Red Hat Fuse vs WSO2 Enterprise Integrator comparison

Red Hat and WSO2 are both solutions in the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) category. Red Hat is ranked #6 with an average rating of 8.0, while WSO2 is ranked #7 with an average rating of 8.0. Red Hat holds a 7.2% mindshare in E, compared to WSO2’s 5.4% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Red Hat users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 75% of WSO2 users who would recommend it.

Red Hat Fuse

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WSO2 Enterprise Integrator

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 3, 2025

Red Hat Fuse and WSO2 Enterprise Integrator compete in the integration and API management category. Red Hat Fuse appears stronger in developer-friendliness and seamless connectivity, while WSO2 Enterprise Integrator stands out in API management and mediation.

Features: Red Hat Fuse is known for its seamless integration capabilities, leveraging Apache Camel for connectivity. It offers modularity and containerization features that simplify deployment. An additional strength is its developer-friendly environment, enabling swift application development. WSO2 Enterprise Integrator excels in providing a robust API management platform with extensive transformation capabilities. Its wide range of adaptors makes it a versatile choice for standardizing processes. The solution also offers a no-code, user-friendly environment for faster integrations.

Room for Improvement: Red Hat Fuse users suggest that documentation and user interface enhancements could further improve the experience. Smoother learning curves and better built-in connectors are also areas to consider. Users wish for improved monitoring and easier configurations. WSO2 Enterprise Integrator could improve its admin interface, ease of customization, and library maturity. Better pricing models and expanded connector support would enhance its appeal.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Red Hat Fuse is mainly used in on-premises environments but is expanding its cloud capabilities. While its technical support is generally responsive, some users experience slower response times. WSO2 Enterprise Integrator is praised for its easy setup and strong community support, although administrative complexities can occur. Both providers offer helpful technical support, although response time improvements would be beneficial.

Pricing and ROI: Red Hat Fuse is initially costly, with its high cost of ownership being suited to larger enterprises that can benefit from its robust support. While open source, the support costs can drive up the price, with ROI realized through operational cost reductions. WSO2 Enterprise Integrator is generally more cost-effective, though open-source users might find subscription fees restrictive. Both solutions show ROI, albeit with varying initial investments and long-term savings potential.

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Categories and Ranking

Red Hat Fuse

Ranking in Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)

6th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

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

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Data Integration (32nd)

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2025, in the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) category, the mindshare of Red Hat Fuse is 7.2%, down from 7.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of WSO2 Enterprise Integrator is 5.4%, up from 5.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)

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Kaushal Kedia

Technical Architect at Accenture

Offers a single console for all applications and supports Camel routing

Containerization is one key area where the product can improve, but it probably has already improved in JBOS integration. On a few occasions, our company's production team faced an issue with Red Hat Fuse; the screen displayed that the containers had gone down while, in reality, they were running in the background. The user interface and the back-end code were not in sync in the aforementioned situation, which our organization frequently faced while using Red Hat Fuse. But at our company, we were using an older version of Red Hat Fuse in which we faced the issues. From the JBOS end, the product was very frequently changed from Red Hat, and it was difficult for our clients to keep investing money in every upgrade. Six or seven years back, Red Hat Fuse was one of the best solutions.

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Ritesh_Shah

Senior Solution Architect at Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Decreases the development timeframe and costs

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. Often, customers decide to develop using open-source tools like Spring Boot if there aren't many connectors required to avoid increasing costs. They'll develop this way and then deploy using APIM, the bare minimum needed. It is mainly required for very complicated setups with many connectors. In the implementations I've seen, people often used open-source tools because there weren't many third-party systems involved—just their organization's own systems. From WSO2 Enterprise Integrator, I expect them to bring up more and more connectors in the future. That's the main expectation. Having more connectors in various areas will help us when discussing new requirements. I don't have any specific use case right now, so I can't name a particular connector. But, as new technologies emerge, the relevant connectors should be there for those. WSO2 Enterprise Integrator mainly helps with the integration part, which can be simplified only if you have relevant connectors for whatever you're doing.

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Pros

"Because we have been doing Red Hat Fuse projects for three years, and over time we have matured, we can employ similar use cases and make use of accelerators or templates. It gives us an edge when we deliver these services or APIs quickly."

"One of the features I found most valuable in Red Hat Fuse is that it has a lot of containers so you won't have to worry about load balancing. In the past, there was a cut-off, but nowadays, Red Hat Fuse is moving off of that, so my team is utilizing it the most for load balancing, particularly running goal applications and three to five containers. There's automatic load balancing so you won't have to worry too much. I also found that component-wise, you don't have to do much coding in Red Hat Fuse because everything is configurable, for example, XML-based coding. Coding isn't that difficult. Performance-wise, I also found the solution to be quite good and its processing is quite fast. My team is processing a huge amount of data with the help of Red Hat Fuse."

