2 categories · RankedTyk
Standing by category
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| API management | Developer platform | 13% | 2 of 55 | 7% | 41 | accepted challenger |
| API gateways | Developer platform | 10% | 3 of 51 | 4% | 50 | accepted challenger |
Movement
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 2 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 7 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 2 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 11 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 11 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 9 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 1 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 9 |
| Kimi K2 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 10 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 9 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 8 |
By framing
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“Tyk or Kong are the strongest choices due to their balance of enterprise features, competitive pricing, and flexible deployment options” GLM 4.7 FlashX · API management · direct prompt · first choice
“If you need a customer-facing developer portal + API management (the most common B2B scenario) and want flexibility: Tyk (great value)” DeepSeek V4 Flash · API gateways · direct prompt · first choice
“If you are a startup with a technical team: Choose Tyk. You will save money long-term by self-hosting” GLM 4.7 FlashX · API management · budget prompt · first choice
“Kong (specifically Kong Konnect) and Tyk are widely considered the top contenders” Qwen 3.7 Flash · API gateways · direct prompt · first choice
And against it
Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.
“Had a major leadership change, pricing restructuring, and some stability issues” GLM 4.7 FlashX · API management · negative prompt · hard negative
“Free trials, then usage-based (~$25+/mo)—avoid if truly limited budget.” Grok 4.1 Fast · API gateways · budget prompt · hard negative
“the management console/dashboard UI isn't in the OSS edition; you'll likely need the paid version” DeepSeek V4 Flash · API management · budget prompt · soft negative
“self-hosting these gateways will lead to high operational overhead” Gemini 3.5 Flash · API gateways · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
What carried it into the answer
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 184 of the 245 answers that named Tyk and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
651 of the 711 domain citations in answers naming Tyk came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Names read as Tyk
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