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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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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.

Feature rich and simple to use

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
June 01, 2019
IB
Ilyas Bakouch
Cloud Solutions Architect
Productions TMV Inc. (Internet, 1001-5000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Postman
6 years of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use Postman every day to build and test our internal and public APIs.
Pros
  • Creating collections of requests and sharing them between the team.
  • Keeping the history of previously run requests.
  • Monitoring APIs using collections.
Cons
  • The way saving multiple collections is handled.
Likelihood to Recommend
It is well suited for automatically testing APIs, generating APIs documentation, and monitoring.

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

Rating: 9 out of 10
July 29, 2022
PA
Paul Alexander
Senior Test Engineer
Sage (Accounting, 10,001+ employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Postman
3 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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. It also allows developers to run a test when needed to improve the quality of the overall work while at the same time reducing the time needed to test things.
Pros
  • Simple to use and understand UI.
  • Easy to integrate with release pipeline using Newman.
  • A lot of online help available.
Cons
  • Make it a little easier to share tests as one-off.
Likelihood to Recommend
Postman is easily one of the best tools for API testing, there is a lot to it and best of all there is a free version of the software, you can build out security test's as well as long as you know what you are doing with it, the only thing I can think of where it might not be appropriate is if you are not doing anything with API's. It doesn't allow any testing of any UI, just API's, so you will still need other tools to ensure full coverage.

A great tool that should never be out of developers list of apps to use when developing web apps.

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
January 16, 2020
JC
Joshua Cariño
Software Engineer
Novare Technologies (Information Technology and Services, 501-1000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Postman
1 year of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Postman is our go-to Application for testing all our Rest APIs. It's very userfriendly and has most of the features we look for as devs in testing our APIs. It is also the only testing application we were introduced to even in our Bootcamp as newly hired Associate Software Engineers the last year and no doubt of its capabilities as the whole organization is using it.
Pros
  • Send Rest Request easily.
  • Modify different types of parameters with ease.
Cons
  • I hope they could develop a trace log like that of Apigee Edge where I could visually see what happened as the request gets processed.
  • Add the auto Beatify or AutoCorrect formats of JSON texts.
Likelihood to Recommend
Postman is very helpful in testing Rest APIs as request could be made easier with the very easy to use User Interface. Even QAs use this for testing our APIs as a base for determining whether the API works or just due to integration issues.

Postman, quick, easy and straightforward

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
June 01, 2019
Verified User
Manager in Information Technology
Consumer Goods Company, 10,001+ employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Postman
4 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use Postman to test through several of our integrations and custom developed web services. It's been an invaluable tool as we work through expanding into micro services and other areas. With the tool, it allows us a quick way to develop a payload as well as share our projects with other team mates.
Pros
  • Collaboration is easy with teammates.
  • The interface is straight forward.
  • Scripting the project to other languages is a convenient feature.
Cons
  • Documentation could be a little bit better organized.
  • They could provide some common examples.
  • The project organizer needs work from a UX perspective.
Likelihood to Recommend
Postman is perfect for testing and developing web services in a normal or enterprise environment. Using it as a client to perform the consumer experience is optimal. What it is not good for is a tool to generate code, or for automation, as it is built specifically for testing and debugging from a development point of view.
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