Red Hat Fuse vs webMethods.io comparison

Red Hat and IBM are both solutions in the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) category. Red Hat is ranked #6 with an average rating of 8.0, while IBM is ranked #3 with an average rating of 7.7. Red Hat holds a 6.7% mindshare in E, compared to IBM’s 9.7% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Red Hat users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 94% of IBM users who would recommend it.

Red Hat Fuse

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100% willing to recommend

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94% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 3, 2025

Red Hat Fuse and webMethods.io compete in the enterprise integration space, offering solutions for developers and businesses. Based on the data comparisons, webMethods.io seems to have an edge with its ease of use and comprehensive integration capabilities.

Features: Red Hat Fuse stands out with its integration capabilities offered through Apache Camel, providing a wide array of connectors. It is developer-friendly and flexible, praised for its scalability and reliability in complex integrations. webMethods.io is recognized for its ease of use and offers a robust set of out-of-box features with extensive connectors, providing a unified platform for diverse integration tasks and strong API management features.

Room for Improvement: Red Hat Fuse faces challenges with documentation and user community support. The setup and configuration can be complex, and improvements are needed in the user interface and monitoring tools. Pricing is also a concern. webMethods.io is critiqued for its high cost and complexity in pricing models. Users suggest improved integration with legacy systems, enhanced documentation, and better version control.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Both Red Hat Fuse and webMethods.io offer hybrid and cloud deployment options. Red Hat Fuse is developer-friendly but could benefit from better support and comprehensive documentation. webMethods.io provides robust customer support with comprehensive service options, although its deployment can be complex and expensive.

Pricing and ROI: Red Hat Fuse is perceived as more cost-effective, especially for open-source users, but initial costs are high. Users report positive ROI over time. webMethods.io is often expensive, better suited for large-scale enterprises. Despite the high cost, it delivers strong outcomes and stable integrations, offering value against the investment.

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Red Hat Fuse vs. webMethods.io

December 2025

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Review summaries and opinions

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

ROI

Sentiment score

6.9

Red Hat Fuse improves service speed and long-term ROI, though initial costs and unforeseen expenses affect short-term expectations.

Sentiment score

6.7

webMethods.io delivers positive ROI by reducing manual work, enhancing efficiency, and justifying costs despite high initial pricing.

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Customer Service

Sentiment score

7.5

Red Hat Fuse's customer service is generally responsive, though some users cite slow responses and need for better documentation.

Sentiment score

6.6

webMethods.io customer service is generally favorable but needs faster response and improved technical knowledge for complex issues.

On a scale from one to ten, I would rate the support for Red Hat Fuse as ten.

Luis Arce

Technology Manager at a consultancy with 1-10 employees

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An incident portal is available where we can raise tickets and based on priority, they reply.

Yashraj Makwana

Developer at a hospitality company with 1,001-5,000 employees

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Scalability Issues

Sentiment score

7.1

Red Hat Fuse excels in scalability, supporting diverse deployments and high-volume integrations, effectively meeting enterprise and varied user needs.

Sentiment score

7.2

webMethods.io scalability varies, effective with cloud and vertical scaling, but may require careful planning for high transaction volumes.

There are other factors to it, such as developer experience, so that developers can scale it.

Nilay Rathod

Chapter Area Lead/GM Group Architecture & IT at Spark New Zealand

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Whenever more resources are needed, they become available automatically without any human interference.

ZiyadThaher

Sales Director at Proven Consult

If any webMethods.io product is installed on-premises and a company wants to scale its application, either vertical scaling or horizontal scaling is needed.

Yashraj Makwana

Developer at a hospitality company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Vertically, scalability is fine, however, I have not expanded horizontally with the product yet.

Samer Ghanim

Information Technology Specialist at PACI

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Stability Issues

Sentiment score

8.0

Red Hat Fuse is praised for its reliability and high availability, though stability can vary by configuration and platform.

Sentiment score

7.6

webMethods.io is stable with high user ratings, though stability varies by setup; cloud versions may need improvement.

I would rate the stability of Red Hat Fuse at ten out of ten.

Nilay Rathod

Chapter Area Lead/GM Group Architecture & IT at Spark New Zealand

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We provide support to our clients, and the minimum calls I receive are for webMethods.io; it's very stable.

ZiyadThaher

Sales Director at Proven Consult

There are some issues like the tool hanging or the need for additional jars when exposing web services.

