Mule ESB vs Red Hat Fuse comparison

Salesforce and Red Hat are both solutions in the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) category. Salesforce is ranked #2 with an average rating of 7.9, while Red Hat is ranked #6 with an average rating of 8.8. Salesforce holds a 21.4% mindshare in E, compared to Red Hat’s 7.0% mindshare. Additionally, 86% of Salesforce users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Red Hat users who would recommend it.

Mule ESB

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86% willing to recommend

Red Hat Fuse

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100% willing to recommend

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Mule ESB and Red Hat Fuse based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

To learn more, read our detailed Mule ESB vs. Red Hat Fuse Report (Updated: January 2025).

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Mule ESB vs. Red Hat Fuse

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Categories and Ranking

Mule ESB

Ranking in Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)

2nd

Average Rating

8.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Red Hat Fuse

Ranking in Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)

6th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2025, in the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) category, the mindshare of Mule ESB is 21.4%, down from 22.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Red Hat Fuse is 7.0%, down from 8.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)

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PurbayanSaha

Technology Consultant at Ernst & Young

Has API-led architecture and provides a unique, user-friendly, and scalable architecture for hosting APIs

There's room for improvement in multi-file transfer functionality. It's not convenient when using MuleSoft, and it should have better capability for handling large amounts of data. For example, applications like GoAnywhere can handle huge chunks of data, so the tool should also have something to facilitate that aspect of integration.

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Kaushal Kedia

Technical Architect at Accenture

Offers a single console for all applications and supports Camel routing

Containerization is one key area where the product can improve, but it probably has already improved in JBOS integration. On a few occasions, our company's production team faced an issue with Red Hat Fuse; the screen displayed that the containers had gone down while, in reality, they were running in the background. The user interface and the back-end code were not in sync in the aforementioned situation, which our organization frequently faced while using Red Hat Fuse. But at our company, we were using an older version of Red Hat Fuse in which we faced the issues. From the JBOS end, the product was very frequently changed from Red Hat, and it was difficult for our clients to keep investing money in every upgrade. Six or seven years back, Red Hat Fuse was one of the best solutions.

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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

"I'm not using ESB directly. It is the integration layer, so it's running under the hood. However, the conversion and transformation performance is excellent. Anypoint Enterprise Security is also solid."

"The connectors help to connect with a variety of applications."

"The solution offers multiple deployment options."

"Once it is started, we don't see any problems on a day to day basis."

"Scalability and load balancing."

"The most valuable feature is that it's programmer-friendly, so it's very easy to develop APIs."

"The most valuable feature for Mule is the number of connectors that are available."

"Easy connectivity and easy integration."

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"The features I found most valuable in Red Hat Fuse are the OSB framework, containerization, and the integration of Apache technologies such as the NQ channel, CXF, etc. These are the features that are very prominent in the solution. Red Hat Fuse also offers flexibility, so it's another valuable characteristic of the solution."

"What I like about Red Hat Fuse is that it's a well-established integration software. I find all aspects of the tool positive."

"This solution's adaptability to our use case has helped us integrate our systems seamlessly."

"The most valuable feature is the software development environment."

"The support training that comes with the product is amazing."

"Red Hat Fuse's best features are that it's very easy to set up and maintain."

"The stability has been good."

"I found it was quite easy to set up and implement."

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Cons

"There are limitations with the subscription model that comes with the product."

"The Anypoint platform consumes a lot of memory, and it would be great for developers if it were more lightweight."

"The price of Mule ESB could improve."

"There are some features on the commercial version of the solution that would be great if they were on the community version. Additionally, if they added more authorization features it would be helpful."

"It should have some amount of logging."

"The stability could be improved."

"It would be beneficial if users could navigate the UI easily without extensive training or learning curves."

"It's not easy to troubleshoot and we still can't make it work."

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"The monitoring experience should be better."

"In the next release, I'd like more stability and more security overall."

"The pricing model could be adjusted. The price should be lower."

"The web tools need to be updated."

"My company doesn't have any experience with other messaging tools, so it's difficult to mention what areas could be improved in Red Hat Fuse, but it could be pricing because I find it expensive."

"I would like to see more up-to-date documentation and examples from Red Hat Fuse."

"The solution will be discontinued in 2024."

