We performed a comparison between Microsoft Azure API Management and Tyk based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two API Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."I like the stability and the ease of use."
"Monitoring: It gives us a detailed overview of how clients are using the API and it allows us to see the consumption trends in real-time."
"We use this solution for API rate limiting and for its security features against DDoS."
"The stability and performance are good. It is easy to install, and it scales well too."
"Microsoft Azure API Management is better because it has a DevOps integration by default."
"Microsoft Azure API Management is a good, comprehensive solution for enterprise implementation."
"We're very satisfied with Azure API Management. We've had no issues with bugs, everything runs smoothly, and the connection between the cloud and the on-premise infrastructure was good."
"We're pretty much using all of the monetizations features out of the API manager so we can put up a portal and have a dev portal and then a prod portal and do rate limiting."
"It is a good product for API management."
"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."
"The feature I find most valuable is that this solution allows us to manage our security."
"The most valuable feature is the load balancing with the circuit-breaker function."
"The portal for developers that this solution provides has great functionality."
"You can set up workflows and write limited pieces of logic."
"API Management's price could be lower."
"An area for improvement in Microsoft Azure API Management is deployment, in particular, the deployment of versions in Oryx. The development to production instance isn't adequate for me and needs to be improved. Microsoft Azure API Management lacks automation, which is another area for improvement."
"They need to work on the third party integrations."
"It can be quite complex, somewhat lacking in flexibility."
"They should improve the inbuilt policies that they have and that should properly create a deployment architecture as well."
"Technical support could be more helpful and responsive."
"Security could be improved."
"I would like to see better scalability and better performance."
"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."
"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."
"I would like to see some additional features like having some extensions for .NET core because we use it for our back-end language."
"We would like a better tool for generating documentation for the APIs to be developed."
"Sometimes when new features are released, they are not immediately stable."
"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."
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Microsoft Azure API Management is ranked 1st in API Management with 68 reviews while Tyk is ranked 17th in API Management with 6 reviews. Microsoft Azure API Management is rated 7.8, while Tyk is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Microsoft Azure API Management writes "Efficiently manages and monetizes API ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Tyk writes "Simple to install, has many features, but lacks support for multiple programming languages". Microsoft Azure API Management is most compared with Amazon API Gateway, Apigee, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager and Kong Gateway Enterprise, whereas Tyk is most compared with Apache APISIX, Traefik Enterprise, Apigee, Amazon API Gateway and Gravitee. See our Microsoft Azure API Management vs. Tyk report.
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