Postman vs. ReadyAPI

ReadyAPI

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
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
ReadyAPI	Score 7.0 out of 10	N/A	ReadyAPI (formerly SoapUI Pro, LoadUI Pro, and ServiceV Pro) is a REST and SOAP API functional testing tool that enables software developers, QA engineers, and manual testers to work together to create, maintain, and execute complex end-to-end API tests in their CI/CD pipelines without needing to code.	N/A

Pricing

Postman

ReadyAPI

Editions & Modules

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

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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Postman	ReadyAPI
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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
	Postman	ReadyAPI
Considered Both Products	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?	ReadyAPI Verified User Anonymous Chose ReadyAPI ReadyAPI stands out among all these tools except for the fact that it is a paid tool. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose ReadyAPI Katalon studio doesn't have powerful features like Data-driven testing with different sources such as Excel, GRID, Groovy, etc. Parallel testing is not available. Import API definitions which are one of the important of ReadyAPI are also not there in Katalon studio. Reporting … Incentivized Helpful? MM Mohammed Mitha CTO (Chief Technical Officer) Chose ReadyAPI Each product has a different specialty. With ReadyAPI, it combines multiple specialties into one product and also allows a combination of other products within the Smartbear suite. With other products integration of multiple test, products are far more difficult and require … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose ReadyAPI The pricing was very advantageous and the software publisher had sales offices in our city. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose ReadyAPI I have not used any other API tools, (new to QA) and the company already had ReadyAPI in place when I started. Incentivized Helpful? Laura Graham LaRocca QA Manager Chose ReadyAPI ReadyAPI manages DataSources, Endpoints, and Environments much better than Postman. Postman is a little simpler implementation but has a Team Workspace that is powerful for Development handoffs and manual testing. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose ReadyAPI Postman is simpler and super less expensive than ReadyAPI. In addition, the product continues to work even after the license has expired in comparison to ReadyAPI which requires you to purchase a new license every time. Is a turnoff. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose ReadyAPI ReadyAPI is a comprehensive tool that allows for developing, validation, and testing all in one suite. There are advanced features like user simulation and assertion capabilities that set ReadyAPI apart from other tools in the same segment. We also have several legacy solutions … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose ReadyAPI I have used a couple of products mentioned above. But the best thing about ReadyAPI is, it's a complete [package] for API testing. Not all software offers load testing, assertion, and reporting features. Also, lots of plugins, like Azure API Management, AWS API plugin features … Incentivized Helpful? SP Sheilagh Park-Hatley Director, SQA Chose ReadyAPI Postman didn't have the flexibility of detailed assertions that we needed, although it was easy to use. Also their integration points weren't as straightforward. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose ReadyAPI ReadyAPI beats all other alternatives because of its support of all kinds of API types. Also, users can specify every flow and every step for every second to replicate every test case with ease. It also has GIT support with is a big plus. ReadyAPI is must have tool for API … Incentivized Helpful? HA Haroon Akmal Senior Quality Assurance Engineer Chose ReadyAPI POSTMAN! ReadyAPI's data generator feature is the reason behind choosing it against other products. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose ReadyAPI 1. Less coding. 2. Easy to use. 3. Even people with less experience in coding can use it. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose ReadyAPI The main competitor for ReadyAPI was Postman. It is much more lightweight, but that means you also get fewer features. ReadyAPI also provides an ecosystem in which you can have an entire lifecycle for your API, if that is what you want - and are willing to put in the work to … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose ReadyAPI I am using ReadyAPI tools for more than two years helped us to evaluate the quality of our API. For all API Automation testing, load testing, and security testing ReadyAPI bring us the best result and quality. It has many useful features in automation that we use to do more … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose ReadyAPI I didn't have much experience with automation in Postman, but ReadyAPI seems more robust and in my opinion is able to cover many use cases. For me it was also easier to write the tests in SoapUI as many times it is matter of clicking and copying existing things. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose ReadyAPI I have not used other API testing products but I am completely satisfied with the functionality and performance of ReadyAPI. It covers all required API protocols and database connections that are used in our organization. It also allows extending the functionality by adding … Incentivized Helpful? Rashad Miriyev Software Quality Assurance Engineer Chose ReadyAPI Automating test cases is not functional in Postman, but in ReadyAPI you can do everything, even keyword driven development. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose ReadyAPI ReadyAPI provides intuitive GUI capabilities compared to their own open source product. When compared to Postman, ReadyAPI also supports SOAP based services, which is a saver especially when integrating with legacy or other third party systems. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose ReadyAPI SoapUI Pro is good because you can start automating functional testing even if you don't have scripting knowledge. However, it doesn't work very well with GraphQL and so we had to use Insomnia is those cases. Incentivized Helpful? Anthony Aziz Senior Software Engineer Chose ReadyAPI ReadyAPI vs Postman: ReadyAPI makes testing WSDL, SOAP, etc. much easier and quicker. Postman would require you to manually construct the SOAP envelopes and metadata XML, which is a lot of work for something that is meant to be a quick test. Incentivized Helpful? Birobrata Deb Specialist Software Engineer in QA & Automation Chose ReadyAPI It has many features including functional security testing. And it's known to be widely used. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose ReadyAPI We selected SoapUI because it generates tests easily using drag and drop, and point-and-click. It gives powerful data-driven testing with data from files and databases. Scripts can be reused easily. We had an extra option to integrate it directly with our build tool, Jenkins, … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose ReadyAPI Our team did an extensive analysis of the products that were available to carry out API Testing. There were 3 products that were finalized, SoapUI Pro, Postman, and Katalon Studio, out of these 3 SoapUI was the clear winner. I can't stress enough about the SoapUI's UI … Incentivized Helpful? Sharmin Promi Lead QA Automation Engineer Chose ReadyAPI Postman, Unified Functional Testing (formerly HP UFT) and JMeter Incentivized Helpful?

