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9 self-hosted Tyk Cloud alternatives

Tyk Cloud is a managed API management platform providing a cloud-hosted API gateway with authentication, rate limiting and policy enforcement, plus analytics, monitoring and a developer portal for publishing, securing and governing APIs.

Alternatives to Tyk Cloud

Traefik Proxy is a dynamic reverse proxy and load balancer that auto-discovers services from Docker, Kubernetes, and other providers, with HTTPS, routing, and observability built in.

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64.6k stars6.2k forksMITlast commit Actively maintained

Kong Gateway is a high-performance, cloud-native API gateway for routing, securing, and observing API traffic, with an extensible plugin system and Kubernetes support.

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44k stars5.2k forksApache-2.0last commit Actively maintained

Tyk Gateway is an open source, cloud-native API gateway for securing, managing, and scaling REST, GraphQL, gRPC, and TCP APIs with auth, rate limits, and policies.

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10.8k stars1.2k forkslast commit Actively maintained

Lura is a stateless, high-performance API gateway framework for building reverse proxies that aggregate, transform, and secure backend APIs via middleware and plugins.

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6.8k stars582 forkslast commit Actively maintained

A general-purpose HTTP reverse proxy and forwarding tool for homelabs, offering web UI, ACME/TLS, stream proxy, plugins and realtime monitoring.

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5.4k stars320 forksAGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained

Fusio is an open source API management platform for building, securing, and operating REST APIs, with a web backend, developer portal, and SDK generation.

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2.1k stars243 forksApache-2.0last commit Actively maintained

DreamFactory generates secure, documented REST APIs for SQL/NoSQL databases and other services, with a web admin UI, authentication, and role-based access control.

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1.8k stars354 forksApache-2.0last commit Actively maintained

Graphweaver turns multiple databases and APIs into a single, code-first GraphQL API with an extensible admin UI and fine-grained access control.

553 stars32 forkslast commit Actively maintained

What replacing Tyk Cloud actually involves

Every option on this page is open source and free to run on your own hardware, so you own the data and there is no subscription to cancel. 9 of 9 shipped a commit in the last six months. Licences in this list: MIT, Apache-2.0, AGPL-3.0. In exchange you take on hosting, backups and updates yourself.

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