Axway AMPLIFY Platform vs. WSO2 API Manager

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Axway AMPLIFY Platform
Score 10.0 out of 10
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Axway's Amplify is a universal API management platform that unifies what tools are already in place to get digital products where they can be seen and used. Users can publish, validate, and govern APIs.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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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
Axway AMPLIFY Platform
10.0
Ratings
19% above category average
WSO2 API Manager
8.8
Ratings
6% above category average
API access control10.00 Ratings9.50 Ratings
Rate limits and usage policies10.00 Ratings9.50 Ratings
API usage data10.00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
API user onboarding10.00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
API versioning10.00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Usage billing and payments10.00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
API monitoring and logging10.00 Ratings8.50 Ratings
User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
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9.5
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Usability
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User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
A large enterprise needs to manage hundreds of APIs across various departments. Its full lifecycle API management, security features, and advanced analytics provide robust tools for handling extensive and diverse API ecosystems. A company operates in both cloud and on-premise environments and requires seamless data integration. Its hybrid integration capabilities and pre-built connectors facilitate smooth data flow between cloud and on-premise systems. An organization needs to streamline and secure data exchange with multiple trading partners. It offers comprehensive B2B integration tools, supporting various protocols and providing efficient partner management.
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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
  • Full Lifecycle API Management
  • API Analytics and Monitoring
  • Security and Compliance
  • API Portal and Marketplace
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  • API Security
  • API Transformation
  • API Monetization
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Cons
  • I would appreciate it if it backed up more than just Desktop, Favorites and Documents by default. I'm not sure if this was something chosen by my employer, but it would be nice if the whole profile folder was backed up by default, so my pictures, music, and videos folders were included.
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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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Usability
It offers a wide range of powerful tools for API management, data integration, B2B integration, and more. Strong security features and compliance support add significant value. Flexibility to integrate across various environments (cloud and on-premise) enhances usability for diverse infrastructures.
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Alternatives Considered
I use CrashPlan for my personal PC at home. I think both products have their pluses and minuses. Both products allow you to backup your selected data to the cloud. CrashPlan doesn't easily allow for file sharing (CrashPlan isn't really a collaboration tool as much as it is a backup tool). Both products have easy restore options. However Syncplicity automatically restoring certain data when syncing with a new PC is very handy and a feature that CrashPlan doesn't offer
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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
  • The ease of use saves me a lot of time.
  • Being able to easily share files with my coworkers also saves me time.
  • This allowed my company to reduce the size of our file server and in doing so, reduced our storage budget.
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  • Positive impact on continuity and API standardization.
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