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Pros:

I like how quickly it is to test API collections. Having multiple environments also makes it super easy to change variables being used in requests.

Cons:

It adds some headers to your request, regardless of your authorization, and sometimes this leads to an error response from my backend APIs.

Postman ratings

Average score

Ease of Use
4.5
Customer Service
4.3
Features
4.7
Value for Money
4.7

Likelihood to recommend

9.1/ 10

Postman has an overall rating of <span class="">4.7</span> out 5 stars based on <span class="">492</span> user reviews on Capterra.

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Kaushlendra
Kaushlendra
Software QA Engineer in India
Verified LinkedIn User
Information Technology & Services, 201–500 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Best tool for API Testing

5.0 8 months ago

Comments: I like this tool very much for API and Database testing and It is very easy to use and validation check is very important for this tool.

Pros:

It is best tool for testing API's before integration as well as to check validation. We can easily know the Backend Database Validation as well as API responses and their time as well as input data in the form of Params , helps very much.

Cons:

I do not see any major issue in this tool and it is best tool used by major Software Community. It is easy to handle and there is no drawback in this tool.

Analia
Ssr. QA Tester in Argentina
Insurance, 1,001–5,000 Employees
Used the Software for: 1+ year
Reviewer Source

A good experience, to handle APIs functional test, and share collections.

5.0 3 months ago

Comments: A good experience, to handle APIs functional test, and share collections.

Pros:

It is a great tool for API functional testing.

Cons:

sometimes it becomes tough to debug APIs

Volodymyr
QA Engineer in Poland
Computer Software, 11–50 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

The most useful instrument for the API testing in your business

5.0 2 months ago New

Comments: My overall experience with Postman has been positive. It’s an intuitive tool for API testing with powerful features like automated testing, detailed request/response analysis, and team collaboration. However, it can become slow with large requests, and sometimes syncing issues arise in team workspaces. Despite these drawbacks, it remains a highly effective and widely-used tool for API development and testing.

Pros:

User-friendly interface, powerful API testing capabilities, automated test scripting, detailed request/response analysis, and robust collaboration features.

Cons:

Can be slow with large requests, occasional syncing issues in team workspaces, and limited support for certain authentication protocols.

Mladen
iOS Developer in Croatia
Writing & Editing, Self Employed
Used the Software for: 1-5 months
Reviewer Source

If I could I would give it a minus infinite so that it cancels out other reviews

1.0 10 months ago

Pros:

Nothing, Nothing, Nothing, Nothing, Nothing

Cons:

Localhost request didnt work at all setting a simple content type is a pain The response flow is bad

Paulo
Sr. QA Automation Engineer in Argentina
Insurance, 1,001–5,000 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

A Great API tool

5.0 4 months ago

Comments: A great experience running and storing APIs collections, and easy to share across the company

Pros:

Its versatility to store and share APIs collections and authorization within APIs grouped

Cons:

It is not possible to perform Load testing

Andres
Senior Software Engineer in Australia
Health, Wellness & Fitness, 51–200 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

An important API testing tool

5.0 last year

Comments: Despite the challenge that goes into setting up this tool, it remains invaluable in my day to day development.

Pros:

Flexible, featureful and inexpensive. Once set up, it is an invaluable tool to assist my API testing efforts

Cons:

Due to how featureful it is, it has a steep learning curve. Meerly setting up a single request and response is easy enough, but trying to sort out a whole API and environments on it will prove challenging.

buddhi
Senior Software Engineer in Sri Lanka
Computer Software, 201–500 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Everyday software for API testing

5.0 2 years ago

Comments: I do backend API development and I use postman for those API testing. Most importantly it is free. Postman saves my time a lot.

Pros:

I can create postman requests for APIs and test them. I can add headers, parameters, request bodies and this supports different API formats such as REST and SOAP. Usually I use REST API testing and once I test them, I copy the curl and send it to others or I export the collection and send if I have multiple APIs. I must say this is very organizable tool where I can create collections and inside I can create folders and save data and later I can search them easily.

Cons:

I have been using postman for 6 years now and I haven't experience any issue.

Verified Reviewer
Verified LinkedIn User
Computer & Network Security, 10,000+ Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Best tool for your API testing

4.0 4 months ago

Comments: Postman is by far the best tool for API testing. I use to not only test my APIs but also to document all the API endpoints that I have with their respective categories. This tool is a must-have for any backend developer.

