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Available as cloud, self-hosted, or hybrid solutions, Tyk fits wherever your architecture lives today and scales to wherever AI takes you next. Tyk API Gateway Tyk’s enterprise-ready API gateway is built for speed, security, and scale. Tyk handles authentication, rate limiting, analytics, and traffic management across REST, GraphQL, gRPC, SOAP, and async protocols, with no feature lockout. Deploy in the cloud, on-premises, or hybrid environments, and manage the full API lifecycle from a single control plane. Trusted by thousands of organisations worldwide, Tyk is consistently benchmarked as one of the fastest gateways on the market. Tyk MCP Gateway Tyk MCP Gateway sits in front of remote MCP servers and applies authentication, granular access control, per-tool rate limiting, and full observability to every request. The architecture is additive: MCP proxies are managed alongside APIs in the same Tyk dashboard, using the same policies, key management, and tooling. With capabilities like tool-level rate limiting and filtered discovery, enterprises can deploy AI agents at scale without sacrificing security, compliance, or operational control. Tyk AI Studio Tyk AI Studio is an open source solution for routing, governing, and securing all AI traffic across your organization. It provides a single control plane for LLMs, agents, MCP toolchains, and RAG workloads, enforcing policies, tracking costs, and maintaining compliance. Features include multi-vendor model routing, PII redaction, RBAC, prompt injection protection, and complete audit trails. Available as a Community Edition or Enterprise Edition, it keeps AI infrastructure from becoming a bottleneck as models and standards evolve. 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