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  5. Amazon API Gateway vs Postman vs Retrofit

Amazon API Gateway vs Postman vs Retrofit

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Overview

Postman
Postman
Stacks96.1K
Followers82.5K
Votes1.8K
Forks0
Retrofit
Retrofit
Stacks386
Followers198
Votes0
GitHub Stars43.8K
Forks7.3K
Amazon API Gateway
Amazon API Gateway
Stacks1.4K
Followers1.1K
Votes45

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Detailed Comparison

Postman
Postman
Retrofit
Retrofit
Amazon API Gateway
Amazon API Gateway

It is the only complete API development environment, used by nearly five million developers and more than 100,000 companies worldwide.

Retrofit turns your HTTP API into a Java interface

Amazon API Gateway handles all the tasks involved in accepting and processing up to hundreds of thousands of concurrent API calls, including traffic management, authorization and access control, monitoring, and API version management.

Compact layout;HTTP requests with file upload support;Formatted API responses for JSON and XML;Image previews;Request history;Basic Auth, OAuth 1.0, OAuth 2.0, and other common auth helpers;Autocomplete for URL and header values;Key/value editors for adding parameters or header values. Works for URL parameters too.;Use environment variables to easily shift between settings. Great for testing production, staging or local setups.;Keyboard shortcuts to maximize your productivity;Automatically generated web documentation;Mock servers hosted on Postman’s cloud;API monitoring run from Postman cloud
URL parameter replacement and query parameter support; Object conversion to request body (e.g., JSON, protocol buffers); Multipart request body and file upload
Build, Deploy and Manage APIs; Resiliency;API Lifecycle Management;SDK Generation;API Operations Monitoring;AWS Authorization;API Keys for Third-Party Developers
Statistics
GitHub Stars
-
GitHub Stars
43.8K
GitHub Stars
-
GitHub Forks
0
GitHub Forks
7.3K
GitHub Forks
-
Stacks
96.1K
Stacks
386
Stacks
1.4K
Followers
82.5K
Followers
198
Followers
1.1K
Votes
1.8K
Votes
0
Votes
45
Pros & Cons
Pros
  • 490
    Easy to use
  • 369
    Great tool
  • 276
    Makes developing rest api's easy peasy
  • 156
    Easy setup, looks good
  • 144
    The best api workflow out there
Cons
  • 10
    Stores credentials in HTTP
  • 9
    Bloated features and UI
  • 8
    Cumbersome to switch authentication tokens
  • 7
    Poor GraphQL support
  • 5
    Expensive
No community feedback yet
Pros
  • 37
    AWS Integration
  • 7
    Websockets
  • 1
    Serverless
Cons
  • 2
    No websocket broadcast
  • 1
    Less expensive
Integrations
HipChat
HipChat
Keen
Keen
Slack
Slack
Dropbox
Dropbox
Datadog
Datadog
PagerDuty
PagerDuty
Bigpanda
Bigpanda
Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Teams
Newman
Newman
VictorOps
VictorOps
No integrations available
AWS Lambda
AWS Lambda
Amazon CloudWatch
Amazon CloudWatch

What are some alternatives to Postman, Retrofit, Amazon API Gateway?

Swagger UI

Swagger UI

Swagger UI is a dependency-free collection of HTML, Javascript, and CSS assets that dynamically generate beautiful documentation and sandbox from a Swagger-compliant API

Paw

Paw

Paw is a full-featured and beautifully designed Mac app that makes interaction with REST services delightful. Either you are an API maker or consumer, Paw helps you build HTTP requests, inspect the server's response and even generate client code.

Kong

Kong

Kong is a scalable, open source API Layer (also known as an API Gateway, or API Middleware). Kong controls layer 4 and 7 traffic and is extended through Plugins, which provide extra functionality and services beyond the core platform.

Apiary

Apiary

It takes more than a simple HTML page to thrill your API users. The right tools take weeks of development. Weeks that apiary.io saves.

Karate DSL

Karate DSL

Combines API test-automation, mocks and performance-testing into a single, unified framework. The BDD syntax popularized by Cucumber is language-neutral, and easy for even non-programmers. Besides powerful JSON & XML assertions, you can run tests in parallel for speed - which is critical for HTTP API testing.

ReadMe.io

ReadMe.io

It is an easy-to-use tool to help you build out documentation! Each documentation site that you publish is a project where there is space for documentation, interactive API reference guides, a changelog, and much more.

Appwrite

Appwrite

Appwrite's open-source platform lets you add Auth, DBs, Functions and Storage to your product and build any application at any scale, own your data, and use your preferred coding languages and tools.

Runscope

Runscope

Keep tabs on all aspects of your API's performance with uptime monitoring, integration testing, logging and real-time monitoring.

Insomnia REST Client

Insomnia REST Client

Insomnia is a powerful REST API Client with cookie management, environment variables, code generation, and authentication for Mac, Window, and Linux.

RAML

RAML

RESTful API Modeling Language (RAML) makes it easy to manage the whole API lifecycle from design to sharing. It's concise - you only write what you need to define - and reusable. It is machine readable API design that is actually human friendly.

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