Tyk Alternatives (September 2025)

Easily unify the management, security, and governance of both synchronous and asynchronous ecosystems with the leading open source API Management platform.

Leading Open Source API Development Platform for HTTP, REST, GraphQL, gRPC, SOAP, and WebSockets

Kong is the most widely adopted API gateway and service mesh, powering the world’s APIs for modern architectures. Accelerate development and productivity today!

Nevatech Sentinet offers a flexible, lightweight and scalable API Management platform to help businesses maximize the value of their data. Try Nevatech Now!

Kong Gateway is the industry’s most trusted open source API gateway. Accelerate development and delivery of APIs and microservices with Kong Gateway today!

Zuplo is the API management platform for developers. Build, deploy, and scale APIs faster with Zuplo.

Reimagine your application connectivity and API management with Traefik's unmatched approach to cloud native.

Address all the needs of API providers with the ‘Management Portal’ and API users with the ‘Developer Portal’. Start opening your APIs to finance ecosystem in seconds and easily implement your API Business Model.

Dramatically simplify API integrations with Tray connectors, the Connector Builder, and our Authentication and Projects features. Visit Tray.io to learn more.

SashiDo.io is a serverless API development platform with scalable json rest and graphql apis, headless cms, built with nodejs, mongodb, parse server, kubernetes and docker.

IBM API Connect is software to rapidly create, secure and manage APIs. IBM API Connect can be deployed in any Red Hat OpenShift environment. It’s also available as SaaS in a shared or dedicated instance, and as part of IBM Cloud Pak for Integration.

Connected systems make you faster, more efficient, and highly competitive. In today’s world of fast moving business, connectivity is power.

Lenses is the leading enterprise-grade Developer Experience for any Apache Kafka, revolutionizing the way engineers build event-driven apps: Intuitive Kafka UI, open-source Kafka Connectors, fine-grained access controls.

Aiven simplifies cloud data infrastructure management by deploying open-source technologies across multiple clouds, enabling fast and confident creation of next-generation applications.

Aiven simplifies cloud data infrastructure management by deploying open-source technologies across multiple clouds, enabling fast and confident creation of next-generation applications.

Unified APIs to build SaaS integrations. Launch the integrations your customers need in record time.

Aiven for Apache Kafka – Managed event streaming Kafka service ✓ Microservices ✓ Event-driven architecture ✓ Streaming pipelines ✓

Discover Rapid's API Marketplace for easy API monetization and better API management. Learn about API testing tools and monetize your APIs effortlessly.

Confluent makes it easy to connect your apps, data systems, and entire business with secure, scalable, fully managed Kafka and real-time data streaming, processing, and analytics.

Simplify API onboarding and consumption with an API Portal that’s purpose-built for API teams to create, secure, market, and monetize API products.

Meet Anypoint Platform, the only complete hybrid enterprise integration platform for SOA, SaaS and APIs. Anypoint Platform gives you the freedom to integrate what you want, when you want, whether its on-premises or in the cloud.

KrakenD is a high-performance Open Source API Gateway that enables you to build scalable and resilient microservices architectures.

Build your application on Instaclustr's fully hosted and managed Apache Kafka as a service solution. Start your free trial now.

Redpanda is a powerful, simple, and cost-efficient streaming data platform that is compatible with Kafka® APIs while eliminating Kafka complexity.

With Stoplight, you can create OpenAPI descriptions, documentation, and mock servers much faster than other API tools — with no specialized knowledge required — all in one centralized platform.

Kubernetes message broker and message queue platform. An open-source project providing the most efficient way to connect microservices.

A flexible messaging platform that enables real-time integration and connects the Internet of Things (IoT).

Build native integrations fast with Truto. Integration is a solved problem. Why have your best engineers work on integrations when they can focus on architecture, design, and product?

Kong Mesh is an enterprise-ready service mesh that provides security, reliability and observability for Kubernetes environments. Accelerate deployments today!

IBM Event Streams is an event streaming software built on open-source Apache Kafka. It is available as a fully managed service on IBM Cloud or for self-hosting.

Simplify API development for users, teams, and enterprises with our open source and professional toolset. Find out how Swagger can help you and get started today.

