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."Ease of use."
"This improved our organization, because it gives the management data to discuss for the next course of action and it suggests what to work on, as the next thing."
"API discovery using CA Live API Creator is helpful for integrating with multiple backends, for discovering and kickstarting the API creation process. It is a very good feature."
"It has improved API governance and gives analytics to API performance."
"There are a couple aspects of performance. One is just speed and uptime, and it's stellar in that regard. The other is, how much effort is it to put it in place in the first place, and then how much effort is it to keep it operational. That's where its real strength is. I'm able to do things quickly and easily that I couldn't do before."
"You can create little, custom Java assertions that you can insert to do your business logic, which might not be covered by the commercial product out-of-the-box."
"It is able to withstand the number of API calls and handle different API requirements to secure, transform, log, and track API usage patterns."
"It is a stable product."
"API management lifecycle is the most valuable."
"The documentation is good."
"WSO2 API Manager's most valuable features are the simple interface that is easy to use and the APIs lifecycle."
"Based on the information I have, the solution's most valuable feature is its capability of implementing custom solutions."
"The product is easy to use."
"It's very scalable, which is one of the best features."
"The most interesting feature is its Mac-based function."
"The main feature — the publication of the API, the management section — is great in general."
"The delivery is bulky in terms of implementation. Its price could also be better. It is a very good product as compared to CA API, Google API, and WSO2 API, but its price is high. From the cloud-native perspective, some new features need to be added. It could also be made simpler to implement."
"One of the features that the tool provides is the ability to simply onboard new APIs to an existing security platform. We build all the policies for security upfront, and then we can add those policies pretty simply and straightforwardly to any new API that gets developed in the enterprise."
"We are looking for improvements related to integration. We want to see them add integration tools to the CA bundle. That would be helpful."
"The development portal could be improved."
"The interface is Java which is difficult to make look very nice."
"From the last version, they have added more dashboard support, but there is still a lot they need to improve. In terms of monitoring, it's almost all covered. The interface can be improved, though."
"The UI design could be improved in the next release."
"One area where it certainly needs to improve is the way it allocates requests, in terms of rate limiting. Also, there is no native Kafka connectivity."
"The user interface needs to improve, it is a bit outdated."
"We found WSO2 API Manager to be a bit complex."
"The solution could be more user friendly for engineers."
"Basically, mTLS is a certificate-based communication protocol that WSO2 API Manager doesn't support."
"From a product perspective, the first thing is that although the documentation provided by WSO2 is good, it could be much better. We're in the middle of a complex migration, moving away from VMs to Kubernetes with the latest version of WSO2 and good documentation is essential to us right now."
"We had some problems with the reverse proxy not being able to invoke fully qualified domain names, so we have to build some custom scripts to solve this issue."
"WSO2 API Manager should improve its marketplace subscription model and documentation in order to reach a higher level in the market."
"The stability is pretty good, but it could be improved."
Layer7 API Management is ranked 10th in API Management with 109 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 Gateway Enterprise, Amazon API Gateway, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager and Tyk, whereas WSO2 API Manager is most compared with Apigee, Kong Gateway 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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