TIBCO Cloud API Management vs WSO2 API Manager comparison

TIBCO and WSO2 are both solutions in the API Management category. TIBCO is ranked #25 with an average rating of 7.7, while WSO2 is ranked #8 with an average rating of 8.0. TIBCO holds a 1.2% mindshare in APIM, compared to WSO2’s 4.3% mindshare. Additionally, 86% of TIBCO users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 94% of WSO2 users who would recommend it.

TIBCO Cloud API Management

Read 12 TIBCO Cloud API Management reviews

950 Views
950 Comparison Views

86% willing to recommend

WSO2 API Manager

Read 41 WSO2 API Manager reviews

4,688 Views
4,688 Comparison Views

94% willing to recommend

TIBCO Cloud API Management

WSO2 API Manager

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Download the report

Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 16, 2025

TIBCO Cloud API Management and WSO2 API Manager compete in the API management space. TIBCO leads with its strong integration and support features, while WSO2 appeals with its comprehensive capabilities and flexibility.

Features: TIBCO Cloud API Management offers robust analytics, easy connectivity to various ecosystems, and seamless integration. It provides strong support for both RESTful and SOAP protocols and has a centralized management console for efficient API management. WSO2 API Manager is open-source, allowing extensive customization, and supports features like API lifecycle management, tokenization, and security measures such as OAuth2. It also provides a micro-gateway and supports diverse deployment options.

Room for Improvement: TIBCO Cloud API Management could enhance stability in containerized environments and improve support for complex configurations. Its fine-grained configuration options could be more user-friendly. Enhancing its feature set to match some industry standards is another area for growth. WSO2 API Manager could simplify its setup process to reduce the learning curve and improve support for newer API security features. It can optimize its performance for extremely large-scale deployments and enhance its out-of-the-box analytics capabilities to match competitors.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: TIBCO is recognized for straightforward cloud deployment and efficient customer support, with quick-start capabilities and reliable service resolutions. WSO2, though having higher complexity due to its customization capability, suits larger implementations with complex requirements and offers training resources for adoption. While both provide robust support, TIBCO often provides faster resolution times.

Pricing and ROI: TIBCO typically incurs higher initial costs but offsets this with strong support and fast deployment, leading to a positive ROI over time. WSO2 presents a lower upfront cost due to its open-source nature, yet its complexity can lead to a delayed ROI. Decision-making hinges on balancing budget constraints with potential long-term benefits.

To learn more, read our detailed TIBCO Cloud API Management vs. WSO2 API Manager Report (Updated: December 2025).

Buyer's Guide

TIBCO Cloud API Management vs. WSO2 API Manager

December 2025

Download the complete report

Helped 879,310 peers since 2012

Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

TIBCO Cloud API Management

Ranking in API Management

25th

Average Rating

7.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

WSO2 API Manager

Ranking in API Management

8th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of December 2025, in the API Management category, the mindshare of TIBCO Cloud API Management is 1.2%, up from 0.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of WSO2 API Manager is 4.3%, down from 4.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

API Management Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
WSO2 API Manager	4.3%
TIBCO Cloud API Management	1.2%
Other	94.5%

API Management

Featured Reviews

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.

Read full review

AnilKumar40

Senior Principal Architect at 6d Technologies

Effortless integration with REST APIs enhances business process management

The product's capabilities for integrating with REST APIs are valuable. We use API key-based security integration, where API keys are exchanged between the REST APIs. This ensures security. In the future, we might also use OAuth-based integration. Internally, the business process manager allows us to define the process and integrate with it. Additionally, the capability to define processes and seamless integration with APIs enhances our operations.

Read full review

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"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."

"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 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."

"It is easy to work with ."

"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."

"This has provided a new stream of traffic and exposure of our catalogue beyond the normal web store offering."

More TIBCO Cloud API Management pros

"The scalability is fine for our purposes."

"The capability to define processes and seamless integration with APIs enhances our operations."

"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."

"The user interface is easy to navigate, and the documentation is extensive. It's open-source, so everything is available, and we can create what we need. That's not necessarily a feature, but it's an advantage."

"WSO2 API Manager is easy to use."

"WSO2 API Manager has a user-friendly model."

"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 open-source."

More WSO2 API Manager pros

Cons

"The security needs improvement, specifically, propagation of security to an API. Calling other APIs is something that is missing in the product and that makes us think about going to a competitor."

"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."

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

"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."

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

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

"It lacks many features at the API gateway compared to other solutions."

"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."

More TIBCO Cloud API Management cons

"Basically, mTLS is a certificate-based communication protocol that WSO2 API Manager doesn't support."

"The price and the complexities attached to the solution are two areas of concern where improvements are required."

"WSO2 API Manager can be improved a lot relating to usability"

"The solution’s interface should be more user-friendly."

"Lacks some new features and updated functionalities."

"The professional support and licensing aspects of WSO have been a challenge."

"WSO2 API Manager could improve by adding external API security features, which is one area where there is room for enhancement. Internally, API security is strong, and all other necessary features are already available. It has a solid marketplace, supports both Docker and standalone setups, and offers great enterprise integration. The developer portal has greatly improved the user experience, making it simple and user-friendly wherever we’ve implemented it. Overall, it’s not as complicated as other API gateways."

"For fresh graduates and engineers, the setup process can be very difficult."

More WSO2 API Manager cons

Pricing and Cost Advice

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

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

"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."

"My previous company paid about 1.2 million dollars, and my current company pays about 300k. Both companies are at the enterprise level."

"It is an open-source product."

"We use the open-source version of WSO2 API Manager, there is no cost."

"WSO2 API Manager is quite an expensive tool. I rate the product's pricing a nine on a scale of one to ten, where one is low and ten is high."

