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Layer7 API Management vs Pipedream comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Layer7 API Management
Ranking in API Management
19th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
112
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Pipedream
Ranking in API Management
39th
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
4
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the API Management category, the mindshare of Layer7 API Management is 1.9%, down from 2.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Pipedream is 0.7%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
API Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Layer7 API Management1.9%
Pipedream0.7%
Other97.4%
API Management
 

Featured Reviews

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.
FrankHo - PeerSpot reviewer
Analyst at MSXI
A tool that ensures that its users see a return on investment from its use
The UI and the fact that the product is not easy to use are areas with shortcomings where improvements are required. Documentation isn't available for everything in the solution, so you may have to figure out a lot of things by yourself. Pipedream is easy to use for someone with tech skills or someone new who is trying to learn how to code. Though it is user-friendly for people with tech skills, it is not at all user-friendly for people who do not have any tech skills. The user interface of Pipedream is very simple compared to the user interfaces of some other products like monday.com or Asana. Asana and monday.com have visually appealing user interfaces. The user interface of Pipedream is not visually appealing at all. The aforementioned details need to be considered for improvement in the solution. I just wish there was a little bit more documentation on how everything worked when it came to deployment since I was a fairly new employee at the company at that time. Sometimes, the workflow wouldn't work fine in Pipedream, and I had to check it myself for errors. Finding the errors in Pipedream is hard to find. I think it would be good if Pipedream had the ability to send an email to notify you that there is an error with the code instead of having to go back in and then look every day or every hour if there was an error in the code.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"It's absolutely the best security product in the market from a gateway perspective."
"The built-in routing platform is the most valuable feature."
"Has great drag-and-drop features and requires minimal coding."
"CA is better than Apigee because CA allows you to make changes and is a little generous in terms of where to go with the project."
"There are many security policies within this solution that help to prevent attacks. We are also able to implement TLS to allow us to look at the application from the backend. There are workflows inside of the gate that help us a lot to implement customers and improve user experience. Our customers are also able to move from a customized creative view to taking advantage of AI bot solutions."
"The scalability of the Gateway is pretty straightforward and easy, because it's simply contained within as an image, or as a simple container form."
"Security is the most valuable feature for us."
"After this implementation, we reduced our lead-time in integration and development by approximately 50%."
"The most valuable feature of Pipedream is the ability to use Python code in general."
"The solution enables users to integrate several things."
"It is a developer-friendly platform that allows writing custom scripts."
"The most valuable features of Pipedream are the prebuilt integrations that require no coding."
 

Cons

"In my opinion, the policies need to be simplified so that developers are able to understand and taking that into consideration they can build their APIs."
"The CA API Management solution has good security features, but when it comes to being used in areas like enterprise integration, where it is being used as middleware for all the IT environments, that particular feature is quite limited. It doesn't support as many protocols as an industry standard, competing product should."
"I see a lot in the developer portal. It's not that flexible the way we want it to be, so it's kind of out of the box and we can only do the standard features that they have."
"The Portal lacks maturity. Since the move from Portal 3.x to 4.x, a lot of features were removed."
"we cannot add gateways on the fly because there are a lot of moving parts; endpoint connectivity is one of them. If we add more nodes then the rate-limiting feature is affected. This kind of gateway always has the scalability issue. But, I think CA is coming up with its Microgateway, which is in Beta. If they stabilize their Microgateway platform, we could do very well in terms of scalability."
"There could be more integration options included in the product."
"It's not stable. I want to publish new APIs with a socket, but it’s not stable enough for this."
"It would be nice if we could create APIs directly from Swagger files. We're doing that ourselves with a middle layer. But if you could integrate with open API Swagger specs, and then just create a Swagger and upload it to the gateway and it would create all my API template policy, and would apply the OAuth restrictions, the types of security restrictions I have on there, that would be pretty cool."
"Documentation isn't available for everything in the solution, so you may have to figure out a lot of things by yourself."
"There is a potential area for improvement in handling loop operations over items."
"We faced some server timeouts."
"They should give more information about trigger failure."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price of Layer7 API Management is reasonable compared to Apigee."
"If you do a TCO of more than five years, then you will see a big jump in costs for some vendors."
"APIs can be developed to provide security. We can show them in one single pane of glass, such as the CA API Management API Developer Portal. It is there that we can provide the monetization for their APIs and what is happening on third-party applications, like Paytm or BookMyShow."
"There are some costs for maintenance that we are charged, but that seems fair because we get the support."
"The product is moderately priced."
"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."
"This solution is a bit more expensive than competitors."
"Price-wise, for a company, it is a nice product, but for personal use, it is not very beneficial."
"The product price is fair and inexpensive than one of the competitors."
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Top Industries

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Outsourcing Company
14%
Construction Company
12%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Manufacturing Company
7%
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Company Size

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Small Business23
Midsize Enterprise13
Large Enterprise84
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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Layer7 API Management?
Pricing is more than average. While I am used to Layer7 API Management ( /products/layer7-api-management-reviews ), seeing other products makes the tool's pricing seem high.
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 migration processes, especially with service dependencies. The migration path sometime...
What is your primary use case for Layer7 API Management?
I am not the client. I implement Layer7 API Management ( /products/layer7-api-management-reviews ) for the clients. I have worked on multiple projects as a developer, implementing for Hydro Tasmani...
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Also Known As

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

 

Sample Customers

1. IBM  2. Microsoft  3. Oracle  4. Salesforce  5. SAP  6. Cisco  7. Dell  8. HP  9. Adobe  10. VMware  11. Accenture  12. Capgemini  13. Deloitte  14. PwC  15. Ernst & Young  16. Infosys  17. TCS (Tata Consultancy Services)  18. Wipro  19. Cognizant  20. HCL Technologies  21. Tech Mahindra  22. Fujitsu  23. Hitachi  24. NEC  25. NTT Data  26. Ericsson  27. Nokia  28. Siemens  29. AT&T  30. Verizon  31. Vodafone  32. Orange
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