Best Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) Software

Compare the Top Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) Software as of November 2025

What is Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) Software?

Enterprise service bus (ESB) software is an architecture designed specifically for integration and interactions between applications and internal systems. Compare and read user reviews of the best Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) software currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    DreamFactory

    DreamFactory

    DreamFactory Software

    DreamFactory Software is the fastest way to build secure, internal REST APIs. Instantly generate APIs from any database with built-in enterprise security controls that operates on-premises, air-gapped, or in the cloud. Develop 4x faster, save 70% on new projects, remove project management uncertainty, focus talent on truly critical issues, win more clients, and integrate with newer & legacy technologies instantly as needed. DreamFactory is the easiest and fastest way to automatically generate, publish, manage, and secure REST APIs, convert SOAP to REST, and aggregate disparate data sources through a single API platform. See why companies like Disney, Bosch, Netgear, T-Mobile, Intel, and many more are embracing DreamFactory's innovative platform to get a competitive edge. Start a hosted trial or talk to our engineers to get access to an on-prem environment!
    Starting Price: $1500/month
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    IBM App Connect
    Improve speed and quality of application integration with AI and automation. IBM® App Connect instantly connects applications and data from existing systems and modern technologies across all environments. App Connect offers enterprise service bus (ESB) and agile integration architecture (AIA) microservices deployment of integration artifacts, allowing businesses to deploy to a multitude of flexible integration patterns. Integration and AI create an engaging experience to allow customers to make online insurance claims easier and more accurate. Open banking APIs are being adopted across the globe and leading the way towards an open data economy that empowers users and unlocks innovation. Continuum of care is a concept involving an integrated system that guides and tracks patients over time through a comprehensive array of health services spanning all levels of intensity.
    Starting Price: $500 per month
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    MetaMate

    MetaMate

    MetaMate

    MetaMate is an open source semantic service bus that provides a unified API for accessing diverse data sources, including APIs, blockchains, websites, and peer-to-peer networks. By mapping vendor-specific data representations onto an abstract schema graph, MetaMate enables seamless interaction with various services. Its community-driven approach allows contributors to add new types and fields, ensuring the system evolves with real-world data. The platform's type system is derived from widely adopted data transmission technologies such as GraphQL, gRPC, Thrift, and OpenAPI, facilitating compatibility across different protocols. MetaMate enforces backward compatibility programmatically, ensuring that services and applications built on it remain functional over time. Additionally, its command-line interface can generate slim, typed SDKs tailored to specific project needs, covering only the desired subset of the overall schema graph.
    Starting Price: Free
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    NServiceBus

    NServiceBus

    Particular Software

    The most developer-friendly service bus for .NET. More than 50,000 developers rely on NServiceBus every day. Backed by a rock-solid distributed development methodology, a worldwide community of experts, consultants and contributors, NServiceBus offers enterprise-grade scalability and reliability for your workflows and integrations without any messy XML configuration - just pure-code bliss. NServiceBus highlights High performance and scalability, Extensively used in many mission-critical systems, business domains and usage scenarios. NServiceBus scalability and performance capabilities are battle-tested and ready for the toughest assignments. Reliable integration with automatic retries. Reliable by default, with built-in configurable mechanisms to retry on failure using messaging best practices and lessons learned from thousands of production usage scenarios. Workflow and background task scheduling.
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    Mule ESB

    Mule ESB

    MuleSoft

    Mule, the runtime engine of Anypoint Platform, is a lightweight Java-based enterprise service bus (ESB) and integration platform that allows developers to connect applications together quickly and easily, enabling them to exchange data. It enables easy integration of existing systems, regardless of the different technologies that the applications use, including JMS, Web Services, JDBC, HTTP, and more. The ESB can be deployed anywhere, can integrate and orchestrate events in real time or in batch, and has universal connectivity. The key advantage of an ESB is that it allows different applications to communicate with each other by acting as a transit system for carrying data between applications within your enterprise or across the Internet. Expose and host reusable services, using the ESB as a lightweight service container. Shield services from message formats and protocols, separate business logic from messaging, and enable location-independent service calls.
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    Beats

