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We performed a comparison between Mule ESB and Red Hat Fuse based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two ESB (Enterprise Service Bus) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
To learn more, read our detailed Mule ESB vs. Red Hat Fuse Report (Updated: March 2024).
765,386 professionals have used our research since 2012.
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Pros
"What Mule provides out-of-box is a sufficient product.""The cloud and integration abilities are most useful allowing us to use applications such as Salesforce and DataWeave.""We can use Java expressions anywhere in the flow.""Mule ESB is a very easy-to-use and user-friendly solution.""It was pretty fast to develop APIs on this platform, which is something I liked about it. So, the time to value was pretty good.""Everything runs in Java, which is a useful feature.""Easy connectivity and easy integration.""Once it is started, we don't see any problems on a day to day basis."

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"With a premium, one can get support 24 hours.""The most valuable feature is the software development environment.""What I like about Red Hat Fuse is that it's a well-established integration software. I find all aspects of the tool positive.""The solution has more tooling and options.""The support training that comes with the product is amazing.""This solution's adaptability to our use case has helped us integrate our systems seamlessly.""The solution is stable. We have gone for months or years without any issue. There are no memory restarts, so from my point of view, it's very stable.""I would rate the scalability a ten out of ten. We are an enterprise business."

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Cons
"It should have some amount of logging.""From the product perspective, it was sometimes hard to manage the dependencies. When we had to add dependencies on a couple of different packages, it was sometimes confusing. It was hard to update them with Anypoint Studio, as well as with MuleSoft. There were challenges with that. So, that's one of the areas that could be improved.""I would like to see support for BPM in the next release of this solution.""MuleSoft is not so strong in method-based integration, so they're not so functional in that regard.""Mule ESB is more into the latest REST APIs, not much into the SOAP web services. Developing is all about web services and not easy with Mule.""Documentation is cryptic, product releases are far too frequent, and upgrades become troublesome.""There are some issues with both stability and scalability.""The current version will not be supported for much longer."

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"The testing part, specifically when running it in the cloud, could be improved. It's a little bit complex, especially considering its cloud nature.""The solution will be discontinued in 2024.""The pricing model could be adjusted. The price should be lower.""Currently, the main point of concern for us is how flexible it is to cater to different requirements. It should be more flexible.""What could be improved in Red Hat Fuse is the deployment process because it's still very heavy. It's containerized, but now with Spring Boot and other microservices-related containers, deployment is still very heavy. Red Hat Fuse still has room for improvement in terms of becoming more containerized and more oriented.""My company doesn't have any experience with other messaging tools, so it's difficult to mention what areas could be improved in Red Hat Fuse, but it could be pricing because I find it expensive.""It might help if, in the documentation, there were a comments section or some kind of community input. I might read a page of documentation and not fully understand everything, or it might not quite answer the question I had. If there were a section associated with it where people could discuss the same topic, that might be helpful because somebody else might have already asked the question that I had.""Red Hat Fuse doesn't have a lot of administrative control like other applications."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "This is expensive. In my next project, we had to go to other vendor."
  • "Plan your licensing model (cloud or on-premises or hybrid) that will allow seamless integration with new partners."
  • "The various features and components for this solution are no longer free."
  • "The licensing is yearly, and there are additional fees for services."
  • "This product is cheaper than some offered by other vendors, although there is a problem because you have to pay for some third-party adapters."
  • "Most of the challenges that I had with this solution were for smaller customers. There is not a good licensing model or pricing model. It is more expensive than other solutions, and that's the downside of MuleSoft. I had to be creative to be able to sell it to the business, but we did. This is something they have to work on because for large companies, it's affordable, but for small and medium businesses, it's very hard to sell."
  • "This product is expensive, but it does offer value for money."
  • "I think the price is very high. If you use TIBCO BW, the license is for the CPU usage, then the IPS, and support. I also think the license for the product is a one-time expense."
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  • "We found other solutions were more costly."
  • "This is an open-source product that can be used free of charge."
  • "After doing some Googling and comparisons, the main standouts were MuleSoft and Red Hat Fuse. One of the big factors in our decision to go with Fuse was the licensing cost. It was cheaper to go with Fuse."
  • "Pricing has been something that we have been working with Red Hat on, year over year. We have preferred pricing with the university because we are involved in education and research."
  • "This is an expensive product. It costs a lot and although it's worth the money, the explanations that we need to give to our top executives are highly complicated."
  • "The most important feature of Fuse is the cost. It is open source and a cheap option for an ESB. So, most of the clients in the Middle East and Asian countries prefer this ESB. Other ESBs, like MuleSoft and IBM API Connect, are pretty expensive. Because it is open source, Red Hat Fuse is the cheapest solution, providing almost every integration capability."
  • "My company pays for the license of Red Hat Fuse yearly. At the end of the day, it's a low-cost solution, and its support licenses are still very decently priced versus bigger operators such as IBM, etc. Red Hat Fuse is much more affordable than other solutions. On a scale of one to five, with one being cheap and five being extremely expensive, I'm rating its pricing a one."
  • "Red Hat Fuse is an expensive tool, though I cannot answer how much it costs as that's confidential."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:I was previously part of the Oracle SOA/OSB development team. In my current capacity I architected solutions using MuleSoft Anypoint Platform on cloud / on-premises and hybrid modes and on PCE/RTF on… more »
    Top Answer:Our team ran a comparison of IBM’s Integration Bus vs. Mule ESB in order to determine what sort of ESB software was the best fit for our organization. Ultimately we decided to choose IBM Integration… more »
    Top Answer:The solution's drag-and-drop interface and data viewer helped us quite a lot.
    Top Answer:The process workflow, where we can orchestrate and design the application by defining different routes, is really useful.
    Top Answer:You need to pay for the license. It's not free. I'm not aware of the exact prices. There are no extra costs in addition to the standard licensing since it is a subscription-based solution.
    Top Answer:I haven't experienced the online part of Red Hat Fuse. Red Hat Fuse doesn't have a lot of administrative control like other applications. Using administrative control, the operational user can view… more »
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    Also Known As
    Fuse ESB, FuseSource
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    Overview
    For companies looking to modernize and unlock the value of existing on-premises systems and applications, an enterprise service bus (ESB) architecture serves as a critical foundation layer for SOA. When deployed as an ESB, the Mule runtime engine of Anypoint Platform combines the power of data and application integration across legacy systems and SaaS applications, with a seamless path to the other capabilities of Anypoint Platform and the full power of API-led connectivity.

