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DreamFactory is a secure, self-hosted enterprise data access platform that provides governed API access to any data source, connecting enterprise applications and on-prem LLMs with role-based access and identity passthrough. Deploy on-premises, air-gapped, or in the cloud with built-in enterprise security controls, giving you full ownership of your data layer without compromise. DreamFactory supports identity passthrough and role-based access so that every request is authenticated, authorized, and auditable, no matter where your data lives or who's accessing it. Whether you're connecting modern cloud applications, legacy databases, or enterprise LLMs to your internal data, DreamFactory provides a single governed layer that eliminates point-to-point integrations and sprawling middleware. Teams gain instant, secure access to the data they need without waiting on custom development or sacrificing compliance. Develop 4x faster, save 70% on new projects, remove project management uncertainty, focus talent on truly critical issues, win more clients, and integrate with newer and legacy technologies instantly as needed. With DreamFactory, your engineering teams spend less time building and maintaining data plumbing and more time delivering value. Purpose-built for enterprises that demand control, DreamFactory gives IT and security teams full visibility into how data is accessed, by whom, and from which applications — all from a centralized platform. Whether you're enabling AI initiatives with secure LLM access to internal data or modernizing legacy system connectivity, DreamFactory scales with your needs. Start a hosted trial or talk to our engineers to get access to an on-prem environment. * * * Seller [Integrate.io](https://www.g2.com/sellers/integrate-io) Discussions [DreamFactory Community](https://www.g2.com/products/dreamfactory/discuss) Languages Supported English, Spanish Solution Type All-in-One Overview by Terence Bennett Show More ## Pricing Pricing provided by DreamFactory. ### Open Source Free ### DF Linux Lite Contact Us [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/dreamfactory/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![MuleSoft Anypoint Platform](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "MuleSoft Anypoint Platform") MuleSoft Anypoint Platform 4.5/5(775) ](https://www.g2.com/products/mulesoft-anypoint-platform/reviews) [ ![Kong Konnect](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Kong Konnect") Kong Konnect 4.4/5(326) ](https://www.g2.com/products/kong-inc-kong-konnect/reviews) [ ![Workato](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Workato") Workato 4.7/5(777) ](https://www.g2.com/products/workato/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/dreamfactory/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 47 real user reviews. Implementation Time 2 months Perceived Cost $$$$$ [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ![Verified User in Construction](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Construction") AC Verified User in Construction Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 3/25/2021 "Used to be a great open source product" 1/5 What do you like best about DreamFactory? Great features for combining APIs and data sources with server-side scripting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about DreamFactory? Dying product, overpriced, terrible customer service Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering DreamFactory: If you have a small project and can use the features of their free offering, go for it. Otherwise, find a different solution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is DreamFactory solving and how is that benefiting you? Enterprise apps Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Response from Luke Marshall of DreamFactory [Editedit](https://www.g2.com/survey_responses/dreamfactory-review-4661131/official_response/edit) Hi There, Firstly thanks you for taking the time to review DreamFactory and I am sorry we haven't met your expectations. We pride ourselves on our intimate customer service and I would welcome direct feedback on any poor experience you may have had. We have dedicated support for all our commercial clients however I can understand if there was some frustration with our OSS support as we often rely on community engagement to complement our online free resource repository. With regards to your comment on price, we welcome any comparison to existing tools that are able to instantly generate APIs in less than a minute and in your case of building Enterprise apps I would be surprised to find out we were more expensive than our competitors. Again, affordability has always been a cornerstone of our position in the market as we do not contain the "kitchen sink" functionality you may find in our peers but we do several critical things very well- to the point where some clients purchase us to complement our competitors function in the same environment! DreamFactory is far from a dying product. We have gone through 5 iterative releases in Q1 alone including the release of our big data connectors for Snowflake, Hadoop and Apache Hive. A Snowflake API in less than a minute! We continue to develop custom features for our clients and are always looking for ways to improve our roadmap so if you have any specific requests please let me know. Again I am sorry you have had a poor experience with our product and feel free to contact me at luke.marshall@dreamfactory.com with any specific feedback. I would be more than happy to take it onboard. Luke [See how DreamFactory improved](https://blog.dreamfactory.com/dreamfactory-4-5-2-new-snowflake-hadoop-and-hive-connectors/) Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller ![Junior C.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Junior C.") JC Junior C. CTO Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 6/22/2019 "Agile, robust and flexible, as it should be" 5/5 What do you like best about DreamFactory? The ease of connecting relational data sources with file systems and objects, generating understandable and extraneous powerful APIs in a few clicks, coupled with ACL control and triggered script processing in internal API events, is extremely scalable, run it all on the infrastructure provider I want. