WSO2 API Platform Reviews & Product Details

WSO2 API Platform is an open source, unified control plane for managing APIs, AI, and event-driven traffic across cloud, hybrid, and on-prem environments. It enables organizations to design, secure, govern, and productize APIs while scaling agentic and LLM-based workloads with built-in governance and security controls. Teams use WSO2 to prepare APIs for AI agents with auto-generated MCP servers, centrally manage outbound LLM traffic, and gain full visibility into API and AI usage, performance, and cost. The platform supports bi-directional AI governance, covering both inbound agent-to-tool traffic via MCP and outbound app-to-LLM traffic from one control plane. Unlike traditional API management tools, WSO2 API Platform supports both human and agentic consumers from a single platform. It manages APIs across WSO2 and third-party gateways, including Kong, AWS, Azure, Envoy, and Apigee, with federated policy enforcement from a single control plane. Built-in monetization (powered by Moesif) lets teams meter, bill, and productize API calls and LLM token usage through connectors for Stripe, Zuora, Chargebee, and more. Key capabilities include: ➡️ Full lifecycle API management with MCP Gateway (auto-generates MCP servers from ➡️ OpenAPI specs) and LLM Gateway (routing, semantic caching, guardrails, PII masking, and token cost control). ➡️ Deep analytics for API and AI usage powered by Moesif. ➡️ Compliance support for HIPAA, PCI-DSS, FedRAMP, GDPR, DORA, SOX, ITAR, and EU AI Act, with integration for Azure Content Safety and AWS Bedrock Guardrails. ➡️ Flexible deployment: SaaS, Kubernetes, hybrid, and self-hosted. ➡️ 100% open source with zero vendor lock-in. WSO2 API Platform helps enterprises modernize their API programs, adopt AI responsibly, and turn APIs and AI services into secure, scalable digital products.

Seller

WSO2

Discussions

WSO2 API Platform Community

Languages Supported

English

Solution Type

All-in-One

Overview by

Radhik Colombage

Used by Cognizant and 2 others

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Value at a Glance

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Time to Implement

5 months

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Mohamed R.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

3/16/2023

"Micro Integrator & API Manager Developer"

4/5

What do you like best about WSO2 API Platform?

Easy to use

low time to dev

flexibility to relate with DB Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about WSO2 API Platform?

Deployment of car file on micro integrator Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

VENKATA R.

Integration consultant

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

2/2/2023

"Powerful open-source feature-rich API Management solution"

5/5

What do you like best about WSO2 API Platform?

Ease of use, maintenance, and deployment. Ease to configure custom user stores. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about WSO2 API Platform?

Documentation related to k8s deployment is minimal. Need deep and better one. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Anushan S.

Software Engineer Intern

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

3/15/2023

"I just like to share what are the benefits I am getting from API manager"

5/5

What do you like best about WSO2 API Platform?

Develop a portal for distributing newly published APIs and their documentation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about WSO2 API Platform?

Same as the Identity server, It also looks old. Try to update some new UI/UX and Features Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mohammed A.

Associate Software Engineer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

5/27/2022

"WSO2 API Manager is the Promising tool to work with daily Environment in IT industry."

5/5

What do you like best about WSO2 API Platform?

1. Encouraging innovation, I have a great time working with the WSO2 API Manager to perform several operations which meet the user requirements.

2. It is the best software for everyone who loves to deploy and build, integrate, and expose your digital services as managed APIs in the cloud.

3. Overall experience with WSO2 API Manager is very good. I found it as one of the best tools for deploying and providing security for the API'S.

4. This installs just like any other application - it's pretty straightforward.

5. This tool helps and provides a great solution for Engineers to work with Databases and other applications like Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana and other cloud applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about WSO2 API Platform?

1. My experience with the Wso2 API manager is very good but the team needs to work with Documentation and provide solutions for the Requirements.

2. Need to upload more videos on youtube for reference while performing the particular operations using the Wso2 Apim tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering WSO2 API Platform:

Wso2 Apim open source is very good tool for the Software Engineers in IT Industry Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is WSO2 API Platform solving and how is that benefiting you?

1. WSO2 API Manager provides great usability in integrating with Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana and it helps a lot for Analytics.

2. WSO2 API Manager is the best tool to work with Dockers and Kubernetes.

3. WSO2 API Manager provides great security for the API'S. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Yashwin T.

Associate Software Engineer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

5/30/2022

"Best open source product"

5/5

What do you like best about WSO2 API Platform?

