Axway AMPLIFY API Management vs Layer7 API Management vs MuleSoft API Manager comparison

Axway and Broadcom are both solutions in the API Management category. Axway is ranked #18 with an average rating of 8.0, while Broadcom is ranked #15 with an average rating of 8.0. Axway holds a 1.6% mindshare in APIM, compared to Broadcom’s 2.0% mindshare. Additionally, 85% of Axway users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 90% of Broadcom users who would recommend it.

Axway AMPLIFY API Management

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85% willing to recommend

Layer7 API Management

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90% willing to recommend

MuleSoft API Manager

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96% willing to recommend

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Mindshare comparison

As of May 2026, in the API Management category, the mindshare of Axway AMPLIFY API Management is 1.6%, up from 1.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Layer7 API Management is 2.0%, down from 2.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of MuleSoft API Manager is 4.4%, down from 4.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

API Management Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
MuleSoft API Manager	4.4%
Layer7 API Management	2.0%
Axway AMPLIFY API Management	1.6%
Other	92.0%

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reviewer2081667

Associate Software Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

Centralized gateway has strengthened API security and provides deep traffic analytics

Potential areas of improvement or lack of functions in Axway AMPLIFY API Management is a challenging question because even after working for almost six years, I have not been able to touch everything this tool offers. This tool is very comprehensive and useful. However, from my opinion, when there are different dashboards on which the API platform shows monitoring, I expect Axway AMPLIFY API Management to be more visible in terms of showing pre-historic data. In other words, if there is a very large volume or very large number of transactions going on live in production, sometimes it purges the previous data very quickly, leaving only one or two hours of data. When there is very low volume, it can sustain data up to five days. The visibility of the previous historic database is a feature that could be improved. Different tools can be used to empower this capability, such as Splunk or the ELK stack, which includes Elastic. There are different features that could be used, but Axway as an organization would likely implement their specific products. I am simply providing a very basic opinion anonymously and do not want to sound like I am against this organization.

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C Vvanigalla

Works

Integration capabilities excel and support for varied platforms enhances communication across backend systems

We mainly use REST APIs, and the solution's integration capabilities are excellent. It allows communication with a number of back-end providers and data consolidation. The flexibility to develop APIs for various platforms, from front-end applications to ATM machines, is valuable. Code changes and migration are straightforward, and it supports identity and access management integration.

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D.Rajesh Kumar

Enterprise Architect at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

Improved Integration Efficiency and Potential for Further Enhancements in Monitoring and User Experience

The policies in MuleSoft API Manager are significant features. We get the policies by default, with more than 25 out-of-the-box policies. If any additional requirement exists specific to the customer, there is a custom policy framework. We can build the policy according to our requirement, and deploy and enable it at the API Manager level to consume across different business groups, environments, or organizations altogether within the platform. Developing the custom policy is not challenging; you just need to follow the custom policy framework to implement. The custom policy and the different levels of SLAs of the API Manager are notable. Regarding the monitoring side of the API Manager, MuleSoft provides substantial monitoring with logs, offering search capability, raw data accessibility, and different subscriptions. With the top tier, integration with third-party platforms such as ELK or Splunk becomes unnecessary because all search capabilities, dashboards, and functional monitoring can be built within the platform itself. This is excellent from the monitoring perspective, and there have been recent improvements focusing on observability. For DevOps, if you want to make your continuous integration and continuous deployment effective, irrespective of the tool, there are options to integrate. For example, you can use the Maven plugin, platform APIs, or CLI to build your end-to-end DevOps cycle.

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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

"There's drag and drop functionality so that you do not need to have a senior expert developer to make use of the tool. You can get more of your staff trained up to be able to use it as it's not overly technical."

"We like the portal for documentation a lot."

"Axway AMPLIFY API Management is niche technology that people prefer because it has emerged beautifully and has very nice support and enterprise-level features which are not provided by cloud Azure or AWS."

"The most valuable features are security enforcement and throttling."

"This platform can be highly scalable."

"It provides very strong security functionality to protect information in an easier way."

