Tyk AI Studio: Accelerate AI innovation without sacrificing control
AI adoption is unavoidable, and without a structured approach, it can expose significant security risks as employees use AI in uncontrolled and insecure ways.
Successful adoption means ensuring cost control, minimizing risk, and enabling developers with tools that integrate with existing workflows. Successful adoption turns AI from a potential risk into a strategic asset that drives revenue and operational efficiency.
Shadow AI usage
Unauthorized tools running without oversight.
Security and access control
Safeguarding access across teams and use cases with robust authentication and role-based access.
Data privacy and compliance
Balancing innovation with regulations like GDPR and CCPA.
Spiralling costs
Unlimited AI consumption leading to high expenses due to uncontrolled token usage without rate limiting.
AI’s promise vs. the reality:
stellar efficiency, stumbling adoption
AI continues to rapidly advance, and when effectively integrated, it enables intelligent automation and scalable decision-making across the enterprise.
However, 74% of companies struggle to fully realize its value. Despite the opportunities AI provides, it also introduces risks and challenges for CIOs and CTOs including:
Introducing Tyk AI Studio
Tyk AI Studio helps organizations harness AI’s potential with seamless governance, security, and control. Purpose-built for enterprises, this AI gateway enables the use of LLMs, other AI tools, and MCPs while enforcing policy, maintaining oversight, and overcoming adoption challenges. It’s governance-first AI enablement for modern enterprises.
Centralized AI management
Unify and control AI usage across your organization.
- Govern AI with role-based access control, rate limiting and audit logging.
- Monitor usage, costs, budgets, and performance in real time.
- Manage how LLMs are accessed and used, with an AI gateway as a single point of control.
- Ensure compliance with global privacy regulations through customizable data flow management.
AI gateway
Seamlessly connect to AI tools and models.
- Securely proxy and expose large language models (LLMs) and integrate custom data models and tools
- Leverage remote MCP support for standard-compliant tool and data model integration
- Multi-vendor support for popular AI tools (OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral, Vertex, Bedrock, Gemini, Huggingface, Ollama), or connect your own proprietary models
- Use the AI gateway to enable secure, scalable access to AI services across teams
- Track usage statistics, cost breakdowns, budget allocation, and tool utilization to optimize resources
AI portal
Empower developers with a curated AI service catalog.
- Simplify access to AI tools and services through a unified portal
- Enable seamless integration with internal systems and external workflows
- Enable rapid prototyping and secure experimentation with built-in policy controls
Build-in MCP support for secure, scalable AI tool exposure
Tyk AI Studio includes out-of-the-box support for remote and local MCP servers, enabling enterprises to expose their internal AI toolsets securely whether through centralized remote access or isolated environments.
Remote MCP
Plug in your internal APIs and tools securely via Tyk’s remote MCP server capabilities with no custom scripts required.
Local MCP generator
Easily spin up installable MCP servers for testing or restricted environments, all proxied through the AI Gateway for visibility and policy control.
Unified MCP governance
Enforce consistent security policies, access controls, and compliance across all AI tool connections through centralized management.
Tyk makes MCP practical, not theoretical, removing friction and enabling real-world adoption.
Learn more about how Tyk is shaping the future of the AI supply chain with MCP servers in the blog below.
AI Chat: One interface, wherever you use it
At the core of Tyk AI Studio is AI Chat, a secure and collaborative interface that brings together all of your LLMs, internal data sources, and AI tools into a single, familiar chat experience.
Unified interface
One chat-style interface that connects your AI models, tools, and internal systems without context switching or added complexity.
Built-in security and governance
Enforce usage policies and control content flow using a powerful scripting environment to ensure compliance and safe use.
Custom chatrooms
Create dedicated spaces for teams, projects, or specific use cases, leveraging the tools and data you need for a specific purpose or context.
Efficiency and innovation
With all tools and data accessible in one place, teams can work with familiar tools, reducing the learning curve and enabling faster experimentation and innovation
Accelerate adoption, scale usage, succeed without risk
Tyk AI Studio empowers organizations to adopt AI securely and efficiently, delivering a host of benefits:
Centralized governance and control
Bring consistency, security and governance to every AI interaction across your organization.
Strengthened security
Enjoy the peace of mind that stems from strict access controls, secure interactions and region-specific compliance.
Simplified workflows
Benefit from reduced complexity and enhanced efficiency while supporting your developers and less technical users to work with multiple LLMs, data models and tools.
Trusted data privacy
Maintain confidence in how data is handled, exposed, and transformed, reducing risk of reputational, operational and financial damage.
Plug-and-play integration
Connect to internal systems, external APIs, and LLMs
Cost optimization
Monitor usage and apply budget and usage controls via the AI gateway.
Real-world applications
Proxying LLM traffic through an AI gateway delivers control, visibility, and scalability. It ensures you can use LLMs effectively, securely, and cost-efficiently, as these real-world uses highlight:
FAQ
How does Tyk AI Studio help us address the challenge of shadow AI in our organization?
Tyk AI Studio provides a centralized AI management approach that helps eliminate shadow AI by giving employees a secure, governed way to access AI capabilities.
