apache/apisix vs tyktechnologies/tyk
Both showing Healthy signals — pick on fit, not health
As of September 2026, apisix and tyk both show healthy maintenance signals. apisix was committed to 5 days ago with 12+ active contributors, while tyk was committed to 3 weeks ago with 26+ active contributors. apisix is Apache-2.0-licensed while tyk is MPL-2.0-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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apache/apisix
Strong maintenance signals
dependency CVE scan unavailable
No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
dependency CVE scan unavailable
- ✓Last commit 2d ago
- ✓12 active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 29% of recent commits)
- ✓Apache-2.0 licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against OpenSSF Scorecard
tyktechnologies/tyk
Strong maintenance signals
No blocking maintenance, license, or known-CVE signals were found; still verify the package version and fit.
No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
Scorecard "Branch-Protection" is 0/10; Scorecard "Token-Permissions" is 0/10
- ⚠Scorecard: dangerous CI workflow (0/10)
- ⚠Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
- ✓Last commit today
- ✓26+ active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 20% of recent commits)
- ✓MPL-2.0 licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
What would improve this?
- •Deploy as-is Mixed to Healthy if: bring "Branch-Protection" to ≥3/10 (see scorecard report)
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against dependency CVEs from deps.dev and OpenSSF Scorecard
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| apisix | tyk | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 17,111 | 10,798 |
| Last commit | 5d ago | 23d ago |
| License | Apache-2.0 | MPL-2.0 |
| Open issues | 234 | 497 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 27% | 100% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Healthy signals | Healthy signals |
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