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 6.7% mindshare in E, compared to WSO2’s 5.9% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Red Hat users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 76% of WSO2 users who would recommend it.

Red Hat Fuse

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76% willing to recommend

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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

7.0

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 Red Hat Fuse is 6.7%, down from 7.0% 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 (%)
Red Hat Fuse	6.7%
WSO2 Enterprise Integrator	5.9%
Other	87.4%

Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)

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Nilay Rathod

Chapter Area Lead/GM Group Architecture & IT at Spark New Zealand

Microservices have transformed our integrations and now highlight room to improve AI-driven tooling

There are areas in Red Hat Fuse that have room for improvement. We were recently having a discussion with Red Hat team building agentic AI, which we call AI SDLC. Something that the team is actively working on, but I have not really seen any production-level version of it is MCP. For us to use Red Hat Fuse with AI models, we need MCP so that we can be very confident that it can deliver us a really solid outcome when developers are using it, whether it is any of the integration patterns or messaging bus patterns. I have not seen that yet. Even though Red Hat has an alternative to that, such as a plugin, it is not as advanced as some of the MCPs that we see around.

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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

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"With a premium, one can get support 24 hours."

"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."

"I would rate the scalability a ten out of ten. We are an enterprise business."

"The stability has been good."

"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 solution has more tooling and options."

"It's very lightweight. There's no need for any specialized tools in order to deploy any service for Red Hat Fuse."

"The benefits of Red Hat Fuse are balanced by the fact that they use it because the integration is very simple."

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"The solution basically conforms to our standards."

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

"The customer service executives are very responsive."

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

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

"The productivity is the most valuable feature. It is very easy to write remediations."

"The connectors have been the most impactful features for handling integrations. I can use these connectors when I need specific connectivity with a third party, like a core banking system in BFSI. I don't need to do all the development. I take the specific connector, put in the IP address and password, and it takes care of everything."

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

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Cons

"Red Hat Fuse doesn't have a lot of administrative control like other applications."

"The pricing model could be adjusted. The price should be lower."

"As its learning curve is quite steep, developer dependency will always be there in the case of a Red Hat Fuse development. This should be improved for developers. There should be some built-in connectors so the grind of the developer can be reduced."

"The documentation for Fuse can be improved because, while it is very detailed and extensive, it is not too intuitive for someone that has to deliver some kind of troubleshooting services. In particular, for installation, re-installation, or upgrades, I find that the documentation can be improved."

"In the next release, I'd like more stability and more security overall."

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

"Red Hat is not easy to learn. You can learn it but you sometimes need external expertise to implement solutions."

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

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"I would like to see them bring back a feature, from earlier versions, that was very useful in debugging and finding issues."

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

"The micro integrator should be improved. There is room for enhancement considering alternative integration components."

"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."

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

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

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

"They should introduce better pricing for small companies."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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

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

"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."

"You need to pay for the license. It's not free."

"We use the standard license, but you need the container platform in order to run it."

"My company pays for the license of Red Hat Fuse yearly. At the end of the day, it's a low-cost solution, and its support licenses are still very decently priced versus bigger operators such as IBM, etc. Red Hat Fuse is much more affordable than other solutions. On a scale of one to five, with one being cheap and five being extremely expensive, I'm rating its pricing a one."

"The solution doesn't have independent licensing."

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"The cost is better than IBM Cloud Pak."

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

"It is a low-cost solution."

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

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

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

19%

Computer Software Company

Manufacturing Company

Comms Service Provider

Financial Services Firm

11%

Computer Software Company

Comms Service Provider

Insurance Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	4
Midsize Enterprise	9
Large Enterprise	13

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

Questions from the Community

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

I think the pricing for Red Hat Fuse is okay; it's not expensive, and the support is good.

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What needs improvement with Red Hat Fuse?

The downsides of Red Hat Fuse that I encountered were related to the Java virtual machine I worked with, which was Oracle, as the client did not create good services. In the integration, they had m...

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What is your primary use case for Red Hat Fuse?

My use cases for Red Hat Fuse include using Drools to create a bunch of rules for the Finance Ministry in Chile many years ago. I worked with another enterprise named Aguas Andinas, which is a very...

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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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Also Known As

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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.

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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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Avianca, American Product Distributors (APD), Kings College Hospital, AMD, CenturyLink, AECOM, E*TRADE

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