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Layer7 API Management vs TIBCO Cloud API Management comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 17, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Layer7 API Management
Ranking in API Management
15th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
112
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
TIBCO Cloud API Management
Ranking in API Management
24th
Average Rating
7.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.4
Number of Reviews
12
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2026, in the API Management category, the mindshare of Layer7 API Management is 2.0%, down from 2.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of TIBCO Cloud API Management is 1.4%, up from 0.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
API Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Layer7 API Management2.0%
TIBCO Cloud API Management1.4%
Other96.6%
API Management
 

Featured Reviews

Integration capabilities excel and support for varied platforms enhances communication across backend systems
We mainly use REST APIs, and the solution's integration capabilities are excellent. It allows communication with a number of back-end providers and data consolidation. The flexibility to develop APIs for various platforms, from front-end applications to ATM machines, is valuable. Code changes and migration are straightforward, and it supports identity and access management integration.
AftabAlam - PeerSpot reviewer
E2E Delivery Expert - Ignite Delivery & Technical Enablement at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
Trust and reliability have been established with long-term usage and significant integration benefits
TIBCO Cloud API Management offers API management plus the ability to orchestrate all inbound and outbound API calls. When an API is exposed to the external system, it functions as a single integration. Behind the scenes, you can perform extensive API modeling, aggregation, and downstream systems can have more than one API and give the response back to a single API call. It has many features such as orchestration rule engine, which makes it quite good. TIBCO Cloud API Management has brought numerous benefits for our organization, especially in product maturity and support. Sales and support are strong areas, and I think it is very good. If they do not get the right support, then they should consider other options. The sales and support also provides cost optimization.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"It can be scaled as we need. And it can be used in different regions. We have different data centers in the U.S. and Beijing. We use it on-premise, on-cloud, and it can be hosted and used at any place and scaled across the regions."
"One of the main ways that CA API Management has improved our company is that we do not require a lot of people to work in developing new security code when they are programming for the APIs."
"The most valuable features of Layer7 API Management are integration, ease of use, building APIs easily, and portal straightforward."
"This improved our organization, because it gives the management data to discuss for the next course of action and it suggests what to work on, as the next thing."
"From a security standpoint, it works great; it is the right solution for us, it's lightweight, a software-appliance configuration which was easy to deploy and configure."
"The best features of CA API Management are high quality and high reliability."
"Containerization and the monetization module are quite unique for an API tool... In addition, the development time and rollout time are pretty quick."
"It has improved API governance, gives analytics to API performance, and provided abstraction to the solution providers."
"TIBCO API gateway is one of the best products available around this space."
"The platform's most valuable features are its capabilities to support security measures such as tokenization, token refresh, throttling, and enforcement of payloads."
"The reason why we selected the solution originally was because of its ability to have a gateway both on-premise and in the cloud. This is the most valuable aspect of the solution for us."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to have different packages based on the API keys, so the same core system can have different packages based on different environments."
"TIBCO Cloud API Management has brought numerous benefits for our organization, especially in product maturity and support."
"The reason why we selected the solution originally was because of its ability to have a gateway both on-premise and in the cloud."
"It is easy to work with ."
"Very few outages or SLA issues."
 

Cons

"Layer7 API Management could have a live API creator feature, so my team can easily create APIs. Right now, the product doesn't have that feature."
"The CA API Management solution has good security features, but when it comes to being used in areas like enterprise integration, where it is being used as middleware for all the IT environments, that particular feature is quite limited. It doesn't support as many protocols as an industry standard, competing product should."
"In terms of what could be improved, I think they do not have a good enough knowledge base on setting up the API Management Layer, especially on Azure using containers."
"There is a need for the migration of policies, better reporting, and monitoring integration."
"Because of our experience with our cloud-hosting provider's image requirements versus what CA provided them, I think an area of improvement would be additional form factors for virtualization."
"There’s a developer portal that is used to document your APIs that is woefully behind the times, in terms of being able to provide a really good robust experience for the developers consuming your APIs."
"I would like to see it work better with one of our back-end databases, DB2 UDB."
"The previous version of the Portal was a bit more limited in terms of appearance customization (CMS) than the new version."
"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."
"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."
"It lacks many features at the API gateway compared to other solutions."
"I'd like to see TIBCO integrate authentication and security features into Mashery."
"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."
"The way the Agile life cycle works needs improvement. I also want to see more support for open API standards."
"The management console of API and customers' applications are not the most intuitive."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"If you do a TCO of more than five years, then you will see a big jump in costs for some vendors."
"There are some costs for maintenance that we are charged, but that seems fair because we get the support."
"This solution is a bit more expensive than competitors."
"I feel that it is costly for medium-sized companies."
"There are various licensing models for Layer7 API Management. We have to buy additional licenses to get new versions."
"We weren't comfortable with the pricing of licensing. It was slightly more expensive than its competitors."
"APIs can be developed to provide security. We can show them in one single pane of glass, such as the CA API Management API Developer Portal. It is there that we can provide the monetization for their APIs and what is happening on third-party applications, like Paytm or BookMyShow."
"It depends on your use case of course, how much you want to go with that, because it can get pricey and depends on the size of your company."
"TIBCO Cloud API Management is not an expensive solution."
"We have secured terms on which we have been happy to renew for a number of years."
"Licensing is quite flexible."
"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."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
13%
Construction Company
8%
Marketing Services Firm
7%
Healthcare Company
7%
Financial Services Firm
16%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Real Estate/Law Firm
7%
Comms Service Provider
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business23
Midsize Enterprise13
Large Enterprise84
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business2
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise9
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Layer7 API Management?
Pricing is more than average. While I am used to Layer7 API Management ( /products/layer7-api-management-reviews ), seeing other products makes the tool's pricing seem high.
What needs improvement with Layer7 API Management?
Broadcom's push for upgrades from version nine to ten, ten to 10.3, and onwards to twelve needs improvement in migration processes, especially with service dependencies. The migration path sometime...
What is your primary use case for Layer7 API Management?
I am not the client. I implement Layer7 API Management ( /products/layer7-api-management-reviews ) for the clients. I have worked on multiple projects as a developer, implementing for Hydro Tasmani...
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.
What needs improvement with TIBCO Cloud API Management?
There are some areas for improvement in TIBCO Cloud API Management, especially regarding network protocols such as SMPP, SMTP, GVI, SVI, and Diameter which could show performance issues in terms of...
What is your primary use case for TIBCO Cloud API Management?
TIBCO Cloud API Management is used for various purposes, such as in the case of the Apple Watch. When a subscriber comes for the first time to activate the Apple Watch, it connects through the web ...
 

Also Known As

CA API Management, CA Live API Creator, Espresso Logic, CA API Gateway
Mashery API Management
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

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