What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Mule ESB?

In terms of costing, I consider it 50-50; I would not say it's 100% cost-effective because the platform itself is a little costly. We are trying to improve how efficiently we make our ecosystem. It's not only one platform that determines the cost; it's how that platform is utilized in integrating with other platforms, and that's where the cost comes up. Overall, in isolation, it's a costly solution. When we integrate with different systems, it becomes more cost-effective.

Regarding my experience with pricing, although I'm not the chief decision-maker on it, our leader has involved us with making decisions on it as a team, so we'd like to explore more of what Mule ESB has to offer for us.

Pricing is higher compared to other solutions, and the licensing costs are high.

The solution is expensive.

Regarding licensing and pricing, I find it somewhat flexible. They are more flexible with larger customers compared to small and medium ones, as their licensing model depends on ports and other factors. Large customers benefit from more flexibility in implementation and renewal compared to smaller ones.

Mule ESB is an expensive solution. On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive, I rate the solution's pricing an eight out of ten.

The product offers a community edition that is free of cost. You will not get any support from Mule ESB's team for the tool's community edition. You can get support with the licensed version of Mule ESB.

I would rate the pricing a five out of ten, where one is high price, and ten is low price. I would place it in the middle. It's neither too expensive nor too cheap.

I would rate the product's pricing a nine out of ten. It is a pricy solution.

The subscription is annual.

Mule ESB is a costly solution. We pay approximately $80,000 annually for the system. The cost of the number of instances, annual subscription, and cloud hosting services are expensive.

Licensing costs are relatively expensive.

The price of the Mule ESB commercial version is expensive. However, they have a free community version.

I think the price is very high. If you use TIBCO BW, the license is for the CPU usage, then the IPS, and support. I also think the license for the product is a one-time expense.

Its licensing was yearly. There were minor fees additionally, but those were related to VPN's high availability. When you purchase MuleSoft, you purchase it because it is highly available. So, you have to make sure that your VPN can support that. That's pretty much it. The other tools that we picked were things to deploy the solution to build the CI/CD pipeline using MuleSoft. We picked the one that wasn't free. So, we had to pay for it, but it was a minor cost.

This product is expensive, but it does offer value for money.

We're using the open-source version.

This product is cheaper than some offered by other vendors, although there is a problem because you have to pay for some third-party adapters.

The licensing is yearly, and there are additional fees for services. For example, having the help of the architect was a separate fee.

I'm unsure of the licensing costs. I believe the total price is less than IBM, but it's still rather expensive.

The various features and components for this solution are no longer free.