We performed a comparison between Apiary and Tyk based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Google, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and others in API Management."In two years, there was one time the service was down for an hour or so."
"I find the generation of mock services very useful, especially when demonstrating for new consumers."
"Quick and easy way to share a new API design with teams."
"Git integration"
"I do like the overall performance of the solution."
"It is a good product for API management."
"The portal for developers that this solution provides has great functionality."
"You can set up workflows and write limited pieces of logic."
"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 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."
"I would like an integrated option to download a Swagger version of the definition."
"Swagger (OpenAPI Specification) and Blueprint Support"
"The Oracle release cycle is very bad because the patches only update once a year."
"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."
"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 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."
"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."
"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."
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Apiary is ranked 36th in API Management while Tyk is ranked 17th in API Management with 6 reviews. Apiary is rated 8.2, while Tyk is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Apiary writes "The ability to configure rules to check for consistency has helped". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Tyk writes "Simple to install, has many features, but lacks support for multiple programming languages". Apiary is most compared with SwaggerHub, Oracle API Platform Cloud Service, Apigee and Microsoft Azure API Management, whereas Tyk is most compared with Apache APISIX, Traefik Enterprise, Apigee, Microsoft Azure API Management and Amazon API Gateway.
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