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<div class="container mt-4 pt-4 mb-4 pb-4">
<div class="row">
<p class="col">
<p>On this page we try to compare Fusio with different products to help you choose the fitting tool for your
case. Please keep in mind that no technology is perfect and every product has its pros and cons. If some
information are incorrect please feel free to make a pull request.
</p>
<p>On this page we try to compare Fusio with different products in the API ecosystem. We explain our understanding
of each tool category and how Fusio fits into this category. It should give you a better overview of available
solutions and whether Fusio can be useful to solve your business case. Please keep in mind that no technology is
perfect and every product has its pros and cons.</p>
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<div class="row">
<div class="col">
<h2 class="display-4 fw-normal">API Gateway</h2>
<p>API Gateways act as a single entrypoint for all your APIs and microservices, they provide often features like
proxy, authentication, developer portal, analytics and rate-limiting. Fusio can be used as alternative to such
API gateway providers since it also implements common API gateway features. In addition, Fusio also covers topics
like client SDK generation or API monetization.</p>
<p>An API gateway acts as a single entry point for clients to access various backend services or APIs in a unified
manner, common features of an API gateway are: Request Routing, Load Balancing, Authentication, Rate Limiting,
Monitoring and Transformation and Aggregation.</p>
<p>Fusio provides out-of-the-box these common API gateway features, in addition it has also a focus to simplify
onboarding new users by providing a ready to use developer portal and an advanced SDK generator, which can help
integrating your API in different environments.</p>
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</div>
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</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="col">
<div class="card mb-3">
<div class="card-header py-3">
<h3 class="my-0 fw-bold">WSO2</h3>
</div>
<img src="<?php echo $base; ?>/img/compare/wso2.png" class="rounded mx-auto d-block mt-3" />
<div class="card-body">
<a href="<?php echo $router->getAbsolutePath([\App\Controller\Comparison::class, 'detail'], ['app' => 'wso2']); ?>" class="btn btn-primary">Compare</a>
<a href="https://wso2.com/" class="btn btn-secondary">Website</a>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>

<div class="container mt-4 pt-4 mb-4 pb-4">
<div class="row">
<div class="col">
<h2 class="display-4 fw-normal">BaaS</h2>
<p>Backend-as-a-Service provider help developers to build apps without building a backend and by simply using an
API. BaaS providers offer features like database, storage and functions. Fusio can be used as alternative to such
BaaS providers, but it only simplifies backend development. It is open-source, self-hosted and targets developers
who like to build and host its own backend. This has some advantages like data sovereignty and vendor independence
but it comes with a little bit more complexity.</p>
<h2 class="display-4 fw-normal">Backend as a Service</h2>
<p>Backend as a Service (BaaS) is a cloud computing model that provides developers with a way to outsource backend
infrastructure and services, allowing them to focus more on building the frontend and application logic. In a
BaaS model, the cloud service provider manages and hosts the backend infrastructure, databases, server-side logic,
user authentication, and other common backend functionalities, while developers interact with these services
through APIs or SDKs.</p>
<p>Fusio can be used as alternative to such BaaS providers, but it only simplifies backend development. It is
open-source, self-hosted and targets developers who like to build and host its own backend. This has some
advantages like data sovereignty and vendor independence but it comes with a little bit more complexity.</p>
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</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="col">
<div class="card mb-3">
<div class="card-header py-3">
<h3 class="my-0 fw-bold">Appwrite</h3>
</div>
<img src="<?php echo $base; ?>/img/compare/appwrite.png" class="rounded mx-auto d-block mt-3" />
<div class="card-body">
<a href="<?php echo $router->getAbsolutePath([\App\Controller\Comparison::class, 'detail'], ['app' => 'appwrite']); ?>" class="btn btn-primary">Compare</a>
<a href="https://appwrite.io/" class="btn btn-secondary">Website</a>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>

<div class="container mt-4 pt-4 mb-4 pb-4">
<div class="row">
<div class="col">
<h2 class="display-4 fw-normal">API Builder</h2>
<p>An API builder is a tool which can automatically generate ready to use REST APIs based on various data sources.
Most times an API builder simply offers a REST API on top of a database, so that your frontend application can
directly work with the exposed tables.</p>
<p>Fusio provides a generator to automatically generate a complete API based on various databases. Besides this
it has the advantage that you can easily customize each endpoint and operation and add additional logic which is
often not possible with simple API builder tools.</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>