By offering an AI Gateway as a single point of control for all AI usage, combined with an AI Portal that makes approved AI tools easily accessible, Tyk creates a structured environment that discourages unauthorized tool usage while still enabling innovation. The platform’s comprehensive governance features, including role-based access control, audit logging, and usage monitoring, provide outstanding visibility and control of AI usage.
How does Tyk AI Studio handle data privacy and compliance concerns when using LLMs?
Tyk AI Studio addresses data privacy and compliance through a range of features. You can enforce usage policies and control content flow to ensure compliance, as well as using the AI gateway to leverage remote MCP support for standard-compliant tool and data model integration.
Tyk AI Studio’s customizable data flow management ensures compliance with global privacy regulations such as GDPR and CCPA. The platform’s AI Gateway allows you to control how data is handled, exposed, and transformed before it reaches external LLMs. For example, in healthcare applications, you can route LLM traffic through the gateway to comply with HIPAA by ensuring sensitive patient data is properly anonymized or restricted. This approach maintains your compliance posture while still enabling AI-driven insights from your data. It ensures auditability and policy enforcement in every AI interaction.
Can Tyk AI Studio work with multiple AI vendors and models?
Yes, Tyk AI Studio features multi-vendor support for popular AI tools including OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral, Vertex, Bedrock, Gemini, Huggingface, and Ollama. The platform can also connect to your own proprietary models. This multi-vendor approach gives you outstanding flexibility in choosing the right AI models for different use cases without creating management silos. The unified interface brings together all these different models and tools into a single, consistent experience for users.
How does Tyk AI Studio help control and optimize AI costs?
Tyk AI Studio provides comprehensive cost management features. The platform allows you to monitor usage, costs, and budgets in real-time. Through the AI gateway, you can apply rate limiting to prevent excessive token usage, while the analytics dashboard enables you to track detailed cost breakdowns and budget allocations across different teams and projects. These capabilities give you the visibility and control needed to optimize AI resources, prevent unexpected spending, and allocate costs appropriately across the organization.
What security features does Tyk AI Studio provide for AI access control?
Tyk AI Studio offers robust security features including robust authentication and role-based access control that ensures users can only access the AI tools and data appropriate for their role. The platform provides secure proxying of LLM traffic and comprehensive audit logging for all AI interactions.
These security capabilities are managed through the AI gateway, which serves as a central enforcement point for your organization’s AI security policies, ensuring consistent protection across all AI usage.
How does Tyk AI Studio's MCP support enable integration with our internal tools and data?
Tyk AI Studio includes built-in support for Model Control Protocol (MCP) servers, both remote and local. The remote MCP capability allows you to securely plug in your internal APIs and tools without requiring custom scripts, while the local MCP generator lets you spin up installable MCP servers for testing or restricted environments. All MCP interactions are proxied through the AI gateway for visibility and policy control, making it practical to integrate AI with your existing internal systems and data sources.
What types of real-world applications can Tyk AI Studio support?
Tyk AI Studio supports diverse real-world applications across all industries. In banking and financial services, for example, it can ensure only anonymized customer data is sent to LLMs while tracking usage by department.
For software development teams, it can integrate AI with tools like Jira and GitHub to accelerate product development. In healthcare, it supports HIPAA-compliant AI interactions by protecting patient data. E-commerce businesses can integrate LLMs with product catalogs, allowing employees to query inventory or sales data through a chat interface. The platform’s flexibility makes it suitable for any organization looking to leverage AI securely and efficiently.
How does Tyk AI Studio simplify the user experience for different types of AI users?
Tyk AI Studio simplifies the user experience through its AI Chat interface, which brings together all LLMs, internal data sources, and AI tools into a single, familiar chat experience. This unified approach eliminates context switching and reduces complexity for both technical and non-technical users, while still ensuring each user can only access information based on their specific permissions.
The platform supports custom chatrooms for specific teams, projects, or use cases, providing tailored environments with the right tools and data for each context. By maintaining a consistent interface while enforcing security and governance behind the scenes, Tyk makes AI accessible efficiently, without compromising on control.
How does Tyk AI Studio help us maintain governance while still enabling innovation?
Tyk AI Studio takes a governance-first approach to AI enablement, providing the controls, visibility, and compliance features needed to manage risk while still supporting innovation. The platform allows for rapid prototyping and secure experimentation, with built-in policy controls that maintain appropriate guardrails.
By centralizing governance while making approved tools easily accessible, Tyk creates an environment where developers and business users can innovate confidently within a secure framework, transforming AI from a potential risk into a strategic asset.
How does Tyk AI Studio compare to building our own AI governance solution?
Tyk AI Studio provides a comprehensive, purpose-built solution for AI governance. Building a comparable solution internally would require significant time, expertise, and resources.
The Tyk platform offers ready-to-use capabilities for multi-vendor AI integration, MCP support, cost management, security controls, and compliance, all integrated into a cohesive system. By leveraging Tyk’s expertise in API management and extending it to AI governance, organizations can accelerate their adoption of secure, controlled AI without the overhead of developing and maintaining custom governance infrastructure.