We performed a comparison between MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager 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."If you adopt the whole platform, you can build composable applications. This will cut your time creating new applications and updating them – once you have everything running – by up to 50%."
"I believe the API connectivity within the cloud marketplace is most valuable."
"The security features are good. It's easy to configure the end-to-end integration with existing applications."
"Offers good integration and flexibility."
"Its best feature is that its plugins are somewhat unique in the market. We have budgets, Prime membership, and pre-plugins available in the marketplace that we can use immediately."
"We can use both on-premises and cloud setups."
"The solution has been very stable."
"When using the Mulesoft Anypoint Platform, it has a wide range of connectors that are readily available to connect with the multiple applications."
"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."
"The solution is stable."
"I think the best part about WSO2 API Manager is that it's highly customizable because it's open-source. The partnership model is quite lucrative for us, it helps us to go and pitch to our customers. You can build a lot of business models yourself that you want to use. You are able to do a lot of the solutions."
"Its open-source features are very good, especially for your production work."
"Most of the time, we need to install a plug-in without having any lapse in services or restarting the application. The WSO2 platform can do all deployments without any downtime."
"Yes WSO2 API Manager is scalable"
"The solution is open source and easy to configure."
"Migrating any existing middleware platform to Mulesoft is difficult because of the transformation, conversion and integration involved. Better tools are needed to achieve quicker time to market."
"The initial setup, if you go back three or three and a half years, definitely, for us, was complex."
"When compared to other integration technologies, it is slightly higher."
"Mulesoft Anypoint API Manager could improve the monitoring because it is very poor quality and not user-friendly. It is not as good as other solutions on the market."
"We find that the enterprise level is lacking scalability."
"Anypoint could be improved by making it more open and configurable for small companies, who tend not to consider the solution as it's expensive and requires a lot of costs upfront."
"Licensing costs should be reduced, it's quite expensive."
"Their analytics needs a lot of improvement. It's really lacking right now."
"WSO2 API Manager could improve the API approval system."
"I can say that user management is not really flexible. So, if I want to create 1,000 store users, I can't do it as a publisher. You have to register as a store user using the store URL."
"WSO2 API Manager could increase their security compliance."
"WSO2 API Manager can be improved a lot relating to usability"
"The user interface could be a bit better."
"The solution could be more user friendly for engineers."
"They don't have different URLs for administrators."
"The user interface needs to improve, it is a bit outdated."
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MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager is ranked 3rd in API Management with 22 reviews while WSO2 API Manager is ranked 8th in API Management with 14 reviews. MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager is rated 8.2, while WSO2 API Manager is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager writes "A mature solution with good policy management but can be quite expensive". On the other hand, the top reviewer of WSO2 API Manager writes "WSO2 API Manager for Enterprise Digital Transformation". MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, Amazon API Gateway, Apigee, Kong Enterprise and Axway AMPLIFY API Management, whereas WSO2 API Manager is most compared with Kong Enterprise, Apigee, Microsoft Azure API Management, Amazon API Gateway and 3scale API Management. See our MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager vs. WSO2 API Manager report.
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We have evaluated WS02, APIGEE, MuleSoft in the past and based on our selection criteria all three scored pretty close with APIGEE with overall high score with a very small difference. However, based on the key driver each one has an advantage such as WS02 on licensing, APIGEE on performance throughput and MuleSoft on robust integration platform. For more information please reach out to me at ksrinivas@techwave.net