Self-Hosted Postman Alternatives

Postman is not available as a self-hosted solution but there are some alternatives for power users and business that want to host a solution on-premise. The best Self-Hosted alternative is Hoppscotch, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Postman and eight of them are available as a self-hosted solution so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Self-Hosted alternatives to Postman are Firecamp, Apiman, gRPC and OpenAstra.

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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. 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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Postman alternatives page was last updated Apr 8, 2025
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  1. Hoppscotch icon
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    Hoppscotch is an open-source API development ecosystem. It helps you create your requests faster, saving you precious time on your development.

    65 Hoppscotch alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application types

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  REST API
    2.  Ad-free
    3.  GraphQL API
    4.  Websocket streams
    5.  Command line interface
    6.  Portable
    7.  Browser-based
    8.  Cross browser testing

    Hoppscotch VS Postman

     
    Comments about Hoppscotch as an Alternative to Postman
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    notPlancha
    Positive Apr 8, 2025
    0

    Completely free, no account needed for anything, can be used on browser and even offers proxy

    Guest
    Positive Oct 29, 2019
    3

    Helps you create your requests faster, saving you precious time on your development

    Max Fisher
    Negative Sep 12, 2024
    -1

    AFAIK, doesn't have a feature to import cURL from clipboard.

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    • Most users think Hoppscotch is a great Postman alternative.

    • Hoppscotch is the most popular Web-based & Self-Hosted alternative to Postman.

    • Hoppscotch is Free and Open SourcePostman is Freemium and Proprietary
    • Hoppscotch is LightweightPostman is not according to our users
  2. Firecamp icon
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    Firecamp's GraphQL playground is all in one GraphQL debugging tool which let you debug, collaborate and document your GraphQL APIs within a team for all platform.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Self-Hosted

    Firecamp Features

    1.  Websocket testing
    2.  API Testing
    3.  GraphQL API
    4.  GraphQL

    Firecamp VS Postman

     
  3. Apiman icon
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    apiman is an open source API management layer that streamlines repetitive tasks often required when providing an API, such as implementing security, throttling and billing.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted

    Apiman Features

    1.  API Management

    Apiman VS Postman

     
  4. gRPC icon
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    gRPC is a modern open source high performance Remote Procedure Call (RPC) framework that can run in any environment. It can efficiently connect services in and across data centers with pluggable support for load balancing, tracing, health checking and authentication.

    53 gRPC alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted

    gRPC Features

    1.  RPC

    gRPC VS Postman

     
    Comments about gRPC as an Alternative to Postman
    Guest
    Negative Jan 13, 2025
    0

    gRPC is a protocol, Postman is an API testing tool/framework

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    • gRPC is Free and Open SourcePostman is Freemium and Proprietary
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    A chat-based platform for API discovery and testing.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker

    OpenAstra Features

    1.  Natural Language Processing
    2.  OpenAI integration
    3.  OpenAPI integration
    4.  API Testing
    5.  API Management

    OpenAstra VS Postman

     
  6. Step CI icon
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    Open-source API Test Automation framework.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted

    Step CI Features

    1.  REST API
    2.  Support environment variables
    3.  GraphQL
    4.  SOAP API
    5.  Variables
    6.  Request Chaining
    7.  API Testing

    Step CI VS Postman

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

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Portable
    2. Docker icon  Support for Docker

    Yaade VS Postman

     
    Comments about Yaade as an Alternative to Postman
    Guest
    Positive Feb 2, 2023
    0

    This is currently the only true open source and self hosted API client available.

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    • Yaade is Free and Open SourcePostman is Freemium and Proprietary
    • Yaade is LightweightPostman is not according to our users
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