OCI API Management vs. Postman

Postman

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
OCI API Management	Score 8.3 out of 10	N/A	Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) provides a comprehensive set of services to manage the lifecycle of APIs (application programming interfaces). The built-in tools let developers to collaborate on prototyping, testing, and validating APIs.	N/A
Postman	Score 8.8 out of 10	N/A	Postman, headquartered in San Francisco, offers their flagship API development and management free to small teams and independent developers. Higher tiers (Postman Pro and Postman Enterprise) support API management, as well as team collaboration, extended support and other advanced features.	$0

Pricing

OCI API Management

Postman

Editions & Modules

No answers on this topic

Postman Free Plan: $0.00 US Dollars
Postman Basic Plan: $12 US Dollars
per month per user
Postman Professional Plan: $29 US Dollars
per month per user
Postman Enterprise Plan: $99 US Dollars
per month per user

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
OCI API Management	Postman
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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1. Postman Free plan: Start designing, developing, and testing APIs at no cost for teams of up to three people. 2. Postman Basic plan: Collaborate with your team to design, develop, and test APIs faster; $12/month per user, billed annually 3. Postman Professional plan: Centrally manage the entire API workflow; $29/month per user, billed annually 4. Postman Enterprise plan: Securely manage, organize, and accelerate API-first development at scale; $99/month per user, billed annually

