IBM API Connect vs webMethods API Portal comparison

 

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Executive Summary
 

Categories and Ranking

IBM API Connect
Ranking in API Management
5th
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
73
Ranking in other categories
Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) (7th)
webMethods API Portal
Ranking in API Management
24th
Average Rating
7.6
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Featured Reviews

KavitaChavan - PeerSpot reviewer
Jun 16, 2022
Robust product that lets you easily create and manage your API
API Connect is mainly used as a gateway solution to expose, secure, and manage APIs.  Using API Connect allows us to quickly create proxy APIs and saves time on end-to-end testing, which lets us deliver quickly to clients. API Connect's most valuable features are API management and creation. The…
RK
Jun 3, 2021
Stable, with good technical support, but the on-premises version can be difficult to set up
The solution can scale quite well. A company that needs to scale can do so. API management is all about internally leveraging the software development life cycle, across various domains. Typically, most customers, when they adopt API management, they are delivering it for their entire IT software development organization, not just the integration team. The application team and the database team and so on will also use it. Everybody will be on board. Sometimes we have seen customers onboard about 60, 70 developers and then maybe a few additional external consumers. However, we also see some customers with very small teams of around 10 people. It works well for both.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The ability for all of our web applications to share standard functions and documents easily is valuable."
"I have found IBM API Connect to be highly secure, efficient, easy to deploy, and has a great GUI. It can operate and integrate well with other vendors, such as Amazon, Google, and Microsoft."
"The most valuable features of the solution stem from the fact that it is very easy to use and is something that is easily configurable."
"This is a very easy to use solution."
"We are able to share those APIs instantly within the organization; even if we want to share it outside publicly, then we can have those capabilities."
"API Connect's most valuable feature is its ability to act as a gateway. It's very easy to configure security and everything else in it. You don't have to kill yourself implementing custom configurations."
"Policy configurations are pretty easy."
"The product gathers data to measure API performance."
"It is good for communicating between the systems and for publishing and subscribing. We can easily retrieve data. It is good in terms of troubleshooting and other things."
"We have found the pricing of the solution to be fair."
"webMethods API Portal is overall very valuable. It is now a comprehensive API catalogue that serves various purposes, including API assessment and evaluation."
 

Cons

"In terms of what needs improvement, some of the product documentation could be better."
"It is expensive within this class of products."
"The solution is overly complex."
"We have asked IBM for scalability and for some other features that we wanted. We had a dialogue with them and in the end, they have agreed to provide us with features related to API setup and security."
"Business applications could be exposed to users."
"It's based on a little bit dated architecture. A lot of evolution has happened after that. It's an evolving field. Kong is a Kubernetes-based platform. Kong runs on Kubernetes, but all the other ones are in microservices. So, there's a lot of improvement that can be done."
"It should be cheaper."
"One thing about API Connect that could be improved is the security schemes. There are so many security schemes, and from a product perspective, IBM could improve the user experience of the configuration security scheme."
"The improvement needed is related to the model's position. As of now, it seems to be more of a conceptual idea rather than a widely implemented solution. For how long"
"Some of the things that we use cannot be done in this solution. For these things, we have to either use a Java service or a util service. There is no predefined or existing service that we can use. So, we have to work on the util service and write on top of it. Its price can also be better. It is pretty costly because they charge us for each transmission."
"The on-premises setup can be difficult."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"This is a licensed product. If your company is looking to obtain a license, you have to work with IBM partners."
"I rate the product price a seven on a scale of one to ten, where one is a low price, and ten is a high price."
"API Connect is quite pricey."
"It's an expensive product."
"IBM API Connect could be cheaper."
"It should be cheaper. It has a yearly licensing."
"We pay for the IBM API Connect monthly. We only need to pay the standard licensing fee."
"API Connect was highly expensive for us, but the decision to switch was made before I joined the company. It seems like the company bought it, but they didn't know how to use it. After two years, they decided to reevaluate and conduct some cost estimates."
"Based on our team discussions and feedback, it is pretty costly because they charge us for each transmission."
"I don’t have much idea about prices, but webMethods API Portal is not something cheaper."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
19%
Educational Organization
18%
Computer Software Company
10%
Insurance Company
10%
Computer Software Company
17%
Government
12%
Retailer
10%
Financial Services Firm
8%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about IBM API Connect?
Publishers can easily identify, create, and publish APIs on the developer portal, defining plans, packages, and potentially billing rules.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for IBM API Connect?
I rate the product price a seven on a scale of one to ten, where one is a low price, and ten is a high price.
What needs improvement with IBM API Connect?
The platform’s integration with the payment gateway needs enhancement. The setup process and support services could be improved.
What do you like most about webMethods API Portal?
webMethods API Portal is overall very valuable. It is now a comprehensive API catalogue that serves various purposes, including API assessment and evaluation.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for webMethods API Portal?
I don’t have much idea about prices, but webMethods API Portal is not cheap.
What needs improvement with webMethods API Portal?
The improvement needed is related to the model's position. As of now, it seems to be more of a conceptual idea rather than a widely implemented solution. Monetization is currently on the rise, driv...
 

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