Tyk AI Studio
The AI Gateway for the Agentic Era
The open-core AI gateway for routing, governing, and securing all AI traffic across your organisation. Every AI request flows through it. Every policy is enforced here. Every cost is attributed here.
The single control plane for LLMs, agents, MCP tool chains, and RAG workloads.
What AI Studio delivers
AI Studio is the AI Gateway layer of the AI Control Stack. Every AI request flows through it.
Every policy is enforced here. Every cost is attributed here.
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AI traffic governance
Full lifecycle control over every AI interaction. Complete audit trails for prompts, responses, and tool calls. PII redaction and content filtering enforced at the gateway. Scoped tool access for autonomous agents with enterprise SSO and RBAC.
Control at the point of execution.
Intelligent model routing
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Multi-vendor routing with automatic failover. Policy-based model selection by use case, budget, latency, and risk tier. Premium-to-cost-efficient routing strategies across OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral, Vertex, Gemini, Ollama, and private models.
Model choice becomes policy-driven infrastructure.
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RAG & data governance
Bring enterprise data into AI safely. Governed vector data sources with access control per model and per team. Full data lineage, request traceability, and streaming federated data integration.
Integrated AI — without bypassing governance.
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Cost attribution & budget enforcement
Token-level metering with real-time attribution to teams, projects, and applications. Hard spend caps, quotas, and real-time cost visibility per model and use case.
Spend is no longer a spreadsheet problem. It’s enforced at the gateway.
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MCP & Agent control
MCP tool generation from OpenAPI specs. OpenAI-to-MCP server generation for seamless integration. Scoped tool access policies with guardrails applied to every agent-initiated call. Pluggable guardrail extensions.
Enable agents. Let the gateway govern.
Built to be extended
AI infrastructure cannot be static. Policies evolve. Models change. Standards emerge. If your gateway cannot adapt, it becomes the bottleneck. AI Studio is designed as a programmable control plane.
Community plugin marketplace
Guardrail extensions, LLM caching, observability integrations, policy modules, GitHub-to-RAG pipelines. Install what you need. Extend what doesn’t exist.
Private marketplaces (Enterprise)
Package client-specific guardrails, industry policy packs, data integrations, and custom routing logic. Distribute securely across projects and teams. Monetise your IP without forking the platform.
Extensibility at the execution layer
Extensions operate directly in the AI request path. No bottlenecks. No roadmap dependency.
- Inject custom pre- and post-processing logic
- Enforce industry-specific compliance rules
- Build model adapters or LLM caching layers
- Implement proprietary guardrails
- Integrate internal policy engines
- Create completely custom user interfaces
- Override routing decisions dynamically
- Attach observability pipelines
Open core. Community first.
In a landscape that changes monthly, transparency isn’t a feature — it’s a survival strategy.
COMMUNITY EDITION
Free & open
Transparent. Deploy anywhere. Move fast.
- AI Studio: Portal and AI Gateway with multi-model routing
- Core guardrails and policy enforcement
- Self-hosted deployment
- Extensible plugin architecture
- Community plugin marketplace
ENTERPRISE EDITION
Everything in Community, plus:
Community gives you control. Enterprise gives you scale.
- Advanced budget enforcement and cost attribution
- Fine-grained policy controls
- Enterprise SSO and RBAC
- Advanced observability and compliance-ready audit trails
- Private plugin marketplaces
- Enterprise support and SLAs
FAQ
How does Tyk AI Studio address shadow AI in our organisation?
AI Studio provides a governed gateway that becomes the single point of access for all AI services. By offering self-service access with built-in guardrails, teams no longer need to build shadow solutions outside governance.
How does AI Studio handle data privacy and compliance concerns when using LLMs?
PII redaction, content filtering, and data access controls are enforced at the gateway level. Complete audit trails provide the evidence you need for regulatory compliance, with data lineage tracking across all AI interactions.
How does AI Studio help control and optimise AI costs?
Token-level metering with attribution to teams, projects, and applications. Hard spend caps and quotas prevent cost overruns. Intelligent routing strategies optimise cost-to-quality ratios automatically.
What types of real-world applications can Tyk AI Studio support?
From internal chatbots and customer-facing AI assistants to autonomous agents running multi-step workflows, RAG applications, and AI-powered developer tooling — AI Studio governs them all from a single control plane.
How does Tyk AI Studio's MCP support enable integration with our internal tools and data?
AI Studio supports both remote and local MCP servers, letting you expose internal APIs and tools to AI agents securely. MCP tool generation from OpenAPI specs means existing APIs become agent-accessible immediately.
Can Tyk AI Studio work with multiple AI vendors and models?
Yes. AI Studio supports multi-vendor routing across OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral, Vertex, Gemini, Hugging Face, Ollama, and private models. Policy-driven model selection lets you route by use case, budget, latency, or risk tier.
What security features does AI Studio provide for AI access control?
Prompt injection protection, PII redaction, credential management, scoped tool access for agents, enterprise SSO and RBAC, content guardrails, and complete audit logging across every AI interaction.
How does Tyk AI Studio compare to building our own AI governance solution?
Building in-house means maintaining routing, security, cost tracking, MCP support, and guardrails as the AI landscape evolves monthly. AI Studio provides all of this out of the box with an extensible plugin architecture, backed by the same team that built Tyk API Gateway.
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Build fast. Stay in control.
The organisations that win in the AI era won’t be the ones adopting AI fastest. They’ll be the ones governing it best. AI Studio gives you the gateway to do both.