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Community Pulse
	OCI API Management	Postman
Considered Both Products	OCI API Management JD Jatel Desai Programmer Analyst Chose OCI API Management Oracle API Manager works well for our team since a majority of the products we use are Oracle based. Our backend jobs and servers all run with PL/SQL and Oracle databases. This makes the Oracle API Manager tool the best suited for our needs as a department. Anypoint API Manager … Incentivized Helpful? JJ Jared Jacobson Senior IT Business Analyst Chose OCI API Management Oracle API Manager is much easier to learn and understand then IBM Data Power Gateway and IBM API Connect. We selected Oracle API Manager in our company because to have a good intuitive interface with drag and drop features and because beginners and easily get up to speed to … Incentivized Helpful?	Postman Verified User Anonymous Chose Postman Postman is also being used for API development, whereas other tools do not support development but documentation. Postman is used for real-time testing: Send requests and analyze responses directly without needing additional tools or platforms. Postman also has built-in … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Postman Postman has the ability for an end to end development of API. Others apps available don't have this ability. They lack in one or more cases. But Postman here is developed itself by an IT engineer working in Banglore, the IT city of india. He understands the issues faced by the … Incentivized Helpful? PA Paul Alexander Senior Test Engineer Chose Postman There isn't much between them, really we just picked Postman as it was slightly better but the others are still good. We also had a few people that had a good experience of using Postman join the team when we were looking at what tools to use and with them using Postman before … Incentivized Helpful? Lankit Patel AWS Developer \| Laravel Developer Chose Postman NGL first of all was word of mouth. my teammates were already using Postman so I was told to use it as well. I tried exploring other alternatives but most of them seem to provide a particular service. On the other hand, Postman is a whole bundle to manage almost everything … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Postman Everyone is familiar with Postman as being a helpful tool for testing APIs. Incentivized Helpful? Haroon Akmal Sr. QA Engineer Chose Postman Sharing across teams is very robust in Postman than SoapUI. Adding APIs/ managing collections is very user friendly in Postman. Incentivized Helpful? Bimal Subedi Web Developer Chose Postman Postman is a lot more affordable and maintainable than its competitors. Also, it is easy to use and deployment takes less amount of time. So, we selected Postman as it best fits our requirements. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Postman Cheaper than Smartbear products. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Postman ReadyAPI is a nightmare for source control integration but gives you a huge plethora more tools to create automated tests for APIs. With Visual Studio you can use a unit test framework to create test cases that can instantiate a WebClient class and make API calls. It takes … Incentivized Helpful? Rafael Grandizoli Gerente de Operações Chose Postman Before using Postman it was a big issue when we had to study and understand how a new API works. Even if we have all documentation from the 3rd party, doing requests (POST/GET/etc.) was always a problem since it was needed to develop a small code by the back-end team and asks … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Postman It is used by the for testing live and offline api's. We deploy refined code to production with the help of postman so that our front-end developers get rid of errors. In comparison with other's postman is well designed and handle calls very perfectly. Incentivized Helpful? SN Sumanthkumar Nagamalli Technical consultant Chose Postman It is a tool like Insomnia. I used it for some time but all the developers are addicted to using Postman. Soap UI also came up with testing the rest of the services. Before they only offered soap services testing but the soap UI is also not that great when compared to Postman. Incentivized Helpful? Lasha Jojua Head Of IT Monitoring Chose Postman I did not use SoapUI and can't compare them. But, Postman gave results my team needed, that's why we did not test any other software. Runs simple, gives instant and exact results. Incentivized Helpful? AM Ali Moghrabi Software Engineer Chose Postman Chrome DevTools doesn't compare to Postman. One supplements the other. I haven't used or evaluated any other software compared to Postman. I have used PowerShell to make HTTP calls against our API's, though that is all command-line based and doesn't stack up nearly as high as … Incentivized Helpful? JP Juan Palma Software Development Manager Chose Postman Postman is NOT an API management tool, it is an API testing tool. If you're expecting to use Postman to manage API requests stats and usage stats, read no further: Postman is NOT for you. If you want to see the JSON output of a RESTful API, you're in the right place. There are … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Postman I have used curl command which pretty much does the same in an unordered fashion. Postman has organization to it, with an ability to store commands in a fashion where it just becomes easy to use it. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Postman Postman is a great out-of-the-box tool for API testing. SwaggerHub is also good but requires a bit more configuration to integrate with the API you're going to test (if the API isn't set up for it, you probably won't get much out of SwaggerHub). Incentivized Helpful? Sharmin Promi Lead QA Automation Engineer Chose Postman Postman has pros and cons both and keeping them in mind we are using multiple tools to leverage our Services, integration, automation, and testing needs. Some of the above mentioned tools have better automation or complete framework implementation capabilities. Having all the … Incentivized Helpful? Joshua Cariño Software Engineer Chose Postman Although Apigee Edge platforms Trace UI does the same job as Postman. Postman is the most advanced of the two. Browser extensions I know of that does the same thing as Postman are too bad of apps to use even to have a mention here. Either they are limited in features or the … Incentivized Helpful? Gary Davis Director Chose Postman Other tools I have used include LINQPad which allows coding to call APIs and while not as friendly as Postman, is one of my go-to tools for development and templating. Swagger for C# APIs generates web pages that can show the required parameters for a GET/POST call and allow … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Postman I did not consider any other products. Postman is the standard-bearer. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Postman Postman is lightweight, easy to use and uses fewer computer resources. It has all the functionalities that our organization needs. Incentivized Helpful? AG Ankit Gupta ASE Chose Postman I used ARC (advances rest client). ARC does not provide rich features like Postman. Postman is easy to use and import features are far better. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Postman Postman has a very easy interface to build your requests, it is better than others in every aspect of API development. Incentivized Helpful? Anthony Aziz Senior Software Engineer Chose Postman Previous to using Postman, I would either use browser tools directly, or write an in-house tool to send requests. Postman eliminates that need while providing a much better experience and more features. At the base level, Postman is as simple as typing in the address as you … Incentivized Helpful?

Features

OCI API Management

Postman

API Management

Comparison of API Management features of Product A and Product B
	OCI API Management 8.6 Ratings 4% above category average	Postman 7.6 Ratings 9% below category average
API access control	7.90 Ratings	8.00 Ratings
Rate limits and usage policies	7.80 Ratings	7.10 Ratings
API usage data	9.00 Ratings	8.10 Ratings
API user onboarding	8.80 Ratings	8.30 Ratings
API versioning	9.00 Ratings	6.50 Ratings
Usage billing and payments	8.80 Ratings	8.00 Ratings
API monitoring and logging	9.00 Ratings	7.00 Ratings

