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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ReadyAPI
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ReadyAPI (formerly SoapUI Pro, LoadUI Pro, and ServiceV Pro) is a REST and SOAP API functional testing tool that enables software developers, QA engineers, and manual testers to work together to create, maintain, and execute complex end-to-end API tests in their CI/CD pipelines without needing to code.
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Pricing
Postman
ReadyAPI
Editions & Modules
Postman Free Plan
$0.00 US Dollars
Postman Basic Plan
$12 US Dollars
per month per user
Postman Professional Plan
$29 US Dollars
per month per user
Postman Enterprise Plan
$99 US Dollars
per month per user
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Pricing Offerings
Postman
ReadyAPI
Free Trial
No
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No
No
Entry-level Setup Fee
No setup fee
No setup fee
Additional Details
1. Postman Free plan: Start designing, developing, and testing APIs at no cost for teams of up to three people.
2. Postman Basic plan: Collaborate with your team to design, develop, and test APIs faster; $12/month per user, billed annually
3. Postman Professional plan: Centrally manage the entire API workflow; $29/month per user, billed annually
4. Postman Enterprise plan: Securely manage, organize, and accelerate API-first development at scale; $99/month per user, billed annually
Senior Test Engineer in Research & Development at Sage (Accounting, 10,001+ employees)
Chose Postman
There isn't much between them, really we just picked Postman as it was slightly better but the others are still good. We also had a few people that had a good experience of using Postman join the team when we were looking at what tools to use and with them using Postman before …
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Verified User
Chose Postman
ReadyAPI is a nightmare for source control integration but gives you a huge plethora more tools to create automated tests for APIs. With Visual Studio you can use a unit test framework to create test cases that can instantiate a WebClient class and make API calls. It takes …
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Head Of IT Monitoring in Information Technology at adjarabet.com (Gambling & Casinos, 1001-5000 employees)
Chose Postman
I did not use SoapUI and can't compare them. But, Postman gave results my team needed, that's why we did not test any other software. Runs simple, gives instant and exact results.
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Verified User
Chose Postman
Postman is a great out-of-the-box tool for API testing. SwaggerHub is also good but requires a bit more configuration to integrate with the API you're going to test (if the API isn't set up for it, you probably won't get much out of SwaggerHub).
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Lead QA Automation Engineer in Quality Assurance at iptiQ by Swiss Re (Insurance, 51-200 employees)
Chose Postman
Postman has pros and cons both and keeping them in mind we are using multiple tools to leverage our Services, integration, automation, and testing needs.
Some of the above mentioned tools have better automation or complete framework implementation capabilities. Having all the …
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Verified User
Chose Postman
Postman has a very easy interface to build your requests, it is better than others in every aspect of API development.
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Verified User
Chose Postman
Postman is a much easier UI/tool to use than some of the heavyweight tools out there. It provides a simple and elegant solution to quickly build and develop projects for testing and development. While other tools have more features, those features are not used from day to day …
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Verified User
Chose Postman
Non listed products to compare against include Insomnia, Paw, HTTPie, and ARC. We selected Postman because of its tech support, ease-of-use, and popularity. We wanted an API testing software that we could easily set up and integrate with tools like Jenkins for our build …
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Senior Software Engineer and team lead in Engineering at BookingWhizz (Hospitality, 11-50 employees)
Chose Postman
I also use SoapUI for testing and debugging but SoapUI uses lots of memory and processor space. That's why I mostly use Postman and for WDSL services I use SoapUI. If in the future we going to purchase any one of them we would recommend Postman because Postman is cheaper than So…
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QA Manager in Information Technology at Advanced Systems Group (ASG) (Maritime, 5001-10,000 employees)
Chose ReadyAPI
ReadyAPI manages DataSources, Endpoints, and Environments much better than Postman. Postman is a little simpler implementation but has a Team Workspace that is powerful for Development handoffs and manual testing.
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Verified User
Chose ReadyAPI
Postman is simpler and super less expensive than ReadyAPI. In addition, the product continues to work even after the license has expired in comparison to ReadyAPI which requires you to purchase a new license every time. Is a turnoff.
