CloudBees Codeship vs. WSO2 API Manager

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
CloudBees Codeship
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
Codeship from CloudBees is a build automation platform from the Austrian company of the same name.N/A
WSO2 API Manager
Score 9.4 out of 10
Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
WSO2 API Manager makes it possible for developers to both develop and manage APIs of different types. Unlike solutions which focus only on managing API proxies, WSO2 API Manager provides tools to develop APIs by integrating different systems as well. It supports a variety of API types from REST, SOAP, GraphQL, WebSockets, WebHooks, SSEs and gRPC APIs with specialized policies and governance for each different type. Being fully open source, its architecture and extensibility…N/A
Pricing
CloudBees CodeshipWSO2 API Manager
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
No answers on this topic
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
CloudBees CodeshipWSO2 API Manager
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
CloudBees CodeshipWSO2 API Manager
Features
CloudBees CodeshipWSO2 API Manager
API Management
Comparison of API Management features of Product A and Product B
CloudBees Codeship
-
Ratings
WSO2 API Manager
8.8
Ratings
6% above category average
API access control00 Ratings9.50 Ratings
Rate limits and usage policies00 Ratings9.50 Ratings
API usage data00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
API user onboarding00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
API versioning00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Usage billing and payments00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
API monitoring and logging00 Ratings8.50 Ratings
Best Alternatives
CloudBees CodeshipWSO2 API Manager
Small Businesses
GitLab
GitLab
Score 8.7 out of 10
NGINX
NGINX
Score 9.2 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
GitLab
GitLab
Score 8.7 out of 10
NGINX
NGINX
Score 9.2 out of 10
Enterprises
GitLab
GitLab
Score 8.7 out of 10
NGINX
NGINX
Score 9.2 out of 10
All AlternativesView all alternativesView all alternatives
User Ratings
CloudBees CodeshipWSO2 API Manager
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(0 ratings)
9.5
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
CloudBees CodeshipWSO2 API Manager
Likelihood to Recommend
Codeship is very well suited to teams that have specialized devops members along with other specialized developers. It lets the other developers focus on what they do best, without having to learn another technology stack. This has cut down on a lot of headaches at our company with developers needing to deploy code to various different hosting services across different content management systems. The experience to push code is essentially the same for a developer no matter what the underlying technology is
Read full review
WSO2 is a unique product that provides pre-integrated components like Gateway, Integrator, identity management, etc. Hence it is best suited when the requirement is not just only publish the APIs but also to secure and transform the APIs. WSO2 can be an overhead if only Gateway is required, as there are other very lightweight gateways available in the market.
Read full review
Pros
  • Easy and fast deployment
  • A lot of tool integrations (Slack, GitHub, Bitbucket, GitLab)
  • Getting tests to run is fast and easy
Read full review
  • API Security
  • API Transformation
  • API Monetization
Read full review
Cons
  • UX: The overall UX is not bad, but it still needs a lot of improvement.
  • It took me quite a while to realize that in order to switch projects I needed to press my current project name so a dropdown would appear.
  • Integration with bitbucket is somewhat hidden from the users's hands. Got to make some improvements there.
Read full review
  • Installation of this product is a hell. You need to be an expert to get this running together with WSO2 Analytics. It uses a really confusing method of "port + 1" to connect extra products. I guess this was meant to provide a handy way to add new WSO2 products. In reality you'll need to scroll through numerous config files to set this straight. If you use this out of the box, everything will work all right. But the moment you add SSL certificates, DNS names and you'll need special ports to configure your firewall, this product becomes unmaintainable.
  • The "Store" provides a nice way to group API's. However, the "Publisher" does not... if you have more than 30 API's searching for API's becomes really annoying.
  • The number of configs in this product is huge. As a developer myself, I've never seen (and definitely never created) a product that needed that much config files. Installation and maintenance of products should be stupidly simple, since no developer nor infrastructure person wants to learn something that "just" needs to be a tool.. opposed to being a whole new area of expertise. After using WSO2 API Manager for a while, we wanted to change the admin password... this should be simple enough, like just change the password in "Carbon." But nope. The whole WSO2 environment crashed. We just gave up. Too dangerous.
  • Why so many different "products"? Publisher, Store, Carbon, and numerous hidden interfaces. Analytics, ESB whatever... No wonder there are so many config files and port issues. Make it simple!!!
Read full review
Alternatives Considered
Codeship is easier to use than Jenkins because it does not require you to set up your own server, and it provides a large amount of out-of-the-box integrations for version control systems and cloud environments. AWS CodePipeline is native to AWS and cannot deploy applications reliably to other cloud environments such as GCP or Azure.
Read full review
Nevatech Sentinet: The easiest API Manager available. No knowledge of how the product works internally needed! It works with C# (not java... with all it's config files... really? Java developers?). Great way to categorize API's into groups (domains). All of which is drama in WSO2. But Sentinel is really expensive... Mulesoft: Nice and clean. Again, no expert knowledge needed of how the product works internally. Like using word... or any other application, except WSO2. Have java developers never heard of exposing configurations through a user inyterface?? Mulesoft, however is really expensive. Azure: Not cheap!! And a chaotic interface too. But it pays! If you have a Microsoft account already, this is your next step. We chose WSO2 4 years ago because it was free... but we're moving to azure now. And we're very happy with that decision.
Read full review
Return on Investment
  • We have a few small projects with different developers and Codeship shows everyone clearly, if something work, or if it doesn't.
  • In one small project with a team of three developers, we have configured two builds and it takes 2-5 minutes for everyone on the team to push changes to an infrastructure handling a little over 3M users.
Read full review
  • Positive impact on continuity and API standardization.
Read full review
ScreenShots

CloudBees Codeship Screenshots

Screenshot of Get an overview of all your builds, identify failed builds easily and take action right from the dashboard.Screenshot of Information for a single build, inspect log files for each step and notice at a glance which pipeline and step are failing.Screenshot of Simply enter your setup and test commands, or choose from templates available for a wide range of stacks.Screenshot of Deploy to various web services without having to worry about the process. Simply choose your deployment target, which branch you want to deploy and off you go.Screenshot of We take care of all the complicated parts of the deployment. You simply fill in the blanks and you're all set.Screenshot of Get notifications for your builds on a multitude of services. You can also ping your own services to implement custom logic.