Overview Tyk Gateway is an API gateway written in Go that proxies REST, GraphQL, gRPC, TCP and SOAP traffic, with JWT, bearer token, basic and client-certificate auth, rate limits, quotas and plugins. It can also sit in front of remote MCP servers, applying policy per tool, resource and prompt, and can generate an MCP proxy from a REST API. Redis is required to run it.
Who it is for: Platform teams putting an API gateway in front of REST, GraphQL or MCP servers
Strengths Parses MCP JSON-RPC and applies auth and rate limits per tool, resource and prompt Plugins in Python, JavaScript, Go or any language reachable over gRPC Hitless config reloads and OpenAPI import (OAS 2.x and 3.0.1) to scaffold APIs Install options include Docker, Helm, Ansible, deb and rpm packages, or source build Weaknesses Code in the ee folder is under a commercial license; the rest is MPL 2.0 Dashboard, Developer Portal and Kubernetes Operator need a paid licence Analytics in the open source gateway are raw logs only Officially supported only on Linux (amd64, i386, arm64) What it needs no GPU Docker + Compose Needs Redis port 8080 What changed From the release notes. No flag means the note does not say so, not that the upgrade is safe.
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Releases 13 in the last 12 monthsLast one 16 days ago
Top contributor 13% of commits56 of 447 in the last 12 months
Security advisories NoneOn GitHub, in the last 12 months Read from GitHub, deps.dev and OpenSSF on 12 Nov 2026. Bots and coding-agent accounts are left out of the commit counts. Not part of the score: how we check .
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Set it up Needs before it works: Redis.
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