Mashery (now part of Boomi) vs. WSO2 API Manager

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Mashery (now part of Boomi)
Score 10.0 out of 10
N/A
Mashery, for a time sold as TIBCO Cloud API Management, was an API management solution whose former capabilities have been added to Boomi's enterprise platform.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
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Features
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API Management
Comparison of API Management features of Product A and Product B
Mashery (now part of Boomi)
6.9
Ratings
18% below category average
WSO2 API Manager
8.8
Ratings
6% above category average
API access control8.40 Ratings9.50 Ratings
Rate limits and usage policies7.70 Ratings9.50 Ratings
API usage data7.20 Ratings8.00 Ratings
API user onboarding7.50 Ratings8.00 Ratings
API versioning7.00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Usage billing and payments4.00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
API monitoring and logging6.50 Ratings8.50 Ratings
User Ratings
Mashery (now part of Boomi)WSO2 API Manager
Likelihood to Recommend
7.6
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9.5
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Likelihood to Renew
10.0
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Usability
6.0
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Support Rating
9.0
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Implementation Rating
7.0
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User Testimonials
Mashery (now part of Boomi)WSO2 API Manager
Likelihood to Recommend
TIBCO Cloud Mashery allows you to quickly enable API access control and management together with quick and easy setup of the developer portal. It focuses on core API management with limited integration features (filters, adapters, orchestration) - so TIBCO Cloud Mashery is mostly suited in a setup which already addresses integration features with other products.
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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.
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Pros
  • Throttling of requests helps prevent DOS attacks. Attackers try to wreak havoc wherever they can. Mashery helps you control your environments to throttle every endpoint independently.
  • The interface for setting endpoints is very intuitive and makes real-time adjustment easy to do.
  • TIBCO Cloud Mashery support is superb. I do not have to go to their website to know of any issues. They are proactive in communicating with their customers
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  • API Security
  • API Transformation
  • API Monetization
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Cons
  • Mashery should allow orchestration and transformation out of the box rather than it being a service or having to buy additional services.
  • The dashboard is easy to use but I think it needs a face lift and it needs to start using TIBCO Spotfire to make it more of a analytical engine.
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  • 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!!!
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Likelihood to Renew
Ease of use.
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Usability
i find some of the package adding and key are complex . UI experience is bad . Every step need front and backward navigation too much. It would be better if endpoint itself contain package and key addiction option
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Support Rating
Support has been good overall.
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Implementation Rating
Initially it was difficult to understand . after few day , it was easy
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Alternatives Considered
Our selection process happened in 2016. TIBCO Mashery's easy hybrid deployment model was the reason why we decided on Mashery over Apigee. Akamai API Gateway is now a new tool on the market evolving really fast but was not available yet when we went through the selection process. Tyk is open source and evolving very fast, but 2 years back, it was not mature enough. That might have changed now.
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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.
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Return on Investment
  • Mashery enabled us to go to market quicker because we didn't have to write systems for authentication and security for ourselves.
  • Mashery helps our MTTR when we have issues because we can use their transaction logs to identify and troubleshoot issues.
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  • Positive impact on continuity and API standardization.
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