# Tyk **Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/tyk/ **Website:** https://tyk.io/ **APIs profiled:** 39 Tyk is an open-source API gateway and management platform supporting REST, GraphQL, gRPC, and Async APIs with a developer portal, analytics, and flexible deployment across cloud, on-premise, and hybrid environments. ## Kin Score — 57.6 / 100 (strong) Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 57.6). | Facet | Score | |---|---| | Discoverability | 66.7 | | Contract Quality | 63.0 | | Governance | 25.0 | | Contract Governance | 25.0 | | Operational Transparency | 52.6 | | Developer Ergonomics | 69.0 | | Commercial Clarity | 57.9 | | Access Clarity | 57.9 | ## Agent readiness — 46.0 (agent-ready) | Dimension | Value | |---|---| | Spec Presence | yes | | Agentic Access | derived | | Reversibility Documented | no | | MCP Server | documented | | Auth Clarity | yes | | Idempotency | no | | Error Semantics | verified | | OpenAPI Examples | verified | | Rate Limit Signal | documented | | Event Surface Described | no | | Agent Skills | no | | Well Known Catalog | no | | Consent Identity | no | | Agent Card | no | | Dry Run Mode | no | ## Access Freemium (free trial) · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: freemium, trial: yes (confidence: high). ## APIs (39) - **Tyk Additional Permissions API** — These APIs helps you get,add and delete (CRUD) a list of additional (custom) permissions for your Dashboard users. You can use the created additional permissions with Open Polic... - **Tyk Analytics API** — The Tyk Dashboard provides a full set of analytics functions and graphs that you can use to segment and view your API traffic and activity. - **Tyk APIs API** — Use the endpoints under this tags to update,add ,delete and fetch the classic APIs. - **Tyk Assets API** — An API template is an asset managed by Tyk Dashboard that is used as the starting point - a blueprint - from which you can create a new Tyk OAS API definition.
Templates a... - **Tyk AuditLogs API** — The AuditLogs API from Tyk — 1 operation(s) for auditlogs. - **Tyk Basic Authentication API** — An API request made using Basic Authentication will have an Authorization header that contains the API key. The value of the Authorization header will be in the form:
`Basi... - **Tyk Batch Requests API** — Tyk supports batch requests, so a client makes a single request to the API but gets a compound response object back. This is especially handy if clients have complex requests th... - **Tyk Cache Invalidation API** — Sometimes a cache might contain stale data, or it may just need to be cleared because of an invalid configuration. This call will purge all keys associated with a cache on an AP... - **Tyk Certificates API** — Use the endpoints under this tag to manage your certificates. You can add, delete and list certificates using these endpoints. - **Tyk Certs API** — Use the endpoints under this tag to manage your certificates. You can add, delete and list certificates using these endpoints. - **Tyk CertsTag API** — The CertsTag API from Tyk — 1 operation(s) for certstag. - **Tyk Config API** — The Config API from Tyk — 1 operation(s) for config. - **Tyk Dashboard URL Reload API** — Since the Dashboard can have multiple URLs associated with it. It is possible to force a URL reload by calling an API endpoint of the Dashboard API. - **Tyk Dataplanes API** — The Dataplanes API from Tyk — 1 operation(s) for dataplanes. - **Tyk Debug API** — The Debug API from Tyk — 3 operation(s) for debug. - **Tyk Env API** — The Env API from Tyk — 1 operation(s) for env. - **Tyk Export API** — To make Tyk installations more portable, the Export API enables you to export key configuration objects required to back-up and re-deploy a basic Tyk Pro installation. - **Tyk Health API** — The Health API from Tyk — 1 operation(s) for health. - **Tyk Health Checking API** — Check health status of the Tyk Gateway and loaded APIs. - **Tyk Hot Reload API** — Force restart of the Gateway or whole cluster. - **Tyk Import API** — The import API enables you to add Organisations, APIs and Policies back into a Tyk installation while retaining their base IDs so that they work together. - **Tyk Keys API** — All keys that are used to access services via Tyk correspond to a session object that informs Tyk about the context of this particular token, like access rules and rate/quota al... - **Tyk Liveness API** — The Liveness API from Tyk — 1 operation(s) for liveness. - **Tyk OAS APIs API** — Tyk allows you to work with APIs that you ve designed with the OpenAPI Specification version 3.0.x, making it even easier to get your API up and running. Use the endpoints in th... - **Tyk Oauth API** — Use the endpoints in this tag to manage OAuth flow. - **Tyk Open Policy Agent API** — The Tyk Dashboard permission system can be extended by writing custom rules using an Open Policy Agent (OPA). The rules engine works on top of your Dashboard API, which means yo... - **Tyk Organisation Quotas API** — It is possible to force API quota and rate limit across all keys that belong to a specific organisation ID. Rate limiting at an organisation level is useful for creating tiered ... - **Tyk Organisations API** — The organisations API gives the ability to manage your Tyk organisation(s). - **Tyk Policies API** — Policies are a template that enable you to create access rules, usage quota and rate limits that can be applied to multiple keys. They are a useful way to manage large groups of... - **Tyk Readiness API** — The Readiness API from Tyk — 1 operation(s) for readiness. - **Tyk Schema API** — Get OAS schema. - **Tyk Single Sign On API** — The Dashboard SSO API allows you to implement custom authentication schemes for the Dashboard and Portal. Our Tyk Identity Broker (TIB) internally also uses this API. - **Tyk Streams APIs API** — The Streams APIs API from Tyk — 2 operation(s) for streams apis. - **Tyk System API** — System API. - **Tyk Tyk API** — The Tyk API from Tyk — 3 operation(s) for tyk. - **Tyk Tyk OAS APIs API** — **Note: Applies only to Tyk Gateway Community Edition**
- **Tyk UserGroup API** — When you have a large number of users and teams with different access requirements, instead of setting permissions per user, you can create a user group and configure the permis... - **Tyk Users API** — The admin portion of the users API gives you the ability to manage password reset policies for your Dashboard users. - **Tyk Webhooks API** — Webhooks are a great way to let external applications know about the status of a user, an API or an event that has occurred in the Tyk gateway
You can create webhooks that... ## MCP servers (1) - **MCP Server** ## Agentic access (1) - **Tyk Agentic Access** — 176 operations · 93 acting · 7 human-in-the-loop ## Security (3) - **Tyk Authentication** — apiKey/http · 3 schemes - **Tyk Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC - **Tyk Vulnerability Disclosure** — disclosure policy published ## Plans (1) - **Tyk Plans Pricing** ## Use cases (6) - **API Monetization** — Enable API-as-a-product strategies with tiered plans, usage tracking, and developer self-service through the portal. - **Microservices Gateway** — Centralize traffic management, authentication, and observability for microservices architectures. - **Multi-Cloud API Management** — Deploy gateways across cloud, on-premise, and hybrid environments with centralized management. - **Legacy API Modernization** — Wrap legacy SOAP and XML APIs with modern REST or GraphQL interfaces using Tyk's transformation middleware. - **Partner API Program** — Manage third-party developer access with fine-grained policies, quota management, and analytics per consumer. - **AI API Management** — Govern and manage AI model APIs with rate limiting, access control, and usage analytics through Tyk AI Studio. ## Tags API Gateway, API Management, GraphQL, Open-Source --- Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/tyk/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.