What Postman does
Postman is an API engineering platform for building, testing and operating APIs, with tools that give AI coding agents the context to work with them. It is for developers and engineering teams that build or consume APIs. Named features include the Postman CLI, which installs agent skills for API discovery, testing, mocking and monitoring; Context Graph, a queryable map of APIs and collections; Passport, a credential proxy with logged access; and Agent Mode, alongside Spec Hub, Mock Servers, an SDK Generator, Flows, Monitors and an API Catalog. The Free plan costs $0, Solo is $9 per month and Team is $19 per user per month, both billed annually, with Enterprise priced through sales.
How Postman compares with its closest alternatives
All 5 closest alternatives have a free plan, as Postman does. Among the 3 that list a starting price, the cheapest is CodiumAI at $19 a month and the median is $29. Postman starts at $14 a month, below that median. 3 of the 5 offer an API, as Postman does. Postman offers a web app and a desktop app. Of the alternatives, all 5 offer a web app and 3 offer a desktop app. Postman was founded in 2014; the alternatives were founded between 2013 and 2022, 1 of them earlier. Postman is based in Bangalore, India; 1 of the 2 alternatives with a known headquarters is in India too, and the others in Israel.