OpenLegacy vs TIBCO Cloud API Management comparison

OpenLegacy and TIBCO are both solutions in the API Management category. OpenLegacy is ranked #36, while TIBCO is ranked #27 with an average rating of 7.5. OpenLegacy holds a 0.5% mindshare in APIM, compared to TIBCO’s 1.0% mindshare. Additionally, 80% of OpenLegacy users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 86% of TIBCO users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 17, 2024

TIBCO Cloud API Management and OpenLegacy are products in the API management category. TIBCO seems to have the upper hand in pricing and deployment flexibility, while OpenLegacy stands out with its integration capabilities with legacy systems.

Features: TIBCO Cloud API Management includes a comprehensive suite of API management tools with a focus on analytics, API monitoring, and security features. It provides end-to-end API life cycle management and easy integration with cloud infrastructures. OpenLegacy offers seamless integration with legacy systems, enabling the modernization of existing architectures. It simplifies creating hundreds of APIs quickly, and its speed of development is particularly beneficial in environments like IBM mainframes.

Room for Improvement:TIBCO Cloud API Management could enhance its stability, especially in containerized environments, and refine its ability for detailed configurations. The platform also faces occasional technical support challenges. OpenLegacy may need to focus on improving integration resources in mixed environments, expand its deployment capabilities outside legacy systems, and lower initial adoption costs.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: TIBCO Cloud API Management offers multiple deployment options and robust customer service support. Its reliance on cloud integration facilitates flexible deployment. OpenLegacy expedites deployment, especially in legacy environments, although it may demand additional resources for full integration. Its efficiency in legacy integrations is notable.

Pricing and ROI: TIBCO Cloud API Management offers competitive pricing with low initial setup costs, providing a scalable solution aligned with expected ROI. OpenLegacy, while representing higher upfront costs, promises substantial ROI for businesses focused on legacy system modernization. The initial adoption cost is lower for TIBCO, offering accessibility to more organizations, while OpenLegacy's expenses are justified by its specialized capabilities and long-term benefits.

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Categories and Ranking

OpenLegacy

Ranking in API Management

36th

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

TIBCO Cloud API Management

Ranking in API Management

27th

Average Rating

7.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the API Management category, the mindshare of OpenLegacy is 0.5%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of TIBCO Cloud API Management is 1.0%, up from 0.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

API Management Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
TIBCO Cloud API Management	1.0%
OpenLegacy	0.5%
Other	98.5%

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reviewer1042905

VP, Chief Enterprise Integration Architect at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

The biggest advantage is how simple the technology was.

I'd like to see OpenLegacy develop its low-code/no-code (LCNC) solutions. They've expanded somewhat their horizons for integration beyond mainframe CICS, which is their sweet spot. They have some tooling in that area, but it's not as good as it needs to be. OpenLegacy handles the bread-and-butter TP monitoring stuff, but I am working for one of the six banks in the United States still using the Hogan mainframe, which has a slightly proprietary mechanism. But OpenLegacy currently doesn't have a connector for Hogan. So it would help if they could build one. That would appeal to financial institutions that still use Hogan, like US Bank, Wells Fargo, KeyBank, and Vanguard.

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AftabAlam

E2E Delivery Expert - Ignite Delivery & Technical Enablement at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

Trust and reliability have been established with long-term usage and significant integration benefits

TIBCO Cloud API Management offers API management plus the ability to orchestrate all inbound and outbound API calls. When an API is exposed to the external system, it functions as a single integration. Behind the scenes, you can perform extensive API modeling, aggregation, and downstream systems can have more than one API and give the response back to a single API call. It has many features such as orchestration rule engine, which makes it quite good. TIBCO Cloud API Management has brought numerous benefits for our organization, especially in product maturity and support. Sales and support are strong areas, and I think it is very good. If they do not get the right support, then they should consider other options. The sales and support also provides cost optimization.

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Pros

"OpenLegacy provides a way to go from the outside world to the legacy mainframe, to move the old standard application to a REST API application. New digital services can be created in a few clicks and this can be done easily by COBOL programmers."

"It is possible to connect a service to a mainframe program or back transaction in a matter of minutes or hours at the most."

"It is possible to solve larger legacy API issues on an enterprise level with this product."

"Opens the door to connect modern web products to an old legacy system."

"OpenLegacy produces a war file which includes everything you need to deploy a Tomcat server."

"Using mainframe programs (not screens), the OpenLegacy services do not require any changes by the mainframe programmers, thus reducing development cycles."

"The biggest advantage of OpenLegacy was how simple the technology was. We were able to build out the OpenLegacy parts very quickly. We put together a couple hundred APIs in six months."

"Using OpenLegacy, the exposure of services is far easier and quicker. In many cases, exposure of services requires just a few clicks and takes only minutes. In very complex cases, it still only takes half a day. Without OpenLegacy, it would take us several months to create the same services."

