We performed a comparison between IBM API Connect and Mule Anypoint Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The statistics component is easy to use."
"The most valuable features are stability and security."
"The most valuable feature of IBM API Connect is the security of the protocol."
"Security is well organized and managed within the solution."
"The solution is very scalable because it's on the cloud."
"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."
"The management of the API and API portal is good."
"API Connect is a very good platform for the development of APIs."
"It is a stable product...The initial setup was simple."
"I have found several things most valuable, including its very quick implementation that you can use a lot of out of the box templates, and lastly that it is a very mature product, especially in hybrid integration."
"The tool is very capable and offers a high performance. The tool supports batch processing and ETL processing."
"The ability to define multi-tiered APIs and reuse them is a fantastic platform feature."
"The most valuable feature is their integrations and very good API management."
"API management."
"The most valuable feature is the variety of characters Anypoint Platform has. It is very scalable and customizable."
"The initial setup is quite easy because the solution has a good interface through which the configuration, mapping, and so on can be done."
"In the next version, I don't know if they've already been included it or not, but the designer and all the tools should be on the cloud. I don't want any external installation or local installation."
"The documentation needs to be a bit better."
"Debugging could be improved."
"The new version is very unstable."
"It needs to be less taxing on compute resources."
"Extracting the data could be improved."
"The integration of cloud-based services is where we're looking for improvement in this platform."
"Support for this platform could still be improved. It also needs to have more levels of versatility. Its compatibility and integration with different platforms also need improvement."
"Lacks intelligent management data and intelligent mappings."
"This becomes an expensive solution over time."
"We would like an entire DevOps in place in this particular solution."
"MuleSoft's release calendar is rather conventional with two major, two minor releases and hotfixes in between. The competition sometimes offer more rapid release cycles and provides improved and new functionality with a faster time-to-market."
"It would be better if we had a clearer view of the solution's future releases."
"The solution's pricing model is very strange, and it will be really expensive if you use APIs a lot."
"An on-premise setup requires special skills and you need a lot of professional services."
"The price could be improved."
IBM API Connect is ranked 7th in Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) with 73 reviews while Mule Anypoint Platform is ranked 1st in Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) with 40 reviews. IBM API Connect is rated 8.0, while Mule Anypoint Platform is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of IBM API Connect writes "Good speed and performance, but it's based on a bit dated architecture". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Mule Anypoint Platform writes "Robust, reliable, and stable, ensuring high availability for critical integrations". IBM API Connect is most compared with Apigee, IBM DataPower Gateway, Microsoft Azure API Management, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager and Amazon API Gateway, whereas Mule Anypoint Platform is most compared with MuleSoft Composer, Microsoft Azure Logic Apps, Oracle Integration Cloud Service, SAP Process Orchestration and SAP Cloud Platform. See our IBM API Connect vs. Mule Anypoint Platform report.
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