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Akana vs. WSO2 API Manager

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Akana
Score 10.0 out of 10
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Akana provides an end-to-end, full lifecycle API management tool for designing, implementing, securing, managing, monitoring, and publishing APIs. Suited for large enterprises and federated API partner ecosystems, Akana can be deployed natively across clouds and on-premises, enables customers to deploy securely via an integrated no-code portal, and provides detailed business analytics. Akana, a Rogue Wave solution, was acquired with Rogue Wave Software by Perforce in 2019.N/A
WSO2 API Manager
Score 9.4 out of 10
Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
WSO2 API Manager makes it possible for developers to both develop and manage APIs of different types. Unlike solutions which focus only on managing API proxies, WSO2 API Manager provides tools to develop APIs by integrating different systems as well. It supports a variety of API types from REST, SOAP, GraphQL, WebSockets, WebHooks, SSEs and gRPC APIs with specialized policies and governance for each different type. Being fully open source, its architecture and extensibility…
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Pricing
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Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
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
Akana
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Ratings
WSO2 API Manager
8.8
4 Ratings
4% above category average
API access control00 Ratings9.54 Ratings
Rate limits and usage policies00 Ratings9.54 Ratings
API usage data00 Ratings8.04 Ratings
API user onboarding00 Ratings8.04 Ratings
API versioning00 Ratings9.04 Ratings
Usage billing and payments00 Ratings9.04 Ratings
API monitoring and logging00 Ratings8.54 Ratings
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User Ratings
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9.5
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User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
Perforce Software
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WSO2
It's free! No argument can win a fight with that! And it's the only reason I gave it a 5. If you have no money to spend, and a simple environment you'll have a nice product. But free does come with a price. After 5 years we're still struggling with ports, and analytics (it just won't work without any errors caused by some configuration somewhere). An API Manager should work out of the box. The only configuration expertise that any developer wants to invest in, is the configuration of API's. Not the product itself... Anyone who've seen the training material, just for installing this thing will agree that this is not the way to go. Of all the API Managers out there (we've tried 4), WSO2 is the only one were you need to know how this dragon of a java application works internally. Did I already mention the humongous amount of config files?
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Pros
Perforce Software
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WSO2
  • Authentication based on OAuth 2.0 and HTTP Basic Authentication.
  • Rate Limiting applied at different levels like Subscriber, API, Resource and Backend.
  • Monitoring by exporting the metrics in Prometheus and traces in Jaeger.
  • Mediation to perform transformation, orchestration etc.
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Cons
Perforce Software
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WSO2
  • Better QA testing prior to releases rollout
  • Better support needed
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Alternatives Considered
Perforce Software
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WSO2
Providing better capabilities comparing the overall API lifecycle management, especially the availability of API Integration layer and a strong identity layer of their own which provides an end-to-end API ecosystem that would be advantageous in terms of a large software development initiative.
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Return on Investment
Perforce Software
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WSO2
  • We've moved away from legacy SOAP services where nobody knew what services was used by who. WSO2 eliminated at least 90% of time spend on any service.
  • Creating API's (or actually creating the API Management layer...) is so simple that new developers can get away with it in no time. Again, real time gainer.
  • Since creating API's is so simple, developers are very fast in adopting a kind of "Domain thinking". In comparison with Azure API Manager: Azure does not demand knowledge of "how" the product works, but it's definitely more difficult to get an API up and running in Azure. And for some reason, azure does not promote clean domain driven architecture. Domain Driven architecture is the greatest time saver strategy possible. And WSO2 fits nicely in there.
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