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MuleSoft API Manager vs OpenLegacy comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 17, 2024

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Categories and Ranking

MuleSoft API Manager
Ranking in API Management
8th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
60
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
OpenLegacy
Ranking in API Management
32nd
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.2
Number of Reviews
5
Ranking in other categories
AI Software Development (62nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the API Management category, the mindshare of MuleSoft API Manager is 3.7%, down from 5.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of OpenLegacy is 1.5%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
API Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
MuleSoft API Manager3.7%
OpenLegacy1.5%
Other94.8%
API Management
 

Featured Reviews

LalitSharma4 - PeerSpot reviewer
VP at Coforge Growth Agency
Unified APIs have improved integration and security while monitoring and analytics drive efficiency
My main use cases for MuleSoft API Manager include integrating various systems MuleSoft API Manager provides excellent integration with any solution, and integration with third-party vendors is not an issue. I am satisfied with combining all APIs in one place, and the monitoring capabilities in…
reviewer1042905 - PeerSpot reviewer
VP, Chief Enterprise Integration Architect at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
The biggest advantage is how simple the technology was.
I'd like to see OpenLegacy develop its low-code/no-code (LCNC) solutions. They've expanded somewhat their horizons for integration beyond mainframe CICS, which is their sweet spot. They have some tooling in that area, but it's not as good as it needs to be. OpenLegacy handles the bread-and-butter TP monitoring stuff, but I am working for one of the six banks in the United States still using the Hogan mainframe, which has a slightly proprietary mechanism. But OpenLegacy currently doesn't have a connector for Hogan. So it would help if they could build one. That would appeal to financial institutions that still use Hogan, like US Bank, Wells Fargo, KeyBank, and Vanguard.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The auto-creation of the API documentation is useful."
"MuleSoft API Manager provides excellent integration with any solution, and integration with third-party vendors is not an issue."
"It is a good management tool for controlling purposes."
"There are a lot of products available on the market, Mulesoft is very good, it's an amazing product, no doubt about it, there's quality in the standard version, and the acumen and the technology are very good."
"The most effective features of Anypoint API Manager for policy enforcement include security enforcement, rate limiting, client enforcement, traffic control, service level agreement policies, and caching policies."
"Our largest return on investment is a specific use case called Digital Account Opening."
"The product improved data exchange processes by enhancing communication between various messaging queues. There was a heavy reliance on queues for indexing clusters and data transfer in this particular environment. The product facilitated the transfer of messages from one queue to another, ensuring data flow and processing across different topics."
"The onboarding process significantly contributes to faster market access, and the effort reduced by 30 to 40% directly leads to savings in IT time and costs."
"OpenLegacy opens the door to connect modern web products to our old legacy system."
"Using OpenLegacy, the exposure of services is far easier and quicker. In many cases, exposure of services requires just a few clicks and takes only minutes. In very complex cases, it still only takes half a day. Without OpenLegacy, it would take us several months to create the same services."
"Using mainframe programs (not screens), the OpenLegacy services do not require any changes by the mainframe programmers, thus reducing development cycles."
"The product has helped our business by allowing us to become more efficient in data handling."
"It is possible to connect a service to a mainframe program or back transaction in a matter of minutes or hours at the most."
"The speed of development of production, especially in specific environments like IBM mainframes, has been valuable."
"OpenLegacy produces a war file which includes everything you need to deploy a Tomcat server."
"Without OpenLegacy, it would take us several months to create the same services."
 

Cons

"The most important thing that should be improved is that it is too heavy. Even the API gateway and the API runtime are too heavy, which makes it more difficult to integrate."
"My advice to others is they will need strong technical support for this solution, however, they do not provide good support."
"Mulesoft Anypoint API Manager could improve the monitoring because it is very poor quality and not user-friendly. It is not as good as other solutions on the market."
"Their analytics needs a lot of improvement. It's really lacking right now."
"The initial setup is complex compared to solutions such as Kong or Tyk."
"There are some loopholes in the security policies that could be improved."
"The upgrade is a very messy process; Mule 3.X to 4 or 4.2 requires you have to rewrite the APIs, and it is not just upgrading the build pack with a runtime."
"We find that the enterprise level is lacking scalability."
"Debugging and logging for programmers could be better."
"I would like to see SSL out-of-the-box. OpenLegacy certainly does SSL, but it was not the default for our use case. We are currently working with OpenLegacy to cross the SSL bridge and suspect that most users will want to do the same."
"Customer support for the product is slow and not very good. It makes using the product difficult if you need help quickly."
"The pricing of the solution could be more flexible and allow for once-off payment versus annual licensing. This would be more appealing to companies in Latin America."
"We would also be more than happy if the product had the option to work in the opposite direction – the ability to consume REST/SOW services in the outer world from the mainframe."
"I'd like to see OpenLegacy develop its low-code/no-code (LCNC) solutions. They've expanded somewhat their horizons for integration beyond mainframe CICS, which is their sweet spot. They have some tooling in that area, but it's not as good as it needs to be."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It is really expensive from a Zimbabwean perspective."
"The pricing is very expensive, although you get a lot of power from the product."
"If one is cheap and ten is expensive, I rate the product price as six and a half to seven."
"It is extremely high, and I would rate it one out of ten."
"The pricing is quite reasonable and affordable."
"The solution looks more expensive on the surface because it builds all the functions into one core component or into an integrated suite of components."
"I'm unsure about licensing costs because I'm not the person who handles this. But, ballpark, it's probably somewhere around $300,000-$400,000 or something like that."
"The pricing for this solution is cheaper than GCP and Bluemix."
"The pricing of the solution could be more flexible and allow for once-off payment versus annual licensing. This would be more appealing to companies in Latin America."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
14%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Outsourcing Company
9%
Construction Company
6%
Construction Company
24%
Comms Service Provider
16%
Financial Services Firm
15%
Manufacturing Company
10%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business17
Midsize Enterprise6
Large Enterprise44
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Questions from the Community

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Anypoint API Manager
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Sample Customers

Coca-Cola, Splunk, Citrix, UCSF, Vertu, State of Colorado, National Post, TiVo, Deakin, LLS, Oldcastle Precast, ParcelPoint, Justice Systems, Ube, Sumitomo Corporation, PacificComp, University of Witwatersrand, Groupe Initiatives, Camelot, Panviva
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