3scale API Management vs Axway AMPLIFY API Management comparison

Red Hat and Axway are both solutions in the API Management category. Red Hat is ranked #17 with an average rating of 7.8, while Axway is ranked #16 with an average rating of 9.0. Red Hat holds a 2.2% mindshare in APIM, compared to Axway’s 1.5% mindshare. Additionally, 91% of Red Hat users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 81% of Axway users who would recommend it.

3scale API Management

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91% willing to recommend

Axway AMPLIFY API Management

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81% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 17, 2024

3scale API Management and Axway AMPLIFY API Management compete in the API management category. While 3scale excels in deployment ease and containerization, Axway holds the advantage in security and governance.

Features: 3scale API Management is noted for its lightweight design, ease of deployment, particularly in containerized environments like OpenShift, and user-friendly API automation and security features. Axway AMPLIFY API Management provides robust security and governance features, excels in handling large data volumes efficiently, and supports extensive cross-system API management.

Room for Improvement: 3scale API Management faces challenges with customization, limited API support, and complexity in managing content through its CMS. The reliance on liquid templates can also be difficult for some developers. Axway AMPLIFY API Management needs improvement in scalability, technical support, and additional features like "Revision History" for API flows.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: 3scale API Management offers a seamless deployment experience on various platforms, including on-premises and hybrid cloud environments, but receives mixed reviews for customer service. Axway AMPLIFY API Management is praised for its responsive technical support and supports multiple deployment models, focusing on stability and broader system integration.

Pricing and ROI: 3scale API Management is considered affordable, especially when bundled with OpenShift, offering good value for mid-sized clients. Axway AMPLIFY API Management is perceived as more expensive but justified by its comprehensive features and security capabilities. Both solutions provide a positive ROI, with 3scale appealing to cost-conscious users and Axway to clients needing extensive features.

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Categories and Ranking

3scale API Management

Ranking in API Management

17th

Average Rating

7.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Axway AMPLIFY API Management

Ranking in API Management

16th

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2025, in the API Management category, the mindshare of 3scale API Management is 2.2%, down from 2.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Axway AMPLIFY API Management is 1.5%, up from 1.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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KavitaChavan

Associate Manager at Baariz

Lightweight solution but less flexible customization features

It lacks some features, and the product is not that flexible for developers. It's less flexible and rigid. It's not easy to make changes or customize it. One disadvantage is that for customization, it uses liquid templates. However, not everyone is familiar with liquid templates, so if you want to do some customized logging or other tasks, you may need to struggle a lot. Other solutions like IBM API Connect or Apigee use JavaScript, which is more developer-friendly. That's what I found.

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Sudhanshu Singh

Associate Software Engineer at Tech Mahindra Limited

We get stability, scalability, and security

Axway provides good documentation that newcomers can easily follow, but I believe the initial setup would be tough for someone new. Experienced employees know where everything is and how to do their job, so it would be difficult for a new hire to get up to speed. For an experienced person, I give the initial setup a ten out of ten. Deployment can be considered a hundred lines of code and some a thousand lines. For a simple deployment, it takes 10-15 seconds. And if the environment connectivity is good enough to respond and there is some heavy code that is being deployed, it takes around 30-60 seconds max, if we are referring to the cloud, where the connectivity for the long duration of the calls is there. The total deployment time is one minute to finish up. From the industrial point of view, Europe has a major chunk of users followed by, the US, and then Australia or the Asia-Pacific region.

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Quotes from Members

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Pros

"The standard deployment is very simple."

"The gateway is the most valuable feature because it makes it possible for us to gather all traffic into one proxy, which is a good thing."

"I like the API automation."

"3scale API Management's best feature is API management."

"It's good that they aren't adding a lot of features like ESP, etc. It's okay with just being a gateway."

"The most valuable features are the gateway and security features."

"The product is stable."

"The solution is quite lightweight, and the installation is very easy. It's like a two-click installation."

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"In general, API governance provides a better experience for providers."

"There's drag and drop functionality so that you do not need to have a senior expert developer to make use of the tool. You can get more of your staff trained up to be able to use it as it's not overly technical."

"The administration tool for this solution is good."

"This platform can be highly scalable."

"The most valuable feature of the solution is security."

"The most valuable features are security enforcement and throttling."

"The API portal capability is a valuable feature."

"We like the portal for documentation a lot."

