--- title: Apache MINA Reviews meta\_title: 'Apache MINA Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 12 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Apache MINA works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 3.9 review\_count: 12 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-07' parent\_category: name: Web Frameworks url: https://www.g2.com/categories/web-frameworks --- # Apache MINA Reviews & Product Details Apache MINA is a network application framework which helps users develop high performance and high scalability network applications easily. It provides an abstract event-driven asynchronous API over various transports such as TCP/IP and UDP/IP via Java NIO. * * * Seller [The Apache Software Foundation](https://www.g2.com/sellers/the-apache-software-foundation) Discussions [Apache MINA Community](https://www.g2.com/products/apache-mina/discuss) Show More ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![spring.io](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "spring.io") spring.io 4.5/5(320) ](https://www.g2.com/products/spring-io/reviews) [ ![JHipster](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "JHipster") JHipster 4.4/5(97) ](https://www.g2.com/products/jhipster/reviews) [ ![Grails](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Grails") Grails 3.6/5(33) ](https://www.g2.com/products/grails/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/apache-mina/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 12 real user reviews. [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ![Syed Adeel H.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Syed Adeel H.") SH Syed Adeel H. Infrastructure Manager Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 5/2/2022 "Easy To Deploy well documented" 4/5 What do you like best about Apache MINA? From MINA we can create high deploy high-performance network applications including TCP/IP directly with minimum overheads that made it a abstract event-driven software Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache MINA? A few updates are released for it. Also difficult for that developers who have not have proper knowldge it should be easy to install and configure for the newbie. Also, need advanced support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache MINA solving and how is that benefiting you? We have created several Java-based networks we used SSHD to support SSH protocol for both client and server-side implematon. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite GR Ganesh R. Digital Marketing Manager Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 3/10/2021 "Apache MINA Review" 4/5 Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Muhammed A.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Muhammed A.") MA Muhammed A. Staff Software Quality Engineer Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 8/30/2021 "use Apache MINA for high performing network applications running with different types of protocols." 3.5/5 What do you like best about Apache MINA? The application is straightforward, which helps users to use Apache MINA. Also, The mocking of objects enables testers to complete their scenarios smoothly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache MINA? The documentation guide is not very informative for beginners. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache MINA solving and how is that benefiting you? In our company, We are using Apache MINA to test smoothly, and it has Mock objects and tests, which make it a perfect fit for beginners users who want to test high and low Application Programming Interfaces. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Junaid P.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Junaid P.") JP Junaid P. Business Development Executive Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 8/5/2021 "Apache MINA Framework" 3.5/5 What do you like best about Apache MINA? Its an open-source framework we can Create unified APIs for TCP, UDPs it provides us High level of APIs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache MINA? I`m in a test mode, so currently, there is no Dislikes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache MINA solving and how is that benefiting you? I already using MINA to implement a TCP protocol. The integration and encoding and decoding were easy, but the implementation of the state machine was not so easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 8/6/2021 Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite AJ Arpit J. Assistant Manager Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 7/23/2021 "Good Software. Do what it says perfectly!" 3.5/5 What do you like best about Apache MINA? Simplicity in operating it with a very easy-to-navigate menu makes it very fit for our organization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache MINA? Fixing of responsibility/ Trail of events are difficult to map in case of any mistakes or mishappening. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache MINA solving and how is that benefiting you? We are solving our Java utility problem for developers. We use this in the mid level management of our organization. It is very effective. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Retail](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Retail") UR Verified User in Retail Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 5/17/2018 "Apache MINA" 4/5 What do you like best about Apache MINA? I used MINA to implement a TCP protocol. The implementation of encoding and decoding was easy, Can handle a lot of connections If you choose to implement some sort of distributed work system then knowing when one of your nodes goes down and loses connection is useful for restarting the work on another node. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache MINA? I've only ever used MINA to build a small http like server. The biggest problems I've run into with it so far: It will hold your "request" and "response" in memory. This is only an issue because the protocol I choose to use is http. You could use your own protocol however to get around this. No option to provide a stream off disk in case you want to serve up large files. Again can be worked around by implementing your own protocol Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Apache MINA: Yes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache MINA solving and how is that benefiting you? IT help speed up my process Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management") UN Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 5/18/2018 "High performance network applications" 3.5/5 What do you like best about Apache MINA? i/o API's actually used to perform the i/o functions! Easy for users to focus on the logic of the application and leave the i/o handing to the Apache MINA Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache MINA? Often ran into problems with flash - when users closed browser process via task manager server threw infinite expection "java.io.BrokenPipe" Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Apache MINA: very comfortable to use Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache MINA solving and how is that benefiting you? We've been able to make more scalable high performance network applications and the integration with DI frameworks like google guice has been very beneficial Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ## Questions about Apache MINA? Ask real users or explore answers from the community Get practical answers, real workflows, and honest pros and cons from the G2 community or share your insights. [ Ask about Apache MINA ](https://www.g2.com/products/apache-mina/discussions/new) GU Guest User What is Apache MINA used for? 0 Upvotes 0 [ Join the conversation ](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-apache-mina-used-for) [ View all Discussions ](https://www.g2.com/products/apache-mina/discuss) ##### Pricing Pricing details for this product isn’t currently available. Visit the vendor’s website to learn more. 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