# Layer7 API Management Reviews **Vendor:** Broadcom **Category:** [API Development Tools](https://www.g2.com/categories/api-development) **Average Rating:** 4.3/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 7 ## About Layer7 API Management CA Live API Creator helps create application back-ends for internal applications, mobile development projects, data-as-a-service exposure, Internet of Things (IoT) enablement and partner application integrations. With CA Live API Creator, you can: - Create enterprise APIs from diverse data sources up to ten times faster than hand coding and up to 40 times more concise. - Integrate data from both SQL and NoSQL data sources with fine-grained security and the flexibility to deploy and scale to existing and future architectures. - Execute business policies and enable interactive data exploration through a browser interface. To learn more or to start your free trial, visit CA at https://www.ca.com/us/products/ca-live-api-creator.html?mrm=554417 ## Layer7 API Management Reviews ### 1. Good Experience working with them! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sakshi S. | Student/researcher, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 18, 2023 **What do you like best about Layer7 API Management?** The platform is designed to be user-friendly and easy to use, even for non-technical users. With a drag-and-drop interface and intuitive tools, developers can create APIs without having to write a lot of code. **What do you dislike about Layer7 API Management?** It's important to note that Layer7 Live API Creator is not a one-size-fits-all solution. While it can certainly provide value and benefits to developers, it's essential to evaluate the platform against specific use cases and determine whether or not it's the right tool for the job. **What problems is Layer7 API Management solving and how is that benefiting you?** The platform enables developers to create APIs quickly and efficiently, reducing the time and resources required for manual development. This can help to save time and costs, making it easier to scale development efforts and get APIs to market faster. ### 2. This product is no longer supported by Broadcom - use API Logic Server instead **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tyler B. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 12, 2023 **What do you like best about Layer7 API Management?** The declarative rules now found in API Logic Server. **What do you dislike about Layer7 API Management?** The client studio was a desktop app running Derby (Java) to edit the JSON repository and JavaScript functions. API Logic Server can run in any Python IDE> **What problems is Layer7 API Management solving and how is that benefiting you?** The rules engine was a layer between the client and the database was the most powerful feature. The same rules are now found in API Logic Server. ### 3. I work with Layer7 Live API on my work, very ease and intuitive interface **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Menahem L. | Senior Developer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 29, 2021 **What do you like best about Layer7 API Management?** Fast learning of interface, easy to use and change, full logging and audit systems, work with swagger, rest API and soap WS, reliable, not crushing too much, one of the best in the class **What do you dislike about Layer7 API Management?** Take too much memory by default, but this is easy to change in .bat or config file. Maybe we need a web interface, integration with Git or TFS, so far so good **What problems is Layer7 API Management solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use this software to expose the Rest API to other offices and consume the Rest API from a third party, and it increased my productivity by 70%. Now I can expose my API in ten minutes at all ### 4. ease manage to API **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Networking | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 24, 2021 **What do you like best about Layer7 API Management?** the integration between DB and programm laguajes **What do you dislike about Layer7 API Management?** the performace some time is a lettle slow **What problems is Layer7 API Management solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have several tools that help me to do my work easily ### 5. Amazing app for creating API & microservices **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 25, 2021 **What do you like best about Layer7 API Management?** Easiest way to create API in middleware & micro services which definitely makes a developer life easy. **What do you dislike about Layer7 API Management?** Nothing much. Everything is so awesome.Hardly any one can find any issues in this great app **What problems is Layer7 API Management solving and how is that benefiting you?** In less time one can create API & project oriented to make the completion on time. ### 6. One Stop Solution for API Handling **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 13, 2021 **What do you like best about Layer7 API Management?** The best thing I found from my experience was the ease with which it helped me in my personal mobile development projects and how fast the whole endeavour is! **What do you dislike about Layer7 API Management?** The Source control is a bit tricky and cumbersome , hope it gets looked into soon **What problems is Layer7 API Management solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mobile Development projects which mostly include applications too ### 7. CA LAC is a game changer. All that server-side work virtually disappears with it. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sam B. | Owner, Management Consulting, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 13, 2016 **What do you like best about Layer7 API Management?** Speed with which you can develop powerful web-based applications. This is because the server-side is barely a consideration. I can focus on getting the database right and the rest of my time goes to what my customers see -- the client-side. It is not that I am compromising my web-app's product specifications. Neither is it that I am compromising performance. It is that fast, that easy, that accurate, and that powerful. **What do you dislike about Layer7 API Management?** One area that I know CA has already improved, but which is the most challenging, is version controller and release management. You just have to be very structured, detailed, and focused as you roll your latest development into your production environment (when it is a major change). I'm not sure that being structured, detailed, and focused at this moment is an unrealistic requirement. But it is the most challenging aspect of using the product. **Recommendations to others considering Layer7 API Management:** This product reduces one key component of developing web-based applications to a trivial task. I use it for authentication, authorization, business logic, data security, and data access. All the server-side functions necessary to get real applications to market quickly. This is a tremendous value. **What problems is Layer7 API Management solving and how is that benefiting you?** Delivering the power of web-based, RESTful applications to mid-sized business. CA LAC gives you the power to work with structured, hierarchical data (nested data) and large data sets (arrays) to streamline your server calls which drives performance. You can build world-class performance, security, and capability at a fraction of the cost. Specifically, I build web-based applications for the collection, management, storage and analysis of financial information. Security, accessibility, and speed are the main requirements. ## Layer7 API Management Discussions - [What is Layer7 Live API Creator used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-layer7-live-api-creator-used-for) - [View Layer7 API Management pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/layer7-api-management-2024-04-12/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-20+12%3A43%3A49+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=cbd2b88d-85b2-422c-a77e-87f94fbfca4d&secure%5Btoken%5D=c60f4c8fa99ffe1bdaf35b4b83782997de647368c6b8a5651d82ee8da65899a8&format=llm_user) ## Layer7 API Management Features **Development** - API Testing - Data Security - Orchestration - Scalability **Collaboration** - Design Management - Access Control - Visibility ## Top Layer7 API Management Alternatives - [Kong Gateway](https://www.g2.com/products/kong-gateway/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (306 reviews) - [MuleSoft Anypoint Platform](https://www.g2.com/products/mulesoft-anypoint-platform/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (616 reviews) - [Postman](https://www.g2.com/products/postman/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (1,726 reviews)