TrustRadius Insights
	Postman	ReadyAPI
Highlights	Research Team Insight Published January 29, 2021 Postman and ReadyAPI (formerly SoapUI Pro, LoadUI Pro, & ServiceV Pro) are API testing and development tools. Postman is designed as a centralized platform for teams to develop, test, and manage their APIs. ReadyAPI is more tightly focused on testing, with features aimed at helping teams create, maintain, and execute test suites. Both Postman and ReadyAPI are primarily used by enterprise-level organizations, likely because of their focus on helping large teams manage complex APIs and test suites. Features Although both Postman and ReadyAPI are centered around API testing and development, they vary in how general-use or specialized each product is. Postman is designed to support more steps of the API development and testing process, with API design and development tools on top of testing capability. It also includes team collaboration features, such as shared workspaces for specific APIs, built-in version control, and granular access permissions. It offers support for a wide array of endpoint types, and users report that Postman makes it easy to switch between different testing modes, API languages, and request types when needed. ReadyAPI stands out as a specialist in API testing and CI/CD features. It features native integrations with software lifecycle tools, such as Maven and Jenkins. ReadyAPI has plenty of features to help users perform comprehensive testing, with random data generation, support for test parameter variables, and test data importing from external datasheets. Its security testing features are powerful and cover a wide range of potential malicious actions, and its reporting dashboard helps teams analyze and understand test results. Limitations Despite the benefits of Postman and ReadyAPI, the two platforms have limitations as well. Make sure to consider the drawbacks of each before committing to either. Some Postman users have experienced lagging and freezing, especially under heavy or complex API loads. Its reporting features aren’t robust enough for some users, and other testers wished for more test automation options for advanced QA and integration testing. Finally, Postman isn’t beginner-friendly. Its UI can be confusing, and it can take a long time to get familiar with its more advanced features. ReadyAPI is a bulky tool, with many users reporting slow responsiveness, poor cache management, and clunky folder setup and organization. Some users found its web UI and mobile app testing capabilities lacking for their needs, while others wanted additional CI/CD tools for Azure integration. Finally, ReadyAPI is sold in three separate packages, each containing different features. Security testing and performance testing are split into different packages, which left some single-package customers frustrated at the seeming lack of desired features. Pricing Postman uses a tiered monthly per-user subscription model. The Free tier is free and includes basic API design, development, and test features for single users. The Team tier is $12 per user per month and adds additional collaboration and development tools for up to 19 users. The Business tier is $24 per user per month and adds SSO and access control features for up to 99 users. The Enterprise tier is priced by quote and is designed for 100+ users. ReadyAPI offers three separate modules priced on an annual per-license basis. The API Test Module starts at $685 annually per license and includes CI/CD automated testing, security testing, and both scriptless and scripted testing options. The API Performance Module starts at $5,374 annually per license and includes server monitoring, load generation, and API load testing. The API Virtualization Module is $1,060 annually per license and includes tools to deploy virtual services, generate mock data, and simulate server-side behavior. Customers can also contact the vendor for bundle pricing, which includes all three packages.