"The most useful features in Axway AMPLIFY API Management, in my opinion, primarily involve the security aspect of the product, which provides us very good methods of securing the network."

"Its flexibility allows us to adapt to different scenarios."

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"The product is feature rich and can solve a myriad of use cases."

"Using this solution, the deployment and development processes become easier when compared to before, when complete Java development was necessary."

"The solution fills our two most important concerns in seeking an API solution by providing a reliable gateway and security options."

"The solution helped us to quickly publish and monetize APIs. I have used versioning responses to publish or send APIs to different customers with different versions."

"Layer 7 completed all of the use cases in one afternoon."

"Containerization and the monetization module are quite unique for an API tool... In addition, the development time and rollout time are pretty quick."

"Compared to other vendors, this product is much faster in coming up with new features, which is good."

"We loved the portal part the most, which had monetization and showed how people were using the stuff, and it is a good product as a whole and has a lot of microservices and granular features."

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"I found the authentication features very valuable, like how the tool provides client IDs and secrets and lets you apply authentication policies. We bought the Titanium package with analytics, which allowed us to do rate limiting and throttling. The API monitoring and alerting were also useful."

"MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager has the most valuable data components and can integrate APIs across multiple microservices."

"The stability overall has been pretty great."

"We can use both on-premises and cloud setups."

"MuleSoft has given the API solution a 3-tiered architecture. This means that there are multiple channels available in one application. The usability is very high."

"MuleSoft API Manager allows us to implement custom policies or use out-of-the-box policies, such as authentication policies, which save time."

"Anypoint is very capable in terms of scalability."

"One of the more valuable features is the stability of the platform."

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Cons

"We sometimes have issues with some of the functions because they do not work very well."

"The portal still has room for improvement."

"Areas of improvement include marketing and enhancing the data products area by using ETIs."

"The installation process is a bit complex and it could be a lot simpler."

"They should also improve the way that we upgrade from one version to another. In our case, it's been very troublesome."

"The product shows a lack of maturity. The setup is difficult, the tech support and community are lacking, and it is not very stable."

"The API Mocking tools need to be improved."

"The installation process is a bit complex and it could be a lot simpler."

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"The developer portal needs to fully supported SOAP services (including WSDL publication with security), it would certainly push adoption for us."

"Layer7 API Management should improve the quota policy for the number of API calls."

"I was hoping that there would be some deeper dive Gateway training than their two day workshop and the self-paced study provided."

"They need a workflow for the API Developer Portal, where the process only allows requests to go to the correct person."

"Layer7 API Management could be improved in its logging and alert mechanisms."

"The development toolkit used for creating APIs should be more online and user-friendly."

"More developer focused tools. They have a nice debugger inside of the program, but when you are developing code with their policies, it is tough to visualize that sometimes as a developer."

"Some areas for improvement would be the security the product provides and the response time when a client is making a call with their payload."

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"The dashboards in Mulesoft Anypoint API Manager could improve."

"The tool needs to improve customization and interface."

"With respect to the live help, I have language issues because I can't understand some of the things that I hear."

"I would like to see more automation. Operations are done manually. It should also automate in the operation."

"Better documentation to help explain each of the features would be really helpful."

"The solution is expensive."

"It is not a very scalable solution."

"I'd like to see improvements in API Exchange. Currently, we can only expose APIs publicly. I want to categorize some APIs and expose them just to internal stakeholders. It would be great if they could log in to a developer portal, see our current APIs, view Swagger or RAML docs, and try request-response payloads."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution is expensive. When you acquire a license you have full access to the solution, unlike other competitors such as Apigee X, where there are fragmented licenses. Some licenses only allow access to certain features while others allow access to more features. Upon procuring this solution's license, you will have full access to the solution, allowing you to experiment with all of its features."

"There are some costs for maintenance that we are charged, but that seems fair because we get the support."

"Layer7 API Management is cheaper than Apigee."

"We weren't comfortable with the pricing of licensing. It was slightly more expensive than its competitors."

"It has a reasonable pricing model by instance."