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	OCI API Management	Postman
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User Ratings
	OCI API Management	Postman
Likelihood to Recommend	8.0 (0 ratings)	9.0 (0 ratings)
Usability	- (0 ratings)	8.5 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	- (0 ratings)	7.1 (0 ratings)
Ease of integration	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	OCI API Management	Postman
Likelihood to Recommend	Oracle API Manager is well suited in a business or company that make use of Apis to facilitate access of backend services and data sources by the staff or customers or both. It is also imported in situations where all actions in a system need to be attributed to specific users. Incentivized Jackson Waithaka Electrical Engineer Read full review	Postman is good for organising your API credentials, vendor settings, environments etc. It's also a good way of getting stared with APIs as you get to use a GUI which can help you understand what we mean by a 'body' or 'bearer token'. I think people generally gravitate towards GUI tools for getting started in a new technology area. Incentivized Callum O'Connor Senior Analytics Engineer Read full review
Pros	Mature and Reliable. Last year, Oracle API Manager was quite buggy, and couldn't be used at production-level. Fortunately, almost all of the problems that it had previously are now patched. Offloads Most of the Workload of Developing APIs. While defining APIs, Oracle API Manager does a great job in providing suggestions and error checks in our logic. Supports SOAP and REST. Not only can you create APIs that can query for data, but you can also create API endpoints that can manipulate the data in your back-end databases. Verified User Anonymous Read full review	It has opened a door for me to explore more out of it, as it is associated with so many APIs that I never felt any difficulty in finding the right API template, which are well organized and easily available. It is very secure to use and provides great services which are user-friendly. Due to this software I have got rid of the excessive emails and the slack channels, Now I am using my own private API and even it give me an option to produce my personal Postman’s API Builder from its Private API Network and this features has shared my excessive workload. Incentivized Kerry Haupt HR Director Read full review
Cons	I would say it would be nice if it could handle non-Oracle type API's...such as in-house developed interfaces, etc. It would be nice if it at least could list non-Oracle type APIs so that this system became a repository for ALL of the application interfaces Maybe it has this and I missed it, the monitoring appears to be one API at a time, would be nice to see a page that has all of the monitored APIs with some basic monitored info perhaps. It does have alerts, audit trails, and integrates with Enterprise Manager (I did not see this integration though) Incentivized Dan Hotka author Read full review	Wherever you need to automate tests that involve database verification or rely on data from databases, Postman is less suitable. Postman's disc usage is extremely high, and it occasionally causes the computer to fade. It doesn't have the ability to generate random data. To achieve randomness in my tests, I've been working around scripts. Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Usability	No answers on this topic	1. Friendly user friendly - when I started using Postman, I was a beginner to the API world, and it gave me a friendly view to begin its usage 2. Postman offers many features, including API testing, monitoring, documentation, and mock servers 3. Environment variables simplify testing across multiple environments (dev, prod) without repetitive configuration. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	No answers on this topic	There is a lot of in-depth documentation for Postman available online, including detailed guides with screenshots and videos. They provide example APIs for new users to explore while learning how to use the tool. Generally, bugs in the client are quickly addressed through frequent free updates. Community and professional support options are available - most of the time, the free/community level support is adequate Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Oracle API Manager is much easier to learn and understand then IBM Data Power Gateway and IBM API Connect. We selected Oracle API Manager in our company because to have a good intuitive interface with drag and drop features and because beginners and easily get up to speed to use this tool. Incentivized Jared Jacobson Senior IT Business Analyst Read full review	Previous to using Postman, I would either use browser tools directly, or write an in-house tool to send requests. Postman eliminates that need while providing a much better experience and more features. At the base level, Postman is as simple as typing in the address as you would in a browser. Authentication can be provided simply as well. Incentivized Anthony Aziz Senior Software Engineer Read full review
Return on Investment	Overall, the client is pleased with the API Manager. They are rather new to it so the ROI has not really been realized yet They like the ability to monitor the API's utilization (this monitoring could maybe be used for the prior question on usage billing...they do not currently do this for their supported applications) They like the ability that the APIs can be secured. Just because it exists, doesn't mean it can be used just anywhere... Incentivized Dan Hotka author Read full review	Postman is free (although there's a paid tier that offers more features) so using it for testing APIs comes with little to no risk (besides learning curve). The learning curve is a little steep for non-developer users, but developers should find it easy to pick up and use right out of the box, so to speak. Incentivized JP Juan Palma Software Development Manager Read full review
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