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As an alternative to Tyk, Saaras EnRoute is focused on cloud-native use-cases. Saaras EnRoute is natively built on Kubernetes without any external dependency on a SaaS or external components. It unlocks automation and developer workflows especially when building with microservices in Kubernetes.
Tyk helps organizations manage the lifecycle of their APIs using an OSS, self-managed or a SaaS version of their product. Tyk is an early part of the platform engineering movement along with OpenAPI support.
Saaras EnRoute is a high-performance Ingress API Gateway that is both an Ingress and an API Gateway. It built specifically for cloud-native workloads. It is purpose built to work alongside all the Kubernetes tooling, observability and supports the latest standards including Gateway API.
Teams use Saaras EnRoute to build a highly resilient and performant architecture, while centralizing API security like authentication and authorization. Saaras EnRoute is extensible and programmable using an extensible filter architecture.
Being Kubernetes native allows it to follow all the GitOps practices with little to no technical debt.
Tyk has been a part of API first workflows since 2014. They have an ecosystem of products that help with these workflows
Saaras EnRoute is built for accelerating developer workflows in Cloud-Native environments with one feature-rich easy to use product. There are some key differences compared to tyk -
When working with Kubernetes environments, the need to converge fast to configuration changes is vital. As more configuration, tenants and constructs are added to support a working environment, it is paramount that both the control plane and data plane converge fast.
Lack of this convergence may result in not being able to scale and the delay updates.
Saaras EnRoute control plane is optimized to converge extremely fast. Fast converging control plane ensures ability to support thousands of configuration artifacts while not creating any disruption or traffic loss.
Saaras EnRoute has an extremely simple configuration model that is very easy for developers and DevOps engineers to deploy. This eliminates the learning curve and shortens the cycle in programming the gateway. Additionally, teams can transition to Gateway API incrementally.
Saaras EnRoute has an integrated developer portal that works along with the gateway without any additional configuration. It is packaged as one unit which can be both installed and configured along with the Gateway. It simplifies operations and provides the developers with up-to-date API catalog
Saaras EnRoute has deterministic pricing options which makes cost efficient compared to usage based pricing. Also features like DevPortal are included with Saaras EnRoute, however they cost extra when using Solo Gloo
| Feature | Saaras EnRoute | Solo Gloo |
|---|---|---|
| Control Plane Performance | Highly Efficient, converges fast | Decent control plane |
| Ease of use | Extremely easy to use | Difficult to use |
| Support | Exceptional support | Expensive enterprise plan for support |
| Istio Integration | Works with and without Istio | Deeply integrated with Istio |
| Request Transformation | Through lua, gRPC, external processors | Additional transformation options in addition to gRPC |
| Observability | Native logging, tracing, metrics with Envoy stats | Native logging, tracing and metrics with Envoy stats |
| Cost | Deterministic pricing | Limits on services and APIs. Additional cost for features. |
| DevPortal | Included | Additional product purchase required |
| Security & Authentication | Extensive | Extensive |