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Director, SQA in Engineering at Phase Change Software, LLC (Computer Software, 11-50 employees)
Chose ReadyAPI
Postman didn't have the flexibility of detailed assertions that we needed, although it was easy to use. Also their integration points weren't as straightforward.
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Verified User
Chose ReadyAPI
The main competitor for ReadyAPI was Postman. It is much more lightweight, but that means you also get fewer features. ReadyAPI also provides an ecosystem in which you can have an entire lifecycle for your API, if that is what you want - and are willing to put in the work to …
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Verified User
Chose ReadyAPI
I didn't have much experience with automation in Postman, but ReadyAPI seems more robust and in my opinion is able to cover many use cases. For me it was also easier to write the tests in SoapUI as many times it is matter of clicking and copying existing things.
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Verified User
Chose ReadyAPI
ReadyAPI provides intuitive GUI capabilities compared to their own open source product.
When compared to Postman, ReadyAPI also supports SOAP based services, which is a saver especially when integrating with legacy or other third party systems.
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Senior Software Engineer in Engineering at Full Circle TMS (Computer Software, 1-10 employees)
Chose ReadyAPI
ReadyAPI vs Postman: ReadyAPI makes testing WSDL, SOAP, etc. much easier and quicker. Postman would require you to manually construct the SOAP envelopes and metadata XML, which is a lot of work for something that is meant to be a quick test.
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Verified User
Chose ReadyAPI
Our team did an extensive analysis of the products that were available to carry out API Testing. There were 3 products that were finalized, SoapUI Pro, Postman, and Katalon Studio, out of these 3 SoapUI was the clear winner. I can't stress enough about the SoapUI's UI …
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Verified User
Chose ReadyAPI
We have considered only Postman as an alternate option and ended up with Ready PI for its in built features like reporting and easy maintenance.
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Verified User
Chose ReadyAPI
ReadyAPI stands out among all these tools except for the fact that it is a paid tool.
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Verified User
Chose ReadyAPI
I have used a couple of products mentioned above. But the best thing about ReadyAPI is, it's a complete [package] for API testing. Not all software offers load testing, assertion, and reporting features. Also, lots of plugins, like Azure API Management, AWS API plugin features …
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Verified User
Chose ReadyAPI
ReadyAPI beats all other alternatives because of its support of all kinds of API types. Also, users can specify every flow and every step for every second to replicate every test case with ease. It also has GIT support with is a big plus.
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Verified User
Chose ReadyAPI
1. Less coding. 2. Easy to use. 3. Even people with less experience in coding can use it.
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Verified User
Chose ReadyAPI
I am using ReadyAPI tools for more than two years helped us to evaluate the quality of our API. For all API Automation testing, load testing, and security testing ReadyAPI bring us the best result and quality. It has many useful features in automation that we use to do more …
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Verified User
Chose ReadyAPI
I have not used other API testing products but I am completely satisfied with the functionality and performance of ReadyAPI. It covers all required API protocols and database connections that are used in our organization. It also allows extending the functionality by adding …
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Verified User
Chose ReadyAPI
We selected SoapUI because it generates tests easily using drag and drop, and point-and-click. It gives powerful data-driven testing with data from files and databases. Scripts can be reused easily. We had an extra option to integrate it directly with our build tool, Jenkins, …
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Verified User
Chose ReadyAPI
It is robust and automated. It is a club of all the tools that are quite useful in every phase of the development life cycle.
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Postman and ReadyAPI (formerly SoapUI Pro, LoadUI Pro, & ServiceV Pro) are API testing and development tools. Postman is designed as a centralized platform for teams to develop, test, and manage their APIs. ReadyAPI is more tightly focused on testing, with features aimed at helping teams create, maintain, and execute test suites. Both Postman and ReadyAPI are primarily used by enterprise-level organizations, likely because of their focus on helping large teams manage complex APIs and test suites.
Features
Although both Postman and ReadyAPI are centered around API testing and development, they vary in how general-use or specialized each product is.
