--- title: "DreamFactory Reviews, Pros and Cons - 2026 Software Advice" description: "Reviews of DreamFactory. Learn how real users rate this software's ease-of-use, functionality, overall quality and customer support. Talk to our advisors to see if DreamFactory is a good fit for you!" source_url: "https://www.softwareadvice.com/bi/dreamfactory-profile/reviews/" page_type: "reviews" language: "en" --- 1 million+ businesses helped. Get advice Get Free Advice [Home](https://www.softwareadvice.com/) / [Integration Software](https://www.softwareadvice.com/bi/data-integration-tools-comparison/) / [DreamFactory](https://www.softwareadvice.com/bi/dreamfactory-profile/) / DreamFactory Reviews Software Advice offers objective insights based on verified user reviews and independent product and market research. When our advisors match you to a software provider, we may earn a referral fee. [Overview](https://www.softwareadvice.com/bi/dreamfactory-profile/) Reviews [Alternatives](https://www.softwareadvice.com/bi/dreamfactory-profile/alternatives/) # DreamFactory User Reviews ## Reviews summary - Overall rating: 4.1/5 - Total reviews: 11 ### Secondary ratings - Ease of use: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Value for money: 4.4/5 - Functionality: 4.1/5 ### Rating distribution - 5 stars: 2 reviews (18%) - 4 stars: 8 reviews (73%) - 3 stars: 1 reviews (9%) - 2 stars: 0 reviews (0%) - 1 star: 0 reviews (0%) ## DreamFactory customer reviews Showing reviews 1-11 of 11 (page 1). ### Expose your database with an API - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Management Consulting - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: February 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. We implemented Dreamfactory to integrate Salesforce with an ERP software that didn't have an API, constrained by a limited budget which didn't allow us to go for a more complex middleware. The solution allowed us to quickly send and retrieve records from the ERP, and run processes using SQL stored procedures which gave us a bit of a headache at the beginning because of lack of full support. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Authentication and API is out-of-the-box The free version includes many features It saves a lot of time if you just want to use the basic REST API features #### Cons Upgrading to a new version can be a massive pain Debugging problems is very difficult if not impossible sometimes Stored procedures are not fully supported The API options to query a database are not as powerful as the options a SQL language provides #### Vendor response Hi, thank you for your review - DreamFactory does support stored procedures, it is just not meant for managing the stored procedures and functions themselves. For a more sophisticated project requirements we also support custom business logic via our powerful scripting engine that supports four different languages (PHP, NodeJS, Python, and V8JS). Replied February 2019 --- ### Good at what it does, not so good at what it doesnt do. - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Phil B. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Automotive - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used monthly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: November 2019 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered It did what we needed for a time, and I cant fault it for that. For some other software we use, that this has integrated well with, we will keep using it. However, for current development, and anything we expect to be high load, we have moved away in favor of developing our own API. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros The software is relatively comprehensive, with very granular access and control to many different parts of your system. Quite easy to setup an API, and expand it once setup. Lots of support both from their technical team and also integration with other companies using this platform for their system. #### Cons It is very CPU intensive, I have built a bespoke API to run side by side this one, using the same DB, SPs, Server infrastructure but different technology for the API. The difference in the resources required is substantial, which means we are moving our more intensive systems away from this. It is also a quirky system, having to reset the cache when you alter the DB, with a learning curve to get your way around the system. --- ### Useful but hard to use - Overall rating: 3/5 - Reviewer: Taj A. - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months - Reviewed: February 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Customer support: 2/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros I liked the concept of the product. And it is good at what it does. #### Cons 1. Nested Object filter for database tables apis is hard. more often we had to write custom code to implement. 2. Alternate authentication setup is hard. we tried adding alternate authentication and failed, Also connected with customer support and still failed to add customer authencation. 3. Installation steps do fail to setup it smoothly i got into a lot of issues even after following exact steps for installation on ubuntu16 --- ### Great platform, well done! - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used other for less than 12 months - Reviewed: January 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Overall a great product that will assist you to speed up your development process! #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Great Security and very complete and user friendly documentation. Example apps get your going quick! #### Cons I cant think of anything not to like. In the beginning it might be a little overwhelming, but once you have read the documentation and looked at the samples apps, you on your way. #### Vendor response Thanks for your feedback & glad you are able to shorten your development cycles with DreamFactory! That's why we were founded in the first place. We have been working very hard to augment our security and compliance feature sets - keep your eyes out for big improvements in Q2 2019 ;) Replied January 2019 --- ### DreamFactory is like Ruby on Rails for APIs - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Banking - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 6 months - Reviewed: January 2019 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Their support team is excellent! We had some difficulties connecting less common databases and they helped us navigate a solution in an amazing time. Thank you! #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros DreamFactory is the definition of convention over configuration! It has a great user format that allows us to build and streamline our APIs in a simple and rapid method without coding. I honestly couldn't imagine building APIs without DreamFactory in the future. #### Cons When we first started using DreamFactory, I was frustrated with its short time to live, but we were quickly able to change a setting that extended the session time - I think we'll be using DreamFactory for many years to come. --- ### Does the job, easy to use - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Dan S. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Gambling & Casinos - Company size: 5001-10000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months - Reviewed: January 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros Easy to use Straightforward integration to SQL backends Simple UI Post / Pre Processing Features #### Cons Limitations on SQL features via API (e.g; multiple filters) --- ### My view on dreamfactory - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: anjumol k. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 10000+ employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months - Reviewed: February 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Making my work simple and user friendly. good customer support #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros I'm using dreamfactory for past 6 months, actually its one of the most simple and user friendly software package i have used so far. If I got some doubt will contact customer care and they will respond immediately. Re-usability of API services makes my work much simple. #### Cons I'm using latest version of dreamfactory, I tried creating services on Python, its not supporting. So I'm using node to create my services. --- ### Very helpful tool for Project Management - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Pallavi T. - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 12 months - Reviewed: July 2017 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Building the documents and sharing them with Team and Business is very easy. Able to track the Project status. #### Cons Compulsory training needed in order to use the tool. Especially for Business and also for the teams to get used with the tool #### Vendor response Hi Pallavi, thank you for your review - I would like to point out that this review is for a product no longer run by DreamFactory. DreamFactory is now an API Management service featuring API frameworks with automated generation & advanced orchestration features, without the need for a dedicated team to run an enterprise bus. Replied January 2019 --- ### Excellent Snapshot feature - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Pallavi T. - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 12 months - Reviewed: December 2016 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Creating Snapshot for migrating the components easily to all environments. Components can be exported easily through the package. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Vendor response Hi Pallavi, thank you for your review - I would like to point out that this review is for a product no longer run by DreamFactory. DreamFactory is now an API Management service featuring API frameworks with automated generation & advanced orchestration features, without the need for a dedicated team to run an enterprise bus. Replied January 2019 --- ### Great API Management Software - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Christopher G. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Higher Education - Company size: 10000+ employees - Product usage: Used monthly for less than 6 months - Reviewed: February 2019 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered This was the first free software for API Management that I loved. It met my needs as a App Developer. Keep up the good work! #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Very easy to link to your database and to setup your API endpoints. Software does a good job explaining what each endpoint can receive and information shown. #### Cons Free version doesn't include e-mail, phone or chat support. --- ### DreamTeam Project Management - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Lankika - Product usage: Used unspecified for unspecified - Reviewed: October 2012 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered good one --- DreamFactory Reviews, Pros and Cons - 2026 Software Advice