3scale API Management vs Boomi AtomSphere API Management comparison

Red Hat and Boomi are both solutions in the API Management category. Red Hat is ranked #17 with an average rating of 7.8, while Boomi is ranked #15 with an average rating of 7.7. Red Hat holds a 2.2% mindshare in APIM, compared to Boomi’s 0.4% mindshare. Additionally, 91% of Red Hat users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 85% of Boomi users who would recommend it.

3scale API Management

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 17, 2024

3scale API Management and Boomi AtomSphere API Management compete in the API management space. 3scale demonstrates strengths in customer support and pricing, while Boomi AtomSphere offers greater value with its comprehensive features.

Features: 3scale API Management provides robust access control, traffic management, and a developer portal. Boomi AtomSphere offers advanced data integration, real-time analytics, and a wide variety of connectors. Its integration capabilities deliver a versatile solution for API management.

Room for Improvement: 3scale could enhance data integration capabilities, expand real-time analytics features, and increase its range of connectors. Boomi AtomSphere could refine its customer support responsiveness, streamline deployment processes, and offer more flexible pricing options.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: 3scale offers quick deployment and a responsive support team. Boomi AtomSphere's cloud-based deployment eases integration with existing systems but may require extensive configuration. Its cloud-first approach simplifies integration, and 3scale’s reliable customer service enhances ease of use.

Pricing and ROI: 3scale provides competitive pricing that suits businesses with moderate API needs, potentially leading to a fast ROI. Boomi AtomSphere, while initially more costly, justifies its price through extensive features and scalability that offer long-term applicability.

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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

Boomi AtomSphere API Manage...

Ranking in API Management

15th

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2025, in the API Management category, the mindshare of 3scale API Management is 2.2%, down from 2.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Boomi AtomSphere API Management is 0.4%, down from 0.6% 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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Jason Hale

Solution Architect at Waikato Regional Council

Complex to manage, and the documentation is quite hard to learn, though APIs can be created quickly and easily

We faced issues with error management. When there was an issue with a job, it was quite difficult to find the reason for the error in the environment. There are multiple screens on the user interface. So we have to jump through different screens during the deployment of APIs constantly. It is quite easy to lose track of what we are doing. It was really easy to see processes running and what was happening in the environment. However, getting things from development to production was somewhat challenging. The documentation is quite hard to learn. I rate the documentation a three out of ten. The product is really complex to manage.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The product is stable."

"I like the API automation."

"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."

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

"To me, the most valuable feature of 3scale API Management is that it lets you add a backend to the product. I also like that you can integrate it well with OpenShift clusters, making 3scale API Management a useful solution."

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

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

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

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"AtomSphere API Management is a simple platform that's easy to use. If you're using it on-prem, there's a little learning curve."

"Integrations take less time."

"Boomi AtomSphere API Management is a good product for integrating with Boomi as a backend service."

"We can develop almost any interface that we need."

"We can create APIs straightforwardly and quickly and build jobs for data migration."

"AtomSphere is tightly integrated into the Boomi iPaaS platform. And Boomi has been augmenting AtomSphere API Management for the past couple of years so version 2.0 is better than 1.0."

"The stability of the solution is good."

"The product's stability is good."

Cons

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

"It's difficult to integrate the on-prem application with the Dell Boomi Cloud. We have to check to ensure the Dell domain engine is running. It just requires some service endpoints from our on-prem application to connect to Dell Boomi Cloud to make it available to integrate. It would be better if AtomSphere API Management were offered as a purely SaaS application, so I wouldn't need an on-prem component to make it available. We could make a test call or provide some connection parameters. That should enable it to pull the data."

"The API management has room for improvement."

"Most of the basic functionality is there in Boomi, but APG is a more feature-rich solution."

"The product is really complex to manage."

"To some degree, you need to know what type or amount of API you are creating - whether it's a rest API or web service API. You need to know ETL in order to really get the most out of Boomi."

"Boomi AtomSphere API Management can be improved in terms of threshold management and policy management."

"From an improvement perspective, the price could be cheaper."

"The solution must provide more AI services."

Pricing and Cost Advice

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

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

"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 pricing is affordable, it's cheap."

"Boomi AtomSphere API Management gives customers a good price. Price-wise, the product is good."

"The price is reasonable."

"The product can get very expensive quickly if you connect to multiple databases."

"Boomi AtomSphere API Management is a cheap product."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

19%

Computer Software Company

14%

Government

10%

Insurance Company

Computer Software Company

15%

Manufacturing Company

Insurance Company

Energy/Utilities Company

Company Size

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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 Boomi AtomSphere API Management?

Integrations take less time.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Boomi AtomSphere API Management?

The tool has a good SaaS-based pricing model. The price is reasonable.

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What needs improvement with Boomi AtomSphere API Management?

The solution must provide more AI services.

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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

Boomi API Management supports the full lifecycle of APIs in a hybrid environment. Configure APIs and expose real-time integrations effortlessly. Centrally test and deploy APIs and enforce contracts and policies with an API gateway. Monitor the health of APIs with usage dashboards and engage API developers using the catalog and developer portal.

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Sample Customers

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

Avalara, Cornell University, Dropbox

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