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WSO2 API Manager Reviews in September 2026: User Ratings, Pros & Cons
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WSO2 API Manager Reviews & Ratings
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WSO2 API Manager consistently receives praise for its user-friendly interface, scalability, and robust security features. Users appreciate its ability to customize and manage APIs effectively, with strong support from the WSO2 team. The platform streamlines API management, offering features like subscription management, mediation policies, and API throttling, ...Read more
WSO2 API Manager pros and cons
**Flexibility**: Configurable to specific requirements.
**API Lifecycle Management**: Covers security, rate limiting, analytics, and monetization across the full API lifecycle.
**Ease of Use**: Interface is accessible to users across technical backgrounds.
**Security**: Supports OAuth, JWT, and API key authentication.
**Complex Configuration**: Initial setup and configuration might be complex, requiring changes in multiple configuration files.
**Documentation Improvements**: Some users find the documentation lacking in certain areas, suggesting the need for better documentation quality and clarity.
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Flaviano O
03/02/23
"An excellent option"
What do you like best about WSO2 API Manager? Undoubtedly the ease of access to the tool and documentation are strong points of the tool. As advantages: - An active community; - Open-source (with possibility of extension); - Easy to deploy and use; - Robust and with high scalability power; What do you dislike about WSO2 API Manager? Version migrations cause rework and some failures. As disadvantages: - I don't have the prominent patches for free. - Documentation is unclear, raises doubts ...
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Flaviano O
03/02/23
"An excellent option"
What do you like best about WSO2 API Manager? Undoubtedly the ease of access to the tool and documentation are strong points of the tool. As advantages: - An active community; - Open-source (with possibility of extension); - Easy to deploy and use; - Robust and with high scalability power; What do you dislike about WSO2 API Manager? Version migrations cause rework and some failures. As disadvantages: - I don't have the prominent patches for free. - Documentation is unclear, raises doubts ...
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Dipti B
02/09/23
"Best API Management platform"
What do you like best about WSO2 API Manager? WSO2 API Manager is the product I have used for the POC for a telecom company. I am a big fan of open source and tried this product for API Management requirements for one of my clients. The setup was quick and easy, with only java requirements on the machine. The web portals publisher, dev portal, and admin console have a rich web UI in react JS with easy navigation to the features available. The product documentation is good, with a quick ...
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Dipti B
02/09/23
"Best API Management platform"
What do you like best about WSO2 API Manager? WSO2 API Manager is the product I have used for the POC for a telecom company. I am a big fan of open source and tried this product for API Management requirements for one of my clients. The setup was quick and easy, with only java requirements on the machine. The web portals publisher, dev portal, and admin console have a rich web UI in react JS with easy navigation to the features available. The product documentation is good, with a quick ...
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Prakhash S
02/08/23
"The API Management Solution of Choice"
What do you like best about WSO2 API Manager? EVERYTHING... EVERYTHING The product is very flexible, configurable, adaptable and scalable. We have using WSO2 for many custom use cases including open banking. APIM made the life lot easier What do you dislike about WSO2 API Manager? I coudn't think of anything that I dislike about the product. Only point I could mention is complexity in migrating from the old versions. Other than that I like the product 100% What problems is WSO2 API Manager ...
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Prakhash S
02/08/23
"The API Management Solution of Choice"
What do you like best about WSO2 API Manager? EVERYTHING... EVERYTHING The product is very flexible, configurable, adaptable and scalable. We have using WSO2 for many custom use cases including open banking. APIM made the life lot easier What do you dislike about WSO2 API Manager? I coudn't think of anything that I dislike about the product. Only point I could mention is complexity in migrating from the old versions. Other than that I like the product 100% What problems is WSO2 API Manager ...
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VENKATA R
02/02/23
"Powerful open-source feature-rich API Management solution"
What do you like best about WSO2 API Manager? Ease of use , maintainence and deployment. Ease to configure custom user stores. What do you dislike about WSO2 API Manager? Documentation related to k8s deployment is minimal. Need deep and better one. What problems is WSO2 API Manager solving and how is that benefiting you? Helps us to showcase our apis to external partners in secured way.
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VENKATA R
02/02/23
"Powerful open-source feature-rich API Management solution"
What do you like best about WSO2 API Manager? Ease of use , maintainence and deployment. Ease to configure custom user stores. What do you dislike about WSO2 API Manager? Documentation related to k8s deployment is minimal. Need deep and better one. What problems is WSO2 API Manager solving and how is that benefiting you? Helps us to showcase our apis to external partners in secured way.
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Safvan K
01/30/23
"API Manager for TMForum Compliance"
What do you like best about WSO2 API Manager? WSO2 provides all features that a modern API Manager solution requires like Cloud Native, Publisher/Developer Portal, Rate Limiting, OAuth based Security, Monetization etc. it also provides out of the box integrations with tools like Keycloak, Prometheus/Grafana, Jaeger which reduces the TCO very much. What do you dislike about WSO2 API Manager? Micro Gateway got EOL without much prior notice. Recommendations to others considering WSO2 API ...
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Safvan K
01/30/23
"API Manager for TMForum Compliance"
What do you like best about WSO2 API Manager? WSO2 provides all features that a modern API Manager solution requires like Cloud Native, Publisher/Developer Portal, Rate Limiting, OAuth based Security, Monetization etc. it also provides out of the box integrations with tools like Keycloak, Prometheus/Grafana, Jaeger which reduces the TCO very much. What do you dislike about WSO2 API Manager? Micro Gateway got EOL without much prior notice. Recommendations to others considering WSO2 API ...
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