Red Hat Fuse vs WSO2 Enterprise Integrator comparison

Red Hat and WSO2 are both solutions in the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) category. Red Hat is ranked #6 with an average rating of 8.0, while WSO2 is ranked #7 with an average rating of 8.0. Red Hat holds a 6.7% mindshare in E, compared to WSO2’s 5.9% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Red Hat users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 76% of WSO2 users who would recommend it.

Red Hat Fuse

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76% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 3, 2025

Red Hat Fuse and WSO2 Enterprise Integrator compete in the integration and API management category. Red Hat Fuse appears stronger in developer-friendliness and seamless connectivity, while WSO2 Enterprise Integrator stands out in API management and mediation.

Features: Red Hat Fuse is known for its seamless integration capabilities, leveraging Apache Camel for connectivity. It offers modularity and containerization features that simplify deployment. An additional strength is its developer-friendly environment, enabling swift application development. WSO2 Enterprise Integrator excels in providing a robust API management platform with extensive transformation capabilities. Its wide range of adaptors makes it a versatile choice for standardizing processes. The solution also offers a no-code, user-friendly environment for faster integrations.

Room for Improvement: Red Hat Fuse users suggest that documentation and user interface enhancements could further improve the experience. Smoother learning curves and better built-in connectors are also areas to consider. Users wish for improved monitoring and easier configurations. WSO2 Enterprise Integrator could improve its admin interface, ease of customization, and library maturity. Better pricing models and expanded connector support would enhance its appeal.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Red Hat Fuse is mainly used in on-premises environments but is expanding its cloud capabilities. While its technical support is generally responsive, some users experience slower response times. WSO2 Enterprise Integrator is praised for its easy setup and strong community support, although administrative complexities can occur. Both providers offer helpful technical support, although response time improvements would be beneficial.

Pricing and ROI: Red Hat Fuse is initially costly, with its high cost of ownership being suited to larger enterprises that can benefit from its robust support. While open source, the support costs can drive up the price, with ROI realized through operational cost reductions. WSO2 Enterprise Integrator is generally more cost-effective, though open-source users might find subscription fees restrictive. Both solutions show ROI, albeit with varying initial investments and long-term savings potential.

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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

WSO2 Enterprise Integrator

Ranking in Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)

7th

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Data Integration (32nd)

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 WSO2 Enterprise Integrator is 5.9%, up from 4.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Red Hat Fuse	6.7%
WSO2 Enterprise Integrator	5.9%
Other	87.4%

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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Andrea Cuccarini

Technical director at Cremete

Effective data transformation and integration in complex environments with high functionality

Something that could be improved in WSO2 Enterprise Integrator is that the problem is not a lack of capability or functionalities. The problem is that it is a very complex environment. To put your hand on this environment is a very demanding task. This is the real problem. The problem is not about the product, but about the complexity to manage, to configure, to decide what to do. I have some experience using SAP R/3. It seems to me something similar. When you have to configure a situation with a client, especially for a client not in an industrial sector, but in a service sector, it is quite usual that you are in trouble for some reason. This is always the story that I found in the implementations I have done. Maybe there are only three or four big problems, in some other cases there are more than that, but this is the situation usually. For WSO2 Enterprise Integrator, not the same, but I must say it is quite often there is a need to put together some pieces and make it work in a coordinated way.

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

Pros

"The initial setup process is quite straightforward."

"Because we have been doing Red Hat Fuse projects for three years, and over time we have matured, we can employ similar use cases and make use of accelerators or templates. It gives us an edge when we deliver these services or APIs quickly."

"With a premium, one can get support 24 hours."

"More than a feature, I would say that the reliability of the platform is the most valuable aspect."

"Red Hat Fuse's best features are that it's very easy to set up and maintain."

"The installation is quite okay. We don't really change much in the configuration. Most of the time, most of the settings remain with the default and we are able to handle our needs using the default setting."

"We usually had used PowerCenter for master data integration (by replication). But in some cases, it was better to use Fuse for providing the master data online. It doesn't make it necessary to replicate data."

"We use it because it is easy to integrate with any other application...Scalability-wise, I rate the solution nine out of ten."

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"Currently, I find the configuration part quite valuable, where you can easily configure things."

