We performed a comparison between MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager and webMethods API Gateway 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."I believe the API connectivity within the cloud marketplace is most valuable."
"Anypoint is very capable in terms of scalability."
"Overall, the platform is pretty good, I cannot say which one specific feature is good. The idea of an API manager is really interesting."
"The most valuable features of the solution for securing APIs stem from the tool's ability to allow users to deploy policies."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to investigate APIs."
"The most effective features of Anypoint API Manager for policy enforcement include security enforcement, rate limiting, client enforcement, traffic control, service level agreement policies, and caching policies."
"We use it heavily because Azure offers better pricing than its competitors."
"Whenever there was an issue, the support was excellent."
"What I like the most about the solution is that it comes with ready-made tools like handling security tokens and OAuth."
"This solution has given us a competitive advantage because we have better automation and insight."
"Within the new version, webMethods API Gateway gives us an end-to-end lifecycle from the creation of the API up into the development, deployment, and promotion into production/live. The current end-to-end lifecycle of the API gives us enough authority and governance of the API. We know what are currently live services, what is in the testing stage of development, and what version that has been commissioned. So, the full life cycle itself gives us full authority and governance of the API."
"I like the solution's policies, transformation, mediation, and routing features."
"It's a good tool, and it has a stable messaging broker."
"The developer portal is a valuable feature."
"The most valuable aspect of this solution for me has been the configuration-based UI. Once you get the hang of it, it enables you to easily develop an API. In addition, it has many in-built policies that are quite handy."
"The cloud version of the solution is very easy to set up."
"Migrating any existing middleware platform to Mulesoft is difficult because of the transformation, conversion and integration involved. Better tools are needed to achieve quicker time to market."
"Their analytics needs a lot of improvement. It's really lacking right now."
"One improvement is maybe to add a plugin in the API manager. Let's say an organisation is using SOAP services or legacy APIs. Maybe I don't want to migrate it to rest API, but my plugin should be able to convert Jason to XML. Basically, protocol transformation features in API Manager."
"The API gateway and API runtime are too heavy, which means that it is not suitable for microservices."
"Their studio performance is very slow, it requires a lot of memory, and should be improved."
"The solution is missing a monetization module."
"When compared to other integration technologies, it is slightly higher."
"Mulesoft Anypoint API Manager could improve the monitoring because it is very poor quality and not user-friendly. It is not as good as other solutions on the market."
"It is an expensive solution and not very suitable for smaller businesses."
"The price has room for improvement."
"They should develop clear visibility for the onboarding."
"With respect to the API gateway, the runtime component, the stability after a new release is something that can be improved."
"With performance, there is room for improvement in regards to if we would like to put another extra layer of security on it, such as SSL. This is affecting their performance quite significantly. They need to improve the process of managing the SSL and other things inside their solutions, so there will not be quite such a significant impact to the performance."
"In terms of improvements, maybe on the API monetization side, having users able to create separate consumption plans and throttle all those consumption plans towards the run time could be better."
"There are things that could be improved with the webMethods API gateway. One thing is that it's too attached to the integration service and we'd like it to be a little bit more independent. We would like for them to separate operations so that it doesn't rely on the bulky integration server and so that it can be used everywhere."
"Understanding the overall architecture is difficult."
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MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager is ranked 4th in API Management with 47 reviews while webMethods API Gateway is ranked 12th in API Management with 9 reviews. MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager is rated 8.2, while webMethods API Gateway is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager writes "Responsive technical support, low tickets issued showing great stability, and limitless expansion". On the other hand, the top reviewer of webMethods API Gateway writes "We developed several services in the cloud using a sandbox environment for our last hackathon". MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, Amazon API Gateway, Apigee, Kong Gateway Enterprise and IBM API Connect, whereas webMethods API Gateway is most compared with Apigee, webMethods.io Integration, Kong Gateway Enterprise, webMethods Microgateway and WSO2 API Manager. See our MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager vs. webMethods API Gateway report.
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