"Our clients would like to see the user interface improved so that it is more user-friendly."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The various features and components for this solution are no longer free."

"This is expensive. In my next project, we had to go to other vendor."

"You will not get any support from Mule ESB's team for the tool's community edition...You can get support with the licensed version of Mule ESB."

"The licensing is yearly, and there are additional fees for services."

"Mule ESB is an expensive solution."

"This product is cheaper than some offered by other vendors, although there is a problem because you have to pay for some third-party adapters."

"The price of the Mule ESB commercial version is expensive. However, they have a free community version."

"This product is expensive, but it does offer value for money."

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"This is an expensive product. It costs a lot and although it's worth the money, the explanations that we need to give to our top executives are highly complicated."

"Pricing has been something that we have been working with Red Hat on, year over year. We have preferred pricing with the university because we are involved in education and research."

"In terms of pricing, Red Hat Fuse is a bit expensive because nowadays, if I'm just comparing it with OpenShift with Kubernetes, so Kubernetes and OpenShift, are similar, and Kubernetes is open source, so Red Hat Fuse is quite expensive in terms of support, but Red Hat Fuse provides value for money because it provides good support. If you want to get something, you need to pay for it."

"The most important feature of Fuse is the cost. It is open source and a cheap option for an ESB. So, most of the clients in the Middle East and Asian countries prefer this ESB. Other ESBs, like MuleSoft and IBM API Connect, are pretty expensive. Because it is open source, Red Hat Fuse is the cheapest solution, providing almost every integration capability."

"Red Hat Fuse is an expensive tool, though I cannot answer how much it costs as that's confidential."

"My company pays for the license of Red Hat Fuse yearly. At the end of the day, it's a low-cost solution, and its support licenses are still very decently priced versus bigger operators such as IBM, etc. Red Hat Fuse is much more affordable than other solutions. On a scale of one to five, with one being cheap and five being extremely expensive, I'm rating its pricing a one."

"The solution doesn't have independent licensing."

"Our license for Red Hat Fuse is around $27,000 per year, which is very expensive."

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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company

17%

Financial Services Firm

15%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Financial Services Firm

21%

Computer Software Company

18%

Manufacturing Company

Insurance Company

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Midsize Enterprise

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Questions from the Community

Migration from IBM Integration Bus to Mulesoft ESB for a large enterprise tech services company

I was previously part of the Oracle SOA/OSB development team. In my current capacity I architected solutions using MuleSoft Anypoint Platform on cloud / on-premises and hybrid modes and on PCE/RTF ...

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IBM Integration Bus vs Mule ESB - which to choose?

Our team ran a comparison of IBM’s Integration Bus vs. Mule ESB in order to determine what sort of ESB software was the best fit for our organization. Ultimately we decided to choose IBM Integratio...

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What do you like most about Mule ESB?

The solution's drag-and-drop interface and data viewer helped us quite a lot.

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What do you like most about Red Hat Fuse?

The process workflow, where we can orchestrate and design the application by defining different routes, is really useful.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Red Hat Fuse?

You need to pay for the license. It's not free. I'm not aware of the exact prices. There are no extra costs in addition to the standard licensing since it is a subscription-based solution.

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What needs improvement with Red Hat Fuse?

I haven't experienced the online part of Red Hat Fuse. Red Hat Fuse doesn't have a lot of administrative control like other applications. Using administrative control, the operational user can view...

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Overview

For companies looking to modernize and unlock the value of existing on-premises systems and applications, an enterprise service bus (ESB) architecture serves as a critical foundation layer for SOA. When deployed as an ESB, the Mule runtime engine of Anypoint Platform combines the power of data and application integration across legacy systems and SaaS applications, with a seamless path to the other capabilities of Anypoint Platform and the full power of API-led connectivity.

Salesforce

Red Hat JBoss Fuse is a lightweight, flexible integration platform that enables rapid integration across the extended enterprise - on-premise or in the cloud. JBoss Fuse includes modular integration capabilities, an enterprise service bus (ESB), to unlock information.

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Sample Customers

Ube, PacificComp, University of Witwatersrand, Justice Systems, Camelot

Avianca, American Product Distributors (APD), Kings College Hospital, AMD, CenturyLink, AECOM, E*TRADE

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