HiveMQ is the proven enterprise MQTT platform designed to connect, communicate, and control IoT data under real-world stress. Learn more.

API integration Platform-as-a-Service (iPaaS) provides capabilities offered by ESBs, data integration systems, API management tools and B2B gateways.

A powerful CMS, BaaS, and more. Power any project with Directus – a composable data platform to easily create and deploy data-rich apps.

Streaming Made Simple. Axual enables organizations to leverage Apache Kafka and the power of event streaming in a secure and simple way.

The Trusted Developer Experience platform for APIs. Achieve faster API onboarding via automatic SDKs, docs, code samples, and guided walkthroughs.

Aiven for PostgreSQL – Managed Postgres database service with Postgres extensions, database forking, connection pooling.

Discover the TIBCO® Platform––Messaging for seamless, real-time data distribution across your enterprise. Our platform offers diverse messaging components like TIBCO Enterprise Message Service™, TIBCO® Messaging Quasar, and more, ensuring high-performance, secure, and reliable data exchange for complex IT environments. Explore our solutions tailored for cloud integration, IoT, and event-driven architectures

Hookdeck is an Event Gateway. A platform giving engineering teams infrastructure and developer tooling to build, deploy, operate, and monitor event-driven applications.

Apiary provides the leading API-First platform designed specifically to help companies accelerate and control the design, development, and documentation of APIs.

Svix is the enterprise ready webhook service. Build a state of the art webhook platform in minutes with our hosted webhook SaaS or our open source project. Don't reinvent the wheel, use webhooks as a service.

Apache Kafka: A Distributed Streaming Platform.

Instantly generate APIs from any database with built-in enterprise security controls that operates on-premises, air-gapped, or in the cloud.

Make your APIs easy to use and your developers successful.

WireMock is a tool for building mock APIs. API mocking enables you build stable, predictable development environments when the APIs you depend on are unreliable or don’t exist.

From signing to filing, it's never been easier or more affordable to engage customers with API toolkits from the leader in online legal services.

EMQX: The most scalable MQTT Broker for IoT. Connect 100M+ IoT devices in 1 cluster at 1ms latency. Move and process millions of MQTT messages per second.

Apideck Ecosystem helps you build your app store and whitelabel marketplace in minutes instead of months.

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Alloy is an embedded integrations platform used by engineering and product teams to simplify & accelerate all aspects of integration development - from user-customizability to polling infrastructure.

Fast track your integrations roadmap with the KNIT unified API. Webhooks based architecture, no data storage policy, and whitelabeled auth for complete peace of mind!

Traefik Mesh is an open source service mesh, easy to configure that allows visibility and management of the traffic flows inside any Kubernetes cluster.

Pliant’s API-driven orchestration platform automates, integrates, and connects the digital enterprise. With our low-code approach that transforms API code into deployment-ready action blocks, Pliant facilitates, integrates, and secures communication up and down the technology stack between platforms, services, and applications. Pliant accelerates traditionally manual tasks, eliminates silos, and reduces tool sprawl while accelerating innovation, productivity, and agility.

api.video lets you quickly and securely deliver on-demand and live-stream videos directly from your website, software, or app.

Publish always up-to-date API references, communicate changes to your users, improve discoverability and developer experience. Works with Swagger, OpenAPI, and AsyncAPI.

Unlock the power of your communications data. The Nylas communication APIs remove complexity & empower teams to create seamless user experiences.

An open-source Backend-as-a-Service stack for web & mobile applications, based on RESTful APIs.

D2iQ makes it easier to build and run Kubernetes at scale, reducing time to market from months to days.

Simple, scalable and reliable. Hosted realtime APIs loved by developers and trusted by giants. Build live dashboards, notifications, geotracking, chat and more.

Power your applications with real-time payment data. Build innovative card-linking applications by connecting Visa, Mastercard and Amex cards to loyalty and marketing services all in one place.

Conektto is the best API design platform online for building great APIs. We understand what it takes to create an awesome API that leverages modern technology

Build, manage, and secure APIs—for any use case, environment, or scale. Google Cloud's API management solution to operate APIs with high performance.

Securing Every Machine and Digital Transaction with a Trusted Identity

Amazon MSK is a fully managed, secure, and highly available Apache Kafka service that makes it easy to ingest and process streaming data in real time at a low cost.

