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Overview

What is Postman?

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.

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One in a million Tool

Rating: 10 out of 10
March 7, 2025
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
Postman is really great and one of a kind tool for all our API's. We have all the API's there and working with it is really great.
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Verified user
Executive
Postman1 year of experience

Postman - Complete tool for API testing.

Rating: 10 out of 10
December 17, 2024
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
In our current business in my organization, we are moving from a legacy system to a new system with the latest cloud technology, and since everything is new, we are testing fr...
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Verified user
Engineer
Postman6 years of experience

Quick and interactive way to get set up with APIs

Rating: 8 out of 10
December 16, 2024
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
Postman helps us not only use APIs, but to save setups, workspaces, preferences, etc. This means we can adopt 'personas' when interacting with an API to test various use cases...
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Callum O'Connor
Engineer - Corporate
Senior Analytics Engineer
Adaptavist
Postman1 year of experience
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all in one tool AKA Swiss army knife of API world

Rating: 10 out of 10
May 4, 2023
Vetted ReviewVerified User
The regular use case Postman is fine as it's helpful to manage multiple APIs belonging to various projects. but for our case, Postman is a big relief, especially because we of...
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Lankit Patel
Engineer - Information Technology
AWS Developer | Laravel Developer
AeonX Digital Solutions
Postman4 years of experience

Postman the all-around best and simplest to use API tool

Rating: 9 out of 10
July 29, 2022
Vetted ReviewVerified User
We use Postman to test and automate any new API's that we are creating, we have created full suites of automated scripts, which has allowed us to speed up testing in key areas...
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Paul Alexander
Professional - Research & Development
Senior Test Engineer
Sage
Postman3 years of experience
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Pricing

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Postman Free Plan

$0.00 US Dollars

Cloud

Postman Basic Plan

$12 US Dollars

Cloud
per month per user

Postman Professional Plan

$29 US Dollars

Cloud
per month per user

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://www.postman.com/pricing

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Features

API Management

API management handles technical things like user permissions, version control,and security, in addition to business items like documentation and pricing

7.2
Avg 8.3
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Product Details

What is Postman?

Postman is an API platform, boasting users among more than 17 million developers and 500,000 organizations worldwide for building and managing APIs. Postman aims to simplify each step of the API lifecycle and streamline collaboration, enabling users to create better APIs faster. The company is headquartered in San Francisco and has a large office in Bangalore, where it was founded.

Postman Features

API Management Features

  • Supported: API access control
  • Supported: API versioning
  • Supported: Usage billing and payments
  • Supported: API monitoring and logging

Postman Screenshots

Screenshot of API design - You can design your API specifications in Postman using OpenAPI, RAML, GraphQL, or SOAP formats. Postman’s schema editor makes it easy to work with specification files of any size, & it validates specifications with a built-in linting engine.Screenshot of API documentation - Postman automatically generates documentation & supports markdown-enabled and machine-readable documentation. Docs automatically include request details & sample code. Share the docs with your team, in a public workspace, or in a dedicated portal.Screenshot of API testing - Build and run functional, integration, & regression tests directly in Postman or as part of your CI/CD pipeline with Newman (Postman’s a command-line Collection Runner that enables you to run & test a collection from the command line).Screenshot of Public workspaces - Public workspaces allow you to share your APIs publicly with anyone. You can use public workspaces to gather feedback on your APIs, onboard developers quickly, or just showcase your work.Screenshot of Reporting - Postman generates reports that enable you to visualize data for team metrics and usage, & for API activities such as creation, collection execution, and test runs. Use reports to get insights on performance, troubleshooting, & SLA adherence.

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Postman Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

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.

RapidAPI and Stoplight are common alternatives for Postman.

Reviewers rate API user onboarding highest, with a score of 8.3.

