Tyk
Tyk is an open-source, self-hosted app in the API Management category, licensed MPL-2.0 and written mainly in Go. It ships a Docker image. It has 10,870 GitHub stars and its last commit was on Oct 26, 2026 (data as of Oct 26, 2026).
GitHub stats
- GitHub stars
- 10,870
- Forks
- 1,170
- Open issues
- 192
- Commits, last 12 months
- 354
- Last commit
- Oct 26, 2026
- Latest release
- v5.15.1Oct 2, 2026
- Created
- May 7, 2014
- License
- MPL-2.0Open source
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Project health
ActiveActive: last commit Oct 26, 2026, 354 commits in 12 months.
- Regular releases7 releases in 12 months
| Last commit | Oct 26, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Commits, last 12 months | 354 |
| Latest release | v5.15.1 (Oct 2, 2026) |
| Releases, last 12 months | 7 |
| Releases, all time | 296 |
| Open issues | 192 |
| Open pull requests | 321 |
| Good first issues | 0 |
| Contributing guide | Yes |
| Security policy | No |
| Created | May 7, 2014 |
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About Tyk
Fast and scalable open source API Gateway. Out of the box, Tyk offers an API Management Platform with an API Gateway, API Analytics, Developer Portal and API Management Dashboard.
Description adapted from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0). Source code: github.com/TykTechnologies/tyk.
Topics
- go
- api
- api-management
- api-gateway
- tyk
- microservices
- kubernetes
- k8s
- graphql
- grpc
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Is Tyk free and open source?
Yes. Tyk is open-source software released under the MPL-2.0 license, so you can self-host it at no cost. You only pay for the server it runs on, and some projects also offer an optional paid cloud plan.
Can I run Tyk with Docker?
Yes. Tyk provides a Docker image, so you can run it on any Linux server with Docker and Docker Compose installed. The project README lists the image name and the environment variables to set.
What are the best alternatives to Tyk?
Popular self-hosted alternatives to Tyk include Hoppscotch Community Edition, Bruno and Kong.
Is Tyk actively maintained?
The most recent commit to Tyk was on Oct 26, 2026 with 354 commits in the past twelve months. The latest release is v5.15.1, published Oct 2, 2026. It had 192 open issues on GitHub. appsgit's project-health label for it is "Active" as of Oct 26, 2026.