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Postman

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API platform for building and using APIs

Founded 2014San Francisco, CA, USA500+ employeesfreemium · Free planFrom Free (individual); Basic $14/user/month; Professional $29/user/month; Enterprise $49/user/monthVerified · Sep 2026
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About Postman

Postman is the world's most popular API platform, used by millions of developers to design, test, document, and monitor APIs — with a collaborative workspace for teams building API-first products.

Editorial Assessment

Postman is the world's most widely used API development platform, providing tools to design, mock, test, document, monitor, and collaborate on APIs across the entire API lifecycle — used by over 30 million developers and 500,000 companies globally. Founded in 2014 by Abhinav Asthana, Ankit Sobti, and Abhijit Kane in Bangalore, India (later relocating to San Francisco), Postman started as a Chrome extension for sending HTTP requests and evolved into a comprehensive platform that powers how teams build and consume APIs. The Postman desktop app (available on Windows, Mac, and Linux) allows developers to construct and send HTTP/HTTPS requests, inspect responses, write test scripts in JavaScript, chain requests, and use variables and environments to manage multiple configurations. Collections are shareable groups of API requests that serve as both documentation and test suites. Postman's automatic documentation generation from Collections is a widely used feature — teams publish API docs to the Postman Public API Network. The platform also includes an API design editor (OpenAPI/AsyncAPI), mock servers, a monitoring service for scheduled API health checks, and Postman Flows for building visual API workflows. The free plan is available to individual developers with unlimited API requests. The Basic plan ($14/user/month) adds team collaboration features. Professional ($29/user/month) adds advanced collaboration, SSO, and audit logs. Enterprise ($49/user/month) adds governance, private network, and dedicated support.

Strengths
  • 30M+ developer community with extensive public API collections and integrations in the Postman Network
  • Collections serve as both executable test suites and living API documentation simultaneously
  • Mock servers allow frontend teams to develop against APIs before backend is complete
  • Postman Monitors for scheduled API health checks and uptime validation
  • OpenAPI/AsyncAPI editor with schema-first API design workflow
  • Postman Flows for visual no-code API workflow orchestration
  • Available on Windows, Mac, Linux, and Web — works in any development environment
Limitations
  • Free plan limits team collaboration features — individuals outgrow it quickly when working in teams
  • Heavier and slower than lightweight alternatives like Bruno or curl for simple request testing
  • Collection organization can become unwieldy at scale without disciplined folder structure
  • Postman has moved some features to paid tiers that were previously free, causing community backlash
  • Alternative Bruno is entirely offline and open-source, appealing to privacy-conscious teams

Best For

Development teams building and testing REST, GraphQL, WebSocket, and gRPC APIs Teams that want API documentation automatically generated from their test collections QA engineers building API test suites integrated with CI/CD pipelines Organizations needing API monitoring and scheduled health checks in production

Not Ideal For

Teams wanting a fully open-source, no-account-required API client (Bruno is preferred)Pure load testing use cases (k6, Gatling, or Artillery better)Simple one-off request testing where curl or httpie is sufficient

Key Features

API request building and response inspectionCollections for API test suites and documentationMock serversPostman Monitors for scheduled health checksOpenAPI/AsyncAPI API design editorPostman Flows for visual API workflowsTeam collaboration and shared workspacesPublic API Network

Who It's For

Backend and full-stack developersQA engineers and testersAPI product managers and technical writersDevOps teams managing API health monitoring

Integrations

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Platforms

web windows mac linux

Founders

  • Abhinav Asthana
  • Ankit Sobti
  • Abhijit Kane

Products & Tools

Postman API PlatformAPI Development / Testing
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API development platform for designing, testing, documenting, mocking, and monitoring APIs — used by 30M+ developers.

freemium · Free planFrom Free; Basic $14/user/month; Professional $29/user/month; Enterprise $49/user/month
CollectionsMock serversMonitorsAPI design editorFlows

Sources & Verification

Last reviewed September 2026

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