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Reqres vs Tyk Cloud: What are the differences?
Reqres: Test your front-end against a real API. A hosted REST-API ready to respond to your AJAX requests; Tyk Cloud: Open Source API Management. Tyk is a lightweight, open source API Gateway and enables you to control who accesses your API, when they access it and how they access it. Tyk will also record detailed analytics on how your users are interacting with your API and when things go wrong.
Reqres and Tyk Cloud can be categorized as "API" tools.
Some of the features offered by Reqres are:
- Reqres does not store any of your data at all
- Fake data
- Real responses
On the other hand, Tyk Cloud provides the following key features:
- API Management Dashboard
- API Analytics
- API Developer Portal
Reqres and Tyk Cloud are both open source tools. Tyk Cloud with 4.6K GitHub stars and 616 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Reqres with 944 GitHub stars and 117 GitHub forks.
Pros of Reqres
- Fake data2
- RESTful API2
- Open source1
- Always-on1
- Rapid prototyping of interfaces1
- Language agnostic1
- Hosted on Digital Ocean1
Pros of Tyk Cloud
- Full featured10
- Easy to install5
- Great Performance5
- Flexible4
- Easy to use2
- Better Oauth integration2
- Good value2
- Great support & advice1