Get the foundation right.
Get the foundation right.
One unified control plane for every API and AI protocol – REST, GraphQL, gRPC, MCP, A2A. Rate limiting, auth, governance and observability for APIs and AI agents alike. Full control of your data, your stack and your costs. When something needs attention, you’re the first to know.
REST · GraphQL · gRPC · MCP · A2A · Kafka · MQTT
control plane
AI agents run on APIs. Govern them the same way.
Remote MCP servers, A2A calls, LLM requests – the moment agent traffic crosses your network, it’s API traffic. Tyk governs it on the same control plane as your REST and GraphQL APIs, with the same rate limiting, auth, observability and audit trail – on infrastructure you control, so prompts, tool calls and agent data never transit someone else’s cloud.
- Per-tool rate limiting.
Five independent levels per consumer - policy, proxy, method, tool, resource. Apply a strict limit to a costly operation while the rest of the toolset runs at its normal rate. - Filtered discovery.
Agents see only the tools they're entitled to invoke. The rest are invisible - no per-role infrastructure. - OAuth 2.1 with PRM
Native Protected Resource Metadata. Spec-compliant clients self-configure. - Full observability
OTel metrics, structured logs, distributed traces - all with MCP-specific fields. - LLM proxying, native
Model allow-lists, PII redaction and spend budgets that fail closed - with provider keys held at the gateway, never in the client. - A2A protocol support
Agent-to-agent traffic governed alongside MCP and classic APIs.
But first, get the API layer right.
AI governance sits on top of a solid API platform. Tyk’s been doing this for 10+ years.
Traffic & security
Rate limiting, auth, quotas and policies – enforced at the edge, before a request touches your backend.
Governance & auditing
Centralised policies, RBAC, SSO and a full audit trail. Built for regulators and compliance teams.
Observability
OpenTelemetry native. Logs, metrics, traces – export to Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus or any backend.
APIOps & automation
GitOps, Tyk Operator, declarative configs as Kubernetes CRDs. Config-driven, not click-driven.
Developer Portal
Self-service API discovery, documentation and key management for internal and external developers.
Every protocol
REST · GraphQL · gRPC · MCP · A2A · Kafka · MQTT. One gateway, every traffic type.
The full platform, running in minutes.
No sales call to evaluate. Grab a free trial key, paste a few lines, and the whole platform – Dashboard, Gateway, Portal – is running on your laptop. Ready to add your first API.
Your infrastructure. Your rules.
If your data has to stay in your environment, the whole platform runs there – gateway, Dashboard, Developer Portal, analytics. Or split it: our control plane, your data planes.
- Self-managed is the full platform. Full feature parity across all deployment types. Nothing locked behind a cloud-entry gate.
- Payloads stay in your network. In hybrid, only configuration and analytics metadata reach the control plane. Air-gapped, nothing does.
- Residency per data plane. Pin data planes to a region or tenant under one control plane - GDPR, PCI DSS, data-localisation.
- Leaving stays possible. Apache-2.0 core and open standards, so changing cloud or model is an operations task, not a re-platform.
What teams actually needed.
Time to move off Apigee Edge or Mulesoft?
Migration tools, deployed engineers and a proven path – zero downtime, your policies intact, and a complete platform at a stable, lower cost.
From Apigee Edge
Sunset deadline approaching? Our deployed engineers managed the migration – APIs, policies, and keys carried across with zero downtime.
From Mulesoft
Full self-managed control. No vendor-hosted control plane. Open source foundation, stable pricing.
From Kong
Capability parity without per-request pricing. Same Kubernetes-native deployment, no cloud dependency.
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.
| Tyk | Apigee | Kong | MuleSoft | AWS / Azure | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Truly self-managed deployment | Partial | Partial | Partial | ||
| Open source gateway | |||||
| Open source AI governance control plane | |||||
| Sovereign / data residency deployment | Limited | Partial | Partial | ||
| Air-gapped / disconnected operation | Partial | ||||
| Unified policy: classic APIs + AI agents | Add-on | Plugin | Add-on | ||
| No mandatory suite adoption | Partial | ||||
| Predictable per-deployment pricing | Partial |
Get the foundation right.
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