Postman

Postman

4.8 out of 5 stars
Shift-Left API

Shift-Left API

Total Shift Left
Postman Shift-Left API

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Postman:

About

The collaboration platform for API development. Simplify each step of building an API and streamline collaboration so you can create better APIs—faster. Postman is a collaboration platform for API development. Postman's features simplify each step of building an API and streamline collaboration so you can create better APIs—faster. Quickly and easily send REST, SOAP, and GraphQL requests directly within Postman. Automate manual tests and integrate them into your CI/CD pipeline to ensure that any code changes won't break the API in production. Communicate the expected behavior of an API by simulating endpoints and their responses without having to set up a backend server. Generate and publish beautiful, machine-readable documentation to make your API easier to consume. Stay up-to-date on the health of your API by checking performance and response times at scheduled intervals. Provide a shared context for building and consuming APIs, and collaborate in real-time.
Shift-Left API:

About

Shift-Left API is an API testing platform for QA leads, developers, and engineering teams. It imports OpenAPI/Swagger, WSDL, GraphQL schemas, and Postman collections, and generates functional tests from API contracts and requirements. The platform tests REST, SOAP, and GraphQL APIs, with optional API security and load testing. Teams can run tests locally, in CI/CD, or on self-hosted infrastructure. First-party integrations include GitHub Actions, Jenkins, and Azure DevOps; other pipelines can call its REST API. Reports organize failures by cause, provide supporting test evidence, map tests to requirements, and produce release-readiness verdicts and quality gates. Users may bring a cloud AI provider key or connect self-hosted models such as Ollama, vLLM, and LM Studio. A free, single-user edition is available, alongside a 15-day trial; paid team plans are priced by custom annual quote.
Postman:

Platforms Supported

Windows Supported
Mac Supported
Linux Not Supported
Cloud Supported
On-Premises Not Supported
iPhone Not Supported
iPad Not Supported
Android Not Supported
Chromebook Not Supported
Shift-Left API:

Platforms Supported

Windows Supported
Mac Not Supported
Linux Not Supported
Cloud Supported
On-Premises Supported
iPhone Not Supported
iPad Not Supported
Android Not Supported
Chromebook Not Supported
Postman:

Audience

Organizations of all sizes
Shift-Left API:

Audience

QA leads, developers, DevOps and platform engineers, and engineering leaders, including teams in regulated industries such as banking, healthcare and the public sector.
Postman:

Support

Phone Support Not Supported
24/7 Live Support Supported
Online Supported
Shift-Left API:

Support

Phone Support Not Supported
24/7 Live Support Not Supported
Online Supported
Postman:

API

Offers API Not Supported
Shift-Left API:

API

Offers API Supported
Postman:

Screenshots and Videos

Shift-Left API:

Screenshots and Videos

Postman:

Pricing

$12 per user per month
Free Version Supported
Free Trial Supported
Shift-Left API:

Pricing

$0
The Citizen Developer edition is free for one user, with limits including 50 endpoints, mocks, and workflows; it has no end date and requires free licence renewal every six months. The 15-day trial is free, requires no credit card, and includes Enterprise features subject to stated exclusions. Professional supports up to 25 seats at custom per-user annual pricing; Enterprise has custom annual pricing. API security and performance/load testing are paid add-ons for paid plans and are included during the trial.
Free Version Supported
Free Trial Supported
Postman:

Reviews/Ratings

Overall 4.8 / 5
ease 4.9 / 5
features 4.8 / 5
design 4.9 / 5
support 5.0 / 5
Shift-Left API:

Reviews/Ratings

Overall 0.0 / 5
ease 0.0 / 5
features 0.0 / 5
design 0.0 / 5
support 0.0 / 5

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Postman:

