight."
"The cloud version of the solution is very easy to set up."
"The developer portal is a valuable feature."
"What I like the most about the solution is that it comes with ready-made tools like handling security tokens and OAuth."
"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."
"There were no complexities involved in the setup phase...The product is able to meet my company's API protection needs."
"In the API gateway, there is a new feature that allows us to filter logs within a payload. This has been a useful feature."
"API management lifecycle is the most valuable."
"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."
"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"
"WSO2 API Manager has a user-friendly model."
"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."
"A complete integration suite and a good platform."
"It's a good product."
"The price has room for improvement."
"They should develop clear visibility for the onboarding."
"It is an expensive solution and not very suitable for smaller businesses."
"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."
"The high price of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"With performance, there is room for improvement in regards to if we would like to put another extra layer of security on it, such as SSL. This is affecting their performance quite significantly. They need to improve the process of managing the SSL and other things inside their solutions, so there will not be quite such a significant impact to the performance."
"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."
"With respect to the API gateway, the runtime component, the stability after a new release is something that can be improved."
"We found WSO2 API Manager to be a bit complex."
"Integration is an area that needs to be improved."
"The price and the complexities attached to the solution are two areas of concern where improvements are required."
"The stability is pretty good, but it could be improved."
"WSO2 API Manager could improve the API approval system."
"The user interface needs to improve, it is a bit outdated."
"Lacks some new features and updated functionalities."
"The solution could be more user friendly for engineers."
webMethods API Gateway is ranked 12th in API Management with 10 reviews while WSO2 API Manager is ranked 8th in API Management with 33 reviews. webMethods API Gateway is rated 8.2, while WSO2 API Manager is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of webMethods API Gateway writes "We developed several services in the cloud using a sandbox environment for our last hackathon". On the other hand, the top reviewer of WSO2 API Manager writes "Reliable with good capabilities and good support". webMethods API Gateway is most compared with Apigee, webMethods.io Integration, Kong Gateway Enterprise, webMethods Microgateway and 3scale API Management, whereas WSO2 API Manager is most compared with Apigee, Kong Gateway Enterprise, Amazon API Gateway, Apache APISIX and Microsoft Azure API Management. See our WSO2 API Manager vs. webMethods API Gateway report.
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