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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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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

"The API management is great."
"Support is very good. We have a direct line of contact with Microsoft product management's technical support."
"Ease of integration into the entire Microsoft environment."
"The documentation and configuration of APIs."
"It is easy to use."
"The mediation and translation from SOAP to REST technology makes it possible to open up legacy systems that couldn't be opened before."
"The integration and API Connect are valuable when we need to connect with web services and REST APIs."
"Microsoft Azure API Management is 90 to 99 percent scalable. We have three instances running in parallel."
"Tyk 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."
"Our customers are happy with the features and performance, and I have not heard any complaints with respect to technical support."
"Tyk looked like a good product."
"The portal for developers that this solution provides has great functionality."
"Other than the limitations with the cloud version everything else is fantastic."
"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 has had a positive impact on my organization by saving time through the reduction of manual tasks and monitoring of API flows."
"Tyk is a wonderful API management gateway for maintaining enterprise-grade applications."
 

Cons

"There is room for improvement in the user interface and workflow for hosting APIs, especially third-party APIs."
"The portal where we publish the APIs could be improved. Maybe this is because we didn't configure it. It is quite easy to bypass API management because we have a lot of information shared on the portal, where we publish our APIs. I worry there is potential for a security breach in the API publishing. There needs to be more security available on terms of the way we publish them."
"API Management's price could be lower."
"I rate the technical support from Microsoft Azure API Management a four out of five."
"Performance issues from this platform need to be sorted out."
"The external policies are impossible to look at and configure."
"The initial setup of Microsoft Azure API Management is somewhat complex, but having eight years of experience, it is simple for me as we use it regularly."
"Azure API Management could be improved with better integration with all of Microsoft's tools."
"There are many features in Tyk, but a few things need to be improved from the developer side."
"Sometimes when new features are released, they are not immediately stable."
"Given the complexity of the solution, comprehensive documentation was essential. I had to invest considerable time locating and understanding the relevant materials, especially since the supplier’s support was limited. Eventually, had to research with external sources and guidance from other users in my network. The UI handles common tasks well and feels intuitive for day‑to‑day operations. However, some advanced configuration options, particularly custom plugins, complex middleware chains, and multi‑region controls, seem to be scattered across different sections. This sometimes makes advanced setups slower and more cumbersome than they need to be. While the product is generally intuitive, advanced configurations can be non-trivial and require significant effort and external knowledge to implement correctly."
"We would like a better tool for generating documentation for the APIs to be developed."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Azure's pricing is very competitive compared to platforms like Apigee and MuleSoft."
"I rate the solution's pricing between three and four, as it could be more competitive."
"There are additional costs to the standard licensing fees."
"Since everyone is isocentric here, it is reasonable for me."
"Azure is a pay-as-you-go model. You build out your virtual environment and pay a monthly price depending on CPU cores, storage, etc."
"Azure API Management is the most expensive solution on the market."
"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 cost for Microsoft Azure API Management is publicly available and goes from a developer edition that costs $26 to $30 per month. It may have changed, but it's in the neighborhood of $30 per month. I believe there's also the enterprise edition, which is highly capable and costs $2,500 per month."
"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."
"There are different versions and plans available depending on the requirements, so there is flexibility in terms of the pricing."
"The price is low compared to other products of a similar type."
"We are using the open-source version of this product, so there are no licensing costs for its use."
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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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