Tyk vs. Kong Comparison

Who should you choose and why?

✋ Most important consideration

• Kong and Tyk have comparable features, but Kong has much better performance and consumes less CPU.

🤔 Strongly consider Tyk over Kong if

• You want better protection from cross-site scripting attacks.
• You need to integrate with Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) and certificate software tools.
• You’re integrating with external secure token services.

🤔 Strongly consider Kong over Tyk if

• Improved traffic management, prioritization, caching, throttling, and rate limiting, are important to you.
• You want best-in-class features for open API standards used when designing RESTful APIs.
• You’re creating virtual copies of your APIs.

📝 Other Notes

• Compared to Kong, Tyk provides better deployment flexibility if you have a large, complex, and distributed cloud infrastructure.
• Tyk has a GraphQL developer portal (Kong doesn’t).
• Kong has better auditing and reporting features compared to Tyk.