"Conversion to RESTful and SOAP protocols and management console (can manage individually throttled settings to manage our service levels for customers)."

"When we did the product evaluation, we saw that TIBCO Mashery offers end-to-end API life cycle management. It provides all API features that are required for managing the complete life cycle. It includes the developer portal and tools for API monitorization. The out-of-box security features that TIBCO Mashery provides are enterprise-grade, which gives it an edge over other API products."

"The most valuable aspect of Mashery is its stability."

"The solution is a good general API manager. They have a few propriety features but are offering items that are standard in the industry as well."

"The control that we have and the security features are very valuable. With regard to API implementation or API orchestration, it works very well in the cloud because as soon as you create an API with one click, you can actually expose your APIs."

"TIBCO Cloud API Management has brought numerous benefits for our organization, especially in product maturity and support."

"It has something called packages. In that way, it's good because we have some pre-built packages. So, if you want to onboard different APIs, we can just add them to the package, and it's there."

"The most valuable feature is the ability to have different packages based on the API keys. The same core system can have different packages based on different environments."

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Cons

"I would like to see SSL out-of-the-box. OpenLegacy certainly does SSL, but it was not the default for our use case. We are currently working with OpenLegacy to cross the SSL bridge and suspect that most users will want to do the same."

"I'd like to see OpenLegacy develop its low-code/no-code (LCNC) solutions. They've expanded somewhat their horizons for integration beyond mainframe CICS, which is their sweet spot. They have some tooling in that area, but it's not as good as it needs to be."

"Debugging and logging for programmers could be better."

"Customer support for the product is slow and not very good. It makes using the product difficult if you need help quickly."

"The pricing of the solution could be more flexible and allow for once-off payment versus annual licensing. This would be more appealing to companies in Latin America."

"We would also be more than happy if the product had the option to work in the opposite direction – the ability to consume REST/SOW services in the outer world from the mainframe."

"There are some areas for improvement in TIBCO Cloud API Management, especially regarding network protocols such as SMPP, SMTP, GVI, SVI, and Diameter which could show performance issues in terms of handling and connection management pooling efficiency."

"We observed delays under heavy load conditions, and without proper tuning, changes could take an extended period to filter and become effective."

"Policy management has been a bit of a concern."

"The management console of API and customers' applications are not the most intuitive."

"TIBCO Cloud API Management should improve its installation and make it easy."

"It's not that user-friendly, and security-wise when you try to implement the security layer on top of it, it's not that easy either."

"They can fix some stability issues and probably make it more user-friendly so that not only an IT savvy person but an end-user can also easily navigate through this solution."

"The way agile life cycle is working needs improvement. I also want to see more support for open API standards. I want to see some improvement on the protocol transformation. That is quite missing now. These are the three main issues."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The pricing of the solution could be more flexible and allow for once-off payment versus annual licensing. This would be more appealing to companies in Latin America."

"TIBCO Cloud API Management is not an expensive solution."

"Licensing is quite flexible."

"Its price is pretty reasonable. There are some lightweight API options available in the market, but given the feature set that TIBCO provides, its price is really reasonable."

"We have secured terms on which we have been happy to renew for a number of years."

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Financial Services Firm

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Computer Software Company

13%

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Midsize Enterprise	3
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What do you like most about TIBCO Cloud API Management?

The platform's most valuable features are its capabilities to support security measures such as tokenization, token refresh, throttling, and enforcement of payloads.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for TIBCO Cloud API Management?

My primary role was to assess the solution from a capability perspective. So, there are some issues with the licensing cost.

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What needs improvement with TIBCO Cloud API Management?

There are some areas for improvement in TIBCO Cloud API Management, especially regarding network protocols such as SMPP, SMTP, GVI, SVI, and Diameter which could show performance issues in terms of...

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Overview

OpenLegacy helps organizations quickly launch innovative digital services by extending their core back-end systems to the web, mobile and cloud in days or weeks versus months. Our microservice-enabled API integration and management software quickly reduces project backlog by automating and accelerating microservices and API creation, deployment, testing and management from core applications, mainframes and databases. Together, business and IT teams can quickly, easily and securely meet consumer, partner or employee demands for digital services without modernizing or replacing core systems, and without special programming skills or invasive changes to existing systems and architectures. OpenLegacy is designed for ongoing management of microservices APIs and is based on open standards, so our software plays nice with your current technology stack and supports agile, DevOps and continuous development. Learn why leading companies choose OpenLegacy at www.openlegacy.com.

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APIs are critical business assets that form the foundation of digital business enabling new business models, improved operational efficiency, and connected customer experiences. TIBCO Cloud API Management empowers users to maximize the business value of their APIs products through an end-to-end solution that provides full lifecycle API management alongside capabilities for API discovery, implementation and analytics that speed business value realization across your digital ecosystem.

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