Tyk Reviews

Vendor: Tyk

3.8 out of 5

6 reviews
83% willing to recommend

390 followers

What is Tyk?

Tyk is an open source API Gateway that is fast and scalable, an API management platform featuring an API gateway, analytics, developer portal and dashboard. Available in three flavours to best suit your architecture and governance. We offer full cloud or on-premises options, and the best of both worlds with our unique hybrid model.www.tyk.io

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Tyk is the #19 ranked solution in top API Management solutions. PeerSpot users give Tyk an average rating of 7.6 out of 10. Tyk is most commonly compared to Microsoft Azure API Management: Tyk vs Microsoft Azure API Management. Tyk is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 59% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a financial services firm, accounting for 23% of all views.

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Featured reviews

MarkDoherty

Founding Director at Point Group

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. But as a product, it's very difficult to find any major faults.

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VikasAgarwal

Founder & CTO at Naks Digital Consulting

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. If you need anything customized, Tyk's cloud solution isn't for you. On the cloud version allowing customization is something, I'd like to see. I would like the ability to add custom headers to the request. I would like to see customizability included. Most API gateways, in my opinion, lack orchestration capabilities. If they can solve that really well, they will be able to quickly rise to the top of the market.

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Kamal Doukali

Lead Developer at Eolia Software

The feature I find most valuable is that this solution allows us to manage our security. I like that it is open-source and that we can expand it in the future. We also have all the functionalities to manage our APIs. I like that I can manage the dashboard and that the solution offers the possibility of managing our gateways and security.

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Tyk mindshare

As of November 2024, the mindshare of Tyk in the API Management category stands at 1.9%, up from 1.4% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Key learnings from peers

Valuable Features

"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."
"You can set up workflows and write limited pieces of logic."

Room for Improvement

"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."
"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."

Pricing

"The cost curve is far smoother, both in terms of volume and the number of calls it's running on, compared to most competitors. So it's a tad more expensive at the very low end, but the curve is nothing like Apigee or some of the others."
"We are using the open-source version of this product, so there are no licensing costs for its use."
"It had a free version, which suited many of our needs, but not all, but we were happy to go ahead with the licensed version as well, which is the paid version."

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