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Open Source API and AI Gateway supporting REST, GraphQL, TCP, gRPC and MCP (Model Context Protocol).

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Introduction

Open Source API and AI Gateway supporting REST, GraphQL, TCP, gRPC and MCP (Model Context Protocol).

The latest GitHub release listed on 25 Oct 2026 was v5.15.1, published 2026-10-02.

Features

These items are quoted from public documentation fetched on 25 Oct 2026. Taken from repository README headings.

  1. Try full API Management Lifecycle: To evaluate the enterprise API management platform on your infrastructure, use Tyk Install. It runs Tyk Gateway, Tyk Dashboard, the Developer Portal, Tyk Pump, Redis and PostgreSQL with Docker Compose, and preloads sample APIs and policies. You need a licence. To get one, request a Tyk Self-Managed trial.
  2. Documentation: All the documentation for Tyk Gateway and other OSS-related topics can be found at https://tyk.io/docs/tyk-open-source
  3. Licensing: 1. Open Source License: The code in the root directory and all subdirectories except the ‘ee’ folder is released under the MPL v2.0. Please see LICENSE for the full version of the open source license.
  4. Compiling Tyk Gateway: Use the Go version in go.mod to build master, the current development version. Tyk is officially supported on Linux/amd64, Linux/i386 and Linux/arm64.

Pros

Points stated in the public sources fetched on 25 Oct 2026:

  1. Repository topics: The repository’s GitHub topics include ai, ai-gateway, api, api-gateway, api-management, cloudnative, go, graphql.

Cons

The pages fetched on 25 Oct 2026 do not publish a limitations list. That absence is not evidence that the tool has no drawbacks. Current issues are tracked at https://github.com/TykTechnologies/tyk/issues.

The repository README includes this example (from “Try full API Management Lifecycle”):

git clone https://github.com/TykTechnologies/tyk-install
cd tyk-install/docker/self-managed
cp .env.example .env   # add your licence keys to .env
cd ../getting-started
bash start.sh

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Pricing

The fetched text says:

There are three different ways you can try Tyk: Everything you need to manage APIs using Tyk Open Source.

Run the open source Tyk Gateway with Docker in under 2 minutes.

No separate price list was found on 25 Oct 2026.

The fetched pages do not name a target audience. Decide fit from the official description and the feature list above.

Conclusion

Tyk is summarized by its public description as: “Open Source API and AI Gateway supporting REST, GraphQL, TCP, gRPC and MCP (Model Context Protocol).”.

The latest GitHub release listed was v5.15.1, published 2026-10-02.

This page was rebuilt on 25 Oct 2026 from tyk.io, github.com. It keeps only what those pages stated. Confirm the current product, license, and price on the official site before you adopt it.