What is Postman?
Postman is an API platform, boasting users among more than 17 million developers and 500,000 organizations worldwide for building and managing APIs. Postman aims to simplify each step of the API lifecycle and streamline collaboration, enabling users to create better APIs faster. The company is headquartered in San Francisco and has a large office in Bangalore, where it was founded.
Categories & Use Cases
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API design - You can design your API specifications in Postman using OpenAPI, RAML, GraphQL, or SOAP formats. Postman’s schema editor makes it easy to work with specification files of any size, & it validates specifications with a built-in linting engine.
Technical Details
| Deployment Types | SaaS |
|---|---|
| Mobile Application | No |
FAQs
What is Postman?
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.
What are Postman's top competitors?
Stoplight and RapidAPI are common alternatives for Postman.
What is Postman's best feature?
Reviewers rate API user onboarding highest, with a score of 8.3.







