Postman Freemium

• Smoke-testing 40 REST endpoints after every deploy.
• Storing and rotating LLM API keys across environments.
• Mocking a payment API before the backend exists.
• Running a nightly monitor that alerts in Slack on 5xx errors.
• Publishing API docs that customers can try in the browser.

Quick Summary

• Postman sends, tests, mocks and documents HTTP APIs.
• Free for 3 users with unlimited collections and 1,000 monitor runs.
• Paid from $14 per user per month (Basic).
• It is an Electron desktop app and syncs to the cloud.
• Bruno or curl is a better fit for git-first, local-only workflows.

Use Cases

• Smoke-testing 40 REST endpoints after every deploy.
• Storing and rotating LLM API keys across environments.
• Mocking a payment API before the backend exists.
• Running a nightly monitor that alerts in Slack on 5xx errors.
• Publishing API docs that customers can try in the browser.

Quick Summary

• Postman sends, tests, mocks and documents HTTP APIs.
• Free for 3 users with unlimited collections and 1,000 monitor runs.
• Paid from $14 per user per month (Basic).
• It is an Electron desktop app and syncs to the cloud.
• Bruno or curl is a better fit for git-first, local-only workflows.

Good fit: teams with external or internal APIs that need living docs and automated smoke tests, especially when QA and PMs are involved. Bad fit: developers who work from the command line and want everything in git — curl, httpie or Bruno will feel lighter.

Use Cases

• Smoke-testing 40 REST endpoints after every deploy.
• Storing and rotating LLM API keys across environments.
• Mocking a payment API before the backend exists.
• Running a nightly monitor that alerts in Slack on 5xx errors.
• Publishing API docs that customers can try in the browser.

Quick Summary

• Postman sends, tests, mocks and documents HTTP APIs.
• Free for 3 users with unlimited collections and 1,000 monitor runs.
• Paid from $14 per user per month (Basic).
• It is an Electron desktop app and syncs to the cloud.
• Bruno or curl is a better fit for git-first, local-only workflows.

Who should use it (and who should not)

Good fit: teams with external or internal APIs that need living docs and automated smoke tests, especially when QA and PMs are involved. Bad fit: developers who work from the command line and want everything in git — curl, httpie or Bruno will feel lighter.

Use Cases

• Smoke-testing 40 REST endpoints after every deploy.
• Storing and rotating LLM API keys across environments.
• Mocking a payment API before the backend exists.
• Running a nightly monitor that alerts in Slack on 5xx errors.
• Publishing API docs that customers can try in the browser.

Quick Summary

• Postman sends, tests, mocks and documents HTTP APIs.
• Free for 3 users with unlimited collections and 1,000 monitor runs.
• Paid from $14 per user per month (Basic).
• It is an Electron desktop app and syncs to the cloud.
• Bruno or curl is a better fit for git-first, local-only workflows.

Frills you may not want: the app is Electron and uses 500 MB or more of RAM, and the 2023 removal of the scratch pad made some users switch to Insomnia or Bruno. If you only need local files under git, Bruno is the leaner choice.

Who should use it (and who should not)

Good fit: teams with external or internal APIs that need living docs and automated smoke tests, especially when QA and PMs are involved. Bad fit: developers who work from the command line and want everything in git — curl, httpie or Bruno will feel lighter.

Use Cases

• Smoke-testing 40 REST endpoints after every deploy.
• Storing and rotating LLM API keys across environments.
• Mocking a payment API before the backend exists.
• Running a nightly monitor that alerts in Slack on 5xx errors.
• Publishing API docs that customers can try in the browser.

Quick Summary

• Postman sends, tests, mocks and documents HTTP APIs.
• Free for 3 users with unlimited collections and 1,000 monitor runs.
• Paid from $14 per user per month (Basic).
• It is an Electron desktop app and syncs to the cloud.
• Bruno or curl is a better fit for git-first, local-only workflows.

Pricing: Free plan covers 3 collaborators with unlimited collections and 1,000 monitor runs per month. Basic is $14 per user per month, Professional $29, Enterprise $49. The cloud sync is required for free accounts — offline-only use is limited.

Frills you may not want: the app is Electron and uses 500 MB or more of RAM, and the 2023 removal of the scratch pad made some users switch to Insomnia or Bruno. If you only need local files under git, Bruno is the leaner choice.

