MuleSoft vs. WSO2 Comparison

Who should you choose and why?

✋ Most important consideration

• Because it’s part of the Salesforce family, MuleSoft has the advantage when it comes to training and support. However, WSO2 usually has a much better total cost of ownership (TCO) for managing your API lifecycle. 

🤔 Strongly consider MuleSoft over WSO2 if

• You’re performing API mediation routines like message transformation, protocol conversion, and service call formatting.
• You need to perform API composition to aggregate the results from multiple backend services.
• You’re looking for a tool that supports RESTful API Modeling Language (RAML), GraphQL, and OData.

🤔 Strongly consider WSO2 over MuleSoft if

• You’re planning to expose event-based APIs using async APIs.
• You want to integrate with tools for identity management.
• You plan to enforce policies across the APIs and do better policy management.
• Having a micro gateway for enforcing policies near service endpoints would be useful.

📝Other Notes

• Both WSO2 and MuleSoft support a bevy of API protocols, but WSO2 provides better support for WSDL and gRPC.
• MuleSoft has better role-based access control (RBAC) support compared to WSO2.
• Compared to MuleSoft, WSO2 has better issue management for analyzing exceptions and tracking issues.