Tyk
The only truly independent API management platform and open source AI governance control plane.

Tyk is an open-source API management platform that includes an API gateway, analytics, developer portal, and dashboard. It supports flexible deployment across cloud, on-premises, hybrid, Kubernetes, and air-gapped environments with no vendor lock-in. It also serves as an AI governance control plane, enabling policy-based control over MCP servers and AI agent tool access.
Tyk provides an open-source gateway and a unified control plane that enforces policies across REST, GraphQL, and AI/MCP APIs on any infrastructure without proprietary runtimes.
Enterprise engineering and platform teams needing flexible, self-managed API governance
Background.
- Status
- launched
- Business model
- freemium
- Company
- Tyk Technologies
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