<div class="bg-light mt-4 pt-4 mb-4 pb-4">
<div class="container">
<div class="row row-cols-1 row-cols-md-3 text-center">
<div class="col">
<div class="card mb-3">
<div class="card-header py-3">
<h3 class="my-0 fw-bold">PostgREST</h3>
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<img src="<?php echo $base; ?>/img/compare/postgrest.png" class="rounded mx-auto d-block mt-3" />
<div class="card-body">
<a href="<?php echo $router->getAbsolutePath([\App\Controller\Comparison::class, 'detail'], ['app' => 'postgrest']); ?>" class="btn btn-primary">Compare</a>
<a href="https://postgrest.org/" class="btn btn-secondary">Website</a>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="col">
<div class="card mb-3">
<div class="card-header py-3">
<h3 class="my-0 fw-bold">DreamFactory</h3>
</div>
<img src="<?php echo $base; ?>/img/compare/dreamfactory.png" class="rounded mx-auto d-block mt-3" />
<div class="card-body">
<a href="<?php echo $router->getAbsolutePath([\App\Controller\Comparison::class, 'detail'], ['app' => 'dreamfactory']); ?>" class="btn btn-primary">Compare</a>
<a href="https://www.dreamfactory.com/" class="btn btn-secondary">Website</a>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>

<div class="container mt-4 pt-4 mb-4 pb-4">
<div class="row">
<div class="col">
<h2 class="display-4 fw-normal">Headless CMS</h2>
<p>A Headless CMS is a content management system that provides an interface for creating, managing, and organizing
digital content, but it differs from traditional CMSs in that it does not dictate how content is presented or
delivered to users. Instead of generating HTML pages for display, a headless CMS stores content in a structured
format (typically JSON) and exposes it via an API for retrieval by client-side applications or presentation layers.</p>
<p>Fusio can be used as a light weight headless CMS, most notable it has an entity generator which allows to
create complete CRUD APIs for an entity definition. Note Fusio does not provide a backend like most headless CMS
products where a user can manage the content, it only helps to implement custom domain APIs.</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>

<div class="bg-light mt-4 pt-4 mb-4 pb-4">
<div class="container">
<div class="row row-cols-1 row-cols-md-3 text-center">
<div class="col">
<div class="card mb-3">
<div class="card-header py-3">
<h3 class="my-0 fw-bold">Strapi</h3>
</div>
<img src="<?php echo $base; ?>/img/compare/strapi.png" class="rounded mx-auto d-block mt-3" />
<div class="card-body">
<a href="<?php echo $router->getAbsolutePath([\App\Controller\Comparison::class, 'detail'], ['app' => 'strapi']); ?>" class="btn btn-primary">Compare</a>
<a href="https://strapi.io/" class="btn btn-secondary">Website</a>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="col">
<div class="card mb-3">
<div class="card-header py-3">
<h3 class="my-0 fw-bold">Ghost</h3>
</div>
<img src="<?php echo $base; ?>/img/compare/ghost.png" class="rounded mx-auto d-block mt-3" />
<div class="card-body">
<a href="<?php echo $router->getAbsolutePath([\App\Controller\Comparison::class, 'detail'], ['app' => 'ghost']); ?>" class="btn btn-primary">Compare</a>
<a href="https://ghost.org/" class="btn btn-secondary">Website</a>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="col">
<div class="card mb-3">
<div class="card-header py-3">
<h3 class="my-0 fw-bold">Directus</h3>
</div>
<img src="<?php echo $base; ?>/img/compare/directus.png" class="rounded mx-auto d-block mt-3" />
<div class="card-body">
<a href="<?php echo $router->getAbsolutePath([\App\Controller\Comparison::class, 'detail'], ['app' => 'directus']); ?>" class="btn btn-primary">Compare</a>
<a href="https://directus.io/" class="btn btn-secondary">Website</a>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>