Consul is a multi-cloud service networking platform to connect and secure services across any runtime platform and public or private cloud.

Red Hat OpenShift Streams for Apache Kafka makes it easier to create, discover and connect to real-time data streams regardless of where they exist.

Build better AI and API products with a powerful observability and monetization platform

Build custom mobile apps and web dashboards with our drag-and-drop app builder. Get a complete, hardware agnostic IoT solution with an integrated back-end infrastructure, private cloud, device management and user management tools. Publish your own app in AppStore and Google Play with our white-label option.

Keygen is a powerful software licensing API for desktop apps, on-premise software and other software products written in C++, C#, Swift, Java, Kotlin, Node and more.

Mockoon is the easiest and quickest way to run mock REST API servers. No remote deployment, no account required, free, open source and cross-platform.

Hybrid Integration Platform (HIP) defines the ability to connect apps and systems on the cloud (public & private) and on-premise, enabling integration specialists and nonspecialists to automate their business. With thousands of pre-built connectors and no coding required, APIANT is the Ultimate Hybrid Integration Platform.

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A curated framework of Open Source Platform components to accelerate the development of Smart Solutions.

Appwrite is an open-source platform for building applications at any scale, using your preferred programming languages and tools.

Azure API Management offers a scalable, multi-cloud API management platform for securing, publishing, and analyzing APIs.

Quickly see all of your endpoints, your slow endpoints, and your endpoints with errors.

Ingest events into Pub/Sub to stream to BigQuery, data lakes and databases; messaging middleware for streaming analytics and service integrations

The easiest way to add authentication and user management to your application. API-first & purpose-built for developers. Get started for free.

Restaurant management software trusted by 20,000+ restaurants globally to streamline their operations, reduce costs, and increase profits.

Enjoy fast and painless content delivery to any channel with our headless CMS platform.

ThingSpeak is the open IoT platform with MATLAB analytics.

Infrared360®: Your solution for efficient middleware management. Experience advanced monitoring and seamless operations.

An open source Kubernetes Platform to manage enterprise-grade Kubernetes across hybrid cloud, multi-cloud and edge. Get started for free!

AWS IoT Core enables secure two-way communication between internet-connected devices and AWS services with device gateway and device SDK capabilities.

HarperDB's global application platform simplifies development with one package that includes a lightning-fast database, embedded API server, and real-time global data replication. Deploy from cloud to edge to on-prem.

Explore a highly curated API marketplace focused on reliability, scalability, and quality. Access AI & Machine Learning, Content, Finance, Stock, and more APIs.

Ambassador Labs - We build best-in-class Kubernetes-native productivity tools to safely design, develop, test, deploy, & monitor apps with speed & efficiency

Next generation programmable video and audio integration solutions for today's world. Iotum’s audio and video conferencing and streaming API and SDK solutions.

API-First, multi-channel CMS, build multi-device presentation layers with your preferred frameworks and languages.

Managed RabbitMQ servers hosted in the cloud. Decouple your applications with the speed of CloudAMQP, a highly available message queuing service.

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Webiny is an open source serverless CMS that offers you all the enterprise-grade functionalities, while keeping your data within the security perimeter of your own infrastructure

With our banking APIs you can integrate your business with our financial services and make it grow. Find the right API and solution for your business here.

Power everything from live chat to data broadcast - reliably, securely, and at serious scale with Ably. The largest WebSocket-based pub/sub platform.

Streamline your appliance retail operations with Appliance.io. Experience seamless integration with 18+ programs and 100+ features designed exclusively for appliance dealers. From point-of-sale to delivery scheduling, our cloud-based platform ensures smooth, efficient operations. Say goodbye to software struggles and outdated technology with Appliance.io's bi-weekly updates and industry-specific solutions.

A service mesh for observability, security in depth, and management that speeds deployment cycles.

iObeya digitizes the obeya experience, providing an easy, powerful and secure way to connect Lean & Agile teams-of-teams in the new work environment.

Enable the fast and secure delivery of PSD2-compliant APIs with Apigee open banking APIx.

Implement and enforce best practices in authentication, authorization, validation and sanitization of modern API requests and responses. Plus, centralized API audit trails and ensure governance and compliance.