Pricing behavior — API Management
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Pricing
Pricing for Tyk
How pricing changes as you scale: upgrade triggers, cost cliffs, and plan structure (not a live price list).
Sources linked — see verification below.
Freshness & verification
Pricing behavior (not a price list)
These points describe when users typically pay more and what usage patterns trigger upgrades.
Actions that trigger upgrades
- You need open-source API management with cloud-native performance
- GraphQL support is a core requirement for your API architecture
- Kubernetes-native deployment patterns are mandatory
- Cost control via self-hosting is important
What gets expensive first
- Open-source means you own operations, upgrades, and reliability
- Smaller ecosystem means fewer pre-built integrations than Kong
- Community support requires more self-reliance than enterprise platforms
- GraphQL support is a strength but requires GraphQL expertise
Plans and variants (structural only)
Grouped by type to show structure, not to rank or recommend SKUs.
Plans
- Open-source - Self-hosted - Best fit when cost control and cloud-native architecture matter (verify official pricing)
Enterprise
- Commercial tiers - Enterprise support - Useful when you need support but want open-source flexibility
Next step: constraints + what breaks first
Pricing tells you the cost cliffs; constraints tell you what forces a redesign.
Open the full decision brief →Sources & verification
Pricing and behavioral information comes from public documentation and structured research. When information is incomplete or volatile, we prefer to say so rather than guess.