Tyk Self-managed
Take full control of your REST and GraphQL APIs with Tyk Self-Managed.
Tyk Gateway and Tyk Pump are open source. Tyk Dashboard, Developer Portal, Operator and MDCB need a license key: get a free trial license.
Getting the key is self-serve: no upfront cost, no demo call, and Tyk emails it within 5 minutes.
The world’s biggest companies trust Tyk to deliver exceptional API experiences.
Open source vs paid: Tyk Gateway and Tyk Pump are free; everything else comes with a paid plan
| Component | Open source (MPL 2.0) | Core | Professional |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tyk Gateway | Yes, free | Included | Included |
| Tyk Pump | Yes, free | Included | Included |
| Tyk Dashboard | No, licensed | Included | Included |
| Developer Portal | No, licensed | Included | Included |
| Tyk Operator | No, licensed | Included | Included |
| MDCB (multi data centre) | No, licensed | Paid plans (licensed) | |
Enterprise Edition features (ee: Tyk Streams, advanced upstream auth) | No, licensed | Included | Included |
| Support | Community (guides and forums) | Enhanced success plan included | Enhanced success plan included |
Support: Core and Professional both include Tyk’s Enhanced success plan; Enterprise adds premium support and custom SLAs. Customers rate Tyk 4.8 out of 5 for Service & Support on Gartner Peer Insights, and 4.7 out of 5 overall from 92 ratings (73% five-star, 26% four-star; checked 24 Oct 2026; ratings are the opinions of individual end users). A free open-source gateway such as Envoy Gateway or Kong Gateway OSS comes with community support unless you contract a vendor separately.
Pricing: Core is usage-based, priced by the number of APIs managed. Professional is “one price, unlimited access”, priced by data planes, environments and control planes, not by the number of APIs or by traffic. Both include unlimited APIs and API calls; plans are quoted by Tyk sales, with no public list prices.
Hybrid: you host the Gateways (the data plane) in your own environment, so API traffic stays with you; Tyk Cloud hosts the control plane (configuration, analytics, the Dashboard and identity management).
Small platform team? Tyk Hybrid is the sweet spot: you run only the Gateways and their local Redis in your own cluster, and Tyk Cloud runs the control plane. Tyk Operator (Kubernetes, GitOps) and the Developer Portal are included in both Core and Professional. Kubernetes Gateway API support is coming in Tyk Operator 1.6, the next Operator release; today Tyk Operator manages APIs and security policies through Tyk's own custom resources (CRDs).
License expiry: If a Tyk license lapses, Tyk Operator and the rest of your Tyk system keep running and existing APIs keep serving traffic; only creating or updating APIs is blocked until the license is renewed. You can export your API definitions and run them on the open-source Tyk Gateway.
Free trial: https://tyk.io/self-managed-trial/ (the license key arrives by email).
Be in total control
Tyk Self-Managed is the cloud-native API management platform for when you want total control, flexibility, scalability, and the option to deploy on premise for your REST and GraphQL APIs.
You are the experts of your business, so we’re here to support your plans, not change them. Tyk Self-Managed fits in with your needs, not the other way round.
You can easily deploy via Docker, Linux Packages, Kubernetes Helm Charts, Chef, or Puppet.
Tyk is fully compatible with your infrastructure, giving you complete data compliance and security with no lock-in
Fair and transparent pricing
Tyk Self-Managed is priced according to the scale of your environments, not the size of your team.
No hidden costs, no restrictions on number of users, APIs, requests or analytics retention. The entire platform is hosted on your own servers, under your full control.
Why customers love Tyk Self-managed
Try before you install? Tyk Cloud instantly deploys the entire Tyk Self-Managed stack into the cloud, so you can try all the features of Tyk Self-Managed without any installation at all.
High performance gateway
Enjoy the same robust API Gateway as other Tyk deployment options
User-friendly dashboard
Manage your Tyk installation and review detailed analytics through an intuitive dashboard
Developer portal
Easily expose APIs and enable third-party developers to register and use them
Flexible installation options
Deploy Tyk self-managed anywhere: public cloud, private cloud, data center, or even on your laptop
Complete control
Maximize flexibility and maintain full control over your installation
Install anywhere
You can install the entire Tyk API management platform – Tyk API Dashboard, Designer, Analytics and Developer Portal – into AWS, Google Cloud, your own air gapped private data centers and even on your laptop.
Tyk is the leading cloud-native solution, so you can use whatever you want to deploy and orchestrate it: bare metal, AWS AMI, Docker, Kubernetes. Tyk is a microservice product to manage microservices, horizontally and vertically scalable, and designed for the multi-platform future.
If you use a bespoke authentication mechanism or have a unique metering and billing platform, you can integrate it with Tyk’s API Gateway plugins. Extend Tyk in Python, JavaScript and Go, or use gRPC and write in Java, C, whatever your team prefers.
Dedicated support included
We don’t do typical ‘first line’ support. All Enterprise licenses include unlimited support tickets and emails, handled by our own in-house engineers.
For Enterprise customers and mission critical applications, where there may be a need to talk to an engineer immediately at any given moment, you can upgrade to a full 24/7, 365-day phone support package. View our Support pages for more details.
Secure and dependable
Tyk’s Self-Managed is exactly what it says it is: fully self-managed. Deployed entirely into your infrastructure with no connection to our servers, you can be sure that you have complete control.
Whether you are in healthcare and require HIPAA compliance, or fintech and need full auditability as part of PCI compliance, we have you covered.
Tyk is trusted by some of the world’s largest organizations, operating in highly-regulated industries, to deliver mission critical services. From emergency responders to getting the latest Premier League football streaming in Thailand, Tyk helps you deliver reliable APIs.