3scale API Management vs TIBCO Cloud API Management comparison

Red Hat and TIBCO are both solutions in the API Management category. Red Hat is ranked #13 with an average rating of 7.8, while TIBCO is ranked #28 with an average rating of 7.0. Red Hat holds a 2.2% mindshare in APIM, compared to TIBCO’s 0.9% mindshare. Additionally, 91% of Red Hat users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 85% of TIBCO users who would recommend it.

3scale API Management

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91% willing to recommend

TIBCO Cloud API Management

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85% willing to recommend

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between 3scale API Management and TIBCO Cloud API Management based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two API Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

To learn more, read our detailed 3scale API Management vs. TIBCO Cloud API Management Report (Updated: October 2024).

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3scale API Management vs. TIBCO Cloud API Management

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Categories and Ranking

3scale API Management

Ranking in API Management

13th

Average Rating

7.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

TIBCO Cloud API Management

Ranking in API Management

28th

Average Rating

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the API Management category, the mindshare of 3scale API Management is 2.2%, down from 2.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of TIBCO Cloud API Management is 0.9%, down from 1.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Jose Luis Bonilla

CIO at Banco Pichincha España

Provides cost savings while maintaining the same functionality and capabilities

There were two main reasons for consideration. One of them was the cost. It is true that the other solution had more capabilities, but we didn't have plans to use them. We didn't need them, but the cost was slightly higher. Also, we were already working with the Red Hat solution and integrating it with some other solutions we have in place. It was better and more convenient for us. Overall, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.

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Amitava Roy

Principal Enterprise Architect (Cognizant Digital Business) at Cognizant

Offers pre-built packages for quick and easy onboarding of APIs but configuration is not that easy

The configuration is not that easy. It's not that user-friendly, and security-wise when you try to implement the security layer on top of it, it's not that easy either. There are certain things where the performance is not that great. When the traffic is huge, we see some lag in performance.

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

Pros

"I like the API automation."

"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."

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

"The product is stable."

"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."

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

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"The solution is a good general API manager. They have a few propriety features but are offering items that are standard in the industry as well."

"Very few outages or SLA issues."

"The control that we have and the security features are very valuable. With regard to API implementation or API orchestration, it works very well in the cloud because as soon as you create an API with one click, you can actually expose your APIs."

"The most valuable aspect of Mashery is its stability."

"The platform's most valuable features are its capabilities to support security measures such as tokenization, token refresh, throttling, and enforcement of payloads."

"It has something called packages. In that way, it's good because we have some pre-built packages. So, if you want to onboard different APIs, we can just add them to the package, and it's there."

"This has provided a new stream of traffic and exposure of our catalogue beyond the normal web store offering."

"We can completely manage the APIs at the org level and BU (business unit) level."

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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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"They can fix some stability issues and probably make it more user-friendly so that not only an IT savvy person but an end-user can also easily navigate through this solution."

"The security needs improvement, specifically, propagation of security to an API. Calling other APIs is something that is missing in the product and that makes us think about going to a competitor."

"Policy management has been a bit of a concern."

"Monetization is not that great in API management. You need customization. Improvements are needed with sandbox local as well as with monetization. Those features are missing."

"I'd like to see TIBCO integrate authentication and security features into Mashery."

"TIBCO Cloud API Management should improve its installation and make it easy."

"We observed delays under heavy load conditions, and without proper tuning, changes could take an extended period to filter and become effective."

"The way agile life cycle is working needs improvement. I also want to see more support for open API standards. I want to see some improvement on the protocol transformation. That is quite missing now. These are the three main issues."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"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 pricing is affordable, it's cheap."

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

"Its price is pretty reasonable. There are some lightweight API options available in the market, but given the feature set that TIBCO provides, its price is really reasonable."

"We have secured terms on which we have been happy to renew for a number of years."

"TIBCO Cloud API Management is not an expensive solution."

"Licensing is quite flexible."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

17%

Computer Software Company

15%

Government

10%

Insurance Company

Computer Software Company

26%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Manufacturing Company

12%

Healthcare Company

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 TIBCO Cloud API Management?

The platform's most valuable features are its capabilities to support security measures such as tokenization, token refresh, throttling, and enforcement of payloads.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for TIBCO Cloud API Management?

My primary role was to assess the solution from a capability perspective. So, there are some issues with the licensing cost.

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What needs improvement with TIBCO Cloud API Management?

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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.

APIs are critical business assets that form the foundation of digital business enabling new business models, improved operational efficiency, and connected customer experiences. TIBCO Cloud API Management empowers users to maximize the business value of their APIs products through an end-to-end solution that provides full lifecycle API management alongside capabilities for API discovery, implementation and analytics that speed business value realization across your digital ecosystem.

Sample Customers

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

uShip, Sabre, TouchTunes, Best Buy, Cisco, Comcast, athenahealth, Coca-Cola Enterprises, CentralIndex.com, Constant Contact, Edmunds.com, FoodEssentials, Getty Images, Klout, Rovi, Rotten Tomatoes, Sportradar, TomTom, ACTIVE.com

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