<!--
<div class="container mt-4 pt-4 mb-4 pb-4">
<div class="row">
<div class="col">
<h1 class="display-4 fw-normal">API Frameworks</h1>
<p>API Frameworks are dedicated frameworks which help you to build REST APIs. Today you can build a REST API with
almost any general purpose Framework like Spring, Symfony or Express, but we try to focus our comparison on frameworks
which are dedicated to building APIs. Fusio can be used as alternative to such frameworks since it helps you also
to easily build complex applications.</p>
<h2 class="display-4 fw-normal">Cloud Provider</h2>
<p>The major cloud providers offer API Gateway products as part of their suite of cloud services. These API Gateway
products provide a managed solution for building, deploying, and managing APIs in the cloud.</p>
<p>Fusio should be not seen as an alternative to these cloud providers but since they also provide an API Gateway
offering we list them here for completion. Those API Gateways are more infrastructure gateways and you would
run Fusio behind such a gateway.</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
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<div class="col">
<div class="card mb-3">
<div class="card-header py-3">
<h4 class="my-0 fw-normal">API Platform</h4>
<h3 class="my-0 fw-bold">AWS</h3>
</div>
<img src="<?php echo $base; ?>/img/compare/aws.png" class="rounded mx-auto d-block mt-3" />
<div class="card-body">
<a href="<?php echo $router->getAbsolutePath([\App\Controller\Comparison::class, 'detail'], ['app' => 'aws']); ?>" class="btn btn-primary">Compare</a>
<a href="https://aws.amazon.com/" class="btn btn-secondary">Website</a>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="col">
<div class="card mb-3">
<div class="card-header py-3">
<h3 class="my-0 fw-bold">GCP</h3>
</div>
<img src="<?php echo $base; ?>/img/compare/gcp.png" class="rounded mx-auto d-block mt-3" />
<div class="card-body">
<a href="<?php echo $router->getAbsolutePath([\App\Controller\Comparison::class, 'detail'], ['app' => 'gcp']); ?>" class="btn btn-primary">Compare</a>
<a href="https://cloud.google.com/" class="btn btn-secondary">Website</a>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="col">
<div class="card mb-3">
<div class="card-header py-3">
<h3 class="my-0 fw-bold">Azure</h3>
</div>
<img src="<?php echo $base; ?>/img/compare/api-platform.png" class="rounded mx-auto d-block mt-3" />
<img src="<?php echo $base; ?>/img/compare/azure.png" class="rounded mx-auto d-block mt-3" />
<div class="card-body">
<a href="<?php echo $router->getAbsolutePath([\App\Controller\Comparison::class, 'detail'], ['app' => 'api-platform']); ?>" class="btn btn-primary">Compare</a>
<a href="https://api-platform.com/" class="btn btn-secondary">Website</a>
<a href="<?php echo $router->getAbsolutePath([\App\Controller\Comparison::class, 'detail'], ['app' => 'azure']); ?>" class="btn btn-primary">Compare</a>
<a href="https://azure.microsoft.com/" class="btn btn-secondary">Website</a>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
-->

<div class="container">
<div class="row">
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<div class="fusio-headline">
<div class="container">
<div class="row">
<div class="col p-4 mx-auto text-center">
<h1 class="display-4 fw-normal">Compare Fusio to Appwrite</h1>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>

<div class="container mt-4 pt-4 mb-4 pb-4">
<div class="row">
<div class="col">
<h4>Technology</h4>
<p></p>
<h4>Fusio</h4>
<ul>
<li></li>
</ul>
<h4>Appwrite</h4>
<ul>
<li></li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>

<div class="container">
<div class="row">
<div class="col text-end">
<a href="https://github.com/apioo/fusio-website/blob/main/resources/template/compare/<?php echo pathinfo(__FILE__, PATHINFO_BASENAME); ?>"><i class="bi bi-pen-fill"></i> Edit this page</a>
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<div class="fusio-headline">
<div class="container">
<div class="row">
<div class="col p-4 mx-auto text-center">
<h1 class="display-4 fw-normal">Compare Fusio to AWS</h1>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>

<div class="container mt-4 pt-4 mb-4 pb-4">
<div class="row">
<div class="col">
<h4>Technology</h4>
<p></p>
<h4>Fusio</h4>
<ul>
<li></li>
</ul>
<h4>AWS</h4>
<ul>
<li></li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>

<div class="container">
<div class="row">
<div class="col text-end">
<a href="https://github.com/apioo/fusio-website/blob/main/resources/template/compare/<?php echo pathinfo(__FILE__, PATHINFO_BASENAME); ?>"><i class="bi bi-pen-fill"></i> Edit this page</a>
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<div class="fusio-headline">
<div class="container">
<div class="row">
<div class="col p-4 mx-auto text-center">
<h1 class="display-4 fw-normal">Compare Fusio to Azure</h1>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>

<div class="container mt-4 pt-4 mb-4 pb-4">
<div class="row">
<div class="col">
<h4>Technology</h4>
<p></p>
<h4>Fusio</h4>
<ul>
<li></li>
</ul>
<h4>Azure</h4>
<ul>
<li></li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>

<div class="container">
<div class="row">
<div class="col text-end">
<a href="https://github.com/apioo/fusio-website/blob/main/resources/template/compare/<?php echo pathinfo(__FILE__, PATHINFO_BASENAME); ?>"><i class="bi bi-pen-fill"></i> Edit this page</a>
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