Overview
Tyk Gateway is a cloud-native API gateway that supports REST, GraphQL, TCP, gRPC and MCP (Model Context Protocol). The team has built it since 2014, and the open-source gateway has no feature lockout.
What it does well
Tyk handles rate limiting, authentication, analytics and common microservice patterns. You can run the open-source gateway with Docker and Redis in a few minutes. The company also sells a self-managed enterprise platform and Tyk Cloud, which add a dashboard, developer portal and management control plane.
Why it’s in the collection
Tyk is a mature, full-featured gateway that a team can run on its own infrastructure with no features held back. The gateway is MPL-licensed; code in the ee folder is under a separate commercial license.
On GitHub
- Stars
- 10,883
- Forks
- 1,170
- Commits
- 5,493
- Repository
- TykTechnologies/tyk
Languages
- Go 98.1%
- Shell 1.2%
- Other 0.7%
Compared with
KongAPI gateway and management platform.
ApigeeGoogle Cloud's API management platform.
AWS API GatewayAmazon's managed API gateway.
See every open-source alternative to Kong and Apigee in the collection.