Pros & Cons from Real Users

Pros

  • I have used Postman for more than 5 years now and never have i faced any lags or stutters in my usage, even with low end computers. Earlier it was available as only desktop application but now it is also available as web application making it more accessible and easy to use, i can login from anywhere and test my endpoints. It keeps my collection and environments saved so i wont have to worry about that also.
  • 1. The application's user interface is intuitive and easy to learn for a new user. 2. Collection and environment can be easily imported. 3. It gives detailed information about each API call with a brief response body which can also be converted into different formats like raw, text or JSON. 4. It supports dark mode which is very useful for all of us developers who likes to work late nights.
  • This is our go-to solution for API testing. It is easy to set up endpoints and save them to a shared workspace.
  • Postman is an excellent software for running APIs. Usage for me, it excelled at was running quick requests and then being able to transform the call into multiple formats. For example, by running a cURL request, you can get the NodeJS, Python, Axios code quite easily. You can also store requests in folders, something that always came in handy was Postman storing a history of previous made requests, so if you didn't save or lost a request, you could always go back to it.
  • The user interface and experience of the application is simplified and curated in such a way that all the necessary features gets highlighted on the screen. It has all the required tools to test the APIs extensively and further share or collaborate with other team members on a project. It has all the requests options for testing like, GET, POST, PUT, DELETE etc. The load time of the requests are pretty quick. All in all, a great tool to test APIs on a live server as well as in a mocking environment.

Cons

  • If you are using an free account it does not allow collaboration with many people. I can only think of this cons as of now, also, if you have a company or do serious freelance work you would have business account anyways.
  • I have faced a weird problem with Postman, sometimes when I do an API call I modify the request body and does not save it, and if I close the app and reopen it the request body and API endpoint gets replaced with some random endpoint from the collection that I am using.
  • Would like to see a better mock server implementation.
  • There are no real cons to Postman, it does its job exceptionally well with every feature.
  • For testing SOAP APIs, there are still a lot of improvements needed to be done in the application.
Postman:

Training

Documentation Supported
Webinars Supported
Live Online Not Supported
In Person Supported
Shift-Left API:

Training

Documentation Supported
Webinars Not Supported
Live Online Not Supported
In Person Not Supported
Postman:

Company Information

Postman
Founded: 2014
United States
www.postman.com
Shift-Left API:

Company Information

Total Shift Left
Founded: 2024
India
totalshiftleft.ai
Postman:

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Postman:

Categories

Agentic AI Supported
AI Agent Builders Supported
API Clients Supported
API Design Supported
API Documentation Supported
API Management Supported
API Monitoring Supported
API Testing Supported
Microservices Supported
Webhook Supported
Shift-Left API:

Categories

API Testing Supported
Postman:

API Management Features

Access Control Not Supported
Analytics Not Supported
API Design Supported
API Lifecycle Management Supported
Dashboard Supported
Developer Portal Not Supported
Testing Management Supported
Threat Protection Not Supported
Traffic Control Not Supported
Version Control Supported
Postman:

Integrations

Bitbucket Supported
Model Context Protocol (MCP) Supported
APIMatic Supported
Akamai Supported
CranioCatch Clinic Supported
Desktop.com Supported
EmpirioLabs AI Supported
Flotiq Supported
FutrOS Supported
Kasm Workspaces Supported
Keen Supported
Microsoft Teams Supported
Mollie Supported
OpenAI Not Supported
OpenCopilot Supported
Slack Supported
Wealth Reader Supported
WhoisFreaks Supported
Yaak Supported
tigerlab Supported
Shift-Left API:

Integrations

Bitbucket Supported
Model Context Protocol (MCP) Supported
APIMatic Not Supported
Akamai Not Supported
CranioCatch Clinic Not Supported
Desktop.com Not Supported
EmpirioLabs AI Not Supported
Flotiq Not Supported
FutrOS Not Supported
Kasm Workspaces Not Supported
Keen Not Supported
Microsoft Teams Not Supported
Mollie Not Supported
OpenAI Supported
OpenCopilot Not Supported
Slack Not Supported
Wealth Reader Not Supported
WhoisFreaks Not Supported
Yaak Not Supported
tigerlab Not Supported
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