"The solution's customer service is good."

"In my opinion, the most valuable aspect of this solution is its extensive range of adaptors and connectors. This feature holds significant importance and provides great value to users."

"The solution's technical support is very knowledgeable."

"The solution has two main parts: integration and transformation. It's very user-friendly and easy to understand for everyone."

"It's a very complete product. It allows us to network security and add more layers of security to the system."

"WSO2's analytics capability is good, considering the ELC support they provide."

"I like the user-friendly system and development of the service-oriented architecture."

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Cons

"I would like to see more up-to-date documentation and examples from Red Hat Fuse."

"The user interface is not good, and it is a very technical tool."

"The web tools need to be updated."

"Currently, the main point of concern for us is how flexible it is to cater to different requirements. It should be more flexible."

"Red Hat is not easy to learn. You can learn it but you sometimes need external expertise to implement solutions."

"In the next release, I'd like more stability and more security overall."

"Our clients would like to see the user interface improved so that it is more user-friendly."

"What could be improved in Red Hat Fuse is the deployment process because it's still very heavy. It's containerized, but now with Spring Boot and other microservices-related containers, deployment is still very heavy. Red Hat Fuse still has room for improvement in terms of becoming more containerized and more oriented."

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"In my opinion, the administration model and interface, of Carbon, are lacking in terms of its features and user experience."

"The integration capabilities need to be improved."

"If I have to buy software, then it becomes expensive for me."

"The administration side is complex and could use significant improvements to enhance the solution's functionality."

"There are a lot of security settings that when you apply you have to re-apply again every time you modify a setting. It is something that really needs to be enhanced."

"The main issue with the product is pricing. It uses core-based pricing for WSO2 Enterprise Integrator and API Manager. It would be best if you had APIM by default. It provides many connectors for easy integration with third-party systems."

"You cannot include the validation of XPath."

"The customization can be a bit difficult."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution doesn't have independent licensing."

"After doing some Googling and comparisons, the main standouts were MuleSoft and Red Hat Fuse. One of the big factors in our decision to go with Fuse was the licensing cost. It was cheaper to go with Fuse."

"This is an open-source product that can be used free of charge."

"You need to pay for the license. It's not free."

"This is an expensive product. It costs a lot and although it's worth the money, the explanations that we need to give to our top executives are highly complicated."

"We found other solutions were more costly."

"Red Hat Fuse is an expensive tool, though I cannot answer how much it costs as that's confidential."

"In terms of pricing, Red Hat Fuse is a bit expensive because nowadays, if I'm just comparing it with OpenShift with Kubernetes, so Kubernetes and OpenShift, are similar, and Kubernetes is open source, so Red Hat Fuse is quite expensive in terms of support, but Red Hat Fuse provides value for money because it provides good support. If you want to get something, you need to pay for it."

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"The solution costs about 20,000 or 30,000 euros per year, per instance."

"The cost is better than IBM Cloud Pak."

"I rate the product price a six on a scale of one to ten, where one is low price and ten is high price."

"The pricing of WSO2 Enterprise Integrator for enterprise subscriptions can be considered expensive, especially from the perspective of someone who prefers open-source software."

"It is a low-cost solution."

"The open-source, unsupported version is available free of charge."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

19%

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

Comms Service Provider

Financial Services Firm

11%

Comms Service Provider

Computer Software Company

Insurance 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	8
Midsize Enterprise	2
Large Enterprise	11

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 WSO2 Enterprise Integrator?

WSO2's analytics capability is good, considering the ELC support they provide.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for WSO2 Enterprise Integrator?

The product has reasonable and competitive pricing for enterprise customers. It is expensive for small businesses especially. They are using the open-source solution, and they find it expensive sin...

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What needs improvement with WSO2 Enterprise Integrator?

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Also Known As

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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

WSO2 Enterprise Integrator, core to the WSO2 Integration Agile Platform, is an open source Integration product for cloud native and container-native projects. It enables enterprise integration experts to build, scale, and secure sophisticated integration solutions to achieve digital agility. Unlike other integration products, WSO2 Enterprise Integrator already contains integration runtimes, message brokering, business process modeling, analytics and visual tooling capabilities.

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

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