Mule ESB vs TIBCO ActiveMatrix Service Bus comparison

Salesforce and TIBCO are both solutions in the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) category. Salesforce is ranked #2 with an average rating of 7.8, while TIBCO is ranked #10 with an average rating of 7.0. Salesforce holds a 20.6% mindshare in E, compared to TIBCO’s 3.9% mindshare. Additionally, 86% of Salesforce users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 92% of TIBCO users who would recommend it.

Mule ESB

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86% willing to recommend

TIBCO ActiveMatrix Service Bus

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92% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 3, 2025

TIBCO ActiveMatrix Service Bus and Mule ESB compete in the middleware software domain. TIBCO stands out in support and pricing satisfaction, while Mule ESB is favored for its rich features and adaptability.

Features: TIBCO ActiveMatrix Service Bus features robust integration capabilities, high scalability, and strong reliability management. Mule ESB is known for its lightweight architecture, flexibility, and extensive community support. TIBCO is tailored for enterprises needing comprehensive integration, while Mule excels in versatility across varied environments.

Room for Improvement: TIBCO can improve by enhancing its user interface, streamlining complex configurations, and broadening community support. Mule ESB could enhance its pricing structure, improve initial setup processes, and offer more direct customer service options.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: TIBCO ActiveMatrix Service Bus offers straightforward deployment and strong support, ideal for enterprises valuing structured assistance. Mule ESB's flexible deployment models make it appealing for fast implementation. TIBCO provides traditional customer service, while Mule offers both community-driven and commercial support.

Pricing and ROI: TIBCO generally offers more favorable pricing and ROI, appealing to budget-conscious buyers. Mule ESB, despite higher initial costs, justifies its price with robust features and adaptability, making it appealing for those prioritizing long-term value.

To learn more, read our detailed Mule ESB vs. TIBCO ActiveMatrix Service Bus Report (Updated: April 2025).

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Categories and Ranking

Mule ESB

Ranking in Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)

2nd

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

TIBCO ActiveMatrix Service Bus

Ranking in Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)

10th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) category, the mindshare of Mule ESB is 20.6%, down from 22.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of TIBCO ActiveMatrix Service Bus is 3.9%, up from 3.7% 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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Mustofa Yonus

Cheif Specialist- Licensing Systems at Roads & Transport Authority

A robust product that needs to improve the functionality it offers related to API lifecycle management

Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a six to seven out of ten. My company consists of around 7000 employees, and we use the solution as an integrated service in around 300 to 400 systems, both internally and externally, making it a huge number. Our company uses the solution every minute and every second, and we can't function without it.

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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

"This tool has exceptional API management and integration connectors in addition to multiple out of the box connectors."

"Everything runs in Java, which is a useful feature."

"The setup is straightforward."

"The solution improved my company by modernizing the way we offer services and improving the user experience."

"The API management capabilities are exemplary. You can apply security policies to most applications, monitor logs, and get analytical data on request reception, response generation time, associated APIs, endpoints, and inbound and outbound messages."

"Mule Expression Language"

"The most powerful feature is DataWeave, which is a powerful language where data can be transformed from one form into another."

"The solution has a good graphical interface."

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"The stability of this solution is excellent."

"The most valuable feature is that it is a service-oriented architecture, SOA-based."

"The solution is very stable."

"The GUI and IDE features of this solution are easy to work with and to develop. We find application management easy using this solution. It is a stable product"

"The most valuable feature of the solution is that the performance is robust."

"It's very stable and reliable."

"The most attractive and beneficial feature is the ease of development."

"It is easy to develop. It has a very wide range of features. The older versions are very stable, and there are no issues with the product."

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Cons

"The initial setup could be more straightforward."

"We would like to have a built-in logging framework in which we can do auditing."

"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."

"The stability could be improved."

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

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

"Lacking some connectors that could be included."

"The initial setup is not easy."

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"Migration to cloud solutions or products should be made convenient, transparent, and easily understandable."

"If TIBCO could be able to sort the size of their base image in the Container edition, it would be really marvelous. Right now it's around 299 MB. We'd really want it to reduce to a few MBs."

"The initial setup process could be easier."

"I don't like the product's API management platform, as it doesn't offer users enough functionality to help with API lifecycle management, making it a product that is way behind its competitors."

"In the configuration, where we need to customize, it takes more time that we expect it to, ideally."

"Issues with the support, the fees, and the termination of the professional services are reasons we are looking for other solutions."

"The intermediate version that we are using has stability issues. These stability issues should be resolved, but it seems like TIBCO is not focusing on resolving these issues. The resolution timelines are quite high even for high-priority incidents. Its price should be lower. Its licensing cost is considerably high as compared to other ESBs."

"In the next release, there should be improvements made to the API manager."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."

"Plan your licensing model (cloud or on-premises or hybrid) that will allow seamless integration with new partners."

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

"Most of the challenges that I had with this solution were for smaller customers. There is not a good licensing model or pricing model. It is more expensive than other solutions, and that's the downside of MuleSoft. I had to be creative to be able to sell it to the business, but we did. This is something they have to work on because for large companies, it's affordable, but for small and medium businesses, it's very hard to sell."

"Regarding licensing and pricing, I find it somewhat flexible. They are more flexible with larger customers compared to small and medium ones, as their licensing model depends on ports and other factors. Large customers benefit from more flexibility in implementation and renewal compared to smaller ones."

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

"The pricing must be improved."

"Mule ESB is a costly solution. We pay approximately $80,000 annually for the system. The cost of the number of instances, annual subscription, and cloud hosting services are expensive."

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"Its licensing cost is considerably high as compared to other ESBs."

"Price-wise, I would say that the product is expensive."

"When it comes to cost, TIBCO is much more competitive than a product like Pega."

"The price is on the higher side. For the same price, if I go to the previous version, I would have got a lot more capacity with similar kinds of features."

"The licensing cost is a challenge for quite a few customers."

"The biggest issue disadvantage of TIBCO is that it is expensive."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

17%

Financial Services Firm

15%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Financial Services Firm

24%

Computer Software Company

14%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Retailer

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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 TIBCO ActiveMatrix Service Bus?

The most valuable feature of the solution is that the performance is robust.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for TIBCO ActiveMatrix Service Bus?

Price-wise, I would say that the product is expensive.

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What needs improvement with TIBCO ActiveMatrix Service Bus?

I don't like the product's API management platform, as it doesn't offer users enough functionality to help with API lifecycle management, making it a product that is way behind its competitors. The...

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ActiveMatrix Service Bus

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

TIBCO ActiveMatrix Service Bus is a platform for developing, deploying, and managing applications that conform to a service-oriented architecture. TIBCO ActiveMatrix Service Bus is a lightweight enterprise service bus that helps organizations bridge the mediation gap in their SOA infrastructure. It reduces complexity and increases flexibility and reuse by replacing hard-coded service dependencies with configuration, and can be used to onboard services from a third-party environment or a TIBCO-based infrastructure. TIBCO ActiveMatrix Service Bus provides service mediation capabilities to the TIBCO ActiveMatrix SOA platform. Service mediation allows you to adapt to changing requirements for developing mediation flows.

TIBCO

Sample Customers

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

Colonial Life, CTBC Bank, New World Mobility, QUALCOMM, Swisscom Mobile, T-Mobile USA, Tata Teleservices, Telecom Italia

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