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Cleo Integration Cloud Platform vs webMethods.io comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Cleo Integration Cloud Plat...
Ranking in Business-to-Business Middleware
14th
Average Rating
7.0
Reviews Sentiment
8.3
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
webMethods.io
Ranking in Business-to-Business Middleware
6th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
95
Ranking in other categories
Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) (5th), Managed File Transfer (MFT) (14th), API Management (17th), Cloud Data Integration (12th), Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) (11th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2026, in the Business-to-Business Middleware category, the mindshare of Cleo Integration Cloud Platform is 2.8%, up from 2.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of webMethods.io is 7.8%, down from 10.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Business-to-Business Middleware Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
webMethods.io7.8%
Cleo Integration Cloud Platform2.8%
Other89.4%
Business-to-Business Middleware
 

Featured Reviews

Joshua Rule - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Integration Consultant at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
Though the tool reduces the internal hosting cost for businesses, it needs to provide more API integrations
I think it would be good and helpful if the solution provides access to other protocols besides AS2. Currently, the solution fails to provide users with additional protocol assistance and API integrations, so the aforementioned areas need to be considered for improvement. I wouldn't necessarily want to see any additional features included in the solution since it is already a robust product.
YM
Developer at a hospitality company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Offers strong integration capabilities and reliable features but needs pricing and scaling improvements
Many things are evolving with the AI buzz in the market. What I would like to see improved or enhanced in webMethods.io in the future is that since webMethods.io is already under IBM, I think IBM will introduce and integrate AI into it. Additionally, regarding what webMethods.io can improve is the license cost. Other cloud players are also providing the same kind of functionality, such as AWS and Azure. webMethods.io is being installed on-premises, but AWS is providing it directly in the cloud. When comparing the license cost and request per minute cost, webMethods.io needs to address that. There are many competitors in the market for this.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The most valuable feature of the solution is the ease of use it provides. Cleo Integration Cloud Platform is a straightforward and simple product."
"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 performance is good."
"The solution is scalable."
"Based on the solution's usability and ease of use it is very good."
"The connectivity that the tool provides, along with the functionalities needed for our company's business, are some of the beneficial aspects of the product."
"The orchestration aspects of APIs, the integration capabilities, and the logging functionalities were the most critical features of our workflow."
"The time to market is relatively less, it's simple to learn for Java users, its administration is easier, and it has an extensive toolset with out-of-the-box libraries support."
"Integration Server does our business-to-business integrations, and its adapters and connectors provide the fastest way to build an integration because we can immediately connect to backend systems without creating a lot of our own custom code, while the vendor’s full support for these adapters brings long-term stability to our services."
 

Cons

"Currently, the solution fails to provide users with additional protocol assistance and API integrations, so the aforementioned areas need to be considered for improvement."
"The solution should include REST API calls."
"webMethods Integration Server needs to add more adapters."
"The product's stability is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The products, at the moment, are new and there should perhaps be support for the older version of the protocols."
"I would like to see the price improve."
"The solution has big instances when deployed under microservices or in a containerized platform. They need to improve that so that it is competitive with other integration solutions, like Redis and Kafka. Deployments under microservices with those solutions are much more lightweight, in the size of the runtime itself, compared with Software AG."
"Forced migration from MessageBroker to Universal Messaging requires large scale reimplementation for JMS."
"We'd like for them to open up to a more cloud-based solution that could offer more flexibility and maybe a better rules engine or more integration with rules engines."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I learned that the product's price is reasonable based on the interactions I had with my company's purchase team."
"It is a cost-effective solution."
"I would like to see better pricing for the license."
"The price is high and I give it a five out of ten."
"webMethods Integration Server is expensive, and there's no fixed price on it because it has a point pricing model. You can negotiate, which makes it interesting."
"I am not involved in the licensing side of things."
"The product is very expensive."
"I do think webMethods is coming under increasing pressure when it comes to their price-to-feature value proposition. It's probably the single biggest strategic risk they have. They're very expensive in their industry. They've been raising the price recently, especially when compared with their competitors."
"The solution’s pricing is too high."
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Top Industries

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Manufacturing Company
14%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Computer Software Company
9%
Construction Company
6%
 

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
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Company SizeCount
Small Business23
Midsize Enterprise11
Large Enterprise65
 

Questions from the Community

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What needs improvement with webMethods Integration Server?
The alignment of on-premise and cloud versions needs improvement.
What needs improvement with webMethods Trading Networks?
webMethods.io does not currently have certain features, and we have to do coding as well. However, they have recently come up with a hybrid application where users will be able to use drag-and-drop...
What is your primary use case for webMethods Trading Networks?
We are primarily focused on IBM webMethods. I am part of the Center of Excellence team, where we involve ourselves in proposals and providing solutions to clients. webMethods.io is a middleware too...
 

Also Known As

Extol Business Integrator
Built.io Flow, webMethods Integration Server, webMethods Trading Networks, webMethods ActiveTransfer, webMethods.io API
 

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