API GATEWAY
Do it all with Tyk
The Tyk API Gateway protects, secures, and processes APIs for thousands of
organisations and businesses around the world.
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Comprehensive out-of-the-box API management
If you’re looking for a market-leading API gateway, you’re in the right place. Tyk’s open source API gateway provides a comprehensive, robust, lightweight path to a better experience for your customers, while giving you flexibility for customization you need. Tyk comes with pre-built out of the box middleware and industry-standard API security mechanism without you needing to implement and maintain it yourself. Use Tyk API Gateway with REST, SOAP, GraphQL, Kubernetes and legacy systems to:
- Secure, shape and transform your traffic
- Handle all of your governance and auditing requirement
- Design, implement and test your APIs
- Gather and export analytics to drive business decisions
- Add API management to your platform
Everything you need
Tyk is the most capable, flexible, high-performance and extensible API gateway on the market.
Trusted by thousands of brands worldwide
More than just an API gateway
Easy deployment
Deploy APIs securely, easily and efficiently.
Deep dive analytics
Tyk generates analytics of your API traffic. Understand your API performance to drive business decisions and identify problems.
Flexible versioning
Manage API upgrades better with minimal downtime impact to your end users.
Safe, efficient, secure collaboration
Enjoy powerful governance and auditing capabilities – ideal for highly regulated production environments, multi-region teams collaboration and complex infrastructures.
Deploy your way, without changing your stack
Would you like to install Tyk self-managed? Run it in the cloud? Or perhaps managed with a Kubernetes operator? Tyk is designed to work with any and all of these approaches, as well as with hybrid models. Because one size doesn’t fit all.
Focus on your business needs first
Not just another technical implementation, Tyk helps you make decisions based on what’s important for your business.
Your business, your way
Tyk’s API Gateway was built from the ground up. There’s no third party software to install – just open source code that provides you with full oversight and complete control.
- Deploy anywhere
- Self-managed or cloud
- Get started in minutes
- Write your own custom, pluggable middleware and transform requests
- Extensible with popular programming languages
Tyk API Gateway
You can download the industry-leading open source API gateway that powers thousands of platforms around the world
Tyk Cloud
Fully hosted and managed by us in 6 regions, Tyk Cloud has nothing to install and pricing plans that grow with your business, so you never pay for more than you need.
Tyk Self-Managed
You can install Tyk Self-Managed on any popular platform – your laptop, hyperscale cloud providers or your highly secure, air gapped environment. From single teams up to vast international enterprises, we have pricing plans to suit every stage of growth.
Recognised on Gartner Peer Reviews
APIs now make up 57% of dynamic internet traffic
52% of API error rates are 429 ‘too many requests’ errors
Recommendation: Use an API gateway to move toward a “positive security” model