We performed a comparison between IBM API Connect 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."The capabilities are very good."
"The management of the API and API portal is good."
"The most valuable features are stability and security."
"It offers enhanced security features to protect APIs, enforce access control, and secure sensitive data."
"One of the most valuable features is the easy-to-use web interface."
"IBM API Connect is a good product, and their technical support is excellent."
"API Connect is a very good platform for the development of APIs."
"Easy to configure security and generate API keys."
"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."
"It is a good product for API management."
"The feature I find most valuable is that this solution allows us to manage our security."
"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."
"Understanding the architecture, deployment criteria, and communication methods of the installation can be time-consuming."
"Different versions of the same thing can mean unnecessary duplication."
"Possible improvement is mainly around having more of the cloud oriented architecture bringing stability in adding new capabilities around security."
"There are issues with upgrading in the cloud version. The cloud version is extremely buggy. We prefer to use the on-premise version."
"The administration of the user interface and the technical documentation are areas of concern in the solution where improvements are required."
"The documentation needs to be a bit better."
"There are some performance issues and issues related to asynchronous APIs."
"The monetization of the API could be improved. The pricing for the consumer is also very important to improve this solution."
"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."
"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."
"I would like to see some additional features like having some extensions for .NET core because we use it for our back-end language."
"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."
"Sometimes when new features are released, they are not immediately stable."
"We would like a better tool for generating documentation for the APIs to be developed."
IBM API Connect is ranked 5th in API Management with 73 reviews while Tyk is ranked 17th in API Management with 6 reviews. IBM API Connect is rated 8.0, while Tyk is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of IBM API Connect writes "Good speed and performance, but it's based on a bit dated architecture". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Tyk writes "Simple to install, has many features, but lacks support for multiple programming languages". IBM API Connect is most compared with IBM DataPower Gateway, Apigee, Microsoft Azure API Management, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager and Gravitee, whereas Tyk is most compared with Apache APISIX, Traefik Enterprise, Apigee, Amazon API Gateway and 3scale API Management. See our IBM API Connect vs. Tyk report.
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