We performed a comparison between 3scale API Management and IBM API Connect 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 solution is quite lightweight, and the installation is very easy. It's like a two-click installation."
"The product is stable."
"3scale API Management's best feature is API management."
"The most valuable features are the gateway and security features."
"I like the API automation."
"The gateway is the most valuable feature because it makes it possible for us to gather all traffic into one proxy, which is a good thing."
"The standard deployment is very simple."
"It's good that they aren't adding a lot of features like ESP, etc. It's okay with just being a gateway."
"The functionalities on offer are very good."
"It gives a holistic environment for us to set up the APIs and that's the main value that it adds. It gives end to end for us."
"It is a complete all-in-one solution."
"One of the most valuable features of this solution is that it protects our backend system. We are exposing services to external parties and using this solution to protect the backend system, and to have a navigation in between."
"It is quite stable. We've not had any problem. It has made for a good buy because we are finding that other companies that have similar set ups go down maybe once a month."
"The management of the API and API portal is good."
"IBM API Connect is a reliable and scalable solution."
"I have found the API Management to be most valuable."
"We tried to use the portal, but we decided that it wasn't enough. The content management system (CMS) is not easy to use if you want to customize things, and it's hard to get someone who has the knowledge to work with the CMS."
"The product is not that flexible for developers. It's less flexible and rigid. It's not easy to make changes or customize it."
"I believe the CMS part of it has room for improvement though. That is where you write a couple of things if you want to publish your API. It's based on liquid scripting, which doesn't seem like the obvious ones to script with."
"The user experience could be better. The developer portal is too complex and hard to configure."
"What I'd like to improve in 3scale API Management is its route-limiting feature. Currently, I don't know how to do that effectively on the solution, but in Kong, I know how to do it, so I would love to see route-limiting being easily done on 3scale API Management. It would also be good if there was some authentication that you could do from 3scale API Management because Kong offers that functionality out of the box. What I'd love to see in the next release of 3scale API Management is the ability to integrate more plug-ins easily onto the platform, so you'll be able to extend it, and even do customs management. If Red Hat could offer that extension where it allows the internal organization where 3scale API Management is deployed on-premise to integrate its tools on top of 3scale API Management and provide an API for that, that will make the solution very powerful."
"What was suggested by Red Hat was a crucial part of the configuration, but when we started to ask about the supportability of this configuration, Red Hat said only some parts of the configuration would be supported."
"3scale API Management only supports restful APIs and doesn't support SOAP."
"It would be helpful to improve the customization features so that the customer can do it based on their own needs."
"The solution would be better if it had cloud functionalities."
"IBM info-center help documentation also needs improvement. Competitive product like Apigee provide out of the box policies to run Javascript, JAVA and better/flexible logging policies."
"They seem to have left out a feature for microservices and also a certification module for OIDC."
"Possible improvement is mainly around having more of the cloud oriented architecture bringing stability in adding new capabilities around security."
"API Connect's analytics subsystem could be improved to make it easier to render content from the analytics system and offload it to an external database."
"I would like to see automation of the installation. If there could be a single-click function where you could automate everything, that would be helpful."
"Due to bugs in integration, we have to look for workaround on fixing and using DataPower as gateway."
"Documentation for the CLI is not very complete. Also, the support could be improved, and we have had several problems with backing up and restoring the product."
3scale API Management is ranked 11th in API Management with 10 reviews while IBM API Connect is ranked 5th in API Management with 73 reviews. 3scale API Management is rated 7.4, while IBM API Connect is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of 3scale API Management writes "Useful as it lets you add a backend to the product, it integrates well with clusters, and it has exceptional technical support, but route-limiting isn't easy to do on it". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM API Connect writes "Good speed and performance, but it's based on a bit dated architecture". 3scale API Management is most compared with Amazon API Gateway, Kong Gateway Enterprise, Apigee, WSO2 API Manager and Microsoft Azure API Management, whereas IBM API Connect is most compared with Apigee, IBM DataPower Gateway, Microsoft Azure API Management, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager and Layer7 API Management. See our 3scale API Management vs. IBM API Connect report.
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