TYK VS WSO2
Evaluating WSO2? Here’s why you should stop
Tyk empowers you to secure, transform, integrate and govern your APIs simply, efficiently and cost-effectively. With Tyk, you can address API security risks, improve performance and grow your bottom line in ways that you can’t with WSO2.
Unmanaged APIs are a major security risk. Tyk provides a universal solution that secures every type of API, without a steep learning curve. Tyk also provides a major win in performance terms, which can directly impact your bottom line. Slow or unavailable APIs cost enterprises significant sums. Tyk is designed to be ultra performant, as you can see from our benchmark results.
Compared to WSO2, Tyk is 10x faster, while also delivering outstanding stability and reliability. It means you can rely on our scalable architecture to grow your business at pace, easily handling large volumes of traffic and users.
Trusted by leading businesses
Accelerate your delivery with Tyk versus WSO2
- Modern engineering teams live and die by their access to solid, reliable, accessible APIs. With Tyk’s Developer Portal and our financial grade governance and security, it’s easy and fast for developers to find and build upon your APIs.
- Tyk helps you reduce errors and costs while accelerating delivery, putting us light years ahead of the WSO2 experience.
- Our recent collaboration with SoundCloud showcased how much more enterprises can achieve with Tyk. SoundCloud achieved 5x faster feature releases and cleaned 60% of credentials, at the same time as enabling more secure integrations.
Why users choose Tyk over WSO2
WSO2 users cite higher prices than Tyk, a steeper learning curve, more complex configuration requirements, difficulties integrating with CI/CD tools, and a poor support experience. Tyk users praise how easy our solution is to implement and use – as well as our superb customer support. Tyk provides a refreshing alternative to WSO2, delivering efficiency and automation to support you to scale your API ecosystem securely while accelerating delivery and growing your bottom line.
Price, stability, easy versioning and outstanding customer support are just some of the reasons users are choosing Tyk versus WSO2. Tyk’s ultra-performant, universal API management platform delivers flexible deployment options and empowers you to take control of your costs.
Intuitive experiences
From designing your APIs to versioning, Tyk makes it easy to achieve what you need to. Our user-friendly approach delivers a superior developer experience, while comprehensive analytics underpin better business decision-making.
Ultimate reliability
Tyk blends an API gateway that is 10x faster than competitors with outstanding stability and reliability. It means you can trust Tyk for unmatched performance while growing your business at pace with our scalable architecture.
User-friendly pricing
Our universal API management solution has pricing plans to suit a range of budgets – with absolutely no price gouging and no spiralling costs. Tyk customers save an average of $200,000 in operational costs every year.
Ready to make the move? Check out our complete guide to how to migrate from WSO2 to Tyk.
Choose Tyk
Choose Tyk for a scalable, lightweight API management platform that grows with you. Tyk works with all API protocols, including REST, GraphQL and async APIs. Our flexible, highly customizable solution comes with stellar customer support – we’re here for you at every stage of your API journey..
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| Supports every API type: REST, GraphQL, gRPC, WebSockets, TCP, SOAP and async APIs | One universal solution that works with all your APIs, from legacy protocols to your future needs |  |
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| User-friendly, intuitive interface with no steep learning curve | Less time wasted navigating implementation challenges | |
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| Scalable architecture that doesn’t require additional setup and configuration as traffic grows | Ability to handle large volumes of traffic and users with ease, for a superior scaling experience | |
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| Highly customizable | Custom middleware and the ability to write custom plugins and configure complex routing rules | |
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| Native support for Kubernetes | Secure, powerful API management for Kubernetes environments. | |
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| Flexible monitoring | Built-in analytics PLUS the ability to easily integrate with third parties such as Prometheus | |
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| Intuitive API designer with modular and granular configurations | Easy API versioning that doesn’t require complex configurations and management effort | |
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| Simple, out-of-the-box support for CI/CD tools | Easy integration with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitLab and GitHub Actions | |
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| Universal Data Graph | Combine multiple APIs into one universal interface to access multiple APIs with a single query | |
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| Community support | An active and engaged community, with regular updates, bug fixes and new features being released | |
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Leaders in API management
- 100,000+ customers worldwide
- Category leaders in API management
- Used by Fortune 500 companies, SMBs, NGOs
- Powering 1M+ APls daily
- Trusted by industry leaders
Tyk vs WSO2 – Gartner reviews
Based on verified reviews from real users in the API management market, WSO2 has a rating on Gartner of 4.5 stars with 221 reviews. Tyk has a rating of 4.7 stars with 82 reviews. Have a look at the Gartner Peer Insights comparison page for more about WSO2 vs Tyk.
Gartner reviewers rate Tyk’s API management solution as better than WSO2 for API security, consumption, design, monetization, monitoring, analytics, deployment flexibility, event-driven and streaming APIs, versioning, governance, gateway federation and more. Why settle for anything less than Tyk?
Ben E Bravissimo
Rohit Srivastava MiQ
Sergey Goppikov Alyce
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