OpenESB vs WSO2 Enterprise Integrator comparison

OpenESB and WSO2 are both solutions in the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) category. OpenESB is ranked #13, while WSO2 is ranked #7 with an average rating of 8.0. OpenESB holds a 2.4% mindshare in E, compared to WSO2’s 5.9% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of OpenESB users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 76% of WSO2 users who would recommend it.

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100% willing to recommend

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76% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 3, 2025

WSO2 Enterprise Integrator and OpenESB compete in the integration solutions domain. WSO2 Enterprise Integrator holds the upper hand with its advanced features and deployment support, while OpenESB offers a cost-effective solution due to its open-source nature.

Features: WSO2 Enterprise Integrator provides robust integration with multiple cloud-native instances, managed API support, and extensive capability for seamless integrations. OpenESB is valued for its simplicity, strong enterprise message processing, and significant integration functionalities.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: WSO2 Enterprise Integrator offers comprehensive deployment flexibility across various environments, coupled with strong customer support. OpenESB provides straightforward deployment processes but has lower customer service responsiveness.

Pricing and ROI: WSO2 Enterprise Integrator involves a higher initial cost, justified by its extensive features and long-term benefits. OpenESB, being open-source, involves lower setup costs, making it attractive to budget-conscious users seeking reasonable return on investment.

To learn more, read our detailed OpenESB vs. WSO2 Enterprise Integrator Report (Updated: December 2025).

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Categories and Ranking

OpenESB

Ranking in Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)

13th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

WSO2 Enterprise Integrator

Ranking in Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)

7th

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Data Integration (32nd)

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) category, the mindshare of OpenESB is 2.4%, up from 1.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of WSO2 Enterprise Integrator is 5.9%, up from 4.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
WSO2 Enterprise Integrator	5.9%
OpenESB	2.4%
Other	91.7%

Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)

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PaulPerez

Integration Architect at Pymma consulting

Easily define choreography and orchestration with this process-oriented solution

We provide contracted services for our customers that include coordinating with providers and implementing the solution. A current project includes using the solution to deploy 200 microservices. The process-oriented solution allows you to define choreography and orchestration. This feature…

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Andrea Cuccarini

Technical director at Cremete

Effective data transformation and integration in complex environments with high functionality

Something that could be improved in WSO2 Enterprise Integrator is that the problem is not a lack of capability or functionalities. The problem is that it is a very complex environment. To put your hand on this environment is a very demanding task. This is the real problem. The problem is not about the product, but about the complexity to manage, to configure, to decide what to do. I have some experience using SAP R/3. It seems to me something similar. When you have to configure a situation with a client, especially for a client not in an industrial sector, but in a service sector, it is quite usual that you are in trouble for some reason. This is always the story that I found in the implementations I have done. Maybe there are only three or four big problems, in some other cases there are more than that, but this is the situation usually. For WSO2 Enterprise Integrator, not the same, but I must say it is quite often there is a need to put together some pieces and make it work in a coordinated way.

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Quotes from Members

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Pros

"OpenESB pushes the organization to clearly define service boundaries and interfaces. So it motives the business and the development teams to clearly define their business services and processes they want to implement. OpenESB supports fine and coarse-grain granularity for the services and supports top-down and bottom-up approaches for the services, processes definition, and composition."

"One of the most valuable features is being able to implement business processes while keeping track of the design from BPMN to a BPEL Implementation."

"The process-oriented solution allows you to define choreography and orchestration."

"The core is very stable."

"From the capabilities and functional possibility and anything else technical, it is a very well-done product, I have to say."

"It's a consolidated product. It works and it does its job pretty well."

"The installation process is easy."

"The solution's technical support is very knowledgeable."

"It was mostly easy to set up the product."

"Currently, I find the configuration part quite valuable, where you can easily configure things."

"The solution basically conforms to our standards."

"It's a very complete product. It allows us to network security and add more layers of security to the system."

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Cons

"The documentation of the product must be improved. It could be tricky to find the right documentation on a topic since the documentation is spread in many places. I advise the new joiner to contact the community to get entry points and additional documentation. Tutorial and Video must be present to take up the product."

"The documentation needs to be better."

"Cloud deployment is weak and needs to be improved."

"Regarding its management, a web console being able to synchronize distributed instances would be great."

"One of the reasons that we are looking for a replacement is their way of defining integration. The language of the XML structures that I use to describe the integrations are not that standard, and it's not easy to find people who are familiar with this approach."

"The administration side is complex and could use significant improvements to enhance the solution's functionality."

"The main issue with the product is pricing. It uses core-based pricing for WSO2 Enterprise Integrator and API Manager. It would be best if you had APIM by default. It provides many connectors for easy integration with third-party systems."

"The customization can be a bit difficult."

"There are a lot of security settings that when you apply you have to re-apply again every time you modify a setting. It is something that really needs to be enhanced."

"They should introduce better pricing for small companies."

"The server is very specific and it is very difficult to get experience with it."

"I would like to see better documentation for the open-source version."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"There are two versions. The first is the community version, which is free and contains the last part of the feature, but if you want to get the Enterprise version, you'll have to pay €60,000 which covers support and two instances on production."

"The cost for the prediction instrument is high because it is charged per instances based on prediction, but the rest of the solution is free."

"The Community Edition is a full product you can use in production, it does not have limitations like other alternatives."

"The open-source, unsupported version is available free of charge."

"It is a low-cost solution."

"The solution costs about 20,000 or 30,000 euros per year, per instance."

"The pricing of WSO2 Enterprise Integrator for enterprise subscriptions can be considered expensive, especially from the perspective of someone who prefers open-source software."

"I rate the product price a six on a scale of one to ten, where one is low price and ten is high price."

"The cost is better than IBM Cloud Pak."

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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm

11%

Computer Software Company

Comms Service Provider

Insurance Company

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Large Enterprise

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	8
Midsize Enterprise	2
Large Enterprise	11

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Overview

OpenESB is a Java-based open-source enterprise service bus. It can be used as a platform for both enterprise application integration and service-oriented architecture. OpenESB allows you to integrate legacy systems, external and internal partners and new development in your Business Process.

OpenESB

WSO2 Enterprise Integrator, core to the WSO2 Integration Agile Platform, is an open source Integration product for cloud native and container-native projects. It enables enterprise integration experts to build, scale, and secure sophisticated integration solutions to achieve digital agility. Unlike other integration products, WSO2 Enterprise Integrator already contains integration runtimes, message brokering, business process modeling, analytics and visual tooling capabilities.

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