Comparison

Envoy Gateway vs Tyk

No leader: the top candidate Envoy Gateway has only 0.33 confidence (low), below the 0.35 needed to declare a winner. The attribute-by-attribute breakdown below, with a source and date on every value, is the honest way to compare them.

Machine formatsJSONMarkdownGraphQLor send Accept: application/json
Envoy Gateway60
Tyk55
Score
Vioscale score
Envoy Gateway60 / 100low · 33%
Tyk55 / 100high · 75%
Pricing
Free tier
Envoy Gateway
Tyk
Model
Envoy Gatewaycommercial
Price level
Envoy Gatewayfree
Tyklow
Transparent
Envoy Gateway
Tyk
Integrations
Count
Envoy Gateway
Tyk5
Reliability
Status page
Envoy Gateway
Tyk
Adoption
Dependent repos
Envoy Gateway0
Tyk35
Github stars
Envoy Gateway2,989
Activity
Commits last 30d
Envoy Gateway100
Tyk29
Release
Cadence days
Envoy Gateway6
Tyk10
History
Envoy Gateway20 items
License
Spdx
Envoy GatewayApache-2.0
Tyk
Language
Primary
Envoy GatewayGo
TykGo
Market
Availability
Envoy Gateway

Capabilities

Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for api gateways. “-” means undocumented, not absent.

Deployment
Hosting
Envoy GatewaySelf-hosted only
TykCloud + self-hosted
Kubernetes-native
Envoy Gateway
Tyk
Traffic
Rate limiting
Envoy Gateway
Tyk
Request/response transformation
Envoy Gateway-
Tyk
Security
OAuth2 / OIDC / JWT
Envoy Gateway
Tyk
Mutual TLS
Envoy Gateway
Tyk
Protocols
GraphQL gateway
Envoy Gateway-
Tyk
gRPC support
Envoy Gateway-
Tyk
Delivery
Developer portal
Envoy Gateway-
Tyk
Monetization
Envoy Gateway-
Tyk
Ecosystem
Plugin ecosystem
Envoy Gateway-
TykLimited
Insight
Observability
Envoy Gateway
Tyk

What each one is

The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.

Envoy Gateway

Open-source gateway providing traffic management, security controls, and observability for Kubernetes applications following the Gateway API specification. Can be deployed either standalone or as part of a Kubernetes cluster.

Independently observed

Tyk

An open-source, self-hosted or cloud-managed API gateway and management platform that provides centralized governance, rate limiting, authentication, PII protection, and observability for APIs and AI agent traffic across multiple protocols and deployment modes.

Independently observed

Pricing

List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.

Envoy Gateway

Open source
as of verify ↗

Tyk

SubscriptionFree tier
as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.

Platforms
Web
Envoy Gateway
Tyk
CLI
Envoy Gateway
Tyk
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Envoy Gateway
Tyk
Self-hosted
Envoy Gateway
Tyk
Hybrid
Envoy Gateway
Tyk

Integrations

What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.

Envoy Gateway

Not documented yet.

Tyk

8 total
  • OpenAPI
  • OpenTelemetry
  • GraphQL
  • Kubernetes
  • Docker
  • OpenAPI/Swagger
  • Kafka
  • MQTT
Independently observed

Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.