Samer Ghanim

Information Technology Specialist at PACI

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Room For Improvement

Red Hat Fuse requires UI updates, better documentation, pricing flexibility, improved configuration, built-in connectors, and enhanced stability and monitoring.

webMethods.io struggles with legacy models, integration issues, and cost, prompting user requests for UI, analytics, and AI enhancements.

There is the possibility to create services directly in Java and call them at a high level from Apache Camel and expose them with Red Hat Fuse.

Luis Arce

Technology Manager at a consultancy with 1-10 employees

For us to use Red Hat Fuse with AI models, we need MCP so that we can be very confident that it can deliver us a really solid outcome when developers are using it, whether it is any of the integration patterns or messaging bus patterns.

Nilay Rathod

Chapter Area Lead/GM Group Architecture & IT at Spark New Zealand

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When comparing the license cost and request per minute cost, webMethods.io needs to address that.

Yashraj Makwana

Developer at a hospitality company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Another enhancement would be in OCR; currently, there is a huge demand for OCR capabilities. It would be perfect if webMethods.io had a built-in component for OCR, as this would be tested and allow customers to use it better than a third-party OCR application.

ZiyadThaher

Sales Director at Proven Consult

A special discount of at least 50% for old customers would allow us to expand our services and request more resources.

Samer Ghanim

Information Technology Specialist at PACI

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Setup Cost

Red Hat Fuse offers competitive pricing with potential discounts, valued for enterprise support but costs may rise with consulting.

webMethods.io provides flexible enterprise-focused pricing, notable for high capability yet potentially high costs, with scalable and negotiable options.

We are in the third renewal since we migrated to Red Hat Fuse. Cost always goes up, it does not go down.

Nilay Rathod

Chapter Area Lead/GM Group Architecture & IT at Spark New Zealand

I think the pricing for Red Hat Fuse is okay; it's not expensive, and the support is good.

Luis Arce

Technology Manager at a consultancy with 1-10 employees

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Regarding the pricing and licensing of webMethods.io, I don't think it's expensive when compared with the features.

ZiyadThaher

Sales Director at Proven Consult

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Valuable Features

Red Hat Fuse excels in integration, scalability, reliability, and flexibility, offering powerful features for DevOps and microservices.

webMethods.io offers scalable integration, real-time connectivity, and secure, user-friendly API management for efficient enterprise workflow and system connectivity.

When we flipped from the previous enterprise integration application to Red Hat Fuse, the TCO benefit was about 40 percent.

Nilay Rathod

Chapter Area Lead/GM Group Architecture & IT at Spark New Zealand

Regarding stability, Red Hat Fuse works well without lagging, crashing, or downtime.

Luis Arce

Technology Manager at a consultancy with 1-10 employees

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If we want to make a REST API, SOAP, REST, or any other type, all kinds of things are put in one box and we can make anything we want to.

Yashraj Makwana

Developer at a hospitality company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It facilitates the exposure of around 235 services through our platform to feed various government entities across the entire country.

Samer Ghanim

Information Technology Specialist at PACI

I believe data transformation is exceptional in webMethods.io because they have an online database that can cache the database online.

ZiyadThaher

Sales Director at Proven Consult

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Categories and Ranking

Red Hat Fuse

Ranking in Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)

6th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

webMethods.io

Ranking in Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)

3rd

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Business-to-Business Middleware (2nd), Managed File Transfer (MFT) (9th), API Management (10th), Cloud Data Integration (8th), Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) (7th)

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) category, the mindshare of Red Hat Fuse is 6.7%, down from 7.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of webMethods.io is 9.7%, down from 11.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
webMethods.io	9.7%
Red Hat Fuse	6.7%
Other	83.6%

Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)

Featured Reviews

Nilay Rathod

Chapter Area Lead/GM Group Architecture & IT at Spark New Zealand

Microservices have transformed our integrations and now highlight room to improve AI-driven tooling

There are areas in Red Hat Fuse that have room for improvement. We were recently having a discussion with Red Hat team building agentic AI, which we call AI SDLC. Something that the team is actively working on, but I have not really seen any production-level version of it is MCP. For us to use Red Hat Fuse with AI models, we need MCP so that we can be very confident that it can deliver us a really solid outcome when developers are using it, whether it is any of the integration patterns or messaging bus patterns. I have not seen that yet. Even though Red Hat has an alternative to that, such as a plugin, it is not as advanced as some of the MCPs that we see around.