"It is costly, around ten thousand per year, per instance"

"We use the open-source version — the free version."

"WSO2 API Manager is a costly solution, and its pricing is not competitive enough compared to other products."

"It's not expensive, but it could be cheaper."

More WSO2 API Manager pricing and cost advice

See which vendors are best for you

Use our free recommendation engine to learn which API Management solutions are best for your needs.

See recommendations

879,310 professionals have used our research since 2012.

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

16%

Computer Software Company

12%

Retailer

Real Estate/Law Firm

Financial Services Firm

17%

Computer Software Company

12%

Manufacturing Company

Comms Service Provider

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	2
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	9

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	14
Midsize Enterprise	7
Large Enterprise	21

Questions from the Community

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.

See all answers

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.

See all answers

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...

See all answers

What do you like most about WSO2 API Manager?

It is possible to scale up and scale down with the solution...I can say that I have not seen any issues related to scalability.

See all answers

What needs improvement with WSO2 API Manager?

We have encountered some concerns with concurrency. Our integrations do not handle high-volume transactions, and when benchmarking, some issues arose with concurrent testing. It is uncertain whethe...

See all answers

What is your primary use case for WSO2 API Manager?

We use WSO2 API Manager ( /products/wso2-api-manager-reviews ) to integrate our telecom products with third-party REST APIs. We are orchestrating services where our business process defines the int...

See all answers

Comparisons

Apigee vs TIBCO Cloud API Management

Compared 25% of the time

Layer7 API Management vs TIBCO Cloud API Management

Compared 18% of the time

Microsoft Azure API Management vs TIBCO Cloud API Management

Compared 15% of the time

Amazon API Gateway vs TIBCO Cloud API Management

Compared 10% of the time

SwaggerHub vs TIBCO Cloud API Management

Compared 4% of the time

More TIBCO Cloud API Management Competitors

Kong Gateway Enterprise vs WSO2 API Manager

Compared 19% of the time

Apigee vs WSO2 API Manager

Compared 15% of the time

Apache APISIX vs WSO2 API Manager

Compared 13% of the time

Amazon API Gateway vs WSO2 API Manager

Compared 8% of the time

Microsoft Azure API Management vs WSO2 API Manager

Compared 8% of the time

More WSO2 API Manager Competitors

Product Reports

Buyer's Guide

TIBCO Cloud API Management

December 2025

Download TIBCO Cloud API Management product report

Buyer's Guide

WSO2 API Manager

December 2025

Download WSO2 API Manager product report

Also Known As

Mashery API Management

No data available

Overview

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.

TIBCO

WSO2 API Manager provides a flexible, open-source platform for API management, focusing on scalability, containerization, and ease of use in API publication, management, and lifecycle processes.

With robust security and strong integration capabilities, WSO2 API Manager supports microservices and API orchestration. Its advanced features include OAuth2 and identity access management, enhancing deployment, development, and operational efficiency. While praised for adaptability, users suggest improvements in installation, user interface simplicity, third-party integration, and documentation. Enhanced support, security, and expanded monitoring are also recommended alongside better module coordination and navigation. Performance optimization and refined caching mechanisms are valuable areas for growth.

What are the key features of WSO2 API Manager?

Flexibility and Open-Source Customization: Tailored API management for diverse business needs.
Scalability: Efficiently handles growing API demand and workloads.
Containerization: Simplifies deployment in cloud environments.
Robust Security: Protects API calls and ensures safe data exchange.
Real-Time Monitoring: Provides insights into API performance and usage.

What benefits should users expect in reviews?

Efficient API Management: Streamlines API lifecycle from publication to retirement.
Improved Integration: Works seamlessly with microservices and identity services.
Operational Efficiency: Enhances development and deployment processes.
Data Security: Secures sensitive information through advanced protocols.

Enterprises utilize WSO2 API Manager for managing APIs in sectors such as banking, telecom, and SmartCity projects. Serving as a digital hub, it enables efficient API publication for internal and external users, ensuring effective API documentation and version control. Its flexibility in API management supports digital integration and service orchestration.

WSO2

Sample Customers

uShip, Sabre, TouchTunes, Best Buy, Cisco, Comcast, athenahealth, Coca-Cola Enterprises, CentralIndex.com, Constant Contact, Edmunds.com, FoodEssentials, Getty Images, Klout, Rovi, Rotten Tomatoes, Sportradar, TomTom, ACTIVE.com

1. eBay 2. StubHub 3. Cisco 4. Verizon 5. T-Mobile 6. Vodafone 7. Orange 8. BT Group 9. Telstra 10. Deutsche Telekom 11. Swisscom 12. AT&T 13. Sprint 14. Telefonica 15. O2 16. British Airways 17. Lufthansa 18. Emirates 19. Qatar Airways 20. Etihad Airways 21. Air France 22. KLM 23. American Express 24. Visa 25. Mastercard 26. PayPal 27. Western Union 28. Citibank 29. HSBC 30. Barclays 31. Santander 32. Goldman Sachs

Buyer's Guide

TIBCO Cloud API Management vs. WSO2 API Manager

December 2025

Free Report: TIBCO Cloud API Management vs. WSO2 API Manager

Find out what your peers are saying about TIBCO Cloud API Management vs. WSO2 API Manager and other solutions. Updated: December 2025.

DOWNLOAD NOW

879,310 professionals have used our research since 2012.

See our TIBCO Cloud API Management vs. WSO2 API Manager report.

See our list of best API Management vendors.

We monitor all API Management reviews to prevent fraudulent reviews and keep review quality high. We do not post reviews by company employees or direct competitors. We validate each review for authenticity via cross-reference with LinkedIn, and personal follow-up with the reviewer when necessary.