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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 that security features can be integrated with API Management. I also like that you can perform rate-limiting and throttling functions."
"The ease of setting up a new solution is the most valuable feature. It's very easy to set up a new solution and to deploy it to production."
"The ability to easily connect back to Service Fabric is the most important for us."
"Microsoft Azure API Management is 90 to 99 percent scalable. We have three instances running in parallel."
"I like the stability and the ease of use."
"I like the API Management functions."
"Ease of integration into the entire Microsoft environment."
"I like the support they provide for the APIs more than the solution itself. First of all, documentation-wise, both Microsoft Azure and even Google Cloud are up there. But in comparison, the real-time consulting and support for APIs make Microsoft stand out a little. I also like the performance. Standard public cloud provider-built APIs are more resilient and flexible in terms of what feature you want to use and what feature you don't want to use, and they're more customizable. They are more resilient in terms of performance in that particular environment because that is the design aspect of the offering. When public clouds build APIs and deploy them after testing them on their framework for a certain amount of time, I feel there is a massive difference in the product's performance. On the interface, everything is strong."
"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."
"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."
"Tyk looked like a good product."
"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."
"Other than the limitations with the cloud version everything else is fantastic."
"The transition was smooth overall, and the platform proved flexible from the start. As an open‑source product, TYK exceeded expectations when we initiated the migration and selected it as our API gateway. The UI is intuitive for common API gateway tasks and day‑to‑day operations; the core functionality is solid for standard use cases, and the system is flexible enough to support custom plugins and complex middleware chains once properly configured."
"It is a good product for API management."
 

Cons

"Microsoft Azure API Management should have the ability to allow multitenancy."
"Microsoft is huge, and when it comes to support, it's not so great as compared to, if you have something software specific. Whenever you ask them a question, they assume you to know everything."
"From my understanding, there are some constraints around governance and service-to-service intercommunication managing priorities and our own governance."
"We figured out that for our productive usage, we will select a different vendor."
"There is room for improvement in the user interface and workflow for hosting APIs, especially third-party APIs."
"The only complication I encountered was configuring the authentication in the API Management."
"The solution's data mapping and orchestration are very code-intensive or require callouts to external systems."
"There is a limitation of 32 kb of data in the APIs. Having the limitation increase would be a benefit."
"Sometimes when new features are released, they are not immediately stable."
"I chose the number eight because I think at the time I ended up using the version and I had not found, or there was not, a way for me to install it locally to study and learn a way of using the tool."
"Compared to Apigee or Kong, I find they excel beyond Tyk, which is the reason for my score."
"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."
"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."
"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 some architectural bottlenecks, including operational complexity and multi-component overhead."
"We would like a better tool for generating documentation for the APIs to be developed."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"This is an expensive solution."
"It is an expensive solution, but any API solution will be expensive."
"It's an expensive solution"
"The licensing fees are expensive."
"The developer and standard pricing tiers of Azure API Management are very competitive compared to other products."
"Azure's pricing is very competitive compared to platforms like Apigee and MuleSoft."
"It costs around 30,000 Kronas a month, which translates to about $3,000 dollars monthly."
"Since this is a cloud-based solution you have to abide by those financial limits, this creates some different challenges compared to other solutions."
"There are different versions and plans available depending on the requirements, so there is flexibility in terms of the pricing."
"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."
"We are using the open-source version of this product, so there are no licensing costs for its use."
"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."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
13%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Outsourcing Company
9%
Computer Software Company
7%
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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