We performed a comparison between Layer7 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 Gateway is most important because it is our strategic front door into the company for all APIs."
"We can create multiple orgs and set up policies and management. We can also integrate with an APM solution"
"We are able to go to market very quickly and deploy our functionalities very quickly."
"What I found most valuable in Layer7 API Management is that you can launch the API from the gateway quickly and securely, making it less complicated to deploy APIs. I also like that Layer7 API Management has a good portal and dashboards and that the dashboards show you statistics regarding how many people used the API, etc."
"Has great drag-and-drop features and requires minimal coding."
"The mobile access gateway (MAG) is tremendous."
"It is helpful to have a central API that is hosted and managed."
"The most valuable feature is the security with its out-of-the-box policies."
"You can set up workflows and write limited pieces of logic."
"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."
"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 API Development tool can be made more user-friendly by providing folder properties."
"The overall cost of Layer7 API Management is high, they can improve it by making it less expensive."
"If they had different levels of support available then it would be easier to justify the costs."
"They need a workflow for the API Developer Portal, where the process only allows requests to go to the correct person."
"What is really important is that they offer the solution as a service, on a subscription or monthly basis, which will make it more attractive. That is where the market is headed. There are competitors within the industry that are doing that currently. I would encourage CA to do that."
"Broadcom's technical support team needs improvement."
"I feel there is a lot to improve in terms of providing plug-and-play functionalities, as at the moment it requires a lot of coding in their specific language for implementing a medium-complexity use case."
"It is not possible for clients to migrate to a newer version."
"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."
"Sometimes when new features are released, they are not immediately stable."
"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."
"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."
Layer7 API Management is ranked 10th in API Management with 108 reviews while Tyk is ranked 16th in API Management with 6 reviews. Layer7 API Management is rated 8.4, while Tyk is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Layer7 API Management writes "Has great drag-and-drop features and it requires minimal coding ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Tyk writes "Simple to install, has many features, but lacks support for multiple programming languages". Layer7 API Management is most compared with Apigee, Kong Enterprise, Amazon API Gateway, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager and Axway AMPLIFY API Management, whereas Tyk is most compared with Apache APISIX, Traefik Enterprise, Apigee, Microsoft Azure API Management and 3scale API Management. See our Layer7 API Management vs. Tyk report.
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