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Layer7 API Management vs Pipedream comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 17, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

Layer7 API Management
Ranking in API Management
17th
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
38th
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 August 2026, in the API Management category, the mindshare of Layer7 API Management is 1.9%, down from 2.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Pipedream is 0.6%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
API Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Layer7 API Management1.9%
Pipedream0.6%
Other97.5%
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

"This is definitely a stable solution."
"We have been able to accelerate our clients’ transition to digital organizations by using the CA API Gateway to rapidly expose legacy business services as RESTful APIs, adding industry-leading security to the APIs, and providing a Developer Portal that provides governance, control, visibility, and organization of the entire API stack."
"The Mobile SSO functionality is not available with most similar products in the market, which makes this a unique product."
"Considering the various features of the API Management suite, the most obvious useful feature that we value the most is that it gives us more security, control and visibility over how our APIs are being used throughout our company and how our users are using it."
"It's a secure product that allows us to expose API and lock down to only those devices and individuals which have the verified rights to access."
"CA APIM is the best product in the market."
"I'm part of an engineering team so this product coming with out-of-the-box security, that is valuable to our organization."
"The Gateway can front our APIs very easily."
"The most valuable features of Pipedream are the prebuilt integrations that require no coding."
"It is a developer-friendly platform that allows writing custom scripts."
"The solution enables users to integrate several things."
"The most valuable feature of Pipedream is the ability to use Python code in general."
 

Cons

"One of the reasons that we chose to go with another tool was because we found that CA API Management was crashing quite often."
"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."
"In terms of using the tool itself, it is not user-friendly."
"I would like for the new release to allow us to speed up code generation. The integration with CICD could also be more seamless."
"Scalability performance has always been an issue. It behaves slowly when communicating with Windows-based servers (e.g., F5 load balancer or DB server, as compared to when communicating with a UNIX server.)"
"The license model and the cost of licensing can be improved, especially given that we are in a stable operational mode."
"The architecture of the solution does not allow for flexibility in using different components for the gateway architecture."
"Layer7 API Management could improve by assing more portal-based capabilities."
"There is a potential area for improvement in handling loop operations over items."
"They should give more information about trigger failure."
"Documentation isn't available for everything in the solution, so you may have to figure out a lot of things by yourself."
"We faced some server timeouts."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Pricing for Layer7 API Management is excellent, so it's an eight out of ten. The product is less expensive than other solutions. Layer7 API Management charges you based on the number of transactions, so the enterprise-level pricing my company got was excellent."
"I think it's competitive. It's not that expensive when you compare CA with the Oracle product."
"This solution is a bit more expensive than competitors."
"There are various licensing models for Layer7 API Management. We have to buy additional licenses to get new versions."
"It has a reasonable pricing model by instance."
"If you do a TCO of more than five years, then you will see a big jump in costs for some vendors."
"The product is moderately priced."
"It's my manager who takes care of the pricing. But I keep on hearing that it's a little pricey, it's on the higher side. That is what he says."
"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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Construction Company
13%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Marketing Services Firm
7%
Manufacturing Company
6%
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Small Business
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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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