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Open source and enterprise API gateway with cloud, hybrid, and self-managed deployment

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  • Deployment Cloud Based, On Premises, Hybrid, Any
  • Starting price Free
  • Free trial Available
  • Best for Startups, SMEs, Agencies

What is Tyk?

Tyk is an API gateway and management platform supporting REST, GraphQL, TCP, and gRPC protocols. Its open source Tyk Gateway is free to self-host forever with no feature lockout, offering authentication methods like OIDC, JWT, and basic auth, along with rate limiting, quotas, service discovery, load balancing, and circuit breakers for microservices architectures.

Paid plans add the Tyk Dashboard, developer portal, and advanced analytics, deployable to Tyk Cloud, self-managed infrastructure, or a hybrid mix. Tyk offers a 48-hour free trial of Tyk Cloud with full feature access and no credit card required. The Core tier is usage-based, Professional is flat-rate with unlimited requests, and Enterprise pricing is fully custom; none publish list prices.

Key Features of Tyk

Tyk lists 9 documented features, including REST, GraphQL, TCP, and gRPC protocol support, OIDC, JWT, basic auth, and client certificate authentication and Rate limiting, quotas, and security policies. The list below covers what the product does rather than how it is marketed.

  • REST, GraphQL, TCP, and gRPC protocol support
  • OIDC, JWT, basic auth, and client certificate authentication
  • Rate limiting, quotas, and security policies
  • Service discovery, load balancing, and circuit breakers
  • API versioning with granular access control
  • Request/response transformation and SOAP-to-GraphQL mediation
  • Analytics logging, webhooks, and IP allowlisting
  • Hitless config reloads with no downtime
  • Developer portal (paid plans)

Tyk Pricing

Tyk lists 5 plans. Two are free; the rest are quoted on request.

Open Source (Tyk Gateway)

Free

Self-hosted

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Free forever via GitHub; core gateway with no feature lockout

Free Trial

Free

48 hours

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Full-featured Tyk Cloud trial, no credit card required

Core

Custom

Usage-based

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For startups and scale-ups launching an API platform; cloud, hybrid, or self-managed

Professional

Custom

Unlimited APIs and requests

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Flat-rate plan for high-growth teams standardizing on APIs

Enterprise

Custom

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Adds advanced governance, custom SLAs, multi-region/multi-cloud support, and a named customer success manager

Tyk Specifications

Tyk is available on web app. It offers an API, has a free trial and has a free plan.

Deployment
  • Cloud Based
  • On Premises
  • Hybrid
  • Any
Billing cycle
Monthly
Desktop
  • Web App
Languages
  • English
Built for
  • Startups
  • SMEs
  • Agencies
  • Enterprises
Support
  • Email
  • Live Support
  • Tickets
  • Training
Integrations
Kubernetes, Docker, Redis, Postman, Kafka, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana
Public API
Yes
Free trial
Yes
Free plan
Yes
Runs in browser
Yes
Customisable
Yes
Website
tyk.io

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Tyk FAQs

Yes, Tyk Gateway, the open source core, is free to self-host forever with no feature lockout. The Dashboard, developer portal, and advanced analytics are only available on paid plans.

Yes, Tyk offers a 48-hour free trial of Tyk Cloud with full feature access and no credit card required.

Core uses flexible, usage-based pricing, while Professional is a flat-rate plan with unlimited API gateways and requests for teams standardizing on APIs at scale.

Yes, Tyk supports Cloud, self-managed, and hybrid deployment models across any cloud or data center.

Tyk supports REST, GraphQL, TCP, and gRPC protocols.