Quick Start - Free Trial

New to Tyk Self Managed? Click the button below to kickstart your journey with the basics.

Important note: Upon clicking, you will need to sign up. Take advantage of a free guided evaluation of the Tyk Dashboard & Developer Portal, and receive your temporary license along with installation instructions during the process. Alternatively, to get started quickly, get a 48 hour trial of Tyk Cloud and get access to all features and capabilities of Tyk without the need to install.

What’s Included in the Quick Start?

• View an example API secured through the Tyk Gateway, configured with rate limiting.
• Login to Tyk Dashboard to view API analytics and update the configuration of the API (e.g. with further authentication options).
• Update rate limits for the example API.

Trial Prerequisites

The recommended way to start your evaluation is via Docker. Follow the instructions to install Docker.

Next Step - Proof of Concept (PoC)

You have completed the quick start guide above and wonder what’s next, please read below.

PoC Guide

To find out more, visit our Tyk Technical PoC Guide.

Tyk Demo - The Perfect PoC Experience

Head over to our Tyk Demo guides in Kubernetes or Docker. These guides, with zero to none effort, will spin up the full Tyk infrastructure (Tyk stack) with examples of Tyk’s capabilities and integrations out-of-the-box.