Layer7 API Management vs. TIBCO Cloud API Management

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Layer7 API Management
Score 9.0 out of 10
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Layer7 API Management (formerly CA API Management) from Broadcom company CA Technologies enables creation and management of API.N/A
TIBCO Cloud API Management
Score 6.7 out of 10
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TIBCO Cloud API Management (formerly Mashery) is a full lifecycle API management solution.N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Features
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API Management
Comparison of API Management features of Product A and Product B
Layer7 API Management
8.6
1 Ratings
5% above category average
TIBCO Cloud API Management
6.9
23 Ratings
17% below category average
API access control9.01 Ratings8.423 Ratings
Rate limits and usage policies10.01 Ratings7.723 Ratings
API usage data9.01 Ratings7.223 Ratings
API user onboarding7.01 Ratings7.522 Ratings
API versioning8.01 Ratings7.019 Ratings
Usage billing and payments7.01 Ratings4.01 Ratings
API monitoring and logging10.01 Ratings6.522 Ratings
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User Ratings
Layer7 API ManagementTIBCO Cloud API Management
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(1 ratings)
7.6
(23 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(2 ratings)
Usability
8.0
(1 ratings)
6.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
8.0
(1 ratings)
9.0
(2 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
7.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Layer7 API ManagementTIBCO Cloud API Management
Likelihood to Recommend
Broadcom
Well suited for publishing internal services with very high security, protecting against attacks, and managing on-demand load. Also good for transform messages and SQL to Rest services. Not appropriate for business logic implementation.
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TIBCO Software Inc.
Mashery is great when it comes to deployment to your own datacenter and when it comes to managing third party API's like Salesforce using Mashery Cloud version. I would be a little bit more careful when deploying it on Kubernetes as it was not designed for it. New version 5 is re-architected to run more on natively on Kubernetes, but we have not tested it yet.
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Pros
Broadcom
  • SOAP to Rest / Rest to SOAP web services transformation.
  • Secure authorization and authetication (JWT, OpenIP Connect, OAuth, SAML and more). WASP Features as injection protection.
  • Easy rule writing without coding.
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TIBCO Software Inc.
  • Easy integration of the TIBCO Cloud Mashery developer portal allows simple onboarding and user and application management.
  • Configuration of TIBCO Cloud Mashery is both flexible and focused to address the main tasks for an API Management solution.
  • The built-in OAuth Token capabilities provide a quick start to properly manage application access.
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Cons
Broadcom
  • It would be nice to have an integration with services like Github for managing projects and versions.
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TIBCO Software Inc.
  • The "Control Center" admin dashboard is not performant. We have a lot of configuration data in Mashery (many endpoints, many plans, many users, many keys, etc.) and the website struggles with the volume of data it has to deal with.
  • Their systems have limitations that make it more difficult for us to operate the way we would like. For example, there is a limit to the number of API Definitions we can create, as well as a limit to the number of Endpoints we can define in a Plan.
  • Their support organization leaves a lot to be desired. Responses are slow, and when they do come they are often inadequate. We have to re-phrase the question to get them to answer it differently, or we have to repeatedly follow up to ask for additional clarifying information.
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Likelihood to Renew
Broadcom
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TIBCO Software Inc.
Ease of use.
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Usability
Broadcom
The Layer7 API Management is a great solution, but, sometimes the documentation is not clear or has lack of examples.
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TIBCO Software Inc.
i find some of the package adding and key are complex . UI experience is bad . Every step need front and backward navigation too much. It would be better if endpoint itself contain package and key addiction option
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Support Rating
Broadcom
The support team is good and the response time is reasonable, but (there is always a but), when support inquiries are made by someone experienced, and the question is not trivial, it is boring and takes a long time to get the case escalated to the next level of support.
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TIBCO Software Inc.
Support has been good overall.
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Implementation Rating
Broadcom
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TIBCO Software Inc.
Initially it was difficult to understand . after few day , it was easy
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Alternatives Considered
Broadcom
We evaluated 3 tools and decided on Layer7 API Management because it had the shortest implementation times and fastest learning curve, without losing power of customization and scalability.
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TIBCO Software Inc.
I've really only looked at Mashery since it has been around a very long time and has a rich feature set. I do know our platform teams are looking into AWS gateway but not sure this product has everything we need.
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Return on Investment
Broadcom
  • Very fast implementation and is easy to learn & use.
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TIBCO Software Inc.
  • As a API Mediation layer it has helped with the troublesome port setup with internal and external clients. Meaning it made that easy to the client that they know where to go for access to an API.
  • The interactive documentation is very well put together and has reduced the time that developers have to go back and forth with each other to figure how to call the API.
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