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API management built so you can go your own way

API management built so you can go your own way

The only truly independent API management platform — and the only open source AI governance control plane in the market.
Full control. No lock-in. Deploy anywhere.

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WHY TYK

Independent by design.
Not a cloud. Not a suite. Not a compromise.

Every other platform wants to own your infrastructure.Tyk is built for teams who need to own it themselves.

Deploy anywhere

Cloud, on-prem, hybrid, Kubernetes, sovereign regions, air-gapped. The same platform, the same policies, wherever your data has to live.

vs. Hyperscalers — usage-based pricing breaks at telco and payments volumes. Single-cloud deployment creates data residency problems.

Buy what you'll run

Enterprise API governance without buying a platform you’ll use 20% of. Tyk does one thing well: API management and governance, end to end.

vs. MuleSoft / IBM — full-suite lock-in at enterprise scale. You pay for what you don’t use, and leave when the contract expires.

Open source foundation

The gateway is open source. No proprietary runtime. No black box. Your team can read it, fork it, extend it, and contribute back.

vs. Apigee / Kong — cloud-managed control planes with proprietary runtimes. The further in you go, the harder it is to leave.

AI GOVERNANCE

The only open source AI governance control plane.

AI agents, MCP servers, and LLM-backed services aren’t a different problem from API management. They’re the same problem with higher stakes.

Tyk governs AI traffic the same way it governs classic APIs — one control plane, one audit trail, one place to set policy. And unlike every other vendor in this space, the governance layer is open source.

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What the control plane covers

Token-aware rate limiting

LLM spend tracked and enforced per tenant, team, and cost centre — from day one.

Tyk MCP Gateway

Per-tool rate limits, filtered discovery, and a full audit trail for the remote MCP servers your AI agents call. Same control plane as your classic APIs.

Unified audit trail

Agent → tool → API events exported via OpenTelemetry. One audit log for compliance teams and regulators.

Policy as code

Same GitOps workflow for AI policy as for classic API policy. No separate tooling, no separate approval chain

Open source

The only AI governance control plane in the market with a fully open source foundation. Inspect it, extend it, run it yourself.

MCP GATEWAY

MCP, governed.

AI agents are already calling MCP servers in production. Your security and platform teams need controls that ship today, not next quarter.

01

Per-tool rate limiting

Independent consumer counters at the level of the individual tool. No other gateway ships this today.

02

Filtered discovery

Agents see only the tools they are entitled to invoke. Tools they cannot call are invisible to them.

03

OAuth 2.1 with PRM

Native Protected Resource Metadata. Spec-compliant clients discover the authorisation server automatically, without manual configuration.

04

One control plane

MCP proxies managed alongside your REST and GraphQL APIs. Same Dashboard, same policies, same keys.

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CUSTOMER STORIES

What teams actually needed.

The buyers who choose Tyk aren’t looking for the biggest vendor. They’re looking for the one that fits how they work.

Tyk’s API management solution serves as the central enabler to orchestrate our capabilities and APIs. With Tyk we can create and maintain not only service-specific APIs but also build API aggregations, proxies, mocks or even a mixture of these different kinds of APIs.
Alexander Troppmann
Lead Cloud-native Architect, ZEISS
Our bill with MuleSoft was very, very large, and so part of the initiative… was cost savings. Yes, there’s an initial upfront cost for the development work, but year over year, we'll be saving, I think in our case… upwards of half a million dollars per year.
Todd Lyon
VP Engineering Manager, TAB Bank
Our approach has always been to go with vendors that take the time to listen to our pain points, resolve our problems, and keep our needs in their roadmap. Tyk has been the perfect partner. We have continuous engagement with them. They’ve talked to our developers and had learning sessions with us. That has really helped our team grow.
Vaishali Dalvi
VP Web Development, RBFCU
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DEPLOYMENT

Your infrastructure. Your rules.

No mandatory cloud. No forced upgrade path. Tyk runs where you need it to run.

Cloud

Tyk-managed SaaS. Fast to start, fully maintained.

Self-managed

Full control. On-prem, private cloud, or air-gapped environments.

Hybrid

Control plane in the cloud, data plane wherever the data lives.

Sovereign

Data residency compliance. Deploy in regulated regions without redesigning your governance model.

All deployment models run the same codebase, enforce the same policies, and produce the same audit events. No feature disparity by deployment type.

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HOW WE COMPARE

The only platform that doesn't ask you to choose.

Between control and scale. Between open source and enterprise support. Between API management and AI governance.

TykApigeeKongMuleSoftAWS / Azure
Truly self-managed deploymentPartialPartialPartial
Open source gateway
Open source AI governance control plane
Sovereign / data residency deploymentLimitedPartialPartial
Air-gapped / disconnected operationPartial
Unified policy: classic APIs + AI agentsAdd-onPluginAdd-on
No mandatory suite adoptionPartial
Predictable per-deployment pricingPartial

Ready to go your own way?

Talk to the team, or start with the open source gateway and see how far you get before you need us.

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