Tyk Reviews & Product Details

Tyk distinguishes itself through its flexibility and the extensive control it offers over API gateways and traffic policies. I appreciate how straightforward it is to set up rate limits, quotas, and authentication methods, all without the need to develop custom middleware. The dashboard is sleek and responsive, making it easy to monitor API usage in real time.

Another significant benefit is its hybrid and open-source friendly design—you can deploy Tyk on-premise, in the cloud, or in hybrid environments, all without being tied to a specific vendor ecosystem. The documentation is comprehensive, and the platform handles scaling exceptionally well, even when managing a large volume of requests. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Certain configuration sections may initially seem quite complex, particularly when dealing with advanced policies or managing multiple environments. The learning curve can be steep for those transitioning from more straightforward gateways, and some features are not immediately intuitive, often requiring a closer look at the documentation rather than being easily accessible through the UI.

Furthermore, the analytics module would benefit from having more built-in visualizations, as it currently depends somewhat on external tools. While these issues are not critical, there is definitely potential to enhance usability, especially for newcomers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like that Tyk offers robust features for securing, managing, monitoring, scaling, and governing my APIs. One of the most valuable aspects is my ability to track who is using my APIs, which is crucial for maintaining control and insights into API usage patterns. This feature enhances my capability to effectively monitor and secure my API interactions, providing a significant advantage over other solutions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I find the setup and configuration of Tyk to be quite complex. This complexity during initial setup can be a challenge and may require additional time and resources to get everything properly configured. Initially transitioning from other products, the ease of setup could be significantly improved to facilitate a smoother onboarding process. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We evaluated a handful of APIM solutions and Tyk ended up as our clear favourite. Here are a couple of points which to us made Tyk stand out over other solutions:

- Truely On-Premise and open source option without any "phone home mechanisms" (other vendors tend to push their Cloud/Hybrid solutions)

- Very easy to set up on Kubernetes

- Excellent choices of technologies which fit our existing tech stack (e.g. Postgres, Keycloak, Redis)

- Config as code ("Tyk Operator")

- Portal highly customizable via custom themes

- Well designed and intuitive UI (we found other solutions to often have overloaded UIs and/or a worse UX)

- Fair pricing

- Amazing communication and interactions with Tyk people, highly professional processes and materials

- In general a very well thought out solution Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

During our setup process we found parts of the Helm/Kubernetes documentation to not be entirely exhaustive, however the Tyk team was very quick to help us with any questions we had Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Its a simple gateway solution and it does its best at it . The support is good.. we asked for a feature request for an ldap authentication feature for dev portal and they implemented that in couple of days . We checked with Kong GW and they denied to implement it .We were able to seamlessly migrate from another GW too. Pretty stable and never had an issue in the last 4 years. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

setting up the GW using default settings is easy but a little tricky when setting up a production version of kubernetes . The support helped me to setup a kubernetes version but the documentation could have been better ..

Sometimes I observed that the latest version has features that dont work .. they need to do better in making sure all the previous features work in the new versions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Tyk give us developers a great way to manage our API. I like that Tyk gave us developers a lot of flexibility via its plugins feature. And also how Tyk helps us build a one universal API for both graphQL and REST is very powerful. It's easy to implement because we can try the dashboard for 14 days. Also the community is pretty supportive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The playground of the graphql API cannot be changed, but it's minor. Several bugs still exists regarding graphql Federations. UDG still have N+1 Problems. Also, the tutorials is not really clear sometimes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

1. Tyk has covered most of the required features of API gateway (like rate limiting etc).

2. Tyk open source gateway itself has the required features of an api gateway.

3. Tyk community is very supportive. They answer questions quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

1. It will be niced if the trial license for Tyk docker demo pro can be lengthened to like 1 month instead of 14 days. Think it will give more time for user to evaulate Tyk. (just my opinion). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

For the most parts, Tyk support is helpful and resolve my concerns. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We are using the Gold support package, although Tyk managed to support us within the guranteed response time, but I usually got responses late in the envening which is off hour, so I needed to wait until the following day. Probably because Tyk support team has different working hours? Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We implemented an integration project with AWS Cognito that worked quickly and in which their support team helped us at all times. Additionally, the documentation on their website and all the videos they offer are very useful. They have many possibilities for securing APIs.

One of the standout features of Tyk API Gateway is its user-friendly interface. Setting up and configuring the integration was a breeze, thanks to an intuitive dashboard that allowed for quick and easy management of APIs, access control policies, and rate limiting. The overall user experience is excellent, Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The web interface is not included in the opensource version, although they offer temporary licenses for its use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Tyk is Open Source, Tyk is Cost-Effective, Scalable and Performance ... Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

All It´s nice, why dislike?, Tyk is faster, more affordable, is more usable

and more highly rated by users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Tyk is very customised and user friendly . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

One feature jwt token is missing. We have to generate jwt token outside and use it. Go lang plugin documentation needs to be little more precise. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.