We performed a comparison between webMethods API Gateway 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's a good tool, and it has a stable messaging broker."
"This solution has given us a competitive advantage because we have better automation and insight."
"I like the solution's policies, transformation, mediation, and routing features."
"The cloud version of the solution is very easy to set up."
"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."
"In the API gateway, there is a new feature that allows us to filter logs within a payload. This has been a useful feature."
"The developer portal is a valuable feature."
"What I like the most about the solution is that it comes with ready-made tools like handling security tokens and OAuth."
"Yes WSO2 API Manager is scalable"
"It's a good product."
"The solution is open-source."
"WSO2 API Manager's most valuable features are the simple interface that is easy to use and the APIs lifecycle."
"The documentation is good."
"The user interface is easy to navigate, and the documentation is extensive. It's open-source, so everything is available, and we can create what we need. That's not necessarily a feature, but it's an advantage."
"WSO2 API Manager is a stable solution."
"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."
"With respect to the API gateway, the runtime component, the stability after a new release is something that can be improved."
"The configuring of the JWT token would be improved as it is a confusing process. We require more information on this part of the solution."
"Understanding the overall architecture is difficult."
"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."
"They should develop clear visibility for the onboarding."
"It is an expensive solution and not very suitable for smaller businesses."
"The price has room for improvement."
"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."
"Providing easy configuration for email and SMS notifications, layout and customization of admin and developer landing pages."
"WSO2 API Manager could increase their security compliance."
"The stability is pretty good, but it could be improved."
"I would like it to be a more convenient development platform with the ability to write orchestrations and so on. Our problem with this product is that in my country, we are the only enterprise that has been using this product. We're missing a lot of knowledge from colleagues to consult with, and we also aren't able to recruit people with relevant skills. It is a big problem. The small team that is maintaining this product is the only team that can actually relate to any technical issue. The support that we're getting from the company is not great. There is also a cultural gap there because they're from Sri Lanka, and it is not easy. They're putting in a lot of effort, but they are not meeting our expectations."
"The solution could be more user friendly for engineers."
"I would like it to be a more stable solution. Maybe in the last version that is approved. For me it would be good if they had a community established version."
"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."
"WSO2 API Manager should improve its marketplace subscription model and documentation in order to reach a higher level in the market."
webMethods API Gateway is ranked 12th in API Management with 9 reviews while WSO2 API Manager is ranked 7th in API Management with 33 reviews. webMethods API Gateway is rated 8.0, while WSO2 API Manager is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of webMethods API Gateway writes "We developed several services in the cloud using a sandbox environment for our last hackathon". On the other hand, the top reviewer of WSO2 API Manager writes "Reliable with good capabilities and good support". webMethods API Gateway is most compared with Apigee, webMethods.io Integration, Kong Gateway Enterprise, webMethods Microgateway and Gravitee, whereas WSO2 API Manager is most compared with Apigee, Kong Gateway Enterprise, Amazon API Gateway, Microsoft Azure API Management and Apache APISIX. See our WSO2 API Manager vs. webMethods API Gateway report.
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