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."The package as a whole is useful for our customers."
"The ability to easily connect back to Service Fabric is the most important for us."
"This solution is very flexible, and it's very compatible with the other Azure products."
"Ease of integration into the entire Microsoft environment."
"We use Microsoft due to the stability of the company."
"Azure APIM's best features are its straightforward access management (it's a single point of access for all monitoring and logging and for policy implementation) and its integration with the Azure Cloud infrastructure."
"The solution is quite stable. We have no issues with it. there have been no crashes and we haven't experienced bugs or glitches. It's been quite reliable."
"The most valuable features of Microsoft Azure API Management are the easy configuration and deployment with automation."
"It is a good product for API management."
"The portal for developers that this solution provides has great functionality."
"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 most valuable feature is the load balancing with the circuit-breaker function."
"The feature I find most valuable is that this solution allows us to manage our security."
"You can set up workflows and write limited pieces of logic."
"It should be easier to integrate."
"The documentation could be improved for the customer."
"Azure is our most expensive resource; it's costly."
"They're trying to implement versioning and trying to be able to manage different versions of your API all at the same time, but they're not doing that just quite right yet."
"Support for GraphQL could be better."
"Technical support could be more helpful and responsive."
"The hybrid part could be improved because API Management is entirely cloud-based, but some of our resources are on-prem, so formatting is an issue. Our goal is dual implementation."
"It could be more user friendly for developers. It would be nice if developers could view things more easily."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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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