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Tyk

Open-source API gateway and API management platform

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Overview

What Tyk does

Tyk is a lightweight, open-source API gateway built in Go that provides API management, rate limiting, authentication, and analytics. It's designed for high performance and easy deployment.

What people use it for

  • Running an open source API gateway self managed, hybrid or in the cloud
  • Governing APIs across regulated or multi region environments

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Where it falls short

Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about Tyk.

  • No plan publishes a price, so every tier requires contacting sales
  • Multi region and multi cloud deployment are Enterprise only
  • Custom support SLAs and a named customer success manager are Enterprise only

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Pricing

What Tyk costs

Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.

Community

Free

  • Core gateway
  • Community support

Cloud Pro

$100 /mo

  • Managed cloud
  • Analytics
  • API portal

Cloud Enterprise

$500 /mo

  • Advanced features
  • Dedicated support
  • Custom SLA

Capabilities

Features

  • API Gateway

    API Gateway capability

  • Rate Limiting

    Rate Limiting capability

  • Authentication

    Authentication capability

  • Kubernetes

    Integration with Kubernetes

  • Docker

    Integration with Docker

  • AWS

    Integration with AWS

  • Azure

    Integration with Azure

  • Linux support

    Available on Linux

  • Docker support

    Available on Docker

  • Kubernetes support

    Available on Kubernetes

  • Cloud support

    Available on Cloud

Behind it

Who makes Tyk

Company
Tyk Technologies
Based in
London, United Kingdom
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