We performed a comparison between Microsoft Azure API Management and Tyk based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two API Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."I have found this solution to be easy to configure, simple to use, and flexible."
"The tool helps to manage APIs."
"Azure API Management is an API gateway that can be used for different purposes, for example, to monetize APIs."
"The solution is quite stable. We have no issues with it. there have been no crashes and we haven't experienced bugs or glitches. It's been quite reliable."
"I like the API Management functions."
"There were no scalability issues."
"The API management is great."
"What I like most about Microsoft Azure API Management is that it's flexible and user-friendly. The solution also has rich documentation and guides available, so users can configure and use it."
"The most valuable feature is the load balancing with the circuit-breaker function."
"The feature I find most valuable is that this solution allows us to manage our security."
"The portal for developers that this solution provides has great functionality."
"It is a good product for API management."
"You can set up workflows and write limited pieces of logic."
"The scalability is very good. That was a key factor in the selection, like how it could be pushed to high volume and scalability, which seemed to be very good."
"Microsoft Azure API Management is lagging behind Apigee and should also have a better CICD process."
"Sometimes when immediate support is required, it isn't available."
"Technical support could be more flexible and try to meet the client's needs a bit more effectively."
"I would like to see more security features become available."
"In terms of improvement, it would be helpful if they could develop an on-premises option."
"I'd like to have better flexibility and more capabilities."
"Could use clearer configuration when it comes to API policies."
"They should improve the inbuilt policies that they have and that should properly create a deployment architecture as well."
"We ran it for a while, but then we decided to move away from Tyk, because Tyk's cloud version, the SaaS version, has a significant limitation of limited flexibility, so you can't program very much."
"We would like a better tool for generating documentation for the APIs to be developed."
"In terms of our usage, the main area of concern is that they tend to build enhancements slightly ahead of the considerations for what those enhancements and extensions are. So it could be slightly better communication with the customer base that would be my main issue with them."
"Sometimes when new features are released, they are not immediately stable."
"I would like to see some additional features like having some extensions for .NET core because we use it for our back-end language."
"It is a young product and does not have the kind of brand recognition that would make it a more popular solution with our clients."
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Microsoft Azure API Management is ranked 1st in API Management with 68 reviews while Tyk is ranked 17th in API Management with 6 reviews. Microsoft Azure API Management is rated 7.8, while Tyk is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Microsoft Azure API Management writes "Efficiently manages and monetizes API ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Tyk writes "Simple to install, has many features, but lacks support for multiple programming languages". Microsoft Azure API Management is most compared with Amazon API Gateway, Apigee, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager and Kong Gateway Enterprise, whereas Tyk is most compared with Apache APISIX, Traefik Enterprise, Apigee, Amazon API Gateway and WSO2 API Manager. See our Microsoft Azure API Management vs. Tyk report.
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