"Kong Enterprise has excellent plugin support."
"I like everything about it. It provides the security we need."
"Good at intercepting traffic and modeling APIs around that."
"You can set up workflows and write limited pieces of logic."
"Because it is open-source, it should be less expensive than others."
"We would like to see an automatic data API when we have a table in the database."
"They could focus more on pricing."
"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."
Kong Enterprise is ranked 10th in API Management with 3 reviews while Tyk is ranked 22nd in API Management with 1 review. Kong Enterprise is rated 8.6, while Tyk is rated 6.0. The top reviewer of Kong Enterprise writes "Developers and Architects favourite, great for initial adaptors, companies scaling up". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Tyk writes "Simple to install, has many features, but lacks support for multiple programming languages". Kong Enterprise is most compared with Mulesoft Anypoint API Manager, Microsoft Azure API Management, WSO2 API Manager, Apigee and IBM DataPower Gateway, whereas Tyk is most compared with Amazon API Gateway, Apigee, WSO2 API Manager, Mulesoft Anypoint API Manager and Microsoft Azure API Management.
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