The most common users of Postman are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Comparisons

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Reviews From Top Reviewers

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Great API testing tool

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
February 14, 2020
LJ
Lasha Jojua
Head Of IT Monitoring
adjarabet.com (Gambling & Casinos, 1001-5000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Postman
3 years of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Postman is used by several departments: QA, Dev, IT monitoring. Each of them is having their use cases by checking performance and response times during development, testing, or on production environment. Also, teams are connected around one tool, and data sharing or cross-checks for SLI/SLO parameters get easier. It can be integrated into the CI/CD pipeline.
Pros
  • Easy to use
  • Integration was possible everywhere I tried.
Cons
  • Sharing option is limited between the team
  • Its not possible to test more than 1 API simultaneously
Likelihood to Recommend
With using Postman, it's possible to create different types of API requests: POST, PUT, UPGRADE, GET, DELETE, get data, which is crucial before deployment. Also, it supports the following response types: HTML, XML, raw data, Js, JSON. Dev team can get coded APIs availability and performance data during development. Easy to integrate in CI pipeline, that automates performance quality checks flow and accelerates the process.

Easy API testing using Postman

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
January 28, 2020
JP
Juan Palma
Software Development Manager
Ventus Wireless (Telecommunications, 51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Postman
2 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Postman is being used by our software development team to test multiple APIs we develop internally. Postman allows the development team to see responses to our APIs for troubleshooting purposes. It also allows us to create API documentation on the fly, easily, organically through the process of testing API endpoints.
Pros
  • Submit API requests and view responses without the need for a browser or browser extensions.
  • Archive and group API requests by type, application, or any way you see fit.
Cons
  • The documentation produced is useful, but it could provide more information.
  • Sharing the documentation could be made easier.
Likelihood to Recommend
Postman lends itself to testing APIs. Teams that develop web applications using RESTful APIs would benefit greatly from using Postman and its features, that are designed for repeatability and troubleshooting. Developers can install extensions into browsers that allow them to see, effectively, the same things Postman does, but it would be difficult to find a one-stop-shop of features specifically designed to see the interaction of user requests with the web application. Postman is a must if you're developing a web application that leverages an API in any way.

Postman - Complete tool for API testing.

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
December 17, 2024
Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Apparel Fashion Company, 201-500 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Postman
6 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
In our current business in my organization, we are moving from a legacy system to a new system with the latest cloud technology, and since everything is new, we are testing from scratch. Here, postman plays an important role in API testing. Managing collection through Postman is so easy that it makes testing comfortable.
Pros
  • API Testing and Debugging.
  • Environment management.
  • Variable management.
  • Automated Testing with Collections and Test Script.
Cons
  • I feel that good version control is missing.
Likelihood to Recommend
So, one of the significant and essential use cases for API is to test RESTful APIs during development; this gives early feedback in agile development without more test setups. It also supports writing test scripts in JavaScript to validate response data (status codes, headers, body). Mocking is also provided by API, which is important in agile development.

Postman - A Beautiful coded API Testing App.

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
April 16, 2021
Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Computer Software Company, 11-50 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
It is used by the whole organization for testing live and offline api's. We deploy refined code to production with the help of postman.
Pros
  • API TESTING
  • API PRODUCTION MODE TESTING
  • REQUESTS
Cons
  • should not save every call
  • UI is good but need little improvement
Likelihood to Recommend
Awesome at calling api's or putting requests.
There is not any major issue i have detected in postman while using.

Great free tool to test API requests

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
August 23, 2019
Verified User
Professional in Product Management
Computer Software Company, 1001-5000 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Postman
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We regularly use Postman to ensure that our API that we offer customers is working correctly. It is able to quickly and easily format requests and add/remove parameters. It also helps me to show people in other parts of the business who aren't familiar with APIs what JSON APIs are and get a basic understanding of how they work.
Pros
  • Saves credentials so you don't have to type them in over and over
  • Allows you to quickly and easily add/remove parameters
  • Enables you to see the results in a well formatted, human readable way.
Cons
  • I honestly don't have much to improve on here. Postman meets my admittedly simple needs extremely well.
Likelihood to Recommend
I like that it's very easy to use. I've been able to show people across the company and in non-technical roles how to use it so that they can gain experience using APIs and understanding how they function. That knowledge helps them troubleshoot issues with clients rather than having to escalate issues up to the engineering department every time they arise.
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