superglue vs Workato, Boomi, MuleSoft & Jitterbit
superglue replaces enterprise iPaaS platforms with AI agents that build, run and maintain integrations from plain language.
iPaaS makes sense to speed up a developer building integrations. Now, an agent can do the building, running and maintaining better, more reliably and faster: Cedar, whose product connects to each of its clients' CRM and ticketing systems, cut customer onboarding from weeks of manual work to days after superglue's agents took over building and maintaining those integrations.
Workato, Boomi, MuleSoft and Jitterbit are suitable if you have a dedicated technical team that builds and maintains integrations by hand. iPaaS is expensive, slow to implement and dependent on those specialists for every integration. This page explains what changes when an AI agent does that work instead, and how teams switch from enterprise iPaaS to agentic integration tools without a rip-and-replace project: you can run superglue next to your existing iPaaS and move integration by integration.
The limits of enterprise iPaaS
If you operate one of these platforms, you likely know the pattern: a change-request backlog that keeps growing and a license invoice that climbs every renewal. The knowledge about the integrations is tied to the people who use the platform.
- Specialist dependency: recipes, processes and flows need technical developers or dedicated automation teams. Every change request joins a queue. This increases dependency on a few specialists who might change jobs or retire.
- Setup time: days to weeks per integration, longer for anything beyond the connector library.
- Maintenance load: when an API changes, a person has to notice, diagnose and fix the flow.
- Cost: beyond the platform licenses, which regularly reach tens of thousands per year, the operating costs are high because of the people needed to keep everything running.
- Connector limits: niche or industry-specific systems mean custom HTTP connector work, which adds manual effort to the technical team operating the platform.
What changes with an agentic control plane
superglue replaces the specialist-builds-flows model with agents that build, run and maintain integrations from natural language. You describe the outcome as you would describe it to a developer; the agent reads the API documentation, builds the integration and keeps it running. When an API changes, it detects the failure and proposes a fix. You can inspect the code, get a full overview of configurations and runs, plus an audit log.
| superglue | Enterprise iPaaS | |
|---|---|---|
| Who builds integrations | AI agent, from plain language | Technical specialists, in the platform's builder interface |
| Setup time | Minutes to hours | Days to weeks |
| API coverage | Any API: from docs or sample requests | Connector library + custom connector work |
| Maintenance | Proposes updates when APIs change, manual signoff | Manual: people update flows |
| Open source | Yes, self-hostable | No |
| Typical annual cost | Free trial, then enterprise licenses that scale predictably | High annual licenses, before personnel cost |
superglue vs Workato
Workato is the most accessible of the four: business users can start building recipes without code. But complex recipes need technical skills, task-based pricing scales unpredictably with volume, and when an API changes, someone has to update the recipe by hand. Error handling exists, but your team still resolves every failure itself.
- Model: recipe-based trigger-action logic; 1000+ connectors, while custom APIs need HTTP connector setup
- Setup: days to weeks per integration, incl. recipe building and testing
The superglue difference: describe the integration in plain language; the agent builds it in minutes and repairs it when APIs change: no task-based billing surprises
superglue vs Boomi
Boomi's Enterprise Platform (formerly AtomSphere) is mature and governance-heavy, and it assumes experienced Boomi developers. Setup runs to months: data mapping, process design, runtime deployment. Pricing is per-connection, excl. the staff cost.
- Model: visual drag-and-drop processes; a large connector library, while custom APIs require development
- Setup: months, with technical developers
The superglue difference: any API works without connector development, and no platform-specific training stands between your team and a running integration
superglue vs MuleSoft
MuleSoft's Anypoint Platform is the heaviest option: API-led architecture, DataWeave transformations, CloudHub deployment topology and per-vCore pricing. It is built for organizations that want an API program, staffed by a dedicated MuleSoft team. Even if you just need data moved between systems, you are buying an architecture project.
- Model: code-heavy API-led connectivity; hundreds of connectors via Anypoint Exchange, custom work in DataWeave
- Setup: months, incl. API design and platform deployment
The superglue difference: outcomes described in plain language instead of DataWeave expertise, and open source instead of a proprietary Salesforce platform
superglue vs Jitterbit
Jitterbit's Harmony platform sits at the lighter end of enterprise iPaaS: drag-and-drop design, cloud or hybrid deployment, quote-only pricing. Coverage depends on pre-built connectors, and maintenance means developer intervention when something breaks.
- Model: manual drag-and-drop with pre-built connectors; coverage limited by the connector catalog
- Setup: weeks to months, with integration developers
The superglue difference: every system is in reach, whatever the catalog covers, and the agent detects failures and proposes the fix for you to approve
Switching without a rip-and-replace project
You do not have to migrate the entire iPaaS estate in one step. A lot of our customers pick the one integration that hurts (hitting task limits, breaking often or costing disproportionate license fees), rebuild it in superglue by describing it in plain language, run both in parallel until they trust the result and then switch over. Each moved integration lowers the load, costs and maintenance effort on the old platform.
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Common questions
What counts as enterprise iPaaS?
The established enterprise integration platforms: Workato, Boomi, MuleSoft and Jitterbit. They connect systems through pre-built connectors and flows that technical specialists design, configure and maintain. Expensive, slow to implement and dependent on trained staff.
How is superglue different from an iPaaS?
On an iPaaS, people build integrations using the platform's tools. In superglue, an AI agent builds the integration from a plain-language description, runs it in production and repairs it with your approval when APIs change. That removes the specialist bottleneck for building and the ongoing manual maintenance.
Can superglue run alongside our existing iPaaS?
Yes. Most teams start with a new or one existing, painful integration in superglue while the existing iPaaS keeps running. There is no rip-and-replace requirement.
Does superglue meet enterprise security requirements?
superglue supports role-based access control, audit logging, SSO and can be self-hosted inside your own infrastructure. Credentials are encrypted and never touched by the AI. A SOC 2 Type II-compliant setup is available and infrastructure is ISO 27001-backed.