Who should use it (and who should not)

Good fit: teams with external or internal APIs that need living docs and automated smoke tests, especially when QA and PMs are involved. Bad fit: developers who work from the command line and want everything in git — curl, httpie or Bruno will feel lighter.

Use Cases

• Smoke-testing 40 REST endpoints after every deploy.
• Storing and rotating LLM API keys across environments.
• Mocking a payment API before the backend exists.
• Running a nightly monitor that alerts in Slack on 5xx errors.
• Publishing API docs that customers can try in the browser.

Quick Summary

• Postman sends, tests, mocks and documents HTTP APIs.
• Free for 3 users with unlimited collections and 1,000 monitor runs.
• Paid from $14 per user per month (Basic).
• It is an Electron desktop app and syncs to the cloud.
• Bruno or curl is a better fit for git-first, local-only workflows.

Product Highlights

Postman’s biggest advantage is that non-developers can use it. A support engineer can replay a failing API call without a terminal. That also causes its main problem: shared collections rot quickly when nobody owns them.

Pricing: Free plan covers 3 collaborators with unlimited collections and 1,000 monitor runs per month. Basic is $14 per user per month, Professional $29, Enterprise $49. The cloud sync is required for free accounts — offline-only use is limited.

Frills you may not want: the app is Electron and uses 500 MB or more of RAM, and the 2023 removal of the scratch pad made some users switch to Insomnia or Bruno. If you only need local files under git, Bruno is the leaner choice.

Who should use it (and who should not)

Good fit: teams with external or internal APIs that need living docs and automated smoke tests, especially when QA and PMs are involved. Bad fit: developers who work from the command line and want everything in git — curl, httpie or Bruno will feel lighter.

Use Cases

• Smoke-testing 40 REST endpoints after every deploy.
• Storing and rotating LLM API keys across environments.
• Mocking a payment API before the backend exists.
• Running a nightly monitor that alerts in Slack on 5xx errors.
• Publishing API docs that customers can try in the browser.

Quick Summary

• Postman sends, tests, mocks and documents HTTP APIs.
• Free for 3 users with unlimited collections and 1,000 monitor runs.
• Paid from $14 per user per month (Basic).
• It is an Electron desktop app and syncs to the cloud.
• Bruno or curl is a better fit for git-first, local-only workflows.

Product Features

• Collections — group requests, add pre-request scripts and chained assertions with the built-in test runner.
• Environments — switch base URLs and API keys per workspace without editing requests.
• Mock servers — generate a fake endpoint from an OpenAPI schema so the frontend can start early.
• Monitors — run a collection on a schedule from 20+ regions and alert on failure.
• AI Agent mode — describe what you want in English and it drafts a working request.
• Documentation — publish collection docs as a public or private page.

Product Highlights

Postman’s biggest advantage is that non-developers can use it. A support engineer can replay a failing API call without a terminal. That also causes its main problem: shared collections rot quickly when nobody owns them.

Pricing: Free plan covers 3 collaborators with unlimited collections and 1,000 monitor runs per month. Basic is $14 per user per month, Professional $29, Enterprise $49. The cloud sync is required for free accounts — offline-only use is limited.

Frills you may not want: the app is Electron and uses 500 MB or more of RAM, and the 2023 removal of the scratch pad made some users switch to Insomnia or Bruno. If you only need local files under git, Bruno is the leaner choice.

Who should use it (and who should not)

Good fit: teams with external or internal APIs that need living docs and automated smoke tests, especially when QA and PMs are involved. Bad fit: developers who work from the command line and want everything in git — curl, httpie or Bruno will feel lighter.

Use Cases

• Smoke-testing 40 REST endpoints after every deploy.
• Storing and rotating LLM API keys across environments.
• Mocking a payment API before the backend exists.
• Running a nightly monitor that alerts in Slack on 5xx errors.
• Publishing API docs that customers can try in the browser.

Quick Summary

• Postman sends, tests, mocks and documents HTTP APIs.
• Free for 3 users with unlimited collections and 1,000 monitor runs.
• Paid from $14 per user per month (Basic).
• It is an Electron desktop app and syncs to the cloud.
• Bruno or curl is a better fit for git-first, local-only workflows.

For AI teams it doubles as an ad-hoc playground: save an OpenAI or Anthropic request as a collection, set the key as an environment variable, and you have a reproducible test without writing a script.

