TIBCO Cloud API Management vs WSO2 API Manager comparison

TIBCO and WSO2 are both solutions in the API Management category. TIBCO is ranked #27 with an average rating of 7.5, while WSO2 is ranked #6 with an average rating of 7.8. TIBCO holds a 1.0% mindshare in APIM, compared to WSO2’s 4.8% 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

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94% willing to recommend

TIBCO Cloud API Management

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 17, 2024

TIBCO Cloud API Management and WSO2 API Manager compete in the API management solutions category. TIBCO Cloud API Management seems to have an edge with better support and flexible pricing, making it suitable for those prioritizing budget and assistance. Meanwhile, WSO2 API Manager offers comprehensive features for its cost.

Features: TIBCO Cloud API Management offers efficient scalability, intuitive integration capabilities, and seamless API design. WSO2 API Manager provides extensive customization options, advanced analytic tools, and API lifecycle management with a user-friendly API store.

Room for Improvement: TIBCO Cloud API Management can improve its stability, resolution time for containerization issues, and responses from technical support. WSO2 API Manager could improve security features for emerging standards, ease of API publishing, and flexibility in supporting user security needs.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: TIBCO Cloud API Management offers a simple deployment process with responsive support. WSO2 API Manager supports a modular deployment model for complex infrastructures with thorough documentation. TIBCO's simplicity and support services are beneficial, while WSO2's modular deployment suits tailored solutions.

Pricing and ROI: TIBCO Cloud API Management provides adaptable pricing, supporting short-term ROI. WSO2 API Manager's initial costs may be higher but offer long-term value with its feature richness. TIBCO appeals to budget-focused users, whereas WSO2 is a value-driven investment.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

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

WSO2 API Manager

Ranking in API Management

6th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2025, in the API Management category, the mindshare of TIBCO Cloud API Management is 1.0%, up from 0.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of WSO2 API Manager is 4.8%, up from 4.4% 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	4.8%
TIBCO Cloud API Management	1.0%
Other	94.2%

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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.

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VishalSingh14

IT Engineer at Reliance Industries Ltd

Easy to deploy APIs and easy to manage CORS configuration

I have used WSO2 Store and WSO2 API Manager at the architecture level. I worked on two versions, namely WSO2 API Manager 2.6.0 and 5.7.0. I have also worked with WSO2 Identity Server versions 5.7 and 5.11. There are certain things that Apigee handles better than WSO2 API Manager. The user interface of WSO2 API Manager is much easier than that of Apigee. The scope of flexibility was much greater in Apigee. In WSO2 API Manager, we had little flexibility and were restricted to a specific software or tool. On the other hand, we had the scope of customization in Apigee.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"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."

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

"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 reason why we selected the solution originally was because of its ability to have a gateway both on-premise and in the cloud. This is the most valuable aspect of the solution for us."

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

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

"It is easy to work with ."

"Very few outages or SLA issues."

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

"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."

"The product is easy to use."

"We use the vanilla version of the WSO2 API Manager and integrate additional features ourselves. The basic features of the API Manager, such as blacklisting and whitelisting, are very helpful. We also created dashboards."

"As far as I am aware this solution is the first API Publisher that allows you to create and publish API and to manage the API lifecycle."

"We could easily deploy APIs on WSO2 API Manager, and CORS configuration was easy to manage."

"WSO2 API Manager's most valuable features are the simple interface that is easy to use and the APIs lifecycle."

"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."

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Cons

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

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

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

"Monetization is not that great in API management. You need customization. Improvements are needed with sandbox local as well as with monetization. Those features are missing."

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"I would like it to be a more convenient development platform with the ability to write orchestrations and so on. Our problem with this product is that in my country, we are the only enterprise that has been using this product. We're missing a lot of knowledge from colleagues to consult with, and we also aren't able to recruit people with relevant skills. It is a big problem. The small team that is maintaining this product is the only team that can actually relate to any technical issue. The support that we're getting from the company is not great. There is also a cultural gap there because they're from Sri Lanka, and it is not easy. They're putting in a lot of effort, but they are not meeting our expectations."

"From a product perspective, the first thing is that although the documentation provided by WSO2 is good, it could be much better. We're in the middle of a complex migration, moving away from VMs to Kubernetes with the latest version of WSO2 and good documentation is essential to us right now."

"I would like it to be a more stable solution. Maybe in the last version that is approved. For me it would be good if they had a community established version."

"The technical support must be improved."

"Lacks some new features and updated functionalities."

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

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

"The user interface could be a bit better."

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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."

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

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

"There is a subscription-based pricing structure and also the open-sourced version available."

"WSO2 API Manager is a low-cost solution. It is one of the most affordable solutions."

"We have not opted for the paid version of WSO2 but we have implemented the free and open source WSO2 software to a great extent and it is working as per our expectation."

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

"For our projects, we found the pricing to be a little high."

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

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

15%

Computer Software Company

12%

Government

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

18%

Computer Software Company

15%

Comms Service Provider

Manufacturing Company

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.

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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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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.

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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...

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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...

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Mashery API Management

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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 is a comprehensive platform that allows organizations to design, publish, and manage APIs.

It provides a centralized interface for API governance, security, and analytics.

With features like API monetization and developer portal, it enables businesses to drive innovation and create new revenue streams.

WSO2

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