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Layer7 API Management vs TIBCO Cloud API Management comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 17, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

Layer7 API Management
Ranking in API Management
19th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
112
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
TIBCO Cloud API Management
Ranking in API Management
22nd
Average Rating
7.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.4
Number of Reviews
12
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the API Management category, the mindshare of Layer7 API Management is 1.9%, down from 2.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of TIBCO Cloud API Management is 1.4%, up from 1.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
API Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Layer7 API Management1.9%
TIBCO Cloud API Management1.4%
Other96.7%
API Management
 

Featured Reviews

Integration capabilities excel and support for varied platforms enhances communication across backend systems
We mainly use REST APIs, and the solution's integration capabilities are excellent. It allows communication with a number of back-end providers and data consolidation. The flexibility to develop APIs for various platforms, from front-end applications to ATM machines, is valuable. Code changes and migration are straightforward, and it supports identity and access management integration.
AftabAlam - PeerSpot reviewer
E2E Delivery Expert - Ignite Delivery & Technical Enablement at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
Trust and reliability have been established with long-term usage and significant integration benefits
TIBCO Cloud API Management offers API management plus the ability to orchestrate all inbound and outbound API calls. When an API is exposed to the external system, it functions as a single integration. Behind the scenes, you can perform extensive API modeling, aggregation, and downstream systems can have more than one API and give the response back to a single API call. It has many features such as orchestration rule engine, which makes it quite good. TIBCO Cloud API Management has brought numerous benefits for our organization, especially in product maturity and support. Sales and support are strong areas, and I think it is very good. If they do not get the right support, then they should consider other options. The sales and support also provides cost optimization.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"It is helpful to have a central API that is hosted and managed."
"The solution helped us to quickly publish and monetize APIs, and I have used versioning responses to publish or send APIs to different customers with different versions."
"The product supports more than just HTTP protocols; it also caters to JMS and FTP protocols."
"The scalability of the Gateway is pretty straightforward and easy, because it's simply contained within as an image, or as a simple container form."
"I recommend this product because of how successful we've been with it."
"Scalability is unmatched."
"With the out of the box security features from CA API Management, I can focus on the business logic to deliver the real value to the consumers, without worrying about the security."
"Ease of use."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to have different packages based on the API keys, so the same core system can have different packages based on different environments."
"The reason why we selected the solution originally was because of its ability to have a gateway both on-premise and in the cloud. This is the most valuable aspect of the solution for us."
"It is easy to work with but it is not stable."
"The platform's most valuable features are its capabilities to support security measures such as tokenization, token refresh, throttling, and enforcement of payloads."
"The control that we have and the security features are very valuable, and with regard to API implementation or API orchestration, it works very well in the cloud because as soon as you create an API with one click, you can actually expose your APIs."
"TIBCO Cloud API Management has brought numerous benefits for our organization, especially in product maturity and support."
"The solution is a good general API manager. They have a few propriety features but are offering items that are standard in the industry as well."
"TIBCO API gateway is one of the best products available around this space."
 

Cons

"The security protocols in CA's product, for financial services, weren't as good as those in API Connect."
"Based on a lot of the other tools in the marketplace, the user interface itself is more linear and programmatic based."
"I would like for the new release to allow us to speed up code generation. The integration with CICD could also be more seamless."
"Scalability is a bit tough if it is a production environment."
"The entire lifecycle management approach needs improvement: from the API management, development, deployment, some of the settings around the quotas, and some security policy applications, etc. for the APIs. We found the Apigee platform a lot more robust in that area."
"Some users say that the API lacks some features and is lagging behind the competition although that has not been my personal experience."
"Its ID authentication is a little outdated. They need a multifactor authentication solution for the API layer and the other layers, as well."
"The Policy Manager UI is very busy."
"TIBCO Cloud API Management should improve its installation and make it easy."
"Stability is our concern because it's very complex to manage and handle."
"Monetization is not that great in API management. You need customization. Improvements are needed with sandbox local as well as with monetization. Those features are missing."
"Policy management has been a bit of a concern."
"The management console of API and customers' applications are not the most intuitive."
"The pricing could be improved. It's too expensive right now."
"We observed delays under heavy load conditions, and without proper tuning, changes could take an extended period to filter and become effective."
"They can fix some stability issues and probably make it more user-friendly so that not only an IT savvy person but an end-user can also easily navigate through this solution."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"APIs can be developed to provide security. We can show them in one single pane of glass, such as the CA API Management API Developer Portal. It is there that we can provide the monetization for their APIs and what is happening on third-party applications, like Paytm or BookMyShow."
"Purchase 4.0 now and wait until they flush out the 4.1 problems."
"It's my manager who takes care of the pricing. But I keep on hearing that it's a little pricey, it's on the higher side. That is what he says."
"This solution is a bit more expensive than competitors."
"I do not have experience with the pricing or licensing of the product."
"Layer7 API Management is cheaper than Apigee."
"Licenses are required to operate the product, but I don't know much about the validity periods attached to it."
"It was very high at that time. We are a Broadcom CA partner, and we got it only for testing purposes. We didn't pay anything for it."
"TIBCO Cloud API Management is not an expensive solution."
"Its price is pretty reasonable. There are some lightweight API options available in the market, but given the feature set that TIBCO provides, its price is really reasonable."
"Licensing is quite flexible."
"We have secured terms on which we have been happy to renew for a number of years."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Outsourcing Company
14%
Construction Company
12%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Outsourcing Company
14%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Healthcare Company
5%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business23
Midsize Enterprise13
Large Enterprise84
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business2
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise9
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Layer7 API Management?
Pricing is more than average. While I am used to Layer7 API Management ( /products/layer7-api-management-reviews ), seeing other products makes the tool's pricing seem high.
What needs improvement with Layer7 API Management?
Broadcom's push for upgrades from version nine to ten, ten to 10.3, and onwards to twelve needs improvement in migration processes, especially with service dependencies. The migration path sometime...
What is your primary use case for Layer7 API Management?
I am not the client. I implement Layer7 API Management ( /products/layer7-api-management-reviews ) for the clients. I have worked on multiple projects as a developer, implementing for Hydro Tasmani...
What needs improvement with TIBCO Cloud API Management?
There are some areas for improvement in TIBCO Cloud API Management, especially regarding network protocols such as SMPP, SMTP, GVI, SVI, and Diameter which could show performance issues in terms of...
What is your primary use case for TIBCO Cloud API Management?
TIBCO Cloud API Management is used for various purposes, such as in the case of the Apple Watch. When a subscriber comes for the first time to activate the Apple Watch, it connects through the web ...
What advice do you have for others considering TIBCO Cloud API Management?
We use a local cloud with a Kubernetes solution integrated with the public cloud. We have used the Lifecycle feature in TIBCO Cloud API Management, along with versioning of the APIs. We are looking...
 

Also Known As

CA API Management, CA Live API Creator, Espresso Logic, CA API Gateway
Mashery API Management
 

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