Features

Postman

ReadyAPI

API Management

Comparison of API Management features of Product A and Product B
	Postman 7.6 Ratings 9% below category average	ReadyAPI - Ratings
API access control	8.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Rate limits and usage policies	7.10 Ratings	00 Ratings
API usage data	8.10 Ratings	00 Ratings
API user onboarding	8.30 Ratings	00 Ratings
API versioning	6.50 Ratings	00 Ratings
Usage billing and payments	8.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
API monitoring and logging	7.00 Ratings	00 Ratings

Best Alternatives
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Medium-sized Companies	NGINX Score 9.2 out of 10	Oracle Application Testing Suite (legacy) Score 8.0 out of 10
Enterprises	NGINX Score 9.2 out of 10	SoapUI Open Source Score 8.7 out of 10
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User Ratings
	Postman	ReadyAPI
Likelihood to Recommend	9.0 (0 ratings)	7.0 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	- (0 ratings)	7.3 (0 ratings)
Usability	8.5 (0 ratings)	9.9 (0 ratings)
Availability	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (0 ratings)
Performance	- (0 ratings)	8.0 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	7.1 (0 ratings)	8.0 (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	- (0 ratings)	7.0 (0 ratings)
Ease of integration	9.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Product Scalability	- (0 ratings)	7.0 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Postman	ReadyAPI
Likelihood to Recommend	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	As stated, we do a LOT of API testing, the swaggerhub import makes it easy to add APIs. This is very well-suited, as well as easy management of the steps/cases/suites inside of ReadyAPI. The one thing I do wish ReadyAPI was better suited for is changes to data, we have a lot of test cases in ReadyAPI and if we make a change to how the backend data is structured, one-by-one adjustments need to be made to the steps. Less appropriate, UI testing. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	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	SoapUI NG Pro is a prefect tool for setting up complicated test cases with many steps including parameterized Web Service requests, response assertions, data generators, data sources, data sinks (report recorders) and more You can use Groovy or JavaScript for more complicated automation such as validating the results, extracting data, using external Java libraries or running system processes. Groovy IDE is compatible with Java and you can easily write your code in Java with very few modifications. SoapUI enables you to run multiple test suites in parallel or in a loop, and provide user friendly reports including all test case results and test case coverage. SoapUI NG Pro lets you to perform security test against your web services with predefined scenarios such as xml bombing, xml injection, sql injection, buffer overflow tests, monkey testing and so on. SoapUI NG Pro, offers a simple but practical solution for low to medium load testing scenarios. You can obtain many more Load and Performance testing features by extending your license with purchasing LoadUI Pro. Incentivized Payam Pirooznia Senior Automation Test Engineer Read full review
Cons	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	REST - They have come a long way, but there could still be improvements here. I find the learning curve much higher and not as straight forward using REST vs SOAP. Composite Projects - I'd really like to see them implement something around saving/refreshing Test Suites when using the Composite project ability in Pro. This is currently an enhancement in feature backlog (see their forum for more details). Functionality around Projects and Test Cases seems pretty sound. Natalie Colyer Lead Test Automation Engineer Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	No answers on this topic	I would definitely renew the ReadyAPI as I was pretty happy while using it. But then I switched my job, and the current workplace is using Postman so we are using it for now. Plus, I don't have any issues with Postman. At the end of the day, it about selecting the tool that gets your work done more efficiently. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Usability	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	SoapUI allows us to combine multiple tests and adhere to the sequence that they need to run in order to complete successfully. It has an excellent GUI design and the reporting mechanism is also very good. It does consume a lot of memory though during concurrent testing Christopher Saleh Lead QA Engineer Read full review
Reliability and Availability	No answers on this topic	Soap UI has managed to continuously build on it's solid foundation and keep improving by each release. It is by far the most dependable and accurate testing tool out there of its kind. Available via connecting to VM's created as SoapUI test machines give access to it anytime, anywhere practically. Christopher Saleh Lead QA Engineer Read full review
Performance	No answers on this topic	It has an excellent GUI design and the reporting mechanism is also very good. It does consume a lot of memory though during concurrent testing. Christopher Saleh Lead QA Engineer Read full review
Support Rating	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	For my purposes, the provided help features have been sufficient. I am sure I would be better off if I were to spend more time studying the app. For now, I load a project, connect, and execute. It just works. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Implementation Rating	No answers on this topic	no very easy but lacks documentation Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	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	I have not used other API testing products but I am completely satisfied with the functionality and performance of ReadyAPI. It covers all required API protocols and database connections that are used in our organization. It also allows extending the functionality by adding external DB drivers and wiring custom scripts when the native assertion/data manipulation test steps are not sufficient. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Scalability	No answers on this topic	It has an excellent GUI design and the reporting mechanism is also very good. It does consume a lot of memory though during concurrent testing. However, I have read that added monitoring tools have been added, which if so the 7 could possibly go to a 8 or 9. Christopher Saleh Lead QA Engineer Read full review
Return on Investment	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	We were able to achieve our needs in API test automation with the tool In terms ROI, I would say that we have gotten what is basically needed Though the initial setup was tough, after that we were able to continue it with user friendly UI and reporting. Overall, it had [a] neutral impact in terms [of] ROI. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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