3scale API Management vs OpenLegacy comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 17, 2024

3scale API Management and OpenLegacy compete in the API management category. 3scale API Management holds an advantage with its integration capabilities, while OpenLegacy excels in transformation features.

Features: 3scale API Management emphasizes scalability, integration, and security features focusing on traffic control. OpenLegacy is strong in legacy system integration and modernizing mainframe and core systems.

Room for Improvement: 3scale API Management could benefit from more transformation capabilities and enhanced legacy integration. OpenLegacy can improve in cloud integration, API policy enforcement, and scalability.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: 3scale API Management offers cloud-based deployment with efficient customer support. OpenLegacy provides flexible deployment options, including on-premises, with support tailored to complex legacy needs.

Pricing and ROI: 3scale API Management provides competitive pricing with low initial setup costs, promoting quick ROI. OpenLegacy has higher setup costs but offers significant returns in complex legacy environments.

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3scale API Management vs. OpenLegacy

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Categories and Ranking

3scale API Management

Ranking in API Management

23rd

Average Rating

7.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

OpenLegacy

Ranking in API Management

34th

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

AI Software Development (76th)

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the API Management category, the mindshare of 3scale API Management is 2.0%, down from 2.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of OpenLegacy is 0.9%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

API Management Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
3scale API Management	2.0%
OpenLegacy	0.9%
Other	97.1%

API Management

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reviewer2747757

Program Manager at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Facilitates API exposure securely and highlights developer portal flexibility needs

Not much stands out for me regarding the advantages of this product. We usually don't tinker with it. Developing developer portals could be more standards-based. I think currently it's Ruby-based. Having more options on designing that would be beneficial. Additional flexibility would have been great; we would have used it more if it aligned with our platform. I don't use the analytics part. We don't use monetization features, which help to create a revenue generation model.

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reviewer1042905

VP, Chief Enterprise Integration Architect at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

The biggest advantage is how simple the technology was.

I'd like to see OpenLegacy develop its low-code/no-code (LCNC) solutions. They've expanded somewhat their horizons for integration beyond mainframe CICS, which is their sweet spot. They have some tooling in that area, but it's not as good as it needs to be. OpenLegacy handles the bread-and-butter TP monitoring stuff, but I am working for one of the six banks in the United States still using the Hogan mainframe, which has a slightly proprietary mechanism. But OpenLegacy currently doesn't have a connector for Hogan. So it would help if they could build one. That would appeal to financial institutions that still use Hogan, like US Bank, Wells Fargo, KeyBank, and Vanguard.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"3scale API Management's best feature is API management."

"3scale: what a really good product to secure an unsecure API if you have multiple backend unsecured routes provided by an ESB (Red Hat Fuse), and available through one unique frontend acting as a secure gateway (with HTTPS protocol and API keys)."

"3scale API Management's best feature is API management."

"It's good that they aren't adding a lot of features like ESP, etc. It's okay with just being a gateway."

"The product is stable."

"3scale API Management is a containerized product, so all its parts are deployed into containers, and standard deployment is very simple because it goes on the OpenShift."

"3scale API Managment provides a platform facilitating Trusted Service Providers communicating with the service provider securely and efficiently, greatly enhancing direct business transactions and application to application communications."

"The gateway is the most valuable feature because it makes it possible for us to gather all traffic into one proxy, which is a good thing."

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"Using mainframe programs (not screens), the OpenLegacy services do not require any changes by the mainframe programmers, thus reducing development cycles."

"OpenLegacy produces a war file which includes everything you need to deploy a Tomcat server."

"OpenLegacy opens the door to connect modern web products to our old legacy system."

"It is possible to connect a service to a mainframe program or back transaction in a matter of minutes or hours at the most."

"It is possible to solve larger legacy API issues on an enterprise level with this product."

"The biggest advantage of OpenLegacy was how simple the technology was. We were able to build out the OpenLegacy parts very quickly. We put together a couple hundred APIs in six months."

"The biggest advantage of OpenLegacy was how simple the technology was, and we were able to build out the OpenLegacy parts very quickly, putting together a couple hundred APIs in six months."

