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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) ![SoonHin K.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "SoonHin K.") SK SoonHin K. CEO Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 6/26/2018 "DreamFactory Custom API Development" 4/5 What do you like best about DreamFactory? Just a few clicks and cut-and-paste of Swagger-based API endpoints definition to create a serverless custom API endpoints. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about DreamFactory? The editor to write serverless function to handle endpoints does not support versioning, and there is no advanced real-time error checking feature. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is DreamFactory solving and how is that benefiting you? We are trying to map Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Seller invite ![Nikhil G.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Nikhil G.") NG Nikhil G. Product Lead, Artificial Intelligence Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 9/22/2016 "DreamFactory" 4.5/5 What do you like best about DreamFactory? The kind of ease with which it provides API automation capabilities is superb! It makes almost all the automation task free from much required very difficult and complex development activities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about DreamFactory? There was once some issue while integrating data from mobile applications. However, it was resolved later and from then has been working fine. It might be some interface issues in the beginning. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering DreamFactory: A must try for any organization which is trying to ease its automation. In today's scenario anyways if you want to beat competition and stay ahead you need to leverage data and make your systems as efficient as possible. Dreamfactory makes that work a lot easier so that the company can focus on more strategic issues and helps the organization to grow much faster! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is DreamFactory solving and how is that benefiting you? Our company is a growing at a much faster pace and we aim to occupy the top spot in the logistics industry in the country. To achieve this, we rely heavily on data and leverage automation as much as possible especially while dealing with the regulatory issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Astha S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Astha S.") AS Astha S. Senior Associate Logistics and Supply Chain Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 9/8/2016 "DreamFactory : APIs made Awesome" 4.5/5 What do you like best about DreamFactory? A smart and easy way to create APIs. No need to code and develop from scratch. Makes a lot of work a lot easier. The tool helps save a lot of time and energy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about DreamFactory? Data integration is a little tricky process. And once there was also a complaint regarding security breach. It would be great if dashboard has more options. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering DreamFactory: I would recommend using DreamFactory to develop APIs in an extremely simple manner and gain advantages from that. Its one of the most reliable tools to do the same. A must software to help your technology team succeed at a faster rate and get ahead of competition. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is DreamFactory solving and how is that benefiting you? We are a logistics company who leverages technology to stay ahead of the competition. We used to develop applications from scratch and it used to take a lot of time. But after using DreamFactory the work became extremely simple and APIs could be developed in just almost no time. It helped us move ahead especially with online forms filing work and saved a lot of fines for the organization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Nagarjuna Y.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Nagarjuna Y.") NY Nagarjuna Y. Software Development Engineer Online Media Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 1/2/2016 "Dream Factory REST API in Seconds ? Yeah that's True !!" 4.5/5 What do you like best about DreamFactory? This is an awesome 1. Live documentation of REST API's is a pain for developers DreamFactory solved this using Swagger-UI this is most interesting and lovable thing done by DreamFactory. (Note;This type of feature is also available with Strongloops' Loopback.io) 2. Security is the main concern for anyone whoever you name it from a serious developer to Enterprises DreamFactory handles it in a very decent way. 3. Compare to DreamFactory - 1.0 user interface got improved in DreamFactory-2.0 (Yes this means a lot for me !!) which reduced a lot of mismanagement while working with admin related stuff. 4. Ready made installers for every cloud provider and for local development this made my life easier. 5. Node.js(javascript) and PHP support for Server-side scripting simplifies the amount of work I have to do.I don't have to hire a separate person to use DreamFactory. In every companies In-house teams will have an Idea on these languages a proper understanding of documentation is enough to handle day to day tasks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about DreamFactory? Technical Support team irritated us a lot though we have contacted DreamFactory only once that was a bad experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering DreamFactory: I would recommend DreamFactory for small seized teams in IoT,& Sector as it reduces the amount of time spend on managing,creating and bug fixing while working with custom build REST API's Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is DreamFactory solving and how is that benefiting you? we have used DreamFactory for 2-3 web and mobile applications it not only reduces amount of work done for setup,installation but improved our team productivity. For Web & Mobile Backend as a Middleware Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Marouane T.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Marouane T.") MT Marouane T. Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 8/3/2015 "great product" 4/5 What do you like best about DreamFactory? dreamFactory is a great product with awesome features to build an enterprise grade API, it's let you focus on your application developpement Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about DreamFactory? dreamFactory takes out control of your API and data source and file storage if there a security problem with the system it's your entire data is in danger. but there is no problem so far. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is DreamFactory solving and how is that benefiting you? building an API is always difficult to implement, with all endpoint to write and secure, dreamFactory do that for us this help us to build your application quickly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Logistics and Supply Chain](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Logistics and Supply Chain") EL Verified User in Logistics and Supply Chain Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 9/18/2015 "quick deployment" 3.5/5 What do you like best about DreamFactory? quick deployment once components are determined Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about DreamFactory? some configuration still need to be done manually Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering DreamFactory: yes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is DreamFactory solving and how is that benefiting you? quick deployment for big projects. it made release management simple. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Peter B.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Peter B.") PB Peter B. Director, Enterprise Solution Architect Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 12/27/2012 "Simple and Free" 4.5/5 What do you like best about DreamFactory? The Form Factory Application was very easy to learn and with just a small amount of training. Easy to use and can be a good replace to Conga Merge which is NOT free. Support via email was very quick and resposive to my needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about DreamFactory? Not much .. fairly basic though. I fyou are looking for hig end form creation, then this is not the tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering DreamFactory: Definitley worth the try, especailly since it's free. Install in your sandbox and see how far it takes you .. you won't be disappointed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated 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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