"The price of Layer7 API Management is too high and should be reduced. However, it is a good solution in the market."

"I think it's competitive. It's not that expensive when you compare CA with the Oracle product."

"Our customers found the product’s cost a little higher. They are looking for open-source solutions."

"Be aware of additional licenses for your warm standby. Ensure you get plenty of non-production licenses."

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"The solution looks more expensive on the surface because it builds all the functions into one core component or into an integrated suite of components."

"Our customers have a lot of concerns about the increased pricing. The customer feels MuleSoft is very costly, and they are also exploring other integration tools for a lesser price. Maybe we should retain the existing customers by offering some discounts. At least the existing customers can be retained this way. This is regarding the licensing part only because customers based out of North America and Europe have shown many concerns recently. They are a bit concerned about pricing."

"Pricing can be improved."

"I want MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager to be cheaper because when you scale up, it becomes very costly. Price-wise, I'd give it a seven out of ten."

"The price of Mulesoft Anypoint API Manager is very high."

"Anypoint is the most expensive solution on the market, as far as I know, though it's also the most capable."

"The product is expensive."

"Licensing fees are paid on a yearly basis."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

19%

Computer Software Company

13%

Insurance Company

Government

Financial Services Firm

13%

Construction Company

Marketing Services Firm

Healthcare Company

Financial Services Firm

15%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Computer Software Company

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	4
Midsize Enterprise	2
Large Enterprise	9

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	23
Midsize Enterprise	13
Large Enterprise	84

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	17
Midsize Enterprise	5
Large Enterprise	44

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Axway AMPLIFY API Management?

Regarding pricing for Axway AMPLIFY API Management, I cannot say definitively because it depends on the transactional...

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What needs improvement with Axway AMPLIFY API Management?

Potential areas of improvement or lack of functions in Axway AMPLIFY API Management is a challenging question because...

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What is your primary use case for Axway AMPLIFY API Management?

I am currently working on Axway AMPLIFY API Management, which is the Axway API platform. The main requirement for API...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Layer7 API Management?

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What needs improvement with Layer7 API Management?

Broadcom's push for upgrades from version nine to ten, ten to 10.3, and onwards to twelve needs improvement in migrat...

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What is your primary use case for Layer7 API Management?

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How does Kong Enterprise compare with Mulesoft Anypoint API Manager?

The Mulesoft Anypoint API Manager was designed with its users in mind. Though it is a reasonably complex piece of sof...

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How does Mulesoft Anypoint API Manager compare with Amazon API Gateway?

I have found that Mulesoft Anypoint API Manager is the best integration tool out there for API management. It is easy...

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Comparisons

Apigee vs Axway AMPLIFY API Management

Compared 12% of the time

Amazon API Gateway vs Axway AMPLIFY API Management

Compared 11% of the time

Microsoft Azure API Management vs Axway AMPLIFY API Management

Compared 8% of the time

Boomi AtomSphere API Management vs Axway AMPLIFY API Management

Compared 5% of the time

IBM DataPower Gateway vs Axway AMPLIFY API Management

Compared 3% of the time

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Apigee vs Layer7 API Management

Compared 15% of the time

Kong Gateway Enterprise vs Layer7 API Management

Compared 8% of the time

Amazon API Gateway vs Layer7 API Management

Compared 7% of the time

Microsoft Azure API Management vs Layer7 API Management

Compared 6% of the time

3scale API Management vs Layer7 API Management

Compared 3% of the time

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Apigee vs MuleSoft API Manager

Compared 12% of the time

Microsoft Azure API Management vs MuleSoft API Manager

Compared 12% of the time

WSO2 API Manager vs MuleSoft API Manager

Compared 7% of the time

Amazon API Gateway vs MuleSoft API Manager

Compared 6% of the time

IBM DataPower Gateway vs MuleSoft API Manager

Compared 2% of the time

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Also Known As

Vordel Application Gateway, Axway API Management Plus, Axway API Management, AMPLIFY API Management

CA API Management, CA Live API Creator, Espresso Logic, CA API Gateway

Anypoint API Manager

Overview

Axway AMPLIFY API Management offers secure and user-friendly API management solutions supporting flexible deployment options while ensuring robust security for data exchange and centralized management for developers.

