# Tyk alternatives: what AI models name instead, November 2026

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. 332 of the 504 answers in the 2 categories where Tyk holds a standing named it neither first nor as an alternative; these are the first choices those answers made. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/tyk/alternatives

## Named instead, most often (every category and segment added)

- Kong Gateway: 74
- Apigee: 48
- Zuplo: 21
- Amazon API Gateway: 20
- Postman: 16
- MuleSoft Anypoint Platform: 12

## API management

**Small business**: 54 of 84 answers did not name Tyk (Tyk is #5 of 12 at 6%).

- Kong Gateway: first choice in 16 of those 54
- Postman: first choice in 12 of those 54
- Zuplo: first choice in 10 of those 54
- Amazon API Gateway: first choice in 4 of those 54
- WSO2 API Manager: first choice in 3 of those 54
- Azure API Management: first choice in 2 of those 54
- ReadMe: first choice in 1 of those 54
- Red Hat 3scale: first choice in 1 of those 54

**Mid-market**: 54 of 84 answers did not name Tyk (Tyk is #2 of 11 at 8%).

- Kong Gateway: first choice in 15 of those 54
- Postman: first choice in 4 of those 54
- Amazon API Gateway: first choice in 3 of those 54
- Apigee: first choice in 2 of those 54
- Azure API Management: first choice in 2 of those 54
- ReadMe: first choice in 2 of those 54
- WSO2 API Manager: first choice in 2 of those 54
- Zuplo: first choice in 2 of those 54

**Enterprise**: 75 of 84 answers did not name Tyk (Tyk is #4 of 11 at 9%).

- Apigee: first choice in 27 of those 75
- MuleSoft Anypoint Platform: first choice in 9 of those 75
- Kong Gateway: first choice in 4 of those 75
- Axway Amplify API Management: first choice in 3 of those 75
- Azure API Management: first choice in 3 of those 75
- WSO2 API Manager: first choice in 2 of those 75
- Google Cloud: first choice in 1 of those 75
- Salesforce MuleSoft Anypoint Platform: first choice in 1 of those 75

## API gateways

**Small business**: 39 of 84 answers did not name Tyk (Tyk is #4 of 12 at 9%).

- Kong Gateway: first choice in 12 of those 39
- Amazon API Gateway: first choice in 10 of those 39
- Zuplo: first choice in 7 of those 39
- Apache APISIX: first choice in 1 of those 39
- Caddy: first choice in 1 of those 39
- Cloudflare Workers: first choice in 1 of those 39
- Google Cloud API Gateway: first choice in 1 of those 39
- KrakenD: first choice in 1 of those 39

**Mid-market**: 46 of 84 answers did not name Tyk (Tyk is #3 of 15 at 7%).

- Kong Gateway: first choice in 16 of those 46
- Amazon API Gateway: first choice in 3 of those 46
- Apache APISIX: first choice in 3 of those 46
- Cloudflare API Gateway: first choice in 2 of those 46
- Amazon API Gateway's HTTP API: first choice in 1 of those 46
- Gravitee: first choice in 1 of those 46
- Kong Konnect with Kong Gateway data planes: first choice in 1 of those 46
- Traefik Hub: first choice in 1 of those 46

**Enterprise**: 64 of 84 answers did not name Tyk (Tyk is #7 of 11 at 2%).

- Apigee: first choice in 19 of those 64
- Kong Gateway: first choice in 11 of those 64
- MuleSoft Anypoint Platform: first choice in 3 of those 64
- Zuplo: first choice in 2 of those 64
- Axway Amplify Platform: first choice in 1 of those 64
- Azure API Management: first choice in 1 of those 64
- Envoy: first choice in 1 of those 64
- Google Cloud: first choice in 1 of those 64

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