Postman is designed to support more steps of the API development and testing process, with API design and development tools on top of testing capability. It also includes team collaboration features, such as shared workspaces for specific APIs, built-in version control, and granular access permissions. It offers support for a wide array of endpoint types, and users report that Postman makes it easy to switch between different testing modes, API languages, and request types when needed.
ReadyAPI stands out as a specialist in API testing and CI/CD features. It features native integrations with software lifecycle tools, such as Maven and Jenkins. ReadyAPI has plenty of features to help users perform comprehensive testing, with random data generation, support for test parameter variables, and test data importing from external datasheets. Its security testing features are powerful and cover a wide range of potential malicious actions, and its reporting dashboard helps teams analyze and understand test results.
Limitations
Despite the benefits of Postman and ReadyAPI, the two platforms have limitations as well. Make sure to consider the drawbacks of each before committing to either.
Some Postman users have experienced lagging and freezing, especially under heavy or complex API loads. Its reporting features aren’t robust enough for some users, and other testers wished for more test automation options for advanced QA and integration testing. Finally, Postman isn’t beginner-friendly. Its UI can be confusing, and it can take a long time to get familiar with its more advanced features.
ReadyAPI is a bulky tool, with many users reporting slow responsiveness, poor cache management, and clunky folder setup and organization. Some users found its web UI and mobile app testing capabilities lacking for their needs, while others wanted additional CI/CD tools for Azure integration. Finally, ReadyAPI is sold in three separate packages, each containing different features. Security testing and performance testing are split into different packages, which left some single-package customers frustrated at the seeming lack of desired features.
Pricing
Postman uses a tiered monthly per-user subscription model. The Free tier is free and includes basic API design, development, and test features for single users. The Team tier is $12 per user per month and adds additional collaboration and development tools for up to 19 users. The Business tier is $24 per user per month and adds SSO and access control features for up to 99 users. The Enterprise tier is priced by quote and is designed for 100+ users.
ReadyAPI offers three separate modules priced on an annual per-license basis. The API Test Module starts at $685 annually per license and includes CI/CD automated testing, security testing, and both scriptless and scripted testing options. The API Performance Module starts at $5,374 annually per license and includes server monitoring, load generation, and API load testing. The API Virtualization Module is $1,060 annually per license and includes tools to deploy virtual services, generate mock data, and simulate server-side behavior. Customers can also contact the vendor for bundle pricing, which includes all three packages.
Features
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API Management
Comparison of API Management features of Postman and ReadyAPI
Postman is good for organising your API credentials, vendor settings, environments etc. It's also a good way of getting stared with APIs as you get to use a GUI which can help you understand what we mean by a 'body' or 'bearer token'. I think people generally gravitate towards GUI tools for getting started in a new technology area.
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It has opened a door for me to explore more out of it, as it is associated with so many APIs that I never felt any difficulty in finding the right API template, which are well organized and easily available.
It is very secure to use and provides great services which are user-friendly.
Due to this software I have got rid of the excessive emails and the slack channels, Now I am using my own private API and even it give me an option to produce my personal Postman’s API Builder from its Private API Network and this features has shared my excessive workload.
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SoapUI allows us to combine multiple tests and adhere to the sequence that they need to run in order to complete successfully. It has an excellent GUI design and the reporting mechanism is also very good. It does consume a lot of memory though during concurrent testing
Soap UI has managed to continuously build on it's solid foundation and keep improving by each release. It is by far the most dependable and accurate testing tool out there of its kind. Available via connecting to VM's created as SoapUI test machines give access to it anytime, anywhere practically.
Previous to using Postman, I would either use browser tools directly, or write an in-house tool to send requests. Postman eliminates that need while providing a much better experience and more features. At the base level, Postman is as simple as typing in the address as you would in a browser. Authentication can be provided simply as well.
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It has an excellent GUI design and the reporting mechanism is also very good. It does consume a lot of memory though during concurrent testing. However, I have read that added monitoring tools have been added, which if so the 7 could possibly go to a 8 or 9.
Postman is free (although there's a paid tier that offers more features) so using it for testing APIs comes with little to no risk (besides learning curve).
The learning curve is a little steep for non-developer users, but developers should find it easy to pick up and use right out of the box, so to speak.
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