We performed a comparison between Layer7 API Management and WSO2 API Manager 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."The most valuable features of Layer7 API Management are integration, ease of use, building APIs easily, and portal straightforward."
"It is helpful to have a central API that is hosted and managed."
"What I found most valuable in Layer7 API Management is that you can launch the API from the gateway quickly and securely, making it less complicated to deploy APIs. I also like that Layer7 API Management has a good portal and dashboards and that the dashboards show you statistics regarding how many people used the API, etc."
"Initial setup is straightforward. It is simple and easy to do."
"Almost all security features are available out-of-the-box and can be deployed rapidly."
"The benefits are rapid development and deployment of APIs, which means that your information, your ability to handle information, to receive it and to send it, to visualize it, to report on it, to get intelligence out of it, happens fast and happens with accuracy."
"The Gateway is most important because it is our strategic front door into the company for all APIs."
"This product, at first blush, looks something like it's one of those weekend warrior tools, but it's not. It's an enterprise-class tool with the kind of usability that you wouldn't expect. And with that usability - how do you have your cake and eat it too? Well, it's because of the product's extensibility. It's very well-integrated with your existing Java library of processes and procedures, as well as your ability to write new extensions to it. You get so much of the base functionality but you don't give up the ability customize."
"One of the great things about WSO2 API Manager is that it is so easy to adopt. And because it's an open source solution, we're able to extend the implementation any time to suit our company needs better."
"The main feature — the publication of the API, the management section — is great in general."
"Its open-source features are very good, especially for your production work."
"WSO2 API Manager's most valuable features are the simple interface that is easy to use and the APIs lifecycle."
"Helped us to quickly publish our Microservice APIs and enforcing different policies against them, it comes up with features like Security, Throttling policy and it provides complete access to customize API's which actually saves development effort and time."
"This solution is a little bit faster, easier to use, and has better integration than the other solutions I have experienced."
"The product is easy to use."
"The user interface is easy to navigate, and the documentation is extensive. It's open-source, so everything is available, and we can create what we need. That's not necessarily a feature, but it's an advantage."
"The entire lifecycle management approach needs improvement: from the API management, development, deployment, some of the settings around the quotas, and some security policy applications, etc. for the APIs. We found the Apigee platform a lot more robust in that area."
"Needs to work better with DB2 UDB."
"The delivery is bulky in terms of implementation. Its price could also be better. It is a very good product as compared to CA API, Google API, and WSO2 API, but its price is high. From the cloud-native perspective, some new features need to be added. It could also be made simpler to implement."
"Layer7 API Management could improve by assing more portal-based capabilities."
"One day, where we can have a microservices gateway and we will not need the classic gateway at all, that is what we want to see."
"I would like for the new release to allow us to speed up code generation. The integration with CICD could also be more seamless."
"CA double up portal is a pain. It is something that we are struggling with right now."
"Layer7 API Management’s price could be reduced."
"We had some problems with the reverse proxy not being able to invoke fully qualified domain names, so we have to build some custom scripts to solve this issue."
"The initial setup can be difficult."
"They don't have different URLs for administrators."
"Integration is an area that needs to be improved."
"The technical support must be improved."
"From a product perspective, the first thing is that although the documentation provided by WSO2 is good, it could be much better. We're in the middle of a complex migration, moving away from VMs to Kubernetes with the latest version of WSO2 and good documentation is essential to us right now."
"We found WSO2 API Manager to be a bit complex."
"WSO2 API Manager could improve the API approval system."
Layer7 API Management is ranked 10th in API Management with 109 reviews while WSO2 API Manager is ranked 7th in API Management with 33 reviews. Layer7 API Management is rated 8.4, while WSO2 API Manager is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Layer7 API Management writes "Has great drag-and-drop features and it requires minimal coding ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of WSO2 API Manager writes "Reliable with good capabilities and good support". Layer7 API Management is most compared with Apigee, Kong Gateway Enterprise, Amazon API Gateway, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager and Tyk, whereas WSO2 API Manager is most compared with Apigee, Kong Gateway Enterprise, Amazon API Gateway, Microsoft Azure API Management and Axway AMPLIFY API Management. See our Layer7 API Management vs. WSO2 API Manager report.
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