OpenLegacy vs webMethods.io comparison

OpenLegacy and IBM are both solutions in the API Management category. OpenLegacy is ranked #36, while IBM is ranked #11 with an average rating of 7.9. OpenLegacy holds a 0.5% mindshare in APIM, compared to IBM’s 2.6% mindshare. Additionally, 80% of OpenLegacy users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 94% of IBM users who would recommend it.

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80% willing to recommend

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94% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 17, 2024

OpenLegacy and webMethods.io are enterprise-focused integration solutions, with webMethods.io often seen as having superior technological capabilities, offering advanced features that many organizations find beneficial despite its potentially higher cost.

Features: OpenLegacy enables effective modernization with rapid API development, seamless integration with mainframes, and a user-friendly API development environment. webMethods.io offers comprehensive integration features, cloud-based capabilities, and extensive connector support, making it versatile for various integration needs.

Room for Improvement: OpenLegacy could enhance its cloud integration capabilities, improve scalability in complex enterprise environments, and expand its connector library. webMethods.io could streamline its deployment process, reduce complexity in its user interface, and refine its pricing model for better competitiveness.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: OpenLegacy offers a straightforward deployment process, especially suited for legacy systems, supported by dedicated customer assistance. webMethods.io provides a flexible hybrid deployment model, combining cloud and on-premise options, alongside robust global customer support, offering high versatility across environments.

Pricing and ROI: OpenLegacy generally provides lower setup costs with quick ROI for organizations focusing on legacy integration. webMethods.io might involve higher initial costs but delivers ROI through its extensive feature set and adaptability, appealing to enterprises with broader integration demands.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

OpenLegacy

Ranking in API Management

36th

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

webMethods.io

Ranking in API Management

11th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Business-to-Business Middleware (2nd), Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) (3rd), Managed File Transfer (MFT) (9th), Cloud Data Integration (8th), Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) (7th)

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2025, in the API Management category, the mindshare of OpenLegacy is 0.5%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of webMethods.io is 2.6%, up from 1.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

API Management Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
webMethods.io	2.6%
OpenLegacy	0.5%
Other	96.9%

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reviewer1042905

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.

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MohanPrasad

Senior Consultant at Brillio

Smooth integration and enhanced deployment with high licensing cost

webMethods.io was used to integrate APIs through the webMethods.io platform, trigger database events, and connect backend APIs through a Java backend. It was used extensively for integration purposes in my organization Integration became smoother, troubleshooting was easier, and deployment and…

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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

"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."

"OpenLegacy provides a way to go from the outside world to the legacy mainframe, to move the old standard application to a REST API application. New digital services can be created in a few clicks and this can be done easily by COBOL programmers."

"Opens the door to connect modern web products to an old legacy system."

"It is possible to connect a service to a mainframe program or back transaction in a matter of minutes or hours at the most."

"OpenLegacy produces a war file which includes everything you need to deploy a Tomcat server."

"The biggest advantage of OpenLegacy was how simple the technology was. We were able to build out the OpenLegacy parts very quickly. We put together a couple hundred APIs in six months."

"It is possible to solve larger legacy API issues on an enterprise level with this product."

"Operationally, I consider the solution to be quite good."

"The development is very fast. If you know what you're doing, you can develop something very easily and very fast."

"What I like the most about the solution is that it comes with ready-made tools like handling security tokens and OAuth."

"webMethods API Portal is overall very valuable. It is now a comprehensive API catalogue that serves various purposes, including API assessment and evaluation."

"We needed a tool that was able to orchestrate and help us configure our APIs so that we could maintain and see the heartbeat, traffic, trends, etc."

"The core product can be used not only for automatic file transfers between applications, but also as an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)."

"I feel comfortable using this product with its ease of building interfaces for developers. This is a better integration tool for integrating with various applications like Oracle, Salesforce, mainframes, etc. It works fine in the integration of legacy software as well."

"The tool is very powerful and user-friendly."

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Cons

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"Debugging and logging for programmers could be better."

"The interface needs some work. It is not very user-friendly."

"Upgrades are complex. They typically take about five months from start to finish. There are many packages that plug into webMethods Integration Server, which is the central point for a vast majority of the transactions at my organization. Anytime we are upgrading that, there are complexities within each component that we must understand. That makes any upgrade very cumbersome and complicated. That has been my experience at this company. Because there are many different business units that we are touching, there are so many different components that we are touching. The amount of READMEs that you have to go through takes some time."

"The solution has big instances when deployed under microservices or in a containerized platform. They need to improve that so that it is competitive with other integration solutions, like Redis and Kafka. Deployments under microservices with those solutions are much more lightweight, in the size of the runtime itself, compared with Software AG."

"The price has room for improvement."

"The product needs to be improved in a few ways. First, they need to stabilize the components of the whole platform across versions. Also, they should stop replacing old components with brand new ones and, rather, improve by evolution."

"We need more dashboards and reporting engines that can provide detailed information for management. In short, we need better analytics."

"This solution could be improved by offering subscription based licensing."

"Large file handling is pretty hard comparatively to other middleware tools."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."

"Based on our team discussions and feedback, it is pretty costly because they charge us for each transmission."

"Currently, the licensing solution for this product is pretty straightforward. The way that Software AG has moved in their licensing agreements is very understandable. It is very easy for you to see where things land. Like most vendors today, they are transaction based. Therefore, just having a good understanding of how many transactions that you are doing a year would be very wise. Luckily, there are opportunities to work with the vendor to get a good understanding of how many transactions you have and what is the right limit for you to fall under."

"The price is a little bit high, especially regarding their support."

"Pricing has to be negotiated with the local Software AG representative. SAG can always prepare an appropriate pricing model for every client."

"This is an expensive product and we may replace it with something more reasonably priced."

"It is worth the cost."

"With our current licensing, it's very easy for us to scale. With our older licensing model, it was very hard. This is definitely something that I would highlight."

"The solution's development license is free for three to six months. We have to pay for other things."

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Manufacturing Company

14%

Computer Software Company

13%

Financial Services Firm

11%

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Small Business	23
Midsize Enterprise	11
Large Enterprise	63

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Overview

OpenLegacy helps organizations quickly launch innovative digital services by extending their core back-end systems to the web, mobile and cloud in days or weeks versus months. Our microservice-enabled API integration and management software quickly reduces project backlog by automating and accelerating microservices and API creation, deployment, testing and management from core applications, mainframes and databases. Together, business and IT teams can quickly, easily and securely meet consumer, partner or employee demands for digital services without modernizing or replacing core systems, and without special programming skills or invasive changes to existing systems and architectures. OpenLegacy is designed for ongoing management of microservices APIs and is based on open standards, so our software plays nice with your current technology stack and supports agile, DevOps and continuous development. Learn why leading companies choose OpenLegacy at www.openlegacy.com.

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webMethods.io Integration is a powerful integration platform as a service (iPaaS) that provides a combination of capabilities offered by ESBs, data integration systems, API management tools, and B2B gateways.

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Cisco, Agralogics, Dreamforce, Cables & Sensors, Sacramento Kings

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