Postman

Postman

4.8 out of 5 stars
Swagger

Swagger

SmartBear
Postman Swagger

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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.
Swagger:

About

Simplify API development for users, teams, and enterprises with the Swagger open source and professional toolset. Find out how Swagger can help you design and document your APIs at scale. The power of Swagger tools starts with the OpenAPI Specification — the industry standard for RESTful API design. Individual tools to create, update and share OpenAPI definitions with consumers. SwaggerHub is the platform solution to support OpenAPI workflows at scale. Swagger open source and pro tools have helped millions of API developers, teams, and organizations deliver great APIs. Swagger offers the most powerful and easiest to use tools to take full advantage of the OpenAPI Specification.
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
Swagger:

Platforms Supported

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

Audience

Organizations of all sizes
Swagger:

Audience

API developers and teams
Postman:

Support

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

Support

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

API

Offers API Not Supported
Swagger:

API

Offers API Supported
Postman:

Screenshots and Videos

Swagger:

Screenshots and Videos

Postman:

Pricing

$12 per user per month
Free Version Supported
Free Trial Supported
Swagger:

Pricing

No information available.
Free Version Not Supported
Free Trial Not Supported
Postman:

Reviews/Ratings

Overall 4.8 / 5
ease 4.9 / 5
features 4.8 / 5
design 4.9 / 5
support 5.0 / 5
Swagger:

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
Swagger:

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
Swagger:

Company Information

SmartBear
Founded: 2009
United States
swagger.io
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
Swagger:

Categories

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
Swagger:

Software Documentation Features

Access Roles / User Permissions Supported
Automatic Documentation Generation Not Supported
Collaboration Tools Supported
Docs Web Hosting Not Supported
Feedback Capture Supported
Markdown Support Supported
Multiple Formats Support Supported
Multiple Versions Support Supported
reStructured Text Support Supported
Version Control Supported
Webhooks Supported
WYSIWIG Editor Not Supported
Postman:

Integrations

Campaign Cleaner Supported
DocuWriter.ai Supported
Octrafic Supported
Pynt Supported
Redocly Supported
Uptycs Supported
Wealth Reader Supported
Yaak Supported
broadpeak.io Supported
Detectnix Vision Supported
Flexagon Supported
GitHub Supported
Hackolade Not Supported
Mollie Supported
OpenCage Geocoding API Supported
Smarty Supported
SuperCore Not Supported
TestChimp Not Supported
Workers by Delos Supported
ipbase.com Supported
Swagger:

Integrations

Campaign Cleaner Supported
DocuWriter.ai Supported
Octrafic Supported
Pynt Supported
Redocly Supported
Uptycs Supported
Wealth Reader Supported
Yaak Supported
broadpeak.io Supported
Detectnix Vision Not Supported
Flexagon Not Supported
GitHub Not Supported
Hackolade Supported
Mollie Not Supported
OpenCage Geocoding API Not Supported
Smarty Not Supported
SuperCore Supported
TestChimp Supported
Workers by Delos Not Supported
ipbase.com Not Supported
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