Postman vs. ReadyAPI

ReadyAPI

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Postman	Score 8.8 out of 10	N/A	Postman, headquartered in San Francisco, offers their flagship API development and management free to small teams and independent developers. Higher tiers (Postman Pro and Postman Enterprise) support API management, as well as team collaboration, extended support and other advanced features.	$0
ReadyAPI	Score 7.1 out of 10	N/A	ReadyAPI (formerly SoapUI Pro, LoadUI Pro, and ServiceV Pro) is a REST and SOAP API functional testing tool that enables software developers, QA engineers, and manual testers to work together to create, maintain, and execute complex end-to-end API tests in their CI/CD pipelines without needing to code.	N/A

Pricing

Postman

ReadyAPI

Editions & Modules

Postman Free Plan: $0.00 US Dollars
Postman Basic Plan: $12 US Dollars
per month per user
Postman Professional Plan: $29 US Dollars
per month per user
Postman Enterprise Plan: $99 US Dollars
per month per user

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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Postman	ReadyAPI
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

1. Postman Free plan: Start designing, developing, and testing APIs at no cost for teams of up to three people. 2. Postman Basic plan: Collaborate with your team to design, develop, and test APIs faster; $12/month per user, billed annually 3. Postman Professional plan: Centrally manage the entire API workflow; $29/month per user, billed annually 4. Postman Enterprise plan: Securely manage, organize, and accelerate API-first development at scale; $99/month per user, billed annually

