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# WSO2 API Manager

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> One complete platform for building, integrating, and exposing your digital services as managed APIs in the cloud, on-premises, and hybrid architectures to drive your digital transformation strategy.
> 
> Verdict: Rated **4.5/5** by 30 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**.

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## Overview

### Key benefits of WSO2 API Manager

Open-source values; professional support
Complete code transparency with community-driven features and support, with enhanced professional support, provided through our WSO2 Update subscription service.

Open standards and best practices
Natively supports open API specifications to help you easily implement industry-standard API management best practices, including end-to-end security, usage monitoring and analytics, and complete lifecycle management.

Easy integration and API management
Adopt an API-first approach without months of refactoring and developer effort. Seamlessly integrate existing services and manage them as APIs from one location with flexible deployment options

Track API changes
Maintain a complete history of changes to your API for audit purposes and to provide a superior customer experience. Easily roll back to stable versions as needed.

Leverage event-driven patterns
Enable streaming integration and expose as managed API endpoints to take advantage of responsive architectures. Deliver real-time streaming data as APIs.

Clear value
Transparent pricing and a flexible commercial model to fit your business strategy while reducing the total cost of ownership (TCO).

## Quick Stats & Ratings

| Metric | Rating | Detail |
| **Overall** | **4.5/5** | 30 Reviews |
| Ease of Use | 4.0/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Customer Support Software | 4.3/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Value for Money | 4.6/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Features | 4.4/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Recommendation percentage | 80% | (8/10 Likelihood to recommend) |

## About the vendor

- **Company**: WSO2
- **Founded**: 2005

## Commercial Context

- **Pricing model**: Usage Based (Free version available)
- **Target Audience**: Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000, 5,001–10,000, 10,000+
- **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based, Mac (Desktop), Windows (Desktop), Linux (Desktop), Windows (On-Premise), Linux (On-Premise), Chromebook (Desktop)
- **Supported Languages**: English
- **Available Countries**: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, American Samoa, Andorra, Angola, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium and 208 more

## Features

- API
- API Design
- API Gateway
- API Governance
- API Lifecycle Management
- Access Controls/Permissions
- Dashboard Software
- Developer Portal
- Reporting/Analytics
- Scalability
- Testing Management
- Traffic Control
- Version Control

## Support Options

- Email/Help Desk
- FAQs/Forum
- Knowledge Base Software
- Phone Support
- 24/7 (Live rep)
- Chat

## Category

- [API Management Software](https://www.getapp.ca/directory/559/api-management/software)

## Related Categories

- [API Management Software](https://www.getapp.ca/directory/559/api-management/software)
- [Integration Software](https://www.getapp.ca/directory/654/integration/software)

## Alternatives

1. [Albato](https://www.getapp.ca/software/2059586/albato) — 4.8/5 (403 reviews)
2. [APPSeCONNECT](https://www.getapp.ca/software/108897/appseconnect) — 4.7/5 (180 reviews)
3. [APIWorx Managed API Platform](https://www.getapp.ca/software/2048885/apiworx-managed-api-platform) — 4.8/5 (20 reviews)
4. [MuleSoft Anypoint Platform](https://www.getapp.ca/software/100669/anypoint-platform) — 4.4/5 (573 reviews)
5. [Lobster Data World](https://www.getapp.ca/software/2058433/lobster-data) — 4.8/5 (22 reviews)

## Reviews

### "Great option for a API Management" — 4.0/5

> **Verified Reviewer** | *May 7, 2019* | Information Technology & Services | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: It´s easy to install on a local environment and it´s very easy to develop some Mocks before the web services are ready.
> 
> **Cons**: I think the swagger editor could be more practical, to maintain the API.
> 
> I had good experiences using WSO2, we set a default for ours APIS. We developed some Mocks and control better the versions of ours APIs. The Store is very useful to provided for ours partners the swagger and documentation of APIs.

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### "Best open source platform for api management" — 5.0/5

> **Jose** | *July 10, 2019* | Information Technology & Services | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: It is very intuitive, easy to get started and to build a simple scenario.
It has lots of features and is very well designed to handle security.
> 
> **Cons**: If you need to do different things from what the out of box product can, it is very hard.
Existing documentation is good but just to get you started.
I think support from WSO2 is very expensive and almost impossible for small to medium sized companies. They should have intermediate packages for those cases
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> Our experience is good.
We outsourced the process of installing and configure the product to a local expert and is going well.

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### "It's Work for US" — 4.0/5

> **Luc** | *June 7, 2019* | Transportation/Trucking/Railroad | Recommendation rating: 8.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: - We have services created in many different back end technologies, WSO2 help us to connect to all of them with a single end-point.
- WSO2 manage applications security and role based access for our apps.
- WSO2 can wrap SOAP service and create REST service for us.  Which is nice.
> 
> **Cons**: The upgrade.  Each time we upgrade something broke.  Would be nice to keep backward compatibility.  But I understand sometimes to make it better we have to get rid of the older bad stuff.

I like the old UI better.  The old UI is more intuitive than the new one.  Well to me at least.

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### "Simple and Elegant API Lifecycle Management Tool" — 5.0/5

> **Larsen Mallick Raja** | *June 16, 2021* | Information Technology & Services | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: The ease of use. Availability of documentation and support for various authentication schemes. Easy installation and product configuration. The product is up \& running in less than 5 minutes.
> 
> **Cons**: Licensing terms could be slightly simpler to understand. Subscription and licensing appear slightly expensive like other commercial products.
> 
> WSO2 API Management solution is used in one of the projects to enable API Access Control using in-built Auth Provider, publish, discover and subscribe APIs using simple, elegant, intuitive in-built Portals. Besides that, WSO2 API Management solution offers support for caching, traffic control \& version control like every other API Manager at an enterprise grade but under open source umbrella. Though the product can be used free of cost under open source licensing, it is recommended to get a subscription which brings in a lot of support \& services including early security patches and upgrades.

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### "API Management" — 4.0/5

> **vijayababu** | *August 6, 2019* | Information Technology & Services | Recommendation rating: 8.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: The product is open source and easy to learn and easy to use,  It has so many components like ESB, APIManager,IdentityServer,SmartAnalysis.
Finally it is flexible,powerful.
> 
> **Cons**: Documentation and videos are vary less to find.

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