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Tyk pricing
Tyk publishes 3 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.
- Entry price
- Free
- Model
- Open-source
- Tiers
- 3
- Free tier
- Yes
Tyk plans, side by side
Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Community | Free | 2 | Entry tier |
| Cloud Pro | $100/monthly | 3 | +$100/monthly, 3 more features |
| Cloud Enterprise | $500/monthly | 3 | +$400/monthly, 3 more features |
What each tier adds
The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.
Community
FreeThe entry tier. It covers core gateway, community support.
Cloud Pro
$100/monthlyOver Community, this tier adds:
- Managed cloud
- Analytics
- API portal
Cloud Enterprise
$500/monthlyOver Cloud Pro, this tier adds:
- Advanced features
- Dedicated support
- Custom SLA
Where Tyk stops being free
Community, Free
- Core gateway
- Community support
Cloud Pro, $100/monthly
The first thing you pay for:
- Managed cloud
- Analytics
- API portal
What the product covers
The full Tyk feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.
Core
- API Gateway
- Rate Limiting
- Authentication
Integrations
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- AWS
- Azure
Platform
- Linux support
- Docker support
- Kubernetes support
- Cloud support
People bring Tyk in for running an open source api gateway self managed, hybrid or in the cloud, governing apis across regulated or multi region environments. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Tyk are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
Before you pay for Tyk
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: 3 tiers between Free and $500/monthly, with the jump itemised above. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
Tyk runs on linux, docker, kubernetes, cloud, and is published by Tyk Technologies of London, United Kingdom. The full record is on the Tyk review.
Tyk pricing questions
- How much does Tyk cost?
- Tyk publishes 3 tiers, from Free for Community up to $500/monthly for Cloud Enterprise. The entry tier costs nothing.
- Does Tyk have a free plan?
- Yes. The Community tier costs nothing and covers core gateway, community support. Paying starts at $100/monthly for Cloud Pro.
- What is the difference between Community and Cloud Pro on Tyk?
- Cloud Pro costs $100/monthly against Free, and adds managed cloud, analytics, api portal.
- Is the Cloud Enterprise plan on Tyk worth it?
- That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is advanced features, dedicated support, custom sla. It costs $500/monthly against $100/monthly for Cloud Pro. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.
- What am I actually paying for with Tyk?
- The record lists 11 features across 3 areas: core, integrations, platform. In practice it is brought in for running an open source api gateway self managed, hybrid or in the cloud, governing apis across regulated or multi region environments.
- Does Tyk charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 3 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these Tyk prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare Tyk against before paying?
- Nothing else in this directory is filed close enough to Tyk to make a useful price comparison.