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Community Pulse
	Postman	ReadyAPI
Considered Both Products	Postman PA Paul Alexander Senior Test Engineer Chose Postman There isn't much between them, really we just picked Postman as it was slightly better but the others are still good. We also had a few people that had a good experience of using Postman join the team when we were looking at what tools to use and with them using Postman before … Helpful? Haroon Akmal Sr. QA Engineer Chose Postman Sharing across teams is very robust in Postman than SoapUI. Adding APIs/ managing collections is very user friendly in Postman. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Team Lead Chose Postman ReadyAPI is a nightmare for source control integration but gives you a huge plethora more tools to create automated tests for APIs. With Visual Studio you can use a unit test framework to create test cases that can instantiate a WebClient class and make API calls. It takes … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Professional Chose Postman Postman is a great out-of-the-box tool for API testing. SwaggerHub is also good but requires a bit more configuration to integrate with the API you're going to test (if the API isn't set up for it, you probably won't get much out of SwaggerHub). Incentivized Helpful? Lasha Jojua Head Of IT Monitoring Chose Postman I did not use SoapUI and can't compare them. But, Postman gave results my team needed, that's why we did not test any other software. Runs simple, gives instant and exact results. Incentivized Helpful? Sharmin Promi Lead QA Automation Engineer Chose Postman Postman has pros and cons both and keeping them in mind we are using multiple tools to leverage our Services, integration, automation, and testing needs. Some of the above mentioned tools have better automation or complete framework implementation capabilities. Having all the … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Professional Chose Postman Postman has a very easy interface to build your requests, it is better than others in every aspect of API development. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Manager Chose Postman Postman is a much easier UI/tool to use than some of the heavyweight tools out there. It provides a simple and elegant solution to quickly build and develop projects for testing and development. While other tools have more features, those features are not used from day to day … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Postman Non listed products to compare against include Insomnia, Paw, HTTPie, and ARC. We selected Postman because of its tech support, ease-of-use, and popularity. We wanted an API testing software that we could easily set up and integrate with tools like Jenkins for our build … Incentivized Helpful? Rao Tahir Senior Software Engineer and team lead Chose Postman I also use SoapUI for testing and debugging but SoapUI uses lots of memory and processor space. That's why I mostly use Postman and for WDSL services I use SoapUI. If in the future we going to purchase any one of them we would recommend Postman because Postman is cheaper than So… Incentivized Helpful?	ReadyAPI Verified User Engineer Chose ReadyAPI Our team did an extensive analysis of the products that were available to carry out API Testing. There were 3 products that were finalized, SoapUI Pro, Postman, and Katalon Studio, out of these 3 SoapUI was the clear winner. I can't stress enough about the SoapUI's UI … Incentivized Helpful? Amr Saad Lead Quality Engineer Chose ReadyAPI To be completely honest I liked Postman's user interface better than ReadyAPI. Their user experience is way better, but when it comes to features I think that ReadyAPI has better features than Postman like having mock capabilities [and] native support for SOAP services. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Team Lead Chose ReadyAPI We have considered only Postman as an alternate option and ended up with Ready PI for its in built features like reporting and easy maintenance. Incentivized Helpful? Anthony Aziz Senior Software Engineer Chose ReadyAPI ReadyAPI vs Postman: ReadyAPI makes testing WSDL, SOAP, etc. much easier and quicker. Postman would require you to manually construct the SOAP envelopes and metadata XML, which is a lot of work for something that is meant to be a quick test. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose ReadyAPI ReadyAPI provides intuitive GUI capabilities compared to their own open source product. When compared to Postman, ReadyAPI also supports SOAP based services, which is a saver especially when integrating with legacy or other third party systems. Incentivized Helpful? Rashad Miriyev Software Quality Assurance Engineer Chose ReadyAPI Automating test cases is not functional in Postman, but in ReadyAPI you can do everything, even keyword driven development. Incentivized Helpful? HA Haroon Akmal Senior Quality Assurance Engineer Chose ReadyAPI Postman! ReadyAPI's data generator feature is the reason behind choosing it against other products. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Employee Chose ReadyAPI The main competitor for ReadyAPI was Postman. It is much more lightweight, but that means you also get fewer features. ReadyAPI also provides an ecosystem in which you can have an entire lifecycle for your API, if that is what you want - and are willing to put in the work to … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Team Lead Chose ReadyAPI I didn't have much experience with automation in Postman, but ReadyAPI seems more robust and in my opinion is able to cover many use cases. For me it was also easier to write the tests in SoapUI as many times it is matter of clicking and copying existing things. Incentivized Helpful? SP Sheilagh Park-Hatley Director, SQA Chose ReadyAPI Postman didn't have the flexibility of detailed assertions that we needed, although it was easy to use. Also their integration points weren't as straightforward. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Analyst Chose ReadyAPI Postman is simpler and super less expensive than ReadyAPI. In addition, the product continues to work even after the license has expired in comparison to ReadyAPI which requires you to purchase a new license every time. Is a turnoff. Incentivized Helpful? Laura Graham LaRocca QA Manager Chose ReadyAPI ReadyAPI manages DataSources, Endpoints, and Environments much better than Postman. Postman is a little simpler implementation but has a Team Workspace that is powerful for Development handoffs and manual testing. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Professional Chose ReadyAPI ReadyAPI stands out among all these tools except for the fact that it is a paid tool. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Employee Chose ReadyAPI I have used a couple of products mentioned above. But the best thing about ReadyAPI is, it's a complete [package] for API testing. Not all software offers load testing, assertion, and reporting features. Also, lots of plugins, like Azure API Management, AWS API plugin features … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose ReadyAPI ReadyAPI beats all other alternatives because of its support of all kinds of API types. Also, users can specify every flow and every step for every second to replicate every test case with ease. It also has GIT support with is a big plus. ReadyAPI is must have tool for API … Incentivized Helpful? Birobrata Deb Specialist Software Engineer in QA & Automation Chose ReadyAPI It has many features including functional security testing. And it's known to be widely used. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Professional Chose ReadyAPI 1. Less coding. 2. Easy to use. 3. Even people with less experience in coding can use it. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose ReadyAPI I am using ReadyAPI tools for more than two years helped us to evaluate the quality of our API. For all API Automation testing, load testing, and security testing ReadyAPI bring us the best result and quality. It has many useful features in automation that we use to do more … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Employee Chose ReadyAPI I have not used other API testing products but I am completely satisfied with the functionality and performance of ReadyAPI. It covers all required API protocols and database connections that are used in our organization. It also allows extending the functionality by adding … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Consultant Chose ReadyAPI We selected SoapUI because it generates tests easily using drag and drop, and point-and-click. It gives powerful data-driven testing with data from files and databases. Scripts can be reused easily. We had an extra option to integrate it directly with our build tool, Jenkins, … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Employee Chose ReadyAPI It is robust and automated. It is a club of all the tools that are quite useful in every phase of the development life cycle. Incentivized Helpful?
Top Pros	Pro Easy to use Pro Api calls Pro Api testing	Pro Load testing Pro Web service Pro Easy to use
Top Cons	Minus Test cases Minus 3rd party Minus Better ui	Minus Learning curve Minus Open source Minus Data source

