# Postman

- **Canonical URI:** https://www.vioscale.ai/software/postman
- **Category:** API Development Tools
- **Vendor:** Postman, Inc.
- **Homepage:** https://www.postman.com
- **Also known as:** postman-api, getpostman
- **Profile claimed by vendor:** no
- **Last updated:** 2026-08-05T14:19:04.614Z

## Vioscale score

**68.2 / 100**, confidence 66% (medium).

Composite of weighted, independently-sourced signals (no user reviews, no vendor payment).

| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence present |
|---|--:|--:|--:|:--:|
| price_level | 80 | 0.046 | 3.7 | ✓ |
| reliability | 50 | 0.062 | 3.1 | ✓ |
| capabilities | 96 | 0.123 | 11.8 | ✓ |
| integrations | 20.1 | 0.062 | 1.2 | ✓ |
| security_posture | 50 | 0.1 | 5 | ✓ |
| pricing_transparency | 100 | 0.062 | 6.2 | ✓ |

## Pricing

_As of 2026-08-05, [verify at source](https://www.postman.com). Independently observed._

from $9/mo · Subscription · Free tier

> From $9/month (Solo) or free tier. Billed annually.

| Plan | Price | Free | Commitment |
|---|---|:--:|---|
| Free | Free | ✓ | - |
| Solo | $9/month (billed annually) | - | annual |
| Team | $19/user/month (billed annually) | - | annual |
| Enterprise | Contact sales | - | annual |

### Free

**Included limits:** ai_credits: 50/mo

- API client & core tools
- Specs & mock servers
- Native Git
- Collection Runner & Performance Testing runs
- Manual Flows
- 50 AI credits/month
- Unlimited cloud & local mock servers
- MCP Client
- Webhooks
- Postman CLI

### Solo

**Included limits:** ai_credits: 400/mo

- Everything in Free, plus:
- 400 AI credits/month
- Data-driven testing with exports
- Unlimited private NPM packages & library
- Custom-branded documentation
- Unlimited custom domains
- Expanded API monitoring

### Team

**Included limits:** ai_credits: 400/user/mo

- Everything in Solo, plus:
- 400 AI credits/user/month
- Team collaboration
- Unlimited workspace & collection viewers
- Basic role-based access control (RBAC)
- SDK generation & distribution

### Enterprise (Contact sales)

**Included limits:** ai_credits: 800/user/mo (pooled)

- Everything in Team, plus:
- 800 AI credits/user/month (pooled)
- API Catalog
- Unlimited private and Partner workspaces
- Private API Network
- SDK auto-distribution
- Advanced RBAC & organization controls
- Governance, audit logs & reporting
- Private test & Flows runners
- Insights

### Add-ons

- **AI Credit Overages** ($0.05/undefined/undefined + $0.04/undefined/undefined + $0.04/undefined/undefined)
- **Simple Security**
- **Advanced Security Administration**

## About

Postman is a unified platform for designing, testing, distributing, documenting, and monitoring APIs. It enables teams to collaborate seamlessly throughout API development with the governance enterprises require.

_Independently observed._

## Platform & deployment

- **Platforms:** CLI, Web
- **Deployment:** Cloud / SaaS

## Integrations (4)

_Independently observed._

- 1Password
- AWS Secrets Manager
- Azure Key Vault
- HashiCorp Vault

## Capabilities

_The capabilities that matter for API Development Tools. "-" = undocumented, not absent._

| Capability | Supported |
|---|:--:|
| **Core** | |
| REST client | ✓ |
| GraphQL support | ✓ |
| gRPC support | ✓ |
| **Design** | |
| Mock servers | ✓ |
| **Testing** | |
| Automated / contract testing | ✓ |
| **Collaboration** | |
| Team collaboration & sharing | ✓ |
| **Docs** | |
| Doc generation | ✓ |
| **Standards** | |
| OpenAPI / spec import | ✓ |
| **Ops** | |
| CI integration / CLI | ✓ |

## FAQ

### What is Postman and what does it do?

Postman is a platform that enables developers to design, build, test, and manage APIs throughout their entire lifecycle. It provides an API client, specification management tools, automated testing, mock servers, and monitoring capabilities to support collaborative API development at enterprise scale.

_Source: [https://www.postman.com](https://www.postman.com)._

### Is Postman open source and what is its pricing model?

Postman is a proprietary commercial platform that operates on a freemium model, offering a free tier with core features alongside multiple paid subscription tiers that scale with team size and feature requirements. Pricing is based on per-user per-month subscriptions rather than project or API count.

_Source: [https://www.postman.com/pricing](https://www.postman.com/pricing)._

### What platforms and operating systems does Postman support?

Postman is available as a native desktop application for Windows, Mac (Intel and Apple Silicon), and Linux (x64 and ARM64), as well as a web-based version accessible through modern browsers. The platform also offers a command-line interface for automation in CI/CD pipelines, a VS Code extension, and browser extensions for Chrome, Safari, Edge, and Firefox.

_Source: [https://www.postman.com/downloads](https://www.postman.com/downloads)._

### Who typically uses Postman?

Postman is used by individual developers and enterprise teams across organizations including Microsoft, Meta, Salesforce, AWS, PayPal, Stripe, and Uber. It serves API engineers, backend developers, and teams responsible for building, testing, and managing APIs.

_Source: [https://www.postman.com](https://www.postman.com)._

### What are the core capabilities of Postman?

Postman's core capabilities include API client functionality for sending and debugging requests, automated test collection runners, API specification management, mock servers for simulating endpoints, performance monitoring, webhook support, workspace collaboration features, SDK generation, and command-line tools. Recent versions include AI-native capabilities for automating API workflows and providing engineering assistance.