UI of the API manager and security with the key manager also good functionality with the wso2 apim. I'm using the wso2api manager for the api security. UI is much good Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about WSO2 API Platform?

not much the 3.2.0 UI is not good but 4.0.0 onwards it's good with the different UI changes. In 3.2.0 there is no sms notification feature rather than that there is no much dislikes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering WSO2 API Platform:

When it comes to the API management arena, there are many best practices that need to be followed in order to create a productive and useful API management environment. WSO2 API Manager has been designed in a way that users (both API developers and consumers) can adhere to these best practices. This guarantees total customer satisfaction and optimized results when managing APIs in various business domains. Let us have a look at some of the major best practices related to API management and how WSO2 API Manager can be used to adhere to those practic. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is WSO2 API Platform solving and how is that benefiting you?

It is solving on the security to our APIs with good security with the gateway security. it gives secured functionality to our APIs and with the ticket system solving the problem is also good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Kaio N.

Premium Support Engineer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

3/10/2023

"Great experience"

5/5

What do you like best about WSO2 API Platform?

The possibility of performing customizations in the product and the easy install Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about WSO2 API Platform?

Some constant bugs happens due to the fact of a lot of updates Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Deepti B.

Project Manager

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

5/23/2022

"Easy to implement and complete API lifecycle management solution"

4.5/5

What do you like best about WSO2 API Platform?

WSO2 API Manager is open source and one can easily try and evaluate the product before buying it. It provides flexible deployment options across the board as well as distributed architecture solutions. It has a pretty good user interface and offers excellent customization options for integration with multiple products for CIAM implementation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about WSO2 API Platform?

Limited options for API Monetization as it supports only one billing platform It does not support multiple hostnames for implementing multitenancy CI/CD requires improvement Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering WSO2 API Platform:

If you are looking for a low-cost, quick and easy to use API Management Platform, you need to consider this product. Please try the open-source version once to understand the capabilities of WSO2 API Manager. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is WSO2 API Platform solving and how is that benefiting you?

Consolidation of APIs on a single platform and seamless integration with multiple applications and 3rd party solutions. Customized authentication capabilities for different sets of users across the board. Single API Manager deployment serving multiple customers across the organization for API Management. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Prabakaran T.

Integration Consultant

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

5/5/2022

"Best API Management Product"

5/5

What do you like best about WSO2 API Platform?

The customizations that API Manager allows, help the enterprise entities to have their own implementation of a few features based on their needs, with minimal effort. Easy integration with most of the well-known providers/connectors is an additional USP for me. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about WSO2 API Platform?

Some of the swagger definitions of the SCIM2 and other Rest APIs are not well defined. If they are taken care of, the API way of governing the product will be top-notch. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering WSO2 API Platform:

If you are considering WSO2 API Manager as your API Management solution, I recommend you understand the basic features of the product first, by implementing a few pilot use cases before starting your entire implementation on it so that there will not be any early setbacks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is WSO2 API Platform solving and how is that benefiting you?

I helped my organization govern and secure the APIs we have through the API manager. I have written a lot of custom mediations and created RBAC of the resources using scopes. The immediate benefit we reaped from choosing API manager is the secured access to our APIs and we have not seen any issues with the API security so far (touchwood!). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Aravindhan M.

Software Engineer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/18/2022

"wso2"

3.5/5

What do you like best about WSO2 API Platform?

Simplicity, UI and UX are the best characteristics in the API manager. It is simple and easy to get started. Discord group is very helpful for support. Highly recommend to other. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about WSO2 API Platform?

Some parts are difficult to figure out on own. Documentation can be done better. Documentation is not easily understandable and difficult to follow. Video tutorials will be better. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

kavyasree s.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

8/4/2022

Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.

"Wso2API manager"

5/5

What do you like best about WSO2 API Platform?

Wso2 API manager is mostly useful to secure our API's through applying policies. We can publish our API's in the publisher portal, and users can access the data after passing API gateway policies. It is very useful for managing the APIs efficiently. It also provides both production and sandbox endpoints for very efficient use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about WSO2 API Platform?

Starting time of the server is a bit long. Sometimes developer portal APIs can't be seen in the publisher portal. We have to refresh it. Apart from these, there are no drawbacks as per my point of view. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is WSO2 API Platform solving and how is that benefiting you?

Wso2 API manager is useful for managing our own APIs and adding security with the help of rate limiting and throttling policies. By using these policies, we can limit the number of requests made to the APIs by the user. We can also achieve good communication between customers and the server by providing API documentation in the publisher portal. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.