TrustRadius Insights
	Postman	ReadyAPI
Highlights	Research Team Insight Published January 29, 2021 Postman and ReadyAPI (formerly SoapUI Pro, LoadUI Pro, & ServiceV Pro) are API testing and development tools. Postman is designed as a centralized platform for teams to develop, test, and manage their APIs. ReadyAPI is more tightly focused on testing, with features aimed at helping teams create, maintain, and execute test suites. Both Postman and ReadyAPI are primarily used by enterprise-level organizations, likely because of their focus on helping large teams manage complex APIs and test suites. Features Although both Postman and ReadyAPI are centered around API testing and development, they vary in how general-use or specialized each product is. Postman is designed to support more steps of the API development and testing process, with API design and development tools on top of testing capability. It also includes team collaboration features, such as shared workspaces for specific APIs, built-in version control, and granular access permissions. It offers support for a wide array of endpoint types, and users report that Postman makes it easy to switch between different testing modes, API languages, and request types when needed. ReadyAPI stands out as a specialist in API testing and CI/CD features. It features native integrations with software lifecycle tools, such as Maven and Jenkins. ReadyAPI has plenty of features to help users perform comprehensive testing, with random data generation, support for test parameter variables, and test data importing from external datasheets. Its security testing features are powerful and cover a wide range of potential malicious actions, and its reporting dashboard helps teams analyze and understand test results. Limitations Despite the benefits of Postman and ReadyAPI, the two platforms have limitations as well. Make sure to consider the drawbacks of each before committing to either. Some Postman users have experienced lagging and freezing, especially under heavy or complex API loads. Its reporting features aren’t robust enough for some users, and other testers wished for more test automation options for advanced QA and integration testing. Finally, Postman isn’t beginner-friendly. Its UI can be confusing, and it can take a long time to get familiar with its more advanced features. ReadyAPI is a bulky tool, with many users reporting slow responsiveness, poor cache management, and clunky folder setup and organization. Some users found its web UI and mobile app testing capabilities lacking for their needs, while others wanted additional CI/CD tools for Azure integration. Finally, ReadyAPI is sold in three separate packages, each containing different features. Security testing and performance testing are split into different packages, which left some single-package customers frustrated at the seeming lack of desired features. Pricing Postman uses a tiered monthly per-user subscription model. The Free tier is free and includes basic API design, development, and test features for single users. The Team tier is $12 per user per month and adds additional collaboration and development tools for up to 19 users. The Business tier is $24 per user per month and adds SSO and access control features for up to 99 users. The Enterprise tier is priced by quote and is designed for 100+ users. ReadyAPI offers three separate modules priced on an annual per-license basis. The API Test Module starts at $685 annually per license and includes CI/CD automated testing, security testing, and both scriptless and scripted testing options. The API Performance Module starts at $5,374 annually per license and includes server monitoring, load generation, and API load testing. The API Virtualization Module is $1,060 annually per license and includes tools to deploy virtual services, generate mock data, and simulate server-side behavior. Customers can also contact the vendor for bundle pricing, which includes all three packages.

