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Microsoft Azure API Management vs Tyk comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 17, 2024

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

Categories and Ranking

Microsoft Azure API Management
Ranking in API Management
1st
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
83
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Tyk
Ranking in API Management
11th
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.1
Number of Reviews
12
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the API Management category, the mindshare of Microsoft Azure API Management is 10.3%, down from 16.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Tyk is 1.8%, down from 2.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
API Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Microsoft Azure API Management10.3%
Tyk1.8%
Other87.9%
API Management
 

Featured Reviews

RJ
Database Manager at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Facilitating seamless integration and robust security support
The integration process is very easy, which is crucial for our organization. Another valuable aspect is the support from Microsoft. Whenever support is required, it is readily available. Additionally, I appreciate the technical expertise Microsoft brings to the table. The security features are highly satisfactory, with various options providing flexibility to implement security measures based on specific compliance requirements.
SaurabhKumar10 - PeerSpot reviewer
platform engineer, DevOps engineer at Capgemini
Secure banking APIs have protected sensitive transactions and support daily compliance monitoring
Tyk offers many valuable features. For the API, the best features include API security such as API key authentication, JWT tokens, barriers, and OIDC. There is rate limiting and throttling to control how many requests a user can make at one time, such as 100 requests per minute or 1000 requests per minute. API gateway routing and load balancing are handled very smoothly, and API analytics and monitoring are comprehensive. Request-response transformations allow us to track customer ID and monitor how many requests can go to the API versioning. Tyk gives Kubernetes and cloud-native support, including Kubernetes, Docker, and AWS, depending on the cloud-native and cloud-based platform. Logging and troubleshooting capabilities are among the best features. In terms of product benefits, Tyk secures the credit card API, protects the payment API, monitors transactions, handles traffic spikes, reduces downtime, troubleshoots with failover, and improves application reliability. Tyk has positively impacted my organization as it is not just an API gateway but has become a critical business platform that helps organizations securely expose, manage, monitor, and scale their APIs in the modern banking domain, fintech, and commercial insurance environments in cloud-native settings. Almost every application communicates through APIs, and Tyk ensures that the API remains secure, scalable, and has high availability.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"I like API Management's ability to do hybrid cloud stuff."
"There were no scalability issues."
"Microsoft Azure API Management as a complete package contains all the features that meet our requirements."
"Access control is the most valuable aspect."
"We own the managed services and we have customers take the subscription and we manage it."
"The simplicity to learn and apply using API Management is valuable."
"The technical support from Microsoft is very good."
"The most valuable feature is the developer portal, which has source code examples in various programming languages to help developers learn the API."
"You can set up workflows and write limited pieces of logic."
"It is a good product for API management."
"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."
"In my opinion, the best features that Tyk offers were the rate limiting and authentication themselves."
"The portal for developers that this solution provides has great functionality."
"Other than the limitations with the cloud version everything else is fantastic."
"The most valuable feature is the load balancing with the circuit-breaker function."
"Tyk has had a positive impact on my organization by saving time through the reduction of manual tasks and monitoring of API flows."
 

Cons

"It should be easier to integrate."
"The external policies are impossible to look at and configure."
"They need to work on the third party integrations."
"In terms of the flexibility of API Management, it's quite a complex solution when compared with Apigee."
"Documentations for implementing certain product features are very difficult to find"
"Microsoft Azure API Management's most valuable features are the microservices we used to use. They were API callers to receive communication with the network and building system, to complete the request. The response would be through the processing system."
"If I compare this solution to others I have used in other phases of my life, having APIM being an Azure resource, it is easy to configure and deploy. However, this conversely reduced the flexibility. The difficulty is how do we configure it in a manner that a larger enterprise would probably want it to be. This creates a bit more complexity, working around the constraints of the resource itself. If comparing it to other solutions, it is more of a legacy design with an older approach. The various level components are still around resembling an on-premise type of design similar to other solutions, such as Apigee or Mulesoft. They are still predominantly carrying some legacy design. Which might be suited for organizations where they have a more complex network layout. APIM is easy to deploy, but on the other side of that, it is constrained to how Azure has designed it to be."
"It would be better if it were easier to transition to Azure from JIRA."
"We would like a better tool for generating documentation for the APIs to be developed."
"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."
"There are many features in Tyk, but a few things need to be improved from the developer side."
"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."
"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."
"There are some architectural bottlenecks, including operational complexity and multi-component overhead."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Microsoft is competitively priced."
"On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive, I rate the solution's pricing a five out of ten."
"This is an expensive solution."
"It's free for less than ten users. If you want to go beyond that, it's around $3.50 per user per month. If you want a DevOps integration, it's about $7.50 per user per month. Costs depend on the size, complexity, usage, and what facility you want to integrate. So, we use Microsoft Azure and have the entire DevOps and Visual Studio on the cloud. We get all three flavors for $7.50 per user per month."
"The licensing fees are expensive."
"Based on the resources that we are leveraging, the price we are paying to use this solution is slightly higher than other competitors. In a few cases, it has its own advantage in some resources."
"Compared to other solutions the cost is a seven out of ten."
"It's an expensive solution"
"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."
"The price is low compared to other products of a similar type."
"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."
"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
13%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Outsourcing Company
9%
Computer Software Company
6%
Manufacturing Company
24%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Outsourcing Company
8%
Comms Service Provider
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business23
Midsize Enterprise11
Large Enterprise54
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business5
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise5
 

Questions from the Community

How does Apigee differ from Azure API Management?
Apigee offers both cloud-based and on-prem options while Microsoft Azure API Management currently only offers a cloud-based solution. Both solutions are easy to use. Apigee allows for the ability...
Which is better - Azure API Management or Amazon API Gateway?
If you use Azure products, API Management is a great solution. It solves many of the problems of externalizing web services. For example, when you need versioning, establish a developer portal and ...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Microsoft Azure API Management?
The pricing is medium, which I find to be reasonable for the value we receive.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Tyk?
My experience regarding pricing, installation costs, and license management for this tool is that it is slightly expensive for support that is not present enough and difficult to contact.
What needs improvement with Tyk?
In my opinion, Tyk could be improved by providing the ability to see the different organizations on the dashboard at a single glance. I would also like to see the name of the organization I am conn...
What is your primary use case for Tyk?
My main use case for Tyk is API monitoring and API Gateway. A concrete example of how I use this tool for API monitoring or as an API gateway in my daily environment is the integration of API speci...
 

Also Known As

Azure API Management, MS Azure API Management
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Sample Customers

adnymics GmbH, LG CNS, Centrebet, netfabb GmbH, MedPlast, Accelera Solutions, Sochi Organizing Committee, realzeit GmbH, Opensistemas
Trip Advisor, Juniper Networks, AT&T
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