We performed a comparison between Tyk and WSO2 API Manager based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two API Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature is the load balancing with the circuit-breaker function."
"You can set up workflows and write limited pieces of logic."
"The feature I find most valuable is that this solution allows us to manage our security."
"The scalability is very good. That was a key factor in the selection, like how it could be pushed to high volume and scalability, which seemed to be very good."
"The portal for developers that this solution provides has great functionality."
"It is a good product for API management."
"Its open-source features are very good, especially for your production work."
"WSO2 API Manager has a user-friendly model."
"WSO2 API Manager is easy to use."
"WSO2 API Manager's most valuable features are the simple interface that is easy to use and the APIs lifecycle."
"This is a flexible and versatile API management solution that has the power to integrate with more than just API."
"Based on the information I have, the solution's most valuable feature is its capability of implementing custom solutions."
"The user interface is easy to navigate, and the documentation is extensive. It's open-source, so everything is available, and we can create what we need. That's not necessarily a feature, but it's an advantage."
"It is possible to scale up and scale down with the solution...I can say that I have not seen any issues related to scalability."
"It is a young product and does not have the kind of brand recognition that would make it a more popular solution with our clients."
"We ran it for a while, but then we decided to move away from Tyk, because Tyk's cloud version, the SaaS version, has a significant limitation of limited flexibility, so you can't program very much."
"In terms of our usage, the main area of concern is that they tend to build enhancements slightly ahead of the considerations for what those enhancements and extensions are. So it could be slightly better communication with the customer base that would be my main issue with them."
"We would like a better tool for generating documentation for the APIs to be developed."
"Sometimes when new features are released, they are not immediately stable."
"I would like to see some additional features like having some extensions for .NET core because we use it for our back-end language."
"The stability is pretty good, but it could be improved."
"We had some problems with the reverse proxy not being able to invoke fully qualified domain names, so we have to build some custom scripts to solve this issue."
"The technical support must be improved."
"They are developing another platform called Choreo that allows you to create API itself using the WSO2 programming language Ballerina. It would be great if they added a direct connection between Choreo and API Manager, that would be great. I think they are working on that, but I'm not sure."
"From a product perspective, the first thing is that although the documentation provided by WSO2 is good, it could be much better. We're in the middle of a complex migration, moving away from VMs to Kubernetes with the latest version of WSO2 and good documentation is essential to us right now."
"API Manager is not easy to scale because some of its components lack scalability. It's a difficult point. Especially because companies are so cloud-based these days, microservice scalability is a major thing."
"The professional support and licensing aspects of WSO have been a challenge."
"I think they could greatly improve the general UX with their solutions."
Tyk is ranked 17th in API Management with 6 reviews while WSO2 API Manager is ranked 8th in API Management with 33 reviews. Tyk is rated 7.6, while WSO2 API Manager is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Tyk writes "Simple to install, has many features, but lacks support for multiple programming languages". On the other hand, the top reviewer of WSO2 API Manager writes "Reliable with good capabilities and good support". Tyk is most compared with Apache APISIX, Traefik Enterprise, Apigee, Amazon API Gateway and Kong Gateway Enterprise, whereas WSO2 API Manager is most compared with Apigee, Kong Gateway Enterprise, Amazon API Gateway, Apache APISIX and Layer7 API Management. See our Tyk vs. WSO2 API Manager report.
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