Tyk

Tyk is an open source API gateway and management platform. It bundles a gateway, analytics, a developer portal and a dashboard, and can be installed on-premises, as a multi-cloud service or as software as a service.

Its design lets each team run its own gateways while a central control plane keeps oversight. Its site now also pitches governance of AI agent traffic on the same platform.

What Tyk offers

• API gateway — rate limiting, authentication, quotas and policies at the edge.
• Central control plane — one view across many separate deployments.
• Developer portal — self-service discovery, documentation and key management.
• Analytics and observability — OpenTelemetry-native logs, metrics and traces.
• GitOps and Kubernetes — declarative configuration through the Tyk Operator.
• Protocol coverage — REST, GraphQL, gRPC, Kafka, MQTT, MCP and A2A.

Who it works with

Large enterprises and regulated sectors such as financial services, where separate deployments help security and compliance. Société Générale is cited as a customer.

Key facts

• Licence: open source gateway
• Deployment: on-premises, multi-cloud or SaaS