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Yashraj Makwana

Developer at a hospitality company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Offers strong integration capabilities and reliable features but needs pricing and scaling improvements

Many things are evolving with the AI buzz in the market. What I would like to see improved or enhanced in webMethods.io in the future is that since webMethods.io is already under IBM, I think IBM will introduce and integrate AI into it. Additionally, regarding what webMethods.io can improve is the license cost. Other cloud players are also providing the same kind of functionality, such as AWS and Azure. webMethods.io is being installed on-premises, but AWS is providing it directly in the cloud. When comparing the license cost and request per minute cost, webMethods.io needs to address that. There are many competitors in the market for this.

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Answers from the Community

Andhika Sotax

Works at Nuvision Consulting

Jan 26, 2022

What are pros and cons of Red Hat Fuse vs webMethods Integration Server?

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Dave Koffij

Information Technology Architect, Cloud and Security at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Jul 29, 2021

With webMethods Integration Server, you have the power to connect anything faster, thanks to open, standards-based integration. Make custom, packaged and mainframe applications and databases—on-premises and in the cloud—interoperable and assure the fluid flow of data across your automated processes. Mapping and transformation functions are built-in. pro's; Easy scalability, 300+ connectors, Faster integrations, "Lift & shift" integrations, Mapping and transformation & iPaaS integrations in the cloud Where Red Hat Fuse, pros; Hybrid deployment, Built-in iPaaS with low-code UI/UX, Container-based integration & Integration everywhere supporting 200 included connectors. Red Hat Fuse, based on open source communities like Apache Camel and Apache ActiveMQ, is part of an agile integration solution. Its distributed approach allows teams to deploy integrated services where required. The API-centric, container-based architecture decouples services so they can be created, extended, and deployed independently.

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PaulPerez

Integration Architect at Pymma consulting

Jan 26, 2022

Hello Andhika Please read Dave's reply first and understand that WebMethods offers many features that you will not find in RedHat Fuse. I would like to add one more architectural point of view. WebMethods provides a nice business process engine that helps you orchestrate your services. Fuse is not able to provide this kind of service. If your processes are simple and map information, for example, use Fuse. If your business processes are complex and require balancing, I recommend an integration tool with a business process engine (BPEL or BPMN). WebMethods, Oracle SOA Suite or OpenESB offer these types of tools. If you plan to design complex processes, you should not hesitate to choose WebMethods.

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

19%

Computer Software Company

Manufacturing Company

Comms Service Provider

Manufacturing Company

14%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Computer Software Company

10%

Energy/Utilities Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	4
Midsize Enterprise	9
Large Enterprise	13

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	23
Midsize Enterprise	11
Large Enterprise	64

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Red Hat Fuse?

I think the pricing for Red Hat Fuse is okay; it's not expensive, and the support is good.

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What needs improvement with Red Hat Fuse?

The downsides of Red Hat Fuse that I encountered were related to the Java virtual machine I worked with, which was Oracle, as the client did not create good services. In the integration, they had m...

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What is your primary use case for Red Hat Fuse?

My use cases for Red Hat Fuse include using Drools to create a bunch of rules for the Finance Ministry in Chile many years ago. I worked with another enterprise named Aguas Andinas, which is a very...

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What do you like most about Built.io Flow?

The tool helps us to streamline data integration. Its BPM is very strong and powerful. The solution helps us manage digital transformation.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Built.io Flow?

webMethods.io is expensive. We have multiple components, and you need to pay for each of them.

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What needs improvement with Built.io Flow?

webMethods.io needs to incorporate ChatGPT to enhance user experience. It can offer a customized user experience.

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Also Known As

Fuse ESB, FuseSource

Built.io Flow, webMethods Integration Server, webMethods Trading Networks, webMethods ActiveTransfer, webMethods.io API

Overview

Red Hat JBoss Fuse is a lightweight, flexible integration platform that enables rapid integration across the extended enterprise - on-premise or in the cloud. JBoss Fuse includes modular integration capabilities, an enterprise service bus (ESB), to unlock information.

Red Hat

webMethods.io Integration is a powerful integration platform as a service (iPaaS) that provides a combination of capabilities offered by ESBs, data integration systems, API management tools, and B2B gateways.

IBM

Sample Customers

Avianca, American Product Distributors (APD), Kings College Hospital, AMD, CenturyLink, AECOM, E*TRADE

Cisco, Agralogics, Dreamforce, Cables & Sensors, Sacramento Kings

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