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.

Main features

• 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.

Customers and markets

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