Pros:

- Postman provides a very intuitive UI to test your APIs. It also provides almost all the available headers in the request that enable you to test your APIs. - The best part is you can get code in your programming language for the API call that you have just tested. - It also provides a workspace feature where you can group similar requests that may be related to one application. - Another big advantage of Postman is that it offers collections of APIs for various popular services, including Google Maps, PayPal, Twitter, and more. This is a fantastic feature as it saves much time that would otherwise be spent researching these API documents.

Cons:

You must log into the Postman before saving a workspace or importing existing API requests. This becomes problematic as people who work in enterprises hesitate to enter their work email IDs in non-authorized vendors. It may be hard for someone new to programming to interact with the interface as it has too many options, I don't however count it as a con as Postman does the job well for API testing.

Rohan
Software Engineer in Nepal
Information Technology & Services, 11–50 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

A Must-Have Tool for API Development, Testing and Collaboration

5.0 last month New

Comments: I've been using Postman for a long time now, and I’ve had a great experience with it. It has made my life as a developer much easier.

Pros:

Postman simplifies the process of creating, testing, and documenting APIs. The APIs can be organized into Collections, which makes managing requests and documenting them easier and effortless. Workspaces enable efficient team collaboration, making it a versatile tool for both individual and collaborative development.

Cons:

There's nothing I dislike about Postman. While the free tier has some limitations for collaboration, it hasn't been an issue for me.

Vaja
Frontend engineer in India
Information Technology & Services, 51–200 Employees
Used the Software for: 6-12 months
Reviewer Source

Review of postman

4.0 2 weeks ago New

Pros:

It provides user friendly interface and provides integration support for different CI/CD pipelines

Cons:

It doesn not provide much support for debugging

Andres
CTO in Peru
Computer Software, 2–10 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Great product

5.0 last year

Comments: It's a good experience, it's always my option when testing my endpoints

Pros:

It's very easy to use, configuring my environments and saving the collections is no problem.

Cons:

Lately I have had problems with resource consumption while running

Ozone
Jr. FullStack Developer in Nepal
Verified LinkedIn User
E-Learning, 11–50 Employees
Used the Software for: 1+ year
Reviewer Source

Decent software for API Testing

4.0 last year

Pros:

Postman provides the ability for setting environments, writing tests, and creating different workspace, which is greatly convenient to have alongside API testing. It also allows to create and store structure folders and HTTP calls to help find the right API calls for all the team members.

Cons:

Although most of the features provided by Postman are great, there has been some challenges working with file uploads, mostly in GraphQL. As the query variables are provided in JSON, files are not able to be directly uploaded through there, and some hack with form data is required to send calls with file upload instead of sending from within graphql tab.

Vandana
General Manager in India
Information Technology & Services, 5,001–10,000 Employees
Used the Software for: 1+ year
Reviewer Source

Very user friendly, easy to use and rich feature set

5.0 last year

Comments: I am overall very happy with the tool and it delivers what it promises.

Pros:

It is very easy to use and learn. Even a new developer can start working on it in a day or two. It has a lot of rich features for creating API, testing and version control.

Cons:

Haven't come across any such feature, it has almost everything that we need.

Verified Reviewer
Verified LinkedIn User
Computer Software, 11–50 Employees
Used the Software for: 6-12 months
Reviewer Source

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5.0 last year

Comments: For me postman is a very essential tool to ensure the proper functioning of an API

Pros:

Quick API testing from a nice GUI and http request testing and keeping a history

Cons:

A little complicated to do a test without going through the json

Verified Reviewer
Verified LinkedIn User
Nonprofit Organization Management, 11–50 Employees
Used the Software for: 1+ year
Reviewer Source

Postman for Non-Profits

5.0 last year

Pros:

Easy to use, easy to setup. We can test any API that we are connecting to in this environment before we roll it out to our production environment

Cons:

Took longer than I expected to run the product. Each API key will be unique and you need to account for how to use it in the software

Meliksah
Backend Developer in Türkiye
Sports, 11–50 Employees
Used the Software for: 1-5 months
Reviewer Source

Postman Review

5.0 last year

Pros:

Very useful for testing and using my APIs. I also love the grouping system.

Cons:

I found it weak in terms of using it as a team.

