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Oracle API Management vs Tyk comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 17, 2024

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Categories and Ranking

Oracle API Management
Ranking in API Management
35th
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
5
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Tyk
Ranking in API Management
14th
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.1
Number of Reviews
12
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2026, in the API Management category, the mindshare of Oracle API Management is 1.0%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Tyk is 1.7%, down from 2.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
API Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Tyk1.7%
Oracle API Management1.0%
Other97.3%
API Management
 

Featured Reviews

Sagar SampadMall - PeerSpot reviewer
IT-Operation Head at Granules India Ltd
Provides robust security for financial transactions and protects the ERP database from direct exposure
My main feedback is about the account management. I feel they should connect with clients more frequently, beyond just selling the product. They should actively seek feedback and tailor the approach to client needs. It shouldn't always be about pushing additional products. My main suggestion is focused solely on the account management approach, specifically fostering closer and more proactive client relationships. So, the pricing could also be bit improvement.
SaurabhKumar10 - PeerSpot reviewer
platform engineer, DevOps engineer at Capgemini
Secure banking APIs have protected sensitive transactions and support daily compliance monitoring
Tyk offers many valuable features. For the API, the best features include API security such as API key authentication, JWT tokens, barriers, and OIDC. There is rate limiting and throttling to control how many requests a user can make at one time, such as 100 requests per minute or 1000 requests per minute. API gateway routing and load balancing are handled very smoothly, and API analytics and monitoring are comprehensive. Request-response transformations allow us to track customer ID and monitor how many requests can go to the API versioning. Tyk gives Kubernetes and cloud-native support, including Kubernetes, Docker, and AWS, depending on the cloud-native and cloud-based platform. Logging and troubleshooting capabilities are among the best features. In terms of product benefits, Tyk secures the credit card API, protects the payment API, monitors transactions, handles traffic spikes, reduces downtime, troubleshoots with failover, and improves application reliability. Tyk has positively impacted my organization as it is not just an API gateway but has become a critical business platform that helps organizations securely expose, manage, monitor, and scale their APIs in the modern banking domain, fintech, and commercial insurance environments in cloud-native settings. Almost every application communicates through APIs, and Tyk ensures that the API remains secure, scalable, and has high availability.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"We've found it to be very stable."
"The security, the authentication, and the publishing qualities are great."
"The initial setup isn't overly difficult."
"The product has been very easy to use."
"It has helped us to better organize, control and monitor the APIs across the solution landscape in the enterprise."
"The most valuable features for us are security and centralization."
"It is very secure, easy to manage, and easy to configure. It is a web-based API. Moreover, we get direct support from Oracle guys."
"It is a good product for API management."
"Tyk is a wonderful API management gateway for maintaining enterprise-grade applications."
"In my opinion, the best features that Tyk offers were the rate limiting and authentication themselves."
"Tyk is not just an API gateway but has become a critical business platform that helps organizations securely expose, manage, monitor, and scale their APIs in the modern banking domain, fintech, and commercial insurance environments in cloud-native settings."
"The portal for developers that this solution provides has great functionality."
"Other than the limitations with the cloud version everything else is fantastic."
"Customer support is excellent, and their support personnel, along with professional services, know the product really well, resulting in a good experience dealing with them."
"Tyk looked like a good product."
 

Cons

"Before gaining experience with the product, I found that it was not simple to use and things took longer to do than I had anticipated."
"From an administration and developer point of view, the user interface and user experience are not great."
"Although it is working great for us at the moment, we don't enjoy its user-interface. The UI is based on an old approach and needs an overhaul to modernize the UI and user interaction."
"Oracle should actively seek feedback and tailor the approach to client needs. It shouldn't always be about pushing additional products."
"The cost of the solution is very high. It's not very cheap."
"Oracle needs to improve on access to technical documentation."
"We'd like it if they could reduce the cost without sacrificing on features."
"Sometimes when new features are released, they are not immediately stable."
"There are some architectural bottlenecks, including operational complexity and multi-component overhead."
"There are many features in Tyk, but a few things need to be improved from the developer side."
"It is a young product and does not have the kind of brand recognition that would make it a more popular solution with our clients."
"We would like a better tool for generating documentation for the APIs to be developed."
"We ran it for a while, but then we decided to move away from Tyk, because Tyk's cloud version, the SaaS version, has a significant limitation of limited flexibility, so you can't program very much."
"In terms of our usage, the main area of concern is that they tend to build enhancements slightly ahead of the considerations for what those enhancements and extensions are. So it could be slightly better communication with the customer base that would be my main issue with them."
"I chose the number eight because I think at the time I ended up using the version and I had not found, or there was not, a way for me to install it locally to study and learn a way of using the tool."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Oracle is not a cheap solution and it is not affordable for all of our clients in Portugal."
"The price is low compared to other products of a similar type."
"The cost curve is far smoother, both in terms of volume and the number of calls it's running on, compared to most competitors. So it's a tad more expensive at the very low end, but the curve is nothing like Apigee or some of the others."
"It had a free version, which suited many of our needs, but not all, but we were happy to go ahead with the licensed version as well, which is the paid version."
"We are using the open-source version of this product, so there are no licensing costs for its use."
"There are different versions and plans available depending on the requirements, so there is flexibility in terms of the pricing."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
14%
Financial Services Firm
14%
Healthcare Company
7%
Educational Organization
7%
Manufacturing Company
23%
Financial Services Firm
15%
Comms Service Provider
8%
Outsourcing Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
No data available
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business5
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise5
 

Questions from the Community

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Tyk?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is overall good.
What needs improvement with Tyk?
I cannot really say much about Tyk because it has probably already improved significantly since the last time I used it. I chose the number eight because I think at the time I ended up using the ve...
What is your primary use case for Tyk?
At the time, my main use case for Tyk was more for security and exposure matters related to business. Part of what I was trying to solve with Tyk was authentication, access control, request volume,...
 

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