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about DreamFactory? Debugging scripts is not always easy, deploying role modifications also requires extra attention. A command line tool to represent configuration state through code would be very welcome. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is DreamFactory solving and how is that benefiting you? With DF it was possible to envelop the legacy systems that we have, adopting a granular strategy in the migration to microservices. Centralizing access control with support for several roles for different types of users and applications was a significant milestone for us. We reduced implementation time and kept the team lean. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![James C.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "James C.") JC James C. Senior Engineer Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 1/30/2019 "DreamFactory is like the Ruby on Rails for APIs" 5/5 What do you like best about DreamFactory? DreamFactory provides you commercially ready APIs instantly via what I guess you could call an API Framework. Many of the decisions are made for you, and intentionally so. Building APIs is mundane and involved, so a tool that moves you through this process fast by automatically providing best practices allows our team to focus on higher value add tasks. DreamFactory is also very lightweight and fast for a full lifecycle API Management tool. By that I mean that you don't need to firstly incorporate an enterprise message bus that realistically requires its own full time developer. As DreamFactory is ROA based, you don't need to worry about this. The API orchestration afforded by DreamFactory is also fantastic. The ability to incorporate multiple, unrelated data sources in single API calls enables us to develop some great services that would otherwise be cumbersome. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about DreamFactory? The UI is a little dated, but this in no way takes away from the functionality. Some of the documentation was a little lacking (the wiki), but the new guide that has just been released has been a fantastic resource for us on how to leverage the solution to its fullest. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering DreamFactory: Have a call with them. We had a senior engineer on the first call, so fitting our need to their solution was very easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is DreamFactory solving and how is that benefiting you? We digitized our quality assurance process in our manufacturing plant from a previously paper based system using DreamFactory in combination with AppSheet (AppSheet for the front-end). This mobile application using dynamic forms and plugging live data from multiple systems saved a big time delay for our production line, and also reduced duplicated data entry & human error. We additionally had a number of legacy data sources that we modernized, especially moving from difficult SOAP APIs to standardized REST APIs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic FE fernanda e. It is a great tool to plan and execute work plans. Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 7/10/2019 Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores. "it is a very intuitive and useful tool to manage" 2.5/5 What do you like best about DreamFactory? is a great tool that allows you to manage and carry out the control and proper handling of the data handled by the entire work team, thus helping to improve the performance of the entire work team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about DreamFactory? When you want to debug problems, it does not allow you to do it for me to be the main inconvenient because I try to eliminate information and do not allow it to be done. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is DreamFactory solving and how is that benefiting you? Thanks to this tool, it is easy to access and manage all the data that is handled by the work team, thus facilitating the organization and accessibility of said data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite SW Steve W. Team Member Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 6/22/2018 "Easy and effective. Database integration in lightning speed" 5/5 What do you like best about DreamFactory? APIs are built for you - and not just any APIs. Fully documented, fully secured (OAuth, LDAP, Active Directory, SAML Integration...) and accessible through a 3rd party client. Very easy to import Active Directory. Very easy to create roles with appropriate limits. Logging functionality great as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about DreamFactory? UI isn't very pretty, but its an 11/10 on functionality, & productivity. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering DreamFactory: Think of the true cost of DIY APIs & the cost of other API Management tools. For us, DreamFactory cost in a year what an API team would have in a month, and what slower API Managers would cost in 2 months. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is DreamFactory solving and how is that benefiting you? For us it was a question of what was the best way to build our new apps. Our APIs would honestly have taken 6-8 (expensive) developers a few months to build or was going to take me and my organic team longer - but we would have to stop everything to do it. I have built APIs in the past and it is messy and never finished on time - so DreamFactory's solution of instantly creating and deploying the APIs for a fraction of the cost of that development team, and a fraction of the cost of what we would be giving up to do organic development, was a no-brainer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic MA Mark A. Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 6/22/2018 "Will actually never need to build an API again" 5/5 What do you like best about DreamFactory? Fastest and easiest API Management tool my department has ever used. We used DreamFactory to build the REST APIs we needed for a series of projects and were able to save tens of thousands on the developer hours it would have taken otherwise. The UI is also very easy and made our particular use case involving turning SOAP services to REST a dream. Once we configured server side scripting it our SOAP to REST translation automatically for us. Support has been fantastic! Erik, one of the engineers there, has been notably excellent. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about DreamFactory? I dislike that we didn't find DreamFactory earlier! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering DreamFactory: The Open Source is free and functions just like commercial versions. Try it out! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is DreamFactory solving and how is that benefiting you? As above really - but we have delivered our SOAP to REST project to onboard a large customer over 2 months early and integrated our new database, MemSQL, weeks ahead of schedule. We have also I would say started to achieve real productivity gains through having all our data within reach through a single interface. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Seller invite DS Dylan S. CEO Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 7/12/2018 "Absolutely invaluable" 5/5 What do you like best about DreamFactory? DreamFactory has saved us countless development hours by providing an extremely easy way to bridge our data sources. Before we replaced our homegrown solution with DreamFactory, we constantly had to make code updates on our end. Now it all happens behind the scenes without any manual intervention. One feature that we didn't know existed at first is the abiliity to write you own transformation scripts/routines. You can think of it as a the "T" layer in a ETL process, but applied directly to your API. This was our original concern with using DreamFactory, but after seeing they had this already bulit-in, it washed all our concerns away. They have this stuff set up really well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about DreamFactory? We haven't run into any issues with the product yet. It's a pretty intuitive UI so all of our team members have been able to get up and running pretty quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering DreamFactory: They have an OSS version of their software. I recommend giving it a spin. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is DreamFactory solving and how is that benefiting you? We have many disparate data sources that we need to eventually aggregate into an API, and a lot of transforming that needs to happen as well. This is all plug-n-play with DreamFactory. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic JR Josiah R. Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 6/26/2018 "Great product, great support" 5/5 What do you like best about DreamFactory? Dreamfactory is super easy to configure new endpoints in. Connecting to both closed and open source dbms is easy and the consistent way of exposing endpoints take make libraries of code really easy to reuse. The support is also really good - often just a few second on chat. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about DreamFactory? The hardest part are the upgrades. For a mission critical app, downtime needs to be minimal. The upgrades certainly don't require much downtime, but it does .ean we have to do upgrades off hours. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering DreamFactory: They provide excellent support and are will to work with you to get your environment set up. Even for free users, the forums are pretty good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is DreamFactory solving and how is that benefiting you? Rapid application development, secure data communication . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Verified User in Building Materials](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Building Materials") UB Verified User in Building Materials Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 6/22/2018 "Build a REST API on any database with no coding!" 5/5 What do you like best about DreamFactory? The full documentation and testing features of the API Docs section of the software. It allows even a novice user to spin up Postman and start experimenting. It is truly one of the best features of the package. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about DreamFactory? Current pricing is a bit high for the enterprise level connections. Going from open-source and free to use to tens of thousands of dollars is a big wall to climb. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering DreamFactory: If you really need an API that's robust and very detailed to access your hard to obtain or virtually inaccessible data, DreamFactory will probably ease your pain considerably. Oracle, SAP, SQL Server, SQL, MySQL, and many more become REST API's with a snap. Once installed, there is very little configuration and then you have users, permissions, roles, and the ability to write custom scripts in your preferred language that do even more. I can't describe in just a few words how powerful this software is. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is DreamFactory solving and how is that benefiting you? A problem we've overcome is the ability to make legacy and third party data available to our web development team form our internal ERP system. The benefits are being realized nearly every day that we discover something new. For instance, we have now realized that we can pipe in other REST services or even SOAP services and output them in a consistent and normalized way using DreamFactory's services modules. Want to serve up MS-SQL to a custom React project? Knock yourself out. Thinking of doing iOS development on top of an Oracle DB or SAP? Do it. The sky is the limit. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Doug B.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Doug B.") DB Doug B. CEO Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 6/22/2018 "Simple API solution for tough DB access problem" 5/5 What do you like best about DreamFactory? Simplicity - DreamFactory's easy API solution to put on our db's makes life really easy. Gets us our data quickly and easily. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about DreamFactory? Honestly, there's not a lot I don't like. Things can always be a bit easier, a bit simpler, etc., but overall they do a great job. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is DreamFactory solving and how is that benefiting you? Accessing our data in multiple random databases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ## Questions about DreamFactory? 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. 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