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Cons

"The product is not that flexible for developers. It's less flexible and rigid. It's not easy to make changes or customize it."

"We tried to use the portal, but we decided that it wasn't enough. The content management system (CMS) is not easy to use if you want to customize things, and it's hard to get someone who has the knowledge to work with the CMS."

"It would be helpful to improve the customization features so that the customer can do it based on their own needs."

"I believe the CMS part of it has room for improvement though. That is where you write a couple of things if you want to publish your API. It's based on liquid scripting, which doesn't seem like the obvious ones to script with."

"The user experience could be better. The developer portal is too complex and hard to configure."

"What I'd like to improve in 3scale API Management is its route-limiting feature. Currently, I don't know how to do that effectively on the solution, but in Kong, I know how to do it, so I would love to see route-limiting being easily done on 3scale API Management. It would also be good if there was some authentication that you could do from 3scale API Management because Kong offers that functionality out of the box. What I'd love to see in the next release of 3scale API Management is the ability to integrate more plug-ins easily onto the platform, so you'll be able to extend it, and even do customs management. If Red Hat could offer that extension where it allows the internal organization where 3scale API Management is deployed on-premise to integrate its tools on top of 3scale API Management and provide an API for that, that will make the solution very powerful."

"3scale API Management only supports restful APIs and doesn't support SOAP."

"What was suggested by Red Hat was a crucial part of the configuration, but when we started to ask about the supportability of this configuration, Red Hat said only some parts of the configuration would be supported."

"It would be great if they have an asset report. It's hard to get support for that."

"This solution does have some limitations regarding the deployment model."

"The installation process is a bit complex and it could be a lot simpler."

"Sometimes we find bugs where certain calls are not returning all the data we need."

"Team management capabilities could be improved."

"Areas of improvement include marketing and enhancing the data products area by using ETIs."

"The product shows a lack of maturity. The setup is difficult, the tech support and community are lacking, and it is not very stable."

"The portal still has room for improvement."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"I don't think that 3scale is very expensive."

"The pricing is affordable, it's cheap."

"3scale API Management has reasonable pricing, judging from its competitor, Kong. My organization pays yearly for the 3scale API Management license, though I'm unable to give the exact figure because every single day there are new clusters deployed. I'm in charge of three to four clusters in my team, but give or take, it costs a few thousand lakhs."

"The cost was around $45,000 per year."

"The solution is expensive. When you acquire a license you have full access to the solution, unlike other competitors such as Apigee X, where there are fragmented licenses. Some licenses only allow access to certain features while others allow access to more features. Upon procuring this solution's license, you will have full access to the solution, allowing you to experiment with all of its features."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

19%

Computer Software Company

14%

Government

10%

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

23%

Computer Software Company

17%

Insurance Company

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about 3scale API Management?

The product is stable.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for 3scale API Management?

I rate the product’s pricing as two out of ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive.

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What needs improvement with 3scale API Management?

The deployment process could be easier.

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What do you like most about Axway AMPLIFY API Management?

In general, API governance provides a better experience for providers.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Axway AMPLIFY API Management?

The solution has a yearly subscription. The solution’s pricing is competitive. Axway makes a significant impression compared to its peers, especially with a sensitive budget. In many instances, it ...

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What needs improvement with Axway AMPLIFY API Management?

Axway's queuing messages could be enhanced.

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Compared 24% of the time

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Also Known As

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Vordel Application Gateway, Axway API Management Plus, Axway API Management, AMPLIFY API Management

Overview

3scale is an API management platform that delivers flexible, highly scalable solutions to package, distribute, control, and monetize your APIs, giving you the power to make the most of your API program.

Share company data, content, or services through Web or mobile applications.
Provide an API to external organizations, internal teams, or both.
Avoid the hassle and constant maintenance of building a solution from scratch.

3scale delivers centralized API management features through a distributed, cloud-hosted layer. The platform includes built-in features to help you build a more successful API program, including access control, rate limits, payment gateway integration, and developer experience tools.

Red Hat

Axway API Management Plus combines API lifecycle management, secure integration services, monitoring and analytics to help you innovate faster and heighten ecosystem engagement. It is part of the Axway AMPLIFY data integration and engagement platform, which also includes unified app development for mobile to provide a complete solution for rapid change and innovation.

Axway

Sample Customers

Victor Ops, Coca Cola, The Telegraph, Skava, Orange, Typeform

Engie Group, Allianz

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