Product Features

• Collections — group requests, add pre-request scripts and chained assertions with the built-in test runner.
• Environments — switch base URLs and API keys per workspace without editing requests.
• Mock servers — generate a fake endpoint from an OpenAPI schema so the frontend can start early.
• Monitors — run a collection on a schedule from 20+ regions and alert on failure.
• AI Agent mode — describe what you want in English and it drafts a working request.
• Documentation — publish collection docs as a public or private page.

Product Highlights

Postman’s biggest advantage is that non-developers can use it. A support engineer can replay a failing API call without a terminal. That also causes its main problem: shared collections rot quickly when nobody owns them.

Pricing: Free plan covers 3 collaborators with unlimited collections and 1,000 monitor runs per month. Basic is $14 per user per month, Professional $29, Enterprise $49. The cloud sync is required for free accounts — offline-only use is limited.

Frills you may not want: the app is Electron and uses 500 MB or more of RAM, and the 2023 removal of the scratch pad made some users switch to Insomnia or Bruno. If you only need local files under git, Bruno is the leaner choice.

Who should use it (and who should not)

Good fit: teams with external or internal APIs that need living docs and automated smoke tests, especially when QA and PMs are involved. Bad fit: developers who work from the command line and want everything in git — curl, httpie or Bruno will feel lighter.

Use Cases

• Smoke-testing 40 REST endpoints after every deploy.
• Storing and rotating LLM API keys across environments.
• Mocking a payment API before the backend exists.
• Running a nightly monitor that alerts in Slack on 5xx errors.
• Publishing API docs that customers can try in the browser.

Quick Summary

• Postman sends, tests, mocks and documents HTTP APIs.
• Free for 3 users with unlimited collections and 1,000 monitor runs.
• Paid from $14 per user per month (Basic).
• It is an Electron desktop app and syncs to the cloud.
• Bruno or curl is a better fit for git-first, local-only workflows.

Postman is an API development platform: send requests, chain them into collections, run tests, mock endpoints and publish docs. It is free for up to 3 users; paid plans start at $14 per user per month for Basic.

What is Postman?

Postman began in 2012 as a Chrome extension for poking at HTTP endpoints. It is now a desktop app plus a cloud workspace where teams version their API definitions, generate code snippets in 20+ languages, and run scheduled monitors.

For AI teams it doubles as an ad-hoc playground: save an OpenAI or Anthropic request as a collection, set the key as an environment variable, and you have a reproducible test without writing a script.

Product Features

• Collections — group requests, add pre-request scripts and chained assertions with the built-in test runner.
• Environments — switch base URLs and API keys per workspace without editing requests.
• Mock servers — generate a fake endpoint from an OpenAPI schema so the frontend can start early.
• Monitors — run a collection on a schedule from 20+ regions and alert on failure.
• AI Agent mode — describe what you want in English and it drafts a working request.
• Documentation — publish collection docs as a public or private page.

Product Highlights

Postman’s biggest advantage is that non-developers can use it. A support engineer can replay a failing API call without a terminal. That also causes its main problem: shared collections rot quickly when nobody owns them.

Pricing: Free plan covers 3 collaborators with unlimited collections and 1,000 monitor runs per month. Basic is $14 per user per month, Professional $29, Enterprise $49. The cloud sync is required for free accounts — offline-only use is limited.

Frills you may not want: the app is Electron and uses 500 MB or more of RAM, and the 2023 removal of the scratch pad made some users switch to Insomnia or Bruno. If you only need local files under git, Bruno is the leaner choice.

Who should use it (and who should not)

Good fit: teams with external or internal APIs that need living docs and automated smoke tests, especially when QA and PMs are involved. Bad fit: developers who work from the command line and want everything in git — curl, httpie or Bruno will feel lighter.

Use Cases

• Smoke-testing 40 REST endpoints after every deploy.
• Storing and rotating LLM API keys across environments.
• Mocking a payment API before the backend exists.
• Running a nightly monitor that alerts in Slack on 5xx errors.
• Publishing API docs that customers can try in the browser.

Quick Summary

• Postman sends, tests, mocks and documents HTTP APIs.
• Free for 3 users with unlimited collections and 1,000 monitor runs.
• Paid from $14 per user per month (Basic).
• It is an Electron desktop app and syncs to the cloud.
• Bruno or curl is a better fit for git-first, local-only workflows.