Features

Postman

ReadyAPI

API Management

Comparison of API Management features of Product A and Product B
	Postman 8.4 35 Ratings 0% above category average	ReadyAPI - Ratings
API access control	9.632 Ratings	00 Ratings
Rate limits and usage policies	7.118 Ratings	00 Ratings
API usage data	8.117 Ratings	00 Ratings
API user onboarding	8.321 Ratings	00 Ratings
API versioning	8.824 Ratings	00 Ratings
Usage billing and payments	8.312 Ratings	00 Ratings
API monitoring and logging	8.932 Ratings	00 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	Postman	ReadyAPI
Small Businesses	NGINX Score 9.1 out of 10	BrowserStack Score 8.4 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	NGINX Score 9.1 out of 10	Oracle Application Testing Suite Score 8.0 out of 10
Enterprises	NGINX Score 9.1 out of 10	SoapUI Open Source Score 8.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
	Postman	ReadyAPI
Likelihood to Recommend	9.9 (39 ratings)	7.1 (66 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	- (0 ratings)	7.3 (18 ratings)
Usability	8.5 (3 ratings)	9.9 (3 ratings)
Availability	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (1 ratings)
Performance	- (0 ratings)	8.0 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	7.1 (11 ratings)	8.0 (6 ratings)
Implementation Rating	- (0 ratings)	7.0 (1 ratings)
Ease of integration	9.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Product Scalability	- (0 ratings)	7.0 (1 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Postman	ReadyAPI
Likelihood to Recommend	Postman Postman is very good for easy entry into testing. Thanks to snippets it is easy to use, but also provides a lot [of] possibilities for testing thanks to the in-line editor. Easy to use on multiple environments (versioning) thanks to sets of environment variables. The Collections view can get very full with time and it is not possible to reuse or link requests so that they have always been copied and maintained manually for each copy if changes have to be applied. Verified User Anonymous Read full review	SmartBear As stated, we do a LOT of API testing, the swaggerhub import makes it easy to add APIs. This is very well-suited, as well as easy management of the steps/cases/suites inside of ReadyAPI. The one thing I do wish ReadyAPI was better suited for is changes to data, we have a lot of test cases in ReadyAPI and if we make a change to how the backend data is structured, one-by-one adjustments need to be made to the steps. Less appropriate, UI testing. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	Postman It has opened a door for me to explore more out of it, as it is associated with so many APIs that I never felt any difficulty in finding the right API template, which are well organized and easily available. It is very secure to use and provides great services which are user-friendly. Due to this software I have got rid of the excessive emails and the slack channels, Now I am using my own private API and even it give me an option to produce my personal Postman’s API Builder from its Private API Network and this features has shared my excessive workload. Incentivized Kerry Haupt HR Director Read full review	SmartBear Ease of use (ability to automatically import API definitions, Jenkins integration for running in the pipeline). Detailed test reports (allow to easily identify weak spots during both functional and performance testing). One platform for all tests (allows to closely couple and reuse existent tests). Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	Postman Wherever you need to automate tests that involve database verification or rely on data from databases, Postman is less suitable. Postman's disc usage is extremely high, and it occasionally causes the computer to fade. It doesn't have the ability to generate random data. To achieve randomness in my tests, I've been working around scripts. Verified User Anonymous Read full review	SmartBear Needs good documentation Need to improve the performance of the tool Setup is very complex and for such [a] commercial tool, it should easy and straightforward Tool says it supports security testing but in reality, it is not at an extensive level. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	Postman No answers on this topic	SmartBear The only reason this isn't a '10' is because of the cost. This product is definitely meant for organizations who are serious about making sure they invest in the full ecosystem of API design, development, maintenance. But there is a significant cost associated with this investment. and because of this cost (and the non-tangible output for executives), it is a difficult line-item to justify in this post-pandemic environment. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Usability	Postman I think from a non-technical perspective there are a few things that could be more clearly labeled to better understand what is being asked for or where to add certain parts of the request. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	SmartBear SoapUI allows us to combine multiple tests and adhere to the sequence that they need to run in order to complete successfully. It has an excellent GUI design and the reporting mechanism is also very good. It does consume a lot of memory though during concurrent testing Christopher Saleh Lead QA Engineer Read full review
Reliability and Availability	Postman No answers on this topic	SmartBear Soap UI has managed to continuously build on it's solid foundation and keep improving by each release. It is by far the most dependable and accurate testing tool out there of its kind. Available via connecting to VM's created as SoapUI test machines give access to it anytime, anywhere practically. Christopher Saleh Lead QA Engineer Read full review
Performance	Postman No answers on this topic	SmartBear It has an excellent GUI design and the reporting mechanism is also very good. It does consume a lot of memory though during concurrent testing. Christopher Saleh Lead QA Engineer Read full review
Support Rating	Postman There is a lot of in-depth documentation for Postman available online, including detailed guides with screenshots and videos. They provide example APIs for new users to explore while learning how to use the tool. Generally, bugs in the client are quickly addressed through frequent free updates. Community and professional support options are available - most of the time, the free/community level support is adequate Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	SmartBear To be honest, we didnt had much issues with the support, as there is already plenty of online communities available for help. But if ever there were some minor issues with the membership or the certificates, the tech support was always quick and efficient enough to resolve the issue ASAP Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Implementation Rating	Postman No answers on this topic	SmartBear no very easy but lacks documentation Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Postman Previous to using Postman, I would either use browser tools directly, or write an in-house tool to send requests. Postman eliminates that need while providing a much better experience and more features. At the base level, Postman is as simple as typing in the address as you would in a browser. Authentication can be provided simply as well. Incentivized Anthony Aziz Senior Software Engineer Read full review	SmartBear ReadyAPI provides intuitive GUI capabilities compared to their own open source product. When compared to Postman, ReadyAPI also supports SOAP based services, which is a saver especially when integrating with legacy or other third party systems. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Scalability	Postman No answers on this topic	SmartBear It has an excellent GUI design and the reporting mechanism is also very good. It does consume a lot of memory though during concurrent testing. However, I have read that added monitoring tools have been added, which if so the 7 could possibly go to a 8 or 9. Christopher Saleh Lead QA Engineer Read full review
Return on Investment	Postman Postman is free (although there's a paid tier that offers more features) so using it for testing APIs comes with little to no risk (besides learning curve). The learning curve is a little steep for non-developer users, but developers should find it easy to pick up and use right out of the box, so to speak. Incentivized JP Juan Palma Software Development Manager Read full review	SmartBear Very quick regression testing, hence having the testing results very soon, even the same day of deployment for same above reason, it can save money for corporation (so no tedious, costly and erroneous manual testings) The test reports are compatible with TestNG, so the corporation can integrate the reports in our Autamation frameworks such as Allure or Jira Zephyr Incentivized Payam Pirooznia Senior Automation Test Engineer Read full review
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