Axway AMPLIFY API Management emphasizes strong security measures against threats, facilitating authenticated data exchange. Its centralized management tools enable efficient API analytics and portal usage. The platform's flexible deployment options, including on-premise and cloud solutions, are coupled with a user-friendly interface featuring drag-and-drop functionalities to streamline operations. However, improvements are needed in Amplify Central portal, customization features, and scalability options. While used primarily as an API gateway for internet, web, and REST APIs, companies leverage its features to create secure connections and integrate APIs internally and externally, fostering a comprehensive API ecosystem.

What are the key features of Axway AMPLIFY API Management?

Security: Offers comprehensive protection against threats with authenticated data exchanges.
Centralized Management: Streamlines developer tasks with efficient API analytics and portal management.
Flexibility: Provides on-premise and cloud deployment options to suit operational needs.
Drag-and-Drop Interface: Simplifies operations and enhances efficiency.
Governance and Policy Creation: Effective tools for managing policies and ensuring high performance.

What benefits and ROI should users look for?

Efficiency: Centralized tools streamline operations and improve management efficiency.
Scalability: Supports substantial data volumes efficiently despite needing improvements.
Security: Ensures secure and authenticated data exchanges for peace of mind.
Integration Capabilities: Facilitates seamless connections with communication partners.
Hybrid-Cloud Capabilities: Leverages hybrid-cloud environments for a robust API ecosystem.

In the financial services industry, Axway AMPLIFY API Management is integral in creating secure marketplaces and ensuring reliable communication among partners. Its robust security and hybrid-cloud capabilities make it ideal for creating sophisticated API ecosystems, facilitating both internal and external integrations essential for modern operations.

Axway

Layer7 API Management is a comprehensive solution that enables organizations to securely expose, manage, and monetize their APIs.

It provides features such as API gateway, developer portal, analytics, and security to ensure seamless integration and control over API traffic.

With Layer7 API Management, businesses can streamline their API operations and drive innovation.

Broadcom

MuleSoft API Manager offers a user-friendly platform with comprehensive integration capabilities, strong security, and scalable architecture. It's designed to streamline API management and development processes through robust analytics and a rich interface.

MuleSoft API Manager stands out with its lightweight design, offering extensive connector libraries and ease of applying policies via drag-and-drop functionality. Its robust analytics enhance operational efficiency. Users can implement custom policies, benefit from advanced integration needs like OAuth authentication, and manage extensive API inventories. While facing challenges like high costs and complex upgrades, MuleSoft API Manager is vital for managing APIs across sectors, supporting data exchange between systems such as SAP and Salesforce, and modernizing legacy systems.

What are the standout features of MuleSoft API Manager?

Lightweight Design: Ensures easy deployment and usability.
Robust API Management: Provides strong capability in handling API processes.
Strong Security: Offers extensive protection for API applications.
Scalable Architecture: Supports growth and adaptation to changing needs.
Comprehensive Integration Options: Facilitates seamless data exchange.
Extensive Library of Connectors: Enhances flexibility and connectivity.
Ease of Applying Policies: Simplifies management with intuitive drag-and-drop functions.
Robust Analytics: Aids in monitoring and operational efficiency.
Custom Policies: Supports advanced integration with OAuth authentication.

What benefits and ROI should reviewers consider?

Usability: Promotes ease of use for technical teams.
Integration Efficiency: Accelerates connections to essential systems.
Security: Ensures data integrity and protection.
Scalability: Provides potential for growing business needs.
Policy Management: Simplifies and enforces compliance across APIs.

MuleSoft API Manager is widely implemented in sectors seeking to integrate services like SAP and Salesforce quickly and securely. Its use in automating processes and enhancing API governance makes it a go-to API gateway. Organizations rely on it to modernize systems and manage interconnectivity, facilitating traffic control and robust policy management.

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Sample Customers

Engie Group, Allianz

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