    Beats

    Elastic

    Beats is a free and open platform for single-purpose data shippers. They send data from hundreds or thousands of machines and systems to Logstash or Elasticsearch. Beats are open source data shippers that you install as agents on your servers to send operational data to Elasticsearch. Elastic provides Beats for capturing data and event logs. Beats can send data directly to Elasticsearch or via Logstash, where you can further process and enhance the data, before visualizing it in Kibana. Want to get up and running quickly with infrastructure metrics monitoring and centralized log analytics? Try out the Metrics app and the Logs app in Kibana. For more details, see Analyze metrics and Monitor logs. Whether you’re collecting from security devices, cloud, containers, hosts, or OT, Filebeat helps you keep the simple things simple by offering a lightweight way to forward and centralize logs and files.
    Starting Price: $16 per month
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    Devart ODBC Drivers
    Reliable and simple to use data connectors for ODBC data sources. Compatible with multiple third-party tools. Devart ODBC Drivers are high-performance connectivity solutions with enterprise-level features for accessing most popular database management systems and cloud services from ODBC-compliant reporting, analytics, BI, and ETL tools on 32-bit and 64-bit Windows, macOS, and Linux. Our ODBC drivers fully support standard ODBC API functions and data types to enable easy access to live data from anywhere. The drivers provide direct access to your databases and cloud accounts, which eliminates the need for the database client libraries, simplifies the deployment process, and extends your application capabilities. We offer you optimal data access by means of ODBC and native database client libraries. However, you can avoid using client libraries, since our ODBC drivers are able to connect via the native protocol directly without using client software at all.
    Starting Price: $99.95 one-time payment
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    Apache Camel

    Apache Camel

    Apache Software Foundation

    Camel is an Open Source integration framework that empowers you to quickly and easily integrate various systems consuming or producing data. Camel supports most of the Enterprise Integration Patterns from the excellent book by Gregor Hohpe and Bobby Woolf, and newer integration patterns from microservice architectures to help you solve your integration problem by applying best practices out of the box. Apache Camel is standalone, and can be embedded as a library within Spring Boot, Quarkus, Application Servers, and in the clouds. Camel subprojects focus on making your work easy. Packed with several hundred components that are used to access databases, message queues, APIs or basically anything under the sun. Helping you integrate with everything. Camel supports around 50 data formats, allowing to translate messages in multiple formats, and with support from industry standard formats from finance, telco, health-care, and more.
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    Apache ServiceMix

    Apache ServiceMix

    Apache Software Foundation

    Apache ServiceMix is a flexible, open-source integration container that unifies the features and functionality of Apache ActiveMQ, Camel, CXF, and Karaf into a powerful runtime platform you can use to build your own integrations solutions. It provides a complete, enterprise ready ESB exclusively powered by OSGi. Reliable messaging with Apache ActiveMQ. Messaging, routing and Enterprise Integration Patterns with Apache Camel. WS and RESTful web services with Apache CXF. OSGi-based server runtime powered by Apache Karaf. BPM engine via Activiti. Full JPA support via Apache OpenJPA. XA transaction management via JTA via Apache Aries. Legacy support for the JBI standard (deprecated after the ServiceMix 3.x series) through the Apache ServiceMix NMR that includes a rich Event, Messaging and Audit API. Applications for ServiceMix can be built using OSGi Blueprint, OSGi Declarative Services, and Spring DM (legacy).
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    WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus
    The WSO2 integration runtime engine is capable of playing multiple roles in your enterprise architecture. It can act as an ESB or a microservices integrator. When deployed as an ESB, it caters to your message routing, transformation, message mediation, service orchestration, as well as service and API hosting needs. Header-based, content-based, rule-based, and priority-based routing. Implement Enterprise Integration Patterns (EIPs), database integration, event stream integrations. Transform messages with XSLT 1.0/2.0, XPath, XQuery, and Smooks. Visual data mapping, CSV, JSON, and XML transformation connectors. Supports any RDBMS, CSV, Excel, ODS, Cassandra, and Google spreadsheets. Supports OData v4 protocol for any RDBMS and Cassandra data sources. Supports MSSQL, DB2, Oracle, OpenEdge, TerraData, MySQL, PostgreSQL/EnterpriseDB, H2, Derby or any database with a JDBC driver. Support for nested queries across data sources.
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    Apache Synapse

