Alternatives and competitors
Sites like Postman
The 20 closest API development tools alternatives to Postman, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 10 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to Postman? The closest matches are SurveyMonkey, PubNub and monday.com. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.
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- k = 20
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01 · Entity
About Postman
Postman postman.com
Wikidata: API development platform
Summary by Claude
Postman provides software for designing, testing, documenting and monitoring APIs, along with the Postman API Network, a public directory of APIs.
- Who it’s for
- Software developers and API teams
- Business model
- Freemium subscriptions
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Postman’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
03 · Nearest neighbours
Alternatives to Postman
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Postman, thumbs down if it isn’t.
Startups challenging Postman
All challengersYounger companies going after Postman, often too small to rank among its nearest neighbours yet.
Collections are plain text files, versioned with Git next to the code.
Lightweight and runs in a browser tab, no heavy desktop app required.
We can’t read postman.com’s homepage (UND_ERR_CONNECT_TIMEOUT), so it’s compared on what Wikidata and Wikipedia say about it.
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SurveyMonkey: The World’s Most Popular Survey Platform
Easily create surveys and forms with AI and templates for employee and customer feedback, market research, event registrations and more. Get started free.
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Build, manage, & optimize real-time apps at scale | PubNub
Power your real-time app with PubNub - the world's largest pub/sub network. Scale to 3 trillion API calls/month, with <30ms global delivery. Start building now!
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The AI Workspace for People & Agents | monday.com
Get more work done with AI agents that work side by side with your people. Execute, manage, and operate together on one AI Workspace to drive business results.
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Canva
online graphic design platform
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GitHub · Change is constant. GitHub keeps you ahead. · GitHub · GitHub
Join the world's most widely adopted, AI-powered developer platform where millions of developers, businesses, and the largest open source community build software that advances humanity.
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PostHog – Your product’s context layer
PostHog automatically diagnoses problems, fixes bugs, and generates pull requests – all without you having to prompt it.
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Image and Video Platform for Visual Experiences | Cloudinary
Streamline media management and improve user experience by automatically delivering images and videos, enhanced and optimized for every user.
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American technology company
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Figma: The collaborative canvas for design, code, and AI
Figma is the canvas where design, code, and AI come together. From first idea to shipped product — go from concept to production with your whole team, in one place.
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Client Challenge
free and open-source web content management system
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ipapi - IP Address Lookup and Geolocation API | No SignUp
Enterprise IP Location by Kloudend, Inc - built on AWS, trusted by Fortune 500. Geolocation API for JSON, XML in PHP, JS, Java, Python, Node & more.
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phpMyAdmin
database administration tool
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Supabase | The Postgres Development Platform
Build production-grade applications with a Postgres database, Authentication, instant APIs, Realtime, Functions, Storage and Vector embeddings. Start for free.
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Doxygen homepage
Source code documentation and analysis tool
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What Is My IP Address? - ifconfig.me
Get my IP Address
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Docs.rs
official documentation website for Rust libraries
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AI App and Website Builder | Replit
Describe what you want. Replit builds it. Get a working app or website in minutes. No coding required.
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Docker | Secure Sandboxes for AI Agents
Run AI agents and containers safely, anywhere. Docker gives builders trusted sandboxes, governance, and a secure supply chain for modern software.
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Compliance Solutions for Websites, Apps and Organizations | iubenda
iubenda is your 360° compliance solution for global data privacy laws. Privacy policy generator, cookie consent management, ROPA, Terms and more.
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Whitepages: People Search, Phone Numbers & Addresses
Founded in 1997, Whitepages is the largest U.S. directory and trusted source for contact info and property data. Find people, phone numbers, addresses, and emails nationwide. Free and premium search across the Whitepages Identity Graph: 350M+ identity records, 4B+ data linkages, 112M+ property records.
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Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to postman.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Postman uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What Postman is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- Payments
- Stripe TXT stripe-verification=79B78E332A0B6F2C0F7E58A63F88F208ECB51940BCAE2F86B…
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms45281098
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-1576.awsdns-05.co.uk
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=lkiS1jcuh7zWzOQ5
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=NNOLqAFV5pMdx7+ZtNWqkefCIJZf8E9pzyPG66Z…
- DocuSign TXT docusign=f4e5fb63-2941-4993-ac82-a45ed61644d3
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=M-WRtg599sloB1_i6SeSsK9WN3rMgeMRVB8bKHGRE1w
- Notion TXT notion-domain-verification=tCk40omy89xgFewKFtnvkbLaVUYXnyQqZinFfhLkvSR
- OpenAI TXT openai-domain-verification=dv-l9iBWX99pXPCZGjFcg0iuvMY
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Postman adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 18/20
- Apple Business 12/20
- OpenAI 11/20
- Amazon Route 53 10/20
- Microsoft 365 9/20
- Google Workspace 9/20
- Zendesk · not on postman.com 9/20
- Atlassian 8/20
- Stripe 8/20
- Adobe · not on postman.com 7/20
- Cloudflare · not on postman.com 7/20
- DocuSign 6/20
- Miro · not on postman.com 6/20
- OneTrust · not on postman.com 6/20
- React · not on postman.com 6/20
- HubSpot · not on postman.com 6/20