Get more from your APIs with Tyk’s Open Source API Gateway
If you have an API, you need an API gateway. Tyk can help. We provide an enterprise-level, open source API gateway at no cost. Why? Because we love open standards. Use Tyk API Gateway to bring security, governance and control to your APIs.
Building cooperatively and collaboratively is in our DNA
- Powerful features for both REST and GraphQL support.
- Developed through community collaboration, driving innovation and efficiency.
- Supports open standards for easy integration with any tools you choose.
- Designed to fit seamlessly into existing CI/CD pipelines for flexibility.
- Comprehensive community support, including guides and forums.
Community-driven innovation
Tyk would be nothing without community collaboration, which fuels continuous innovation and improvement. Benefit from a diverse ecosystem of contributors who share insights, tools, and support. This open approach allows us to rapidly adapt to market changes, ensuring you receive the latest features and capabilities as they are developed.
Seamless integration
Designed to fit effortlessly into your existing workflows, Tyk’s Open Source API Gateway is configurable and flexible. Whether you’re using REST or GraphQL, we adapt to your CI/CD pipelines, allowing for easy integration with other best-of-breed tools. This adaptability ensures you can implement Tyk without disrupting your established processes.
No vendor lock-in
We prioritize freedom and open standards, making it easy for you to integrate Tyk’s open-source tools with any software you choose, whether paid, open-source, or developed by Tyk or other providers. This flexibility ensures you can adapt your technology stack without being tied to a single vendor.
Tyk has been the first to market with new features, capabilities, and solutions. We’ve changed the market. And that’s down to being open source – building cooperatively and collaboratively. It’s part of our DNA.
Empowering developers with collaboration and performance
At Tyk, support is always at your fingertips. The Tyk Community Forum is your hub for answers, advice, and inspiration. Ask questions or explore our vast repository of previously answered queries for expert guidance. Collaboration is key, and we host workshops, webinars, and insightful blog posts to empower you. We’re committed and proud members of the Open API Specification, Linux Foundation, and CNCF. Join Tyk for free access to open source tools, guides, and the latest updates!
Tyk’s Open Source API Gateway is designed to be highly performant and cloud-native, supporting REST and GraphQL and offering comprehensive capabilities that empower developers to build, secure, and manage APIs effectively. The gateway’s flexibility allows seamless integration with existing tools and workflows, ensuring businesses can adapt quickly to changing needs and innovate without being constrained by proprietary solutions.
Configurable, flexible and automatable
Tailored CI/CD integration
Tyk is configurable, flexible, and easily automatable within your custom CI/CD pipelines, adapting to your unique needs. We don’t force you to use our workflows – Tyk molds around your existing stack, ensuring seamless integration with your tools. This adaptability empowers your team to focus on innovation.
Our OS Gateway:
- 5m+ DockerHub pulls
- 6k+ GitHub stars
- 1,200+ members of Tyk OS community
Embracing the open source philosophy
At Tyk, our foundation is rooted in the open source philosophy, emphasizing collaboration and shared knowledge. We thrive thanks to our community and are committed to supporting open source users. This ethos drives us to create efficient software fueled by collective input, inviting you to join us in valuing transparency and innovation.
Open source gateways power innovation
Open source means it’s more transparent for us. Sometimes, the code itself is the best documentation, especially when we understand the language of the open source project and can participate in it, like with the Tyk API Gateway.
Rubyx is reshaping microfinance for entrepreneurs in informal economies, using Tyk Open Source to facilitate access to loans through familiar platforms. By automating loan processes with REST APIs, Rubyx ensures seamless integration. Tyk’s open source nature and Kubernetes support play a crucial role in bridging the credit gap in developing nations. Read more about this case study.
FAQ
Tyk's Open Source API Gateway: Designed for developers, loved by businesses
Tyk’s Open Source API Gateway was designed for developers. We give you complete control over which tools you use it with and a commitment that our open source API gateway will be free to use, now and forever.
Businesses love Tyk’s efficiency and flexibility. Whatever you need to focus on – access control, a load balancer, version control or any of the hundred other tasks involved in managing APIs successfully – you can do it better with Tyk.
Maximize your API performance with Tyk's Open Source API Gateway
Tyk helps you achieve unmatched API performance through a range of key features and functions. We make caching, payload compression, throttling, rate limiting and using efficient data formats easy. We also support efficient middleware optimization, enforced timeout mechanisms, circuit breaker patterns and load balancing. All backed up by real-time monitoring so that you can immediately detect and address any issues.
Open source API gateways: The backbone of modern application architecture
Open source code and open standards mean you can see what’s going on and innovate, connect and collaborate fast. Open source API gateways are the backbone of modern application architecture, putting this ability to innovate at the heart of your business. They support efficiency and innovation in everything from your backend to your upstream services. Whether you’re building something simple or vast microservice architectures, an open source API gateway can support robust security, powerful performance and seamless digital experiences.
Streamline API development and deployment with an open source gateway
It’s easy to design, implement and test your APIs with Tyk. You can get started in minutes thanks to our ‘batteries included’ philosophy. You simply add an API to Tyk, create a security policy and create an API key. It’s that simple. (Developer portals are also available for Tyk Enterprise customers, meaning you can add an API to your portal for third-party developer access.)
By providing a powerful open source API gateway, Tyk supports you to develop and deploy APIs with ease. It means you can focus on achieving your goals and getting your products to market faster.
Choosing an open source API gateway: Key considerations and best practices
At Tyk, we believe that open source is the future, enabling collaboration and innovation. If you are currently choosing an open source API gateway, consider aspects such as scalability, performance, API security, authentication and authorization mechanisms, rate limiting, monitoring, analytics and more. And don’t forget to factor in cost. Did we mention that Tyk’s Open Source API Gateway is free, now and forever?
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