"The most valuable feature is that it's the same as Apache Camel."

"We use it because it is easy to integrate with any other application...Scalability-wise, I rate the solution nine out of ten."

"We usually had used PowerCenter for master data integration (by replication). But in some cases, it was better to use Fuse for providing the master data online. It doesn't make it necessary to replicate data."

"The support training that comes with the product is amazing."

"What I like about Red Hat Fuse is that it's a well-established integration software. I find all aspects of the tool positive."

"The most valuable part of Fuse is the fact that it's based on Red Hat Apache Camel. It is really good that it already comes with so many different connectors. That makes it relatively easy to use. We use their XML definition to define the routes, making it really easy to define the routing."

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"The solution has two main parts: integration and transformation. It's very user-friendly and easy to understand for everyone."

"The drag-and-drop features for connectors are very valuable."

"WSO2's analytics capability is good, considering the ELC support they provide."

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

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

"The installation process is easy."

"The learning curve for this solution is very good."

"I like the user-friendly system and development of the service-oriented architecture."

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Cons

"Currently, the main point of concern for us is how flexible it is to cater to different requirements. It should be more flexible."

"The stability of the solution is an area with a shortcoming that needs to be improved."

"While it's a good platform, the pricing is a bit high."

"Containerization is one key area where the product can improve"

"The monitoring experience should be better."

"The testing part, specifically when running it in the cloud, could be improved. It's a little bit complex, especially considering its cloud nature."

"What could be improved in Red Hat Fuse is the deployment process because it's still very heavy. It's containerized, but now with Spring Boot and other microservices-related containers, deployment is still very heavy. Red Hat Fuse still has room for improvement in terms of becoming more containerized and more oriented."

"Our clients would like to see the user interface improved so that it is more user-friendly."

More Red Hat Fuse cons

"You cannot include the validation of XPath."

"The customization can be a bit difficult."

"They should introduce better pricing for small companies."

"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."

"If I have to buy software, then it becomes expensive for me."

"In my opinion, the administration model and interface, of Carbon, are lacking in terms of its features and user experience."

"The integration capabilities need to be improved."

"WSO2 libraries are not mature enough. For example, if you want to integrate with Kafka using its Kafka library, it often has many bugs."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Our license for Red Hat Fuse is around $27,000 per year, which is very expensive."

"This is an open-source product that can be used free of charge."

"After doing some Googling and comparisons, the main standouts were MuleSoft and Red Hat Fuse. One of the big factors in our decision to go with Fuse was the licensing cost. It was cheaper to go with Fuse."

"In terms of pricing, Red Hat Fuse is a bit expensive because nowadays, if I'm just comparing it with OpenShift with Kubernetes, so Kubernetes and OpenShift, are similar, and Kubernetes is open source, so Red Hat Fuse is quite expensive in terms of support, but Red Hat Fuse provides value for money because it provides good support. If you want to get something, you need to pay for it."

"Red Hat Fuse is an expensive tool, though I cannot answer how much it costs as that's confidential."

"This is an expensive product. It costs a lot and although it's worth the money, the explanations that we need to give to our top executives are highly complicated."

"We found other solutions were more costly."

"Pricing has been something that we have been working with Red Hat on, year over year. We have preferred pricing with the university because we are involved in education and research."

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

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

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

"The cost is better than IBM Cloud Pak."

"It is a low-cost solution."

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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm

21%

Computer Software Company

18%

Manufacturing Company

Insurance Company

Computer Software Company

23%

Financial Services Firm

18%

Manufacturing Company

Government

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Red Hat Fuse?

The process workflow, where we can orchestrate and design the application by defining different routes, is really useful.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Red Hat Fuse?

You need to pay for the license. It's not free. I'm not aware of the exact prices. There are no extra costs in addition to the standard licensing since it is a subscription-based solution.

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What needs improvement with Red Hat Fuse?

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What do you like most about WSO2 Enterprise Integrator?

WSO2's analytics capability is good, considering the ELC support they provide.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for WSO2 Enterprise Integrator?

The product has reasonable and competitive pricing for enterprise customers. It is expensive for small businesses especially. They are using the open-source solution, and they find it expensive sin...

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What needs improvement with WSO2 Enterprise Integrator?

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Overview

Red Hat JBoss Fuse is a lightweight, flexible integration platform that enables rapid integration across the extended enterprise - on-premise or in the cloud. JBoss Fuse includes modular integration capabilities, an enterprise service bus (ESB), to unlock information.

Red Hat

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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