_Source: [https://www.postman.com](https://www.postman.com)._

### How does Postman integrate with development workflows?

Postman integrates with existing development tools through a VS Code extension, command-line interface for CI/CD automation, browser extensions for request interception, desktop agent for local network access, and the ability to import and export API specifications in standard formats. Collections and tests can be version-controlled and run through automated pipelines.

_Source: [https://www.postman.com/downloads](https://www.postman.com/downloads)._

### What common alternatives exist to Postman?

Common alternatives to Postman for API development and testing include Insomnia, Thunder Client, RestClient (VS Code extension), Hoppscotch (open source), curl (command line), and API testing frameworks like Jest or pytest. Larger organizations may use specialized API management platforms like MuleSoft or AWS API Gateway.

_Source: [https://www.postman.com](https://www.postman.com)._


## Facts

Every value below carries its source and our confidence. Facts are re-crawled on a freshness schedule.

### adoption

| Attribute | Value | Source | Retrieved | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| adoption.stackoverflow_questions | 22,000 | [link](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/postman) | 2026-07-30 | 75% (high) |

### pricing

| Attribute | Value | Source | Retrieved | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| pricing.free_tier | yes | [link](https://www.postman.com) | 2026-08-05 | 60% (medium) |
| pricing.model | commercial | [link](https://www.postman.com) | 2026-08-05 | 70% (medium) |
| pricing.transparent | yes | [link](https://www.postman.com) | 2026-08-05 | 60% (medium) |
| pricing.starting_gbp | 9 | [link](https://www.postman.com) | 2026-08-05 | 60% (medium) |
| pricing.price_level | low | [link](https://www.postman.com) | 2026-08-05 | 60% (medium) |

### security

| Attribute | Value | Source | Retrieved | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| security.soc2 | yes | [link](https://www.postman.com/trust/) | 2026-07-30 | 85% (high) |
| security.disclosure_policy | yes | [link](https://www.postman.com/.well-known/security.txt) | 2026-08-05 | 60% (medium) |
| security.gdpr | yes | [link](https://www.postman.com/security) | 2026-08-05 | 75% (high) |

### hosting

| Attribute | Value | Source | Retrieved | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| hosting.model | cloud | [link](https://www.postman.com) | 2026-07-30 | 80% (high) |

### content

| Attribute | Value | Source | Retrieved | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| content.faq | `[{"answer":"Postman is a platform that enables developers to design, build, test, and manage APIs throughout their entire lifecycle. It provides an API client, specification management tools, automated testing, mock servers, and monitoring capabilities to support collaborative API development at enterprise scale.","source":"https://www.postman.com","question":"What is Postman and what does it do?","confidence":0.95},{"answer":"Postman is a proprietary commercial platform that operates on a freemium model, offering a free tier with core features alongside multiple paid subscription tiers that scale with team size and feature requirements. Pricing is based on per-user per-month subscriptions rather than project or API count.","source":"https://www.postman.com/pricing","question":"Is Postman open source and what is its pricing model?","confidence":0.95},{"answer":"Postman is available as a native desktop application for Windows, Mac (Intel and Apple Silicon), and Linux (x64 and ARM64), as well as a web-based version accessible through modern browsers. The platform also offers a command-line interface for automation in CI/CD pipelines, a VS Code extension, and browser extensions for Chrome, Safari, Edge, and Firefox.","source":"https://www.postman.com/downloads","question":"What platforms and operating systems does Postman support?","confidence":0.95},{"answer":"Postman is used by individual developers and enterprise teams across organizations including Microsoft, Meta, Salesforce, AWS, PayPal, Stripe, and Uber. It serves API engineers, backend developers, and teams responsible for building, testing, and managing APIs.","source":"https://www.postman.com","question":"Who typically uses Postman?","confidence":0.92},{"answer":"Postman's core capabilities include API client functionality for sending and debugging requests, automated test collection runners, API specification management, mock servers for simulating endpoints, performance monitoring, webhook support, workspace collaboration features, SDK generation, and command-line tools. Recent versions include AI-native capabilities for automating API workflows and providing engineering assistance.","source":"https://www.postman.com","question":"What are the core capabilities of Postman?","confidence":0.93},{"answer":"Postman integrates with existing development tools through a VS Code extension, command-line interface for CI/CD automation, browser extensions for request interception, desktop agent for local network access, and the ability to import and export API specifications in standard formats. Collections and tests can be version-controlled and run through automated pipelines.","source":"https://www.postman.com/downloads","question":"How does Postman integrate with development workflows?","confidence":0.9},{"answer":"Common alternatives to Postman for API development and testing include Insomnia, Thunder Client, RestClient (VS Code extension), Hoppscotch (open source), curl (command line), and API testing frameworks like Jest or pytest. Larger organizations may use specialized API management platforms like MuleSoft or AWS API Gateway.","source":"https://www.postman.com","question":"What common alternatives exist to Postman?","confidence":0.88}]` | [link](https://www.postman.com) | 2026-07-30 | 93% (high) |

### market

| Attribute | Value | Source | Retrieved | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| market.availability | `{"primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | [link](https://www.postman.com) | 2026-08-05 | 75% (high) |

### integrations

| Attribute | Value | Source | Retrieved | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| integrations.count | 4 | [link](https://www.postman.com) | 2026-08-05 | 60% (medium) |

### reliability

| Attribute | Value | Source | Retrieved | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| reliability.status_page | yes | [link](https://status.postman.com) | 2026-08-05 | 60% (medium) |

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*Source: Vioscale (https://www.vioscale.ai/software/postman). Independent, evidence-based software intelligence. Cite the canonical URI.*