Tyk Review

Overview

Tyk is an open source API management and gateway solution that offers an API gateway, dashboard, developer portal, and analytics. This software powers millions of transactions for numerous leading organizations including Starbucks, Cisco, and AXA. It is flexible, fast, and high performing, and can be installed as a muti-cloud service, on-premises, or hybrid.

Tyk enhances access to API management with free licenced and open source options. There are no restrictions to their open source API gateway. Plus, the portal and dashboard are free for developers and they can use the full-featured product for non-commercial purposes. On the API developer portal, developers can self-enrol, learn, and see their personal use analytics for your services.

Benefits

Detailed Analytics and Monitoring

Tyk open source API gateway documents in-depth analytics on how your APIs are being utilized, and allows you to see segmented hourly data, monitor upstream latency, and chart it for every API you are handling.

API Developer Portal

Publish the APIs you manage to your mobile-enabled, customizable API portal and allow developers to manage their own keys and register to your APIs. The portal also offers developer analytics and a flexible workflow.

API Documentation

Use API Blueprint or Swagger to post your API documentation to your portal. Allow users to engage with your API utilizing Swagger UI’s sandbox directly from your portal.

Built-in DevOps and Containerization

K8 and Docker are fully supported. You can connect with your existing CI/CD pipeline with Jenkins, Tyk-Git open source component, etc.

Rate Limiting and Quotas

Set rate restricting, ask for throttling, and auto-renew request quotas globally or on a per-API basis, to administer how your consumers access your API through the open source API gateway.

Authentication

Tyk API gateway supports HMAC request signing, access token, Mutual TLS, JSON Web tokens, social OAuth (e.g. Github, Twitter, GPlus), LDAP, basic auth, OpenID Connect, and providers of legacy basic authentication.

Mock out APIs

Utilize Tyk’s API controls to mock out API editions before launch. Import API blueprints from Swagger or Apiary to make it simple to start with this platform.

Events and Notifications

Use Tyk’s event system to plug into existing infrastructure and obtain the latest notifications when crucial events occur on your APIs, services, developers, or portals.

Product Features

Pricing

Tyk Cloud Pricing

	14 Day Free Trial	Tyk Cloud Proof of Concept	Tyk Cloud Production	Tyk Cloud Enterprise	Tyk Cloud Enterprise Flex
	-	$495	$1795	$3950	$5950
Traffic
Daily Calls Quota*	100,000*	100,000*	1 million*	5 million*	10 million*
Daily Throughput Quota	1gb	1gb	10gb	50gb	100gb
Log storage	50mb	50mb	500mb	1gb	1gb

 

Architecture
Environments (total)	3	1	3	3	3
Control Planes	3	1	3	3	3
Edge Gateways	6	1	3	3	6
Teams / Users	20 / 20	1 / 1	1 / 5	5 / 10	10 / 10
Regions	3	1	1	1	2

 

Customise and Integrate
Custom domains	Enabled	X	Enabled	Enabled	Enabled
Custom plugins	Enabled	X	X	Enabled	Enabled

 

Support & SLA
Support	Basic + 48 Hour response	Basic + 48 Hour response	Silver Support SLA	Silver Support SLA	Silver Support SLA

 

*Contact us for Tyk Cloud Enterprise Global

*based on call size of 10kb

Tyk Self-Managed

	Tyk Launch	Tyk Flex	Tyk Multi-Team	Tyk Global Multi-Team
# Licensed Environments	2	2	3	3
# of Gateways Managed per environment	2	Unlimited	Unlimited	Unlimited
# of Regions (Data Centers)	1	1	1	2
RBAC	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Multi-Org & API Ownership	No	No	Yes	Yes
Gateway Clustering	No	No	Yes	Yes
# of Calls, Users, API's	Unlimited	Unlimited	Unlimited	Unlimited
Description	Production & Staging Env + Silver Support	Production & Staging Env + Silver Support	Production & Staging Env + Silver Support	Production & Staging Env + Silver Support
Developer Licenses	1	5	10	Unlimited