4 categories · RankedTyk
Tyk is an API management platform that includes an open source API gateway, analytics, a developer portal and a dashboard · tyk.io ↗
Read the same way at every company size.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Kong Gateway is first at 27%.
Kong Gateway is first at 47%. 2 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Apigee is first at 46%.
Why models recommend it
“Many companies of your size find Azure API Management, Kong, Tyk, or Gravitee offer the right balance.”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Scale-constrained question · first choice
“Choose Kong Gateway Community Edition (for ecosystem size) or Tyk Open Source (for out-of-the-box features).”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“Start with a proof-of-concept of Kong or Tyk unless you're deeply tied to one hyperscaler.”Grok 4.20 · Direct question · first choice
“Look at lightweight, cloud-native platforms like Kong, Tyk, Gravitee, or Fastly/Cloudflare”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Negative question · first choice
What gives them pause
“Avoid AWS API Gateway, Kong, and Tyk—none include native monetisation.”Claude Haiku 4.5 · Negative question · warning
“Apigee, Tyk, Kong, and similar products can impose unnecessary operational and configuration overhead if you only need a reverse proxy”Perplexity Sonar · Negative question · warning
“if you expect to rely heavily on features that exist only in paid tiers or managed offerings”Perplexity Sonar · Negative question · warning
“Complex initial setup: Configuration and onboarding are notoriously complex”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Tyk, over the 271 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 244 | 84 | Compare → | |
| 227 | 17 | Compare → | |
| 196 | 18 | View → | |
| 184 | 5 | Compare → | |
| 132 | 2 | View → | |
| 101 | 42 | Compare → | |
| 88 | 4 | Compare → | |
| 66 | 3 | Compare → | |
| 54 | 0 | View → | |
| 48 | 6 | Compare → |
What the models named instead of Tyk →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Tyk's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- teams
- Price stated
- Free 14-day trial, or book a demo with a solutions architect.
- Free plan or trial
- Free 14-day trial
- Certifications
- ISO 27001, SOC 2 Type II, PCI DSS, ISO 9001
- Customers named
- Deloitte, ZEISS, TAB Bank, RBFCU, HotelBeds, paymenttools, Vinci Construction, Koç University
How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 215 of the 271 answers that named Tyk and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
611 of the 672 domain citations in answers naming Tyk came from a third party's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 7 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 2 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 11 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 7 |
| Grok 4.20 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 9 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 3 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 11 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 8 |
| Kimi K2 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 11 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 8 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 1 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 8 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 687 | 18 | 2026-09-23 | API management, API gateways | |
| Template or tool | 56 | undated | API gateways, API management | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 55 | 0 | 2024-12-10 | API management, API gateways | |
| Comparison | 43 | 0 | 2026-05-27 | API gateways | |
| Case study | 36 | 0 | 2025-11-26 | ||
| Conference or event | 30 | 0 | 2025-01-16 | ||
| Report or ebook | 19 | 0 | 2026-05-22 | API management | |
| Webinar or virtual event | 5 | 0 | 2025-11-17 | ||
| Podcast or video | 1 | 0 | 2025-12-22 | ||
| News or press | 1 | 0 | 2024-05-24 |
Most recent
- 2026-09-23The four questions chicago wouldnt let go blog
- 2026-09-22The cc button is older than you think blog
- 2026-09-11Where do a compliance dashboards numbers actually come from blog
- 2026-09-10One name in whichever vendor you like out blog
- 2026-09-09The same question twice paid for once installing an llm response cache blog
- 2026-09-08Somebody elses api safely on your menu blog
Events in person
- October 21, 2026LEAP on Tour: Future of MCP governance3rd Floor - 8 West 38th Street, New York, NY 10018, New York, USA · hosts
- November 4, 2026LEAP on Tour: Future of MCP governanceSuite 136 A - 2711 Lyndon B Johnson Fwy, Dallas, TX 75234, Dallas, USA · hosts
- September 16, 2026LEAP on Tour: Future of MCP governanceChicago, USA · hosted
- September 14, 2026 to September 15, 2026Gartner Application Innovation & Business Solutions SummitInterContinental London – The O2, London · exhibited
As the event pages on tyk.io state them, read September 28, 2026.
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page tyk.io exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.