    Apache Synapse

    Apache Software Foundation

    Apache Synapse is a lightweight and high-performance Enterprise Service Bus (ESB). Powered by a fast and asynchronous mediation engine, Apache Synapse provides exceptional support for XML, Web Services and REST. In addition to XML and SOAP, Apache Synapse supports several other content interchange formats, such as plain text, binary, Hessian and JSON. The wide range of transport adapters available for Synapse, enables it to communicate over many application and transport layer protocols. As of now, Apache Synapse supports HTTP/S, Mail (POP3, IMAP, SMTP), JMS, TCP, UDP, VFS, SMS, XMPP and FIX. High-performing PassThrough HTTP transport support for all mediation scenarios. Ultra-fast, low latency mediation of HTTP requests. Supporting a very large number of inbound (client -> ESB) and outbound (ESB -> server) connections concurrently. Intelligently handle message content and content awareness built into the engine with shared buffer for handling data.
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    Sacumen Connector as a Service (CaaS)
    Security product companies have huge need to build connectors with third party applications. This need is driven by multiple factors such as Customer requirement, enhance product capabilities etc. Target systems can be present on cloud, on-premise, hybrid environment. Complexities are added in terms of the varied options offered by Target systems such as interfaces available to integrate (REST API, SOAP, SFTP, Message Queue, SNMP, SDKs etc.). Data types (JSON, Syslog, File system, XML, etc.). Authentication and authorization options (OAuth, API Token, Username/Password, OTP, MFA, SAML, etc.). Rate limit, pagination, latency, concurrency, and data volume. Security Product Companies end up writing customized, non-standardized Connectors for these Target systems. This leads not only to increased development and support cost but also less efficient Connectors in terms of performance, scalability and extensibility.
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    IBM webMethods
    Create connected experiences for everyone with enterprise-grade iPaaS integration—anything, anywhere, any way you want Most organizations juggle diverse platforms, systems and integrations, creating connectivity chaos. IBM® webMethods offers a hybrid, enterprise-grade integration platform as a service (iPaaS) to streamline this chaos. It allows you to securely control applications, APIs, B2B and files across environments and locations, while lowering costs to launch products and enter new markets without major tech changes. Streamline all integrations, allowing you to swiftly respond to real-time business demands and deliver high-quality experiences.
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    Alibaba Cloud EventBridge
    EventBridge is a serverless event bus service that connects to Alibaba Cloud services, custom applications, and SaaS applications as a centralized hub. EventBridge can also use the CloudEvents 1.0 specification to route events among these services and applications. EventBridge helps you build loosely coupled and distributed event-driven architectures. Provides comprehensive event rule management, including creating, updating, and querying event rules, and enabling or disabling these rules. Supports an ever-growing range of events from Alibaba Cloud services. Region-specific, cross-zone distributed cluster deployment provides powerful disaster recovery capabilities and delivers up to 99.95% service availability. Provides event governance capabilities and supports event flow control, event replay, and event retry policies.
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    Aurea Messenger
    Aurea Messenger helps your technology keep pace with your business through an industry-leading enterprise service bus (ESB) that lets you adapt quickly. With Aurea Messenger, you can integrate technologies without getting bogged down in time-consuming custom implementations or high-risk roll-outs. It’s a sophisticated messaging bus that facilitates swift and simple integration of mission-critical systems through Aurea developed or custom adapters. Solve the most challenging connectivity problems across SOA, REST, SaaS, and APIs. Aurea Messenger provides a unified, hybrid integration platform that creates a seamless network of apps, data, and devices. Enable reliable, flexible services for the exchange of critical business data, including connectivity, message transformation and routing, transaction mediation, and process orchestration. Aurea Messenger delivers more than doubled messaging capacity and 10x data capacity, plus real-time metrics to diagnose and resolve flow-control issues.
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