Postman Alternatives

Postman is described as 'Collaborative platform for API development providing design, specifications, testing, documentation, and requests with free and paid subscription plans' and is a very popular API Client in the development category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Postman for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Web-based and SaaS apps. The best Postman alternative is Insomnia REST Client, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Postman are NativeRest, HTTPie for Terminal, Hoppscotch and Bruno.

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Postman alternatives are mainly API Clients, but if you're looking for HTTP Clients or HTTP(S) Debuggers you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Open Source, Linux, Web Development, Online, Android, Mac and Windows. You can also filter by region, for example EU-based alternatives if you prefer software developed in the European Union. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to Postman.
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  1. rest-client icon
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    Wisdom rest-client is a tool supports automated testing REST API, producing exquisite report, and generating exquisite REST API documentation based on historical cases.

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  2. poster (CLI) icon
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    Powerful HTTPie alternative in Go.

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  3. Yaade icon
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    Yaade is the only open-source, fully self-hosted, collaborative API development environment.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
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    Yaade vs Postman Comments
    Guest
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    This is currently the only true open source and self hosted API client available.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    • Yaade is Free and Open SourcePostman is Freemium and Proprietary
    • Yaade is LightweightPostman is not according to our users
  4. RawRequest icon
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    Keep your http requests in a single file that lives in your projects repo. This app lets you run your http requests from a .http file and includes features like load testing, pre and post request scripts, and request chaining.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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  5. Bootsmann icon
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    Opensource C++ alternative to Postman/Insomnia/Hoppscotch for simple HTTP REST API testing.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Windows
     
  6. A modern, resource-friendly REST client for Windows.

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    • Free
    • Proprietary (MIT)

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    • Windows
     
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    Nightingale REST Client vs Postman Comments
    Guest
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    Nightingale is super fast and simple to use. It's highly optimized for Windows 10

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    Joe Bell
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    It's faster than Postman and it uses less resources.

    Guest
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    It's faster, more stable, and the UI is more intuitive.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    • Nightingale REST Client is Free and ProprietaryPostman is Freemium and Proprietary
  7. Slumber icon
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    Slumber is a TUI (terminal user interface) HTTP client. Define, execute, and share configurable HTTP requests.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
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  8. CurlHub.io icon
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    API Traffic Inspector.

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  9. Nokori icon
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    Nokori is the all-in-one platform for building, hosting, and growing your SaaS business. From Instant Microservices, Auth-as-a-Service, and Transactional Email, we give tech brands the tools they need to bring ideas to life quickly and easily, while providing seamless...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  10. REST-Explorer is an easy to use tool to query or debug REST-based web-services using HTTP or HTTPS. It supports the methods GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, OPTIONS, TRACE, HEAD and PATCH. A request can consist of text (JSON/XML), any kind of HTTP headers and Anonymous, Basic or Windows...

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    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
  11. FRequest icon
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    FRequest is a fast, lightweight and opensource Windows / macOS / Linux desktop program to make HTTP(s) requests (e.g. call REST apis).

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    FRequest vs Postman Comments
    KaKi87
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    Free and open source multiplatform non-Electron app with dark theme.

    • FRequest is Free and Open SourcePostman is Freemium and Proprietary
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