    Red Hat JBoss Fuse is a lightweight, flexible integration platform that enables rapid integration across the extended enterprise - on-premise or in the cloud. JBoss Fuse includes modular integration capabilities, an enterprise service bus (ESB), to unlock information.

    Sample Customers
    Ube, PacificComp, University of Witwatersrand, Justice Systems, Camelot
    Avianca, American Product Distributors (APD), Kings College Hospital, AMD, CenturyLink, AECOM, E*TRADE
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    Computer Software Company46%
    Financial Services Firm23%
    Healthcare Company8%
    Manufacturing Company8%
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    Computer Software Company17%
    Financial Services Firm15%
    Manufacturing Company9%
    Government7%
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    Computer Software Company36%
    Comms Service Provider14%
    Financial Services Firm14%
    Manufacturing Company7%
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    Computer Software Company18%
    Financial Services Firm17%
    Manufacturing Company9%
    Government6%
    Company Size
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    Small Business37%
    Midsize Enterprise9%
    Large Enterprise54%
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    Small Business17%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise70%
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    Small Business13%
    Midsize Enterprise39%
    Large Enterprise48%
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    Small Business17%
    Midsize Enterprise18%
    Large Enterprise65%
    Buyer's Guide
    Mule ESB vs. Red Hat Fuse
    March 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about Mule ESB vs. Red Hat Fuse and other solutions. Updated: March 2024.
    765,386 professionals have used our research since 2012.

    Mule ESB is ranked 2nd in ESB (Enterprise Service Bus) with 45 reviews while Red Hat Fuse is ranked 4th in ESB (Enterprise Service Bus) with 23 reviews. Mule ESB is rated 8.0, while Red Hat Fuse is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Mule ESB writes "Plenty of documentation, flexible, and reliable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Red Hat Fuse writes "Configurable, doesn't require much coding, and has an automatic load balancing feature, but its development features need improvement". Mule ESB is most compared with IBM Integration Bus, Oracle Service Bus, Oracle SOA Suite, webMethods Integration Server and IBM DataPower Gateway, whereas Red Hat Fuse is most compared with IBM Integration Bus, Oracle Service Bus, WSO2 Enterprise Integrator, webMethods Integration Server and JBoss ESB. See our Mule ESB vs. Red Hat Fuse report.

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