We performed a comparison between MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager and webMethods API Gateway 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 are API development and API management."
"The ease of policy maintenance and API functionality are key features for me. They streamline business processes by allowing configurable control over policies, instead of writing codes and making maintenance more straightforward."
"The stability overall has been pretty great."
"One of the more valuable features is the stability of the platform."
"It provides all of the robust platform-enabled features."
"The most valuable features of Mulesoft Anypoint API Manager are the API gateway, rate limiting, and orchestration."
"Both the cloud and on-premises options are available. Customers can leverage the MuleSoft Cloud platform to deploy the applications or set up their own online infrastructure to deploy applications."
"I believe the API connectivity within the cloud marketplace is most valuable."
"In the API gateway, there is a new feature that allows us to filter logs within a payload. This has been a useful feature."
"It's a good tool, and it has a stable messaging broker."
"The most valuable aspect of this solution for me has been the configuration-based UI. Once you get the hang of it, it enables you to easily develop an API. In addition, it has many in-built policies that are quite handy."
"What I like the most about the solution is that it comes with ready-made tools like handling security tokens and OAuth."
"Within the new version, webMethods API Gateway gives us an end-to-end lifecycle from the creation of the API up into the development, deployment, and promotion into production/live. The current end-to-end lifecycle of the API gives us enough authority and governance of the API. We know what are currently live services, what is in the testing stage of development, and what version that has been commissioned. So, the full life cycle itself gives us full authority and governance of the API."
"The cloud version of the solution is very easy to set up."
"This solution has given us a competitive advantage because we have better automation and insight."
"The developer portal is a valuable feature."
"There should be more pricing options or certain discounts for the education sector."
"With respect to the live help, I have language issues because I can't understand some of the things that I hear."
"Not many stand-out features."
"The API gateway and API runtime are too heavy, which means that it is not suitable for microservices."
"They should provide training and development programs to enable the skills and capabilities of users."
"The initial setup, if you go back three or three and a half years, definitely, for us, was complex."
"I would like to see more automation. Operations are done manually. It should also automate in the operation."
"Since most components are situated in the cloud, there's one particular hosted in the cloud. This presents a considerable challenge. While all other components are implemented on-premises, this specific one isn't permitted to be hosted in the cloud as per customer requirements. Shifting this component to an on-premises environment requires a significant effort."
"The configuring of the JWT token would be improved as it is a confusing process. We require more information on this part of the solution."
"There are things that could be improved with the webMethods API gateway. One thing is that it's too attached to the integration service and we'd like it to be a little bit more independent. We would like for them to separate operations so that it doesn't rely on the bulky integration server and so that it can be used everywhere."
"Understanding the overall architecture is difficult."
"In terms of improvements, maybe on the API monetization side, having users able to create separate consumption plans and throttle all those consumption plans towards the run time could be better."
"They should develop clear visibility for the onboarding."
"With performance, there is room for improvement in regards to if we would like to put another extra layer of security on it, such as SSL. This is affecting their performance quite significantly. They need to improve the process of managing the SSL and other things inside their solutions, so there will not be quite such a significant impact to the performance."
"The price has room for improvement."
"With respect to the API gateway, the runtime component, the stability after a new release is something that can be improved."
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MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager is ranked 4th in API Management with 47 reviews while webMethods API Gateway is ranked 12th in API Management with 9 reviews. MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager is rated 8.2, while webMethods API Gateway is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager writes "Responsive technical support, low tickets issued showing great stability, and limitless expansion". On the other hand, the top reviewer of webMethods API Gateway writes "We developed several services in the cloud using a sandbox environment for our last hackathon". MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, Amazon API Gateway, Apigee, Kong Gateway Enterprise and IBM API Connect, whereas webMethods API Gateway is most compared with Apigee, webMethods.io Integration, Kong Gateway Enterprise, webMethods Microgateway and WSO2 API Manager. See our MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager vs. webMethods API Gateway report.
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