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We performed a comparison between 3scale API Management and Oracle API Platform Cloud Service 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.
To learn more, read our detailed 3scale API Management vs. Oracle API Platform Cloud Service Report (Updated: March 2024).
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Pros
"The most valuable features are the gateway and security features.""It's good that they aren't adding a lot of features like ESP, etc. It's okay with just being a gateway.""To me, the most valuable feature of 3scale API Management is that it lets you add a backend to the product. I also like that you can integrate it well with OpenShift clusters, making 3scale API Management a useful solution.""I like the API automation.""The product is stable.""The solution is quite lightweight, and the installation is very easy. It's like a two-click installation.""The standard deployment is very simple.""3scale API Management's best feature is API management."

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"Oracle's APIP CS is a platform capable for consistently covering the complete API Lifecycle from design to retirement, supporting an API-first approach.""The solution is stable.""All API usage is now governed and tracked.""Oracle API Platform Cloud Service's UI is quite user-friendly and supports a hybrid deployment model.""The most valuable features are the easy integration with the Oracle cloud, and that it's easy to use.""The Gateways are communicating with a Management Service, which lives in the Cloud, to send usage information or to fetch changes for the deployed APIs."

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Cons
"The product is not that flexible for developers. It's less flexible and rigid. It's not easy to make changes or customize it.""The user experience could be better. The developer portal is too complex and hard to configure.""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.""What I'd like to improve in 3scale API Management is its route-limiting feature. Currently, I don't know how to do that effectively on the solution, but in Kong, I know how to do it, so I would love to see route-limiting being easily done on 3scale API Management. It would also be good if there was some authentication that you could do from 3scale API Management because Kong offers that functionality out of the box. What I'd love to see in the next release of 3scale API Management is the ability to integrate more plug-ins easily onto the platform, so you'll be able to extend it, and even do customs management. If Red Hat could offer that extension where it allows the internal organization where 3scale API Management is deployed on-premise to integrate its tools on top of 3scale API Management and provide an API for that, that will make the solution very powerful.""What was suggested by Red Hat was a crucial part of the configuration, but when we started to ask about the supportability of this configuration, Red Hat said only some parts of the configuration would be supported.""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 ones to script with.""3scale API Management only supports restful APIs and doesn't support SOAP.""It would be helpful to improve the customization features so that the customer can do it based on their own needs."

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"There should be closer integration between the API Platform Cloud Service and the Identity Cloud Service to allow IDCS Applications, protecting backend systems, to be linked to the API Applications that consumers use to access APIs.""Oracle API Platform Cloud Service provides an API documentation tool, which is quite outdated.""In the next release, I would like to see more security policies and for it to include an on-cloud gateway.""The solution's cost in terms of scaling could be better.""I would like to see enhanced support for SOAP Service and the corresponding WS-Security policies."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "I don't think that 3scale is very expensive."
  • "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 cost was around $45,000 per year."
  • "The pricing is affordable, it's cheap."
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  • "The pricing is for each logical gateway (a logical gateway can have multiple physical nodes)."
  • "The solution is expensive to scale."
  • "Oracle API Platform Cloud Service is a cheap solution."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:The solution is affordable. I rate the product’s pricing a five out of ten, where one is expensive, and ten is cheap.
    Top Answer:The tool can improve API management and UI.
    Top Answer:Oracle API Platform Cloud Service's UI is quite user-friendly and supports a hybrid deployment model.
    Top Answer:Oracle API Platform Cloud Service is a cheap solution. I have never seen any other product which is as cheap as Oracle API Platform Cloud Service. There are no additional costs apart from the standard… more »
    Top Answer:Oracle API Platform Cloud Service has this gateway which runs as an application inside the WebLogic server. The WebLogic server itself is quite huge. They should have something very lightweight to run… more »
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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.

    Oracle API Platform Cloud Service enables companies to thrive in the digital economy by comprehensively managing the full API lifecycle from design and standardization to documenting, publishing, testing and managing APIs. These tools provide API developers, managers, and users an end-to-end platform for designing, prototyping. Through the platform, users gain the agility needed to support changing business demands and opportunities, while having clear visibility into who is using APIs for better control, security and monetization of digital assets.

    Sample Customers
    Victor Ops, Coca Cola, The Telegraph, Skava, Orange, Typeform
    API Matic, Trunk Club
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company18%
    Financial Services Firm16%
    Government9%
    Comms Service Provider7%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company10%
    Financial Services Firm10%
    Retailer8%
    Government8%
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business45%
    Midsize Enterprise18%
    Large Enterprise36%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business18%
    Midsize Enterprise16%
    Large Enterprise65%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business27%
    Midsize Enterprise12%
    Large Enterprise61%
    Buyer's Guide
    3scale API Management vs. Oracle API Platform Cloud Service
    March 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about 3scale API Management vs. Oracle API Platform Cloud Service and other solutions. Updated: March 2024.
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    3scale API Management is ranked 11th in API Management with 10 reviews while Oracle API Platform Cloud Service is ranked 27th in API Management with 6 reviews. 3scale API Management is rated 7.4, while Oracle API Platform Cloud Service is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of 3scale API Management writes "Useful as it lets you add a backend to the product, it integrates well with clusters, and it has exceptional technical support, but route-limiting isn't easy to do on it". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle API Platform Cloud Service writes "An affordable solution that supports hybrid installation, but is quite heavy and unstable". 3scale API Management is most compared with Amazon API Gateway, Kong Enterprise, Apigee, IBM API Connect and Microsoft Azure API Management, whereas Oracle API Platform Cloud Service is most compared with Apigee, Amazon API Gateway, Kong Enterprise, Microsoft Azure API Management and Apiary. See our 3scale API Management vs. Oracle API Platform Cloud Service report.

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