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Axway AMPLIFY API Management vs Tyk comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 17, 2024

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Categories and Ranking

Axway AMPLIFY API Management
Ranking in API Management
30th
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.3
Number of Reviews
14
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Tyk
Ranking in API Management
19th
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.3
Number of Reviews
7
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the API Management category, the mindshare of Axway AMPLIFY API Management is 1.6%, up from 1.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Tyk is 2.0%, up from 1.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
API Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Tyk2.0%
Axway AMPLIFY API Management1.6%
Other96.4%
API Management
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer2081667 - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Software Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Centralized gateway has strengthened API security and provides deep traffic analytics
Potential areas of improvement or lack of functions in Axway AMPLIFY API Management is a challenging question because even after working for almost six years, I have not been able to touch everything this tool offers. This tool is very comprehensive and useful. However, from my opinion, when there are different dashboards on which the API platform shows monitoring, I expect Axway AMPLIFY API Management to be more visible in terms of showing pre-historic data. In other words, if there is a very large volume or very large number of transactions going on live in production, sometimes it purges the previous data very quickly, leaving only one or two hours of data. When there is very low volume, it can sustain data up to five days. The visibility of the previous historic database is a feature that could be improved. Different tools can be used to empower this capability, such as Splunk or the ELK stack, which includes Elastic. There are different features that could be used, but Axway as an organization would likely implement their specific products. I am simply providing a very basic opinion anonymously and do not want to sound like I am against this organization.
reviewer2113719 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Support Analyst at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Internal API gateway has improved security frameworks and now provides unified API visibility
The best features Tyk offers are highly customizable options, effective traffic management, and security, making it easy to configure and use. The customizability of Tyk is evident in our validation of the token—specifically with our internal identity and access management. There were challenges on the network side and in managing token validity and the public key, but Tyk allowed us to configure these aspects effectively. I believe those are the standard out-of-the-box capabilities provided by Tyk that we are using, particularly regarding traffic management and security. Tyk has positively impacted my organization by providing standard API management capabilities, such as a single view for all APIs, discoverability, and role-based access control for overseeing who can see which APIs.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The most valuable feature of the solution is security."
"The administration tool for this solution is good."
"There's drag and drop functionality so that you do not need to have a senior expert developer to make use of the tool. You can get more of your staff trained up to be able to use it as it's not overly technical."
"The most valuable features are security enforcement and throttling."
"Axway is a good product according to Gartner which is why we started to adopt it."
"For what we do, the API portal capability is the most valuable feature."
"The best feature of Axway Amplify API Management is its exceptional level of security, which is highly reassuring, coupled with its remarkable capacity to handle substantial volumes of data in impressively efficient turnaround times."
"Centralized API Platform allow us better reusability and monitoring"
"The feature I find most valuable is that this solution allows us to manage our security, I like that it is open-source and that we can expand it in the future, and we also have all the functionalities to manage our APIs."
"Our customers are happy with the features and performance, and I have not heard any complaints with respect to technical support."
"Customer support is excellent, and their support personnel, along with professional services, know the product really well, resulting in a good experience dealing with them."
"The most valuable feature is the load balancing with the circuit-breaker function."
"It is a good product for API management."
"Tyk looked like a good product."
"The portal for developers that this solution provides has great functionality."
"The feature I find most valuable is that this solution allows us to manage our security."
 

Cons

"A significant area of improvement for Axway AMPLIFY API Management is the Amplify Central portal, which should help expose APIs on a webpage for potential customers."
"I think that the program's team management capabilities can be better as far as working in groups."
"The API Mocking tools need to be improved."
"Areas of improvement include marketing and enhancing the data products area by using ETIs."
"This solution does have some limitations regarding the deployment model."
"The installation process is a bit complex and it could be a lot simpler."
"The installation process is a bit complex and it could be a lot simpler."
"This solution does have some limitations regarding the deployment model."
"I would like to see some additional features like having some extensions for .NET core because we use it for our back-end language."
"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."
"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."
"Compared to Apigee or Kong, I find they excel beyond Tyk, which is the reason for my score."
"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."
"Sometimes when new features are released, they are not immediately stable."
"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."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution is expensive. When you acquire a license you have full access to the solution, unlike other competitors such as Apigee X, where there are fragmented licenses. Some licenses only allow access to certain features while others allow access to more features. Upon procuring this solution's license, you will have full access to the solution, allowing you to experiment with all of its features."
"We are using the open-source version of this product, so there are no licensing costs for its use."
"The cost curve is far smoother, both in terms of volume and the number of calls it's running on, compared to most competitors. So it's a tad more expensive at the very low end, but the curve is nothing like Apigee or some of the others."
"It had a free version, which suited many of our needs, but not all, but we were happy to go ahead with the licensed version as well, which is the paid version."
"The price is low compared to other products of a similar type."
"There are different versions and plans available depending on the requirements, so there is flexibility in terms of the pricing."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
18%
Computer Software Company
16%
Government
8%
Insurance Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
23%
Computer Software Company
10%
Comms Service Provider
9%
Manufacturing Company
7%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business4
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise9
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business5
Large Enterprise2
 

Questions from the Community

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What needs improvement with Tyk?
Tyk can improve in terms of AI capabilities, and the developer portal could benefit from enhancements such as user onboarding workflows. The developer community could be better, especially compared...
What is your primary use case for Tyk?
My main use case for Tyk is for internal API gateway. For a banking customer, I have internal APIs and external APIs, where internal APIs are mostly on Kubernetes. For internal API gateway, we have...
What advice do you have for others considering Tyk?
While we could not quantify any commercial improvement, developer experience has definitely improved. I would rate Tyk around an eight on a scale of one to ten because I have worked with other API ...
 

Also Known As

Vordel Application Gateway, Axway API Management Plus, Axway API Management, AMPLIFY API Management
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Sample Customers

Engie Group, Allianz
Trip Advisor, Juniper Networks, AT&T
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