"The product has helped our business by allowing us to become more efficient in data handling."

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Cons

"We tried to use the portal, but we decided that it wasn't enough. The content management system (CMS) is not easy to use if you want to customize things, and it's hard to get someone who has the knowledge to work with the CMS."

"3scale API Management only supports restful APIs and doesn't support SOAP."

"In my previous company, I used Kong, and in my current company, I'm using 3scale API Management, but I prefer Kong."

"It would be helpful to improve the customization features so that the customer can do it based on their own needs."

"Setting up OIDC authentication would be another use case for this product."

"As much as we tried to implement 3scale API Management the incompatibility of the version did not allow us to proceed."

"I believe the CMS part of it has room for improvement though. That is where you write a couple of things if you want to publish your API; it's based on liquid scripting, which doesn't seem like the obvious one to script with."

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"Debugging and logging for programmers could be better."

"The pricing of the solution could be more flexible and allow for once-off payment versus annual licensing. This would be more appealing to companies in Latin America."

"They've expanded somewhat their horizons for integration beyond mainframe CICS, which is their sweet spot. They have some tooling in that area, but it's not as good as it needs to be."

"Customer support for the product is slow and not very good. It makes using the product difficult if you need help quickly."

"Debugging and logging for programmers could be better."

"The pricing of the solution could be more flexible and allow for once-off payment versus annual licensing."

"I'd like to see OpenLegacy develop its low-code/no-code (LCNC) solutions. They've expanded somewhat their horizons for integration beyond mainframe CICS, which is their sweet spot. They have some tooling in that area, but it's not as good as it needs to be."

"I would like to see SSL out-of-the-box. OpenLegacy certainly does SSL, but it was not the default for our use case."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"I don't think that 3scale is very expensive."

"The cost was around $45,000 per year."

"The pricing is affordable, it's cheap."

"3scale API Management has reasonable pricing, judging from its competitor, Kong. My organization pays yearly for the 3scale API Management license, though I'm unable to give the exact figure because every single day there are new clusters deployed. I'm in charge of three to four clusters in my team, but give or take, it costs a few thousand lakhs."

"The pricing of the solution could be more flexible and allow for once-off payment versus annual licensing. This would be more appealing to companies in Latin America."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

18%

Government

12%

Insurance Company

Manufacturing Company

Construction Company

27%

Insurance Company

12%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Comms Service Provider

Company Size

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Large Enterprise

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Small Business

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	6
Midsize Enterprise	2
Large Enterprise	5

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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for 3scale API Management?

I rate the product’s pricing as two out of ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive.

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What is your primary use case for 3scale API Management?

Our company exposes different APIs, and we use it to monitor traffic, limit traffic, and similar functions. I don't have much involvement with the solution, though I did conduct some research. We s...

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Overview

3scale is an API management platform that delivers flexible, highly scalable solutions to package, distribute, control, and monetize your APIs, giving you the power to make the most of your API program.

Share company data, content, or services through Web or mobile applications.
Provide an API to external organizations, internal teams, or both.
Avoid the hassle and constant maintenance of building a solution from scratch.

3scale delivers centralized API management features through a distributed, cloud-hosted layer. The platform includes built-in features to help you build a more successful API program, including access control, rate limits, payment gateway integration, and developer experience tools.

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OpenLegacy helps organizations quickly launch innovative digital services by extending their core back-end systems to the web, mobile and cloud in days or weeks versus months. Our microservice-enabled API integration and management software quickly reduces project backlog by automating and accelerating microservices and API creation, deployment, testing and management from core applications, mainframes and databases. Together, business and IT teams can quickly, easily and securely meet consumer, partner or employee demands for digital services without modernizing or replacing core systems, and without special programming skills or invasive changes to existing systems and architectures. OpenLegacy is designed for ongoing management of microservices APIs and is based on open standards, so our software plays nice with your current technology stack and supports agile, DevOps and continuous development. Learn why leading companies choose OpenLegacy at www.openlegacy.com.

Sample Customers

Victor Ops, Coca Cola, The Telegraph, Skava, Orange, Typeform

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