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."Azure API Management is an API gateway that can be used for different purposes, for example, to monetize APIs."
"The Application Gateway we have found to be the most useful in Microsoft Azure API Management. We have integrated the Microsoft Azure API Management with Application Gateway. Application Gateway is a type of load balancer that we are using for the high availability of our API calls."
"I like API Management's sandbox feature. It's an environment where you can test out the API before putting it into production and connecting it to a live environment."
"Ease of integration into the entire Microsoft environment."
"The user management is pretty seamless."
"I like the API Management functions."
"The API management and the hosting of the API platform are great."
"Initial setup was quite easy."
"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."
"You can set up workflows and write limited pieces of logic."
"It is a good product for API management."
"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."
"The portal for developers that this solution provides has great functionality."
"This solution is only available as a cloud-based deployment and it would be very helpful to have an on-premises version."
"It can be quite complex, somewhat lacking in flexibility."
"It should be easier to integrate."
"Microsoft Azure API Management needs to improve stability."
"The product needs to introduce a developer portal."
"The cloud deployment performance could be better."
"I would like to see more security features become available."
"Microsoft Azure API Management could improve by having better integration with third-party solutions."
"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."
"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."
"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 67 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 WSO2 API Manager. See our Microsoft Azure API Management vs. Tyk report.
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