Design, test & publish APIs
Simple, efficient API design – create, implement and publish with ease
We provide the intuitive tools you need to manage your APIs more effectively
Tyk makes it easy for you to design, implement and test your APIs
From the API Designer through to the Developer Portal, Tyk comes with everything you need out of the box. It’s part of our ‘batteries included’ philosophy. Get started in minutes.
What’s more, you can integrate Tyk with your favorite tools, so there’s no need to change the way you work.
Do you want to use StopLight to document your APIs, then import the generated Open API Spec (Swagger) into Tyk? Would you like to use Postman to test the endpoints on your APIs, now secured by Tyk?
Whatever your approach, we support open standards, so we’ve got you and your team covered now and into the future.
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Smooth, intuitive API design
Tyk’s API Designer delivers everything you need to create or import APIs. Apply granular security and access for a fine-grained degree of control.
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Easy implementation with traceable results
Use the user-friendly dashboard GUI or manage the configuration as code with your GitOps workflow. Either way, see the results instantly.
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Design to testing in under 60 seconds
We make it simple and fast for you to design and implement your APIs. You can have a secured API URL for testing your API in under a minute. Because time’s too precious to waste.
Enabling global businesses to manage their APIs effectively
Companies around the world rely on Tyk to design, test and implement their APIs.
Create, import and transform with ease
Tyk Designer is your all-in-one API design solution. Start from scratch or import your API via OpenAPI Specification (Swagger) to continue with your API design.
Implement transformations as needed, such as from SOAP to REST or from REST to GraphQL.
The Tyk Gateway and Tyk Dashboard include all the plug-ins you need as standard. Looking for GraphQL? We have that covered too.
Build dynamic API products while maintaining a single simple interface for your users
Tyk supports you to build complex, dynamic API products while abstracting the complexity away from your consumers. Implement various authentication methods, as well as custom API authentications that you can write in Go, Python, GRPC or JavaScript Virtual Machine.
Apply policies that specify rate limits, throttling, usage quotas, access rights, trial periods and much more. Implement them at API level, with granular control.
Keep your APIs in check
From unit tests to contract testing, you need to ensure your APIs are behaving as expected. Tyk ensures that you can easily test that each API honors its defined contract for the consumer.
You can then publish live OpenAPI Specification documentation to accompany your API products in the Tyk Developer Portal, or GraphQL playgrounds for your GraphQL/Universal Data Graph APIs.
Enjoy ultimate flexibility
Work with any API and protocol
Tyk has been designed to give you the flexibility you need. Work with any API and protocol, and integrate with your CI/CD pipeline.
With Tyk, you can scale and design APIs to deploy across multiple data centers, all through a single, user-friendly dashboard. Then publish and expose your APIs through our self-service API Developer Portal.
We are very much an API-first company. And Tyk has helped us build our platform that way to serve our customers.
Ritesh Tendulkar, CTO at Modulr
Some of our success stories
Welcome to Tyk
Increased internal developer velocity, software development life cycle best practices and increased return on investment on external API consumption.
Clear, effective API design
Specify various protocols out of the box, along with customer domains and SSL certificates attached. Everything you need, included as standard.
Working your way
Specify round robin load balancing with multiple backends, or service discovery, which provides you with a dynamic set of backends that you can query for your API.
Policy-based access control
Create various key types and control access to your API at policy level. It’s fast, efficient and effective, saving you time, effort and energy.
API design, implementation and testing focused on your needs
Every company’s needs are different when it comes to APIs. That’s why Tyk is built to be flexible. We’ve created easy-to-use open source tools that your team can use to achieve its API management goals.
To increase your developer velocity, we’ve removed boilerplate code, baked-in industry-standard security mechanisms and enabled software development lifecycle best practices.
We’ve also opened up potential new revenue areas on external party API consumption through easy API exploration via Tyk’s Developer Portal. Enjoy low barriers to entry with our self-service approach and the ability to easily publish and monetise your APIs.
Extensive security policy capabilities, powerful versioning, comprehensive testing, flexible endpoint design and a multi-faceted API developer portal. This is everything you need to manage the design, implementation and testing of your APIs the right way.
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