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 able to withstand the number of API calls and handle different API requirements to secure, transform, log, and track API usage patterns."
"The most valuable feature of Layer7 API Management is that their policy is really easy to develop and it is flexible."
"What I found most valuable in Layer7 API Management is that you can launch the API from the gateway quickly and securely, making it less complicated to deploy APIs. I also like that Layer7 API Management has a good portal and dashboards and that the dashboards show you statistics regarding how many people used the API, etc."
"The most important features of Layer7 API Management are the basic security functionality and validation checks."
"We can create multiple orgs and set up policies and management. We can also integrate with an APM solution"
"The most valuable feature is the security with its out-of-the-box policies."
"We loved the portal part the most, which had monetization and showed how people were using the stuff. It is a good product as a whole and has a lot of microservices and granular features."
"It is fairly stable for the Gateway side."
"I think the best part about WSO2 API Manager is that it's highly customizable because it's open-source. The partnership model is quite lucrative for us, it helps us to go and pitch to our customers. You can build a lot of business models yourself that you want to use. You are able to do a lot of the solutions."
"The main feature — the publication of the API, the management section — is great in general."
"The documentation is good."
"Its open-source features are very good, especially for your production work."
"It's a good product."
"This solution is a little bit faster, easier to use, and has better integration than the other solutions I have experienced."
"Based on the information I have, the solution's most valuable feature is its capability of implementing custom solutions."
"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."
"There could be more integration options included in the product."
"I would like for the new release to allow us to speed up code generation. The integration with CICD could also be more seamless."
"we cannot add gateways on the fly because there are a lot of moving parts; endpoint connectivity is one of them. If we add more nodes then the rate-limiting feature is affected. This kind of gateway always has the scalability issue. But, I think CA is coming up with its Microgateway, which is in Beta. If they stabilize their Microgateway platform, we could do very well in terms of scalability."
"They need a workflow for the API Developer Portal, where the process only allows requests to go to the correct person."
"The developer portal needs to fully supported SOAP services (including WSDL publication with security), it would certainly push adoption for us."
"The Portal lacks maturity. Since the move from Portal 3.x to 4.x, a lot of features were removed. It is slowly coming back. I can see a lot of changes are done in the "background" to decouple components and make it more flexible. Those changes are just not getting to the UI side quick enough."
"The cloud-native architecture of the product needs improvement."
"We have experienced technical difficulties with the product in the past."
"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."
"API Manager is not easy to scale because some of its components lack scalability. It's a difficult point. Especially because companies are so cloud-based these days, microservice scalability is a major thing."
"Basically, mTLS is a certificate-based communication protocol that WSO2 API Manager doesn't support."
"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."
"Lacks some new features and updated functionalities."
"The professional support and licensing aspects of WSO have been a challenge."
"Based on our recent large scaling project, the latency needs to be improved."
Layer7 API Management is ranked 10th in API Management with 108 reviews while WSO2 API Manager is ranked 7th 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 Enterprise, Amazon API Gateway, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager and Tyk, whereas WSO2 API Manager is most compared with Apigee, Kong Enterprise, Amazon API Gateway, Microsoft Azure API Management and Axway AMPLIFY API Management. See our Layer7 API Management vs. WSO2 API Manager report.
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