Postman: A tool to develop and test your API's with ease!
January 29, 2020

Postman: A tool to develop and test your API's with ease!

Ali Moghrabi | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Postman

Postman is used by our software development teams, quality assurance teams, as well as our site reliability team. We use it to test API endpoints that we develop, as well as for calling APIs that we interact daily with, such as Microsoft Azure's API. We also use it for building collections of API endpoints that you can call for a specific API. We circulate the collection to teams who need to call that API so they can get onboarded with the API quickly.

Pros

  • Execute HTTP requests seamlessly using a lightweight client.
  • Configure HTTP request headers and body payloads easily.

Cons

  • The user interface is complicated, especially when you need to dig into one of the many settings.
  • I don't know where else Postman can perform better. So far, I haven't had many issues with Postman other than the learning curve.
  • Postman is great for debugging your API's, so we have seen savings when it comes to the time to fix reproduce and fix bugs with our APIs.
Chrome DevTools doesn't compare to Postman. One supplements the other. I haven't used or evaluated any other software compared to Postman. I have used PowerShell to make HTTP calls against our API's, though that is all command-line based and doesn't stack up nearly as high as Postman.
I have not had any issues with receiving support for Postman. Documentation is readily available online.

Do you think Postman delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Postman's feature set?

Yes

Did Postman live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Postman go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Postman again?

Yes

Getting started with Postman is relatively easy, which is what I like about the software. Digging into one of the many settings presents a bit of a learning curve, but it is nothing too tricky. I like the collection features because I don't need to dig into documentation on what endpoints are available for a specific API. Or what configurations I need to make to call a particular endpoint; I load the collections for an API I'm interested in, select the endpoint I am interested in and configure the minimum that is required for that endpoint to make a successful call.

Postman Feature Ratings

API Management
8.3
API access control
10
Rate limits and usage policies
8
API usage data
8
API user onboarding
8
API versioning
7
Usage billing and payments
9
API monitoring and logging
8

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