Walt
Private in US
Computer & Network Security, Self Employed
Used the Software for: 1-5 months
Reviewer Source
Source: SoftwareAdvice

Limiting Runs with paid license

5.0 last year

Pros:

The ability to use CSV files to populate the JSON body object for API requests

Cons:

With a Basic license, essentially $20/month, you can only process a CSV file 25 times before your monthly limit expires. With a complex JSON object and large CSV file, it may take 25 times just to get it working. This is the worst licensing model they have possibly devised.

pathmika
Software Engineer in Sri Lanka
Computer Software, 201–500 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Most famous API development tool

5.0 2 years ago

Comments: This is a tool that I use everyday in my office to test the APIs.

Pros:

I create customized requests with headers and parameters. I can create Apis and save them inside collections. Creating collections make everything organizable and I can export and import them easily. Postman can be integrated with jira and github.

Cons:

I experienced some slowness and functionality issues when I create or test large APIs with large request bodies.

Harsh
Harsh
Software Engineer in India
Verified LinkedIn User
Information Technology & Services, 11–50 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Best platform for API design and testing.

5.0 2 years ago

Comments: my overall experience with postman has been great.

Pros:

Postman is one of the best platforms for API design and testing, it has a very easy-to-use UI and it has great features which make API design and testing very easy. It also supports sharing the API collection which helps a lot.

Cons:

The only thing that I dislike about postman is that if you don't have their premium plan then the shared API collection can be changed by anyone.

PriyaDharshan
Senior Executive in India
Information Technology & Services, 10,000+ Employees
Used the Software for: 6-12 months
Reviewer Source

Postman - Test your API

5.0 2 years ago

Comments: Using this postman we test our API code here and use that code in UiPath studio.

Pros:

We can easily develop and testing and integrate API using this postman very efficiently.

Cons:

The user interface little bit complex for new users.

Vikas
Senior test engineer in India
Information Technology & Services, Self Employed
Used the Software for: 6-12 months
Reviewer Source

Postman

5.0 2 years ago

Comments: Easy to use and user friendly UI

Pros:

We can share collection of api using postman and environment functionality is too good.

Cons:

Nothing is bad in the postman tools. My all are experience is good with postman tools

Sourav
Sourav
Developer in India
Verified LinkedIn User
Telecommunications, 10,000+ Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

This postman delivers!

4.0 2 years ago

Comments: A great tool for unit testing on demand

Pros:

Features that allow to store collections offline and online, added with workspaces to collaborate with team

Cons:

Using the tool for private networks isn't very convenient as the connections aren't robust enough when switching networks. This can be sorted by restarting postman but still an area that can be improved

Nihilkumar
Assistant Manager in India
Information Technology & Services, 10,000+ Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Postman Review

5.0 2 years ago

Pros:

I have been using Postman for couple of years now, It is user friendly comparing to its rivals. The import and export feature that it has is very useful to share the CURLS across organization. The requests that we are using or testing can be saved in folders which improves the governance.

Cons:

I do not see anything to like least or dislike in Postman.

Rajesh
WordPress Developer in India
Computer Software, 51–200 Employees
Used the Software for: Free Trial
Reviewer Source

Must have this tool to develop and test API in real time.

5.0 2 years ago

Comments: From my observations and knowledge, Postman is a well-designed and reliable tool that offers a range of features for API development, testing, and automation. Its intuitive user interface makes it easy to use, even for those with limited coding experience, while its powerful collaboration capabilities allow for faster feedback and testing.

Pros:

One of the most significant advantages of Postman is its user-friendly interface. The platform is intuitive and straightforward to use, even for those without extensive coding experience. It allows you to quickly create and test your APIs, with a variety of features to help you streamline the process.Overall, Postman is an essential tool for any developer working with APIs. It is easy to use, highly customizable and features powerful collaboration capabilities. If you're looking for a reliable and efficient way to develop, test, and share APIs, Postman is an excellent choice.

Cons:

Paid features: While Postman offers a free version, many of its more advanced features are only available with a paid subscription. This may be a consideration for individual developers or smaller teams who are working with limited budgets

Verified Reviewer
Verified LinkedIn User
Telecommunications, 1,001–5,000 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Postman - Build/Manage API's

4.0 2 years ago

Comments: The over all experience of post man is awesome , I would highly recommend the product to others.

Pros:

It has lots of features to manage and build API , The API calls were made so easy to use and it generate API call code based on the programming language you opt for

Cons:

The documentation of the production could have been better.