Why Bitween
Integration without the lock-in, the metering or the black box.
Cloud integration suites are powerful and expensive; frameworks and scripts are flexible and opaque to everyone but their authors. Bitween sits in between: a complete, operable integration platform that you run and own.
Comparison
How the options compare.
A general comparison of approach categories. Individual products vary.
Runs entirely in your infrastructure
- Bitween
- Container or Helm chart
- Cloud iPaaS
- Often hybrid runtimes with a cloud control plane
- Integration frameworks
- Embedded in your apps
- Custom scripts
- Wherever they run
License cost
- Bitween
- Free, MIT licensed
- Cloud iPaaS
- Subscription, often by connector, flow or volume
- Integration frameworks
- Usually open source
- Custom scripts
- Free, but paid for in engineering time
Operations UI for non-developers
- Bitween
- Exchanges, retries, queues, schedules, audit
- Cloud iPaaS
- Rich monitoring consoles
- Integration frameworks
- Built by you
- Custom scripts
- Logs, if any
Per-message record with replay
- Bitween
- Input, output, response and result for every exchange
- Cloud iPaaS
- Varies by plan and retention
- Integration frameworks
- Built by you
- Custom scripts
- Rarely
Retry policies with budgets and alerts
- Bitween
- Matchers, delays, per-message and shared caps
- Cloud iPaaS
- Retry settings, varying depth
- Integration frameworks
- Error handlers in code
- Custom scripts
- Hand-rolled
Breadth of ready-made SaaS connectors
- Bitween
- Protocol-level adapters plus custom adapters
- Cloud iPaaS
- Hundreds to thousands of application connectors
- Integration frameworks
- Large component libraries
- Custom scripts
- Whatever you write
Vendor-operated SaaS with uptime SLAs
- Bitween
- You operate it; support packages available
- Cloud iPaaS
- Managed service
- Integration frameworks
- You operate it
- Custom scripts
- You operate it
Built for
Where Bitween makes the biggest difference.
Teams choose Bitween when reliability, control and cost matter as much as connectivity.
Messages you can’t afford to lose
You exchange documents with partners, brokers, databases and file drops, and every one must be accounted for.
Data that must stay in your environment
Data residency, sovereignty or procurement rules call for a platform you host yourself.
Operators who need answers
Support and operations teams find, understand and retry messages without waiting for a developer.
Costs that don’t grow with volume
No per-connector or per-message licensing as partners and traffic increase.
Room to extend
Your developers add custom adapters for proprietary systems and formats, and Bitween runs them alongside the built-in ones.
Leaving scripts behind
Migrate one flow at a time.
You don't need a big-bang migration. Bitween can read the same files, tables and queues your scripts do.
01
Inventory
List flows by partner, source, destination and failure cost.
02
Pick one painful flow
Start where failures are frequent or invisible today.
03
Run it side by side
Point a Bitween subscription at the same source and compare results.
04
Switch and retire
Cut over, delete the script, and let the Flow map document what exists.
See how Bitween fits your integrations.
Tell us about your partners, systems and volumes, and we'll show you how they would run on Bitween.