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It combines gateway capabilities, lifecycle management, security controls, automation, analytics, and a developer portal. The platform supports cloud, hybrid, multi-cloud, and self-managed deployments, including on-premises and air-gapped environments. Tyk Gateway provides API traffic management, and Tyk Streams adds event-driven API management within the Gateway. The platform also includes API analytics, developer access, configuration automation, and centralized management across regions. Tyk Cloud offers a managed deployment, while Tyk Hybrid and Tyk Self-managed support customer-controlled infrastructure.","pricing":{},"features":[{"name":"Multi-protocol API management","value":"Manage APIs Across Protocols","valueDescription":"Use one platform to manage APIs built on different protocols, reducing the need for separate tools and approaches."},{"name":"API gateway traffic management","value":"Control And Protect API Traffic","valueDescription":"Apply access and traffic policies at the gateway to manage API usage and protect backend services from misuse and traffic spikes."},{"name":"Flexible deployment","value":"Deploy Tyk Where You Need","valueDescription":"Match deployment to infrastructure, data residency, and compliance requirements, with managed cloud, hybrid, multi-cloud, and self-managed options."},{"name":"Security and access control","value":"Secure APIs With Flexible Access Controls","valueDescription":"Control who can access services and data, define permissions, and extend security to fit organizational requirements."},{"name":"API lifecycle management","value":"Manage The Full API Lifecycle","valueDescription":"Support API teams from design and testing through deployment and publication, including versioning and different API implementations."},{"name":"API automation and configuration management","value":"Automate API Workflows And Deployments","valueDescription":"Reduce manual deployment work, coordinate API configuration across environments, and support consistent releases through automated and declarative workflows."},{"name":"Governance and auditing","value":"Enforce Consistent API Governance","valueDescription":"Apply and audit governance policies across APIs and teams to support compliance and coordinated work across regions."},{"name":"Analytics and observability","value":"Observe API Usage And Performance","valueDescription":"Use API telemetry to investigate issues, understand usage patterns, monitor performance, and inform operational and business decisions."},{"name":"Scalable and highly available infrastructure","value":"Scale APIs Across Regions","valueDescription":"Expand API infrastructure across regions and data centers, place gateways near users and workloads, and maintain traffic service during control-plane outages."},{"name":"Event-driven API management","value":"Manage And Deliver Real-Time Events","valueDescription":"Expose and manage event streams alongside APIs, connecting brokers to applications and partners through supported protocols, policies, and delivery patterns."},{"name":"Regional and hybrid API management","value":"Manage Gateways Across Environments","valueDescription":"Centralize API management across regions and providers while placing gateways where infrastructure, data residency, and latency requirements dictate."},{"name":"Developer portal","value":"Enable API Discovery And Access","valueDescription":"Give internal and external developers a self-service place to discover APIs, review documentation, and obtain access to API products."},{"name":"API monetization and subscriptions","value":"Create And Monetize API Products","valueDescription":"Offer APIs through subscription plans, manage consumer access and usage limits, and connect payment and analytics tools."},{"name":"Extensibility and integrations","value":"Extend Tyk And Integrate Systems","valueDescription":"Adapt gateway behavior with plugins and middleware, and connect Tyk to existing infrastructure and tools using integrations and open standards."},{"name":"API transformation and data composition","value":"Transform And Compose API Data","valueDescription":"Compose API capabilities and expose REST data through GraphQL to support unified data access and API integration."}]},{"name":"Tyk AI Gateway","anchor":"product-tyk-ai-gateway","type":"Product","url":"https://tyk.io/ai-gateway/","summary":"Secure, govern, and observe AI traffic while controlling costs and connecting applications to models and providers.","description":"Tyk AI Gateway is a centralized control plane for managing AI traffic across models, LLM providers, applications, and AI agents. It applies authentication, access policies, prompt guardrails, rate limits, token quotas, and routing, while providing request-level analytics, observability, and audit trails. Teams can connect commercial, open-source, and self-hosted models, route requests by cost, performance, availability, or policy, and fail over to alternative models. 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It provides a central control plane for routing, governing, and securing AI traffic across LLMs, agents, MCP tool chains, and RAG workloads. Capabilities include policy enforcement, model routing, data governance, cost attribution, and extensible plugins. The Community Edition is free and self-hosted; the Enterprise Edition adds advanced budget enforcement, fine-grained policies, enterprise identity controls, observability, private plugin marketplaces, and support.","pricing":{},"features":[{"name":"AI traffic governance","value":"Govern Every AI Interaction","valueDescription":"Apply consistent controls to AI requests and keep traceable records of prompts, responses, and tool calls. 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