Need advice about which tool to choose?Ask the StackShare community!

API Blueprint

Stacks98

Followers99

+ 1

Votes2

Postman

Stacks94.1K

Followers80.6K

+ 1

Votes1.8K

Add tool

API Blueprint vs Postman: What are the differences?

Protocol Support: API Blueprint only supports HTTP-based APIs, while Postman supports a variety of protocols including HTTP, REST, and SOAP. This allows Postman to be more versatile in handling different types of APIs.
Collaboration Features: Postman provides extensive collaboration features such as team workspaces, shared collections, and role-based access control, which API Blueprint lacks. This makes Postman a better choice for teams working on API development collaboratively.
Mock Servers: Postman allows users to create and run mock servers for testing APIs, a feature that is not available in API Blueprint. This enables developers to simulate API responses and test their functionality without the need for a fully functional backend.
Automation and Testing: Postman offers robust automation and testing capabilities through its collection runner and Newman CLI tool, which API Blueprint lacks. This allows developers to automate the testing of APIs and integrate them into continuous integration pipelines easily.
API Monitoring: Postman provides API monitoring and performance testing features, which API Blueprint does not offer. This allows developers to monitor the performance of their APIs in real-time and identify any issues or bottlenecks.
Environment Variables and Scripts: Postman allows users to work with environment variables and write scripts for pre-request and post-request actions, a feature that is missing in API Blueprint. This enables developers to customize their requests and automate workflows more effectively.

In Summary, Postman offers a wider range of features such as protocol support, collaboration tools, mock servers, automation, monitoring, and scripting capabilities compared to API Blueprint.

Advice on API Blueprint and Postman

StackShare Editors

May 1, 2019 | 5 upvotes · 362.8K views

Needs advice

Postman

Apiary

and

Swagger UI

From a StackShare Community member: "I just started working for a start-up and we are in desperate need of better documentation for our API. Currently our API docs is in a README.md file. We are evaluating Postman and Swagger UI. Since there are many options and I was wondering what other StackSharers would recommend?"

Replies (3)

Jagdeep Singh

Tech Lead at ucreate.it · May 6, 2019 | 8 upvotes · 391.2K views

Recommends

Postman

Founder and Lightning

I use Postman because of the ease of team-management, using workspaces and teams, runner, collections, environment variables, test-scripts (post execution), variable management (pre and post execution), folders (inside collections, for better management of APIs), newman, easy-ci-integration (and probably a few more things that I am not able to recall right now).

Jadenko

May 3, 2019 | 2 upvotes · 379K views

Recommends

Swagger UI

European Commission

I use Swagger UI because it's an easy tool for end-consumers to visualize and test our APIs. It focuses on that ! And it's directly embedded and delivered with the APIs. Postman's built-in tools aren't bad, but their main focus isn't the documentation and also, they are hosted outside the project.

Sadik Ay

Backend Engineer · Aug 31, 2019 | 2 upvotes · 362.1K views

Recommends

Postman

I recommend Postman because it's easy to use with history option. Also, it has very great features like runner, collections, test scripts runners, defining environment variables and simple exporting and importing data.

Decisions about API Blueprint and Postman

Stephen Fox

Artificial Intelligence Fellow · Feb 4, 2020 | 1 upvote · 345.1K views

Chose

Postman

over

Insomnia REST Client

Postman supports automation and organization in a way that Insomnia just doesn't. Admittedly, Insomnia makes it slightly easy to query the data that you get back (in a very MongoDB-esque query language) but Postman sets you up to develop the code that you would use in development/testing right in the editor.

Manage your open source components, licenses, and vulnerabilities

Learn More

Pros of API Blueprint

Pros of Postman

1
Easy to use
1
Ecosystem of tools

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
53
It's the best
53
History feature
44
Adds real value to my workflow
43
Great interface that magically predicts your needs
35
The best in class app
12
Can save and share script
10
Fully featured without looking cluttered
8
Collections
8
Option to run scrips
8
Global/Environment Variables
7
Shareable Collections
7
Dead simple and useful. Excellent
7
Dark theme easy on the eyes
6
Awesome customer support
6
Great integration with newman
5
Documentation
5
Simple
5
The test script is useful
4
Saves responses
4
This has simplified my testing significantly
4
Makes testing API's as easy as 1,2,3
4
Easy as pie
3
API-network
3
I'd recommend it to everyone who works with apis
3
Mocking API calls with predefined response
2
Now supports GraphQL
2
Postman Runner CI Integration
2
Easy to setup, test and provides test storage
2
Continuous integration using newman
2
Pre-request Script and Test attributes are invaluable
2
Runner
2
Graph
1
<a href="http://fixbit.com/">useful tool</a>

Sign up to add or upvote prosMake informed product decisions

Cons of API Blueprint

Cons of Postman

Be the first to leave a con

10
Stores credentials in HTTP
9
Bloated features and UI
8
Cumbersome to switch authentication tokens
7
Poor GraphQL support
5
Expensive
3
Not free after 5 users
3
Can't prompt for per-request variables
1
Import swagger
1
Support websocket
1
Import curl

Sign up to add or upvote consMake informed product decisions

- No public GitHub repository available -

What is API Blueprint?

API Blueprint is simple and accessible to everybody involved in the API lifecycle. Its syntax is concise yet expressive. With API Blueprint you can quickly design and prototype APIs to be created or document and test already deployed mission-critical APIs.

What is Postman?

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

Need advice about which tool to choose?Ask the StackShare community!

Jobs that mention API Blueprint and Postman as a desired skillset

Software Engineer II (Backend), Data Encryption

Postman

Bangalore, India

View Job Details

Engineering Manager, Workspaces

Postman

Bangalore, India

View Job Details

+10

Senior Engineering Manager, Data Engineering

Postman

Bangalore, India

View Job Details

Senior Engineering Manager - Public Workspace

Postman

Bangalore, India

View Job Details

Senior Cloud Engineer

Postman

San Francisco, United States

View Job Details

Strategic Solution Engineer

Postman

Toronto, Canada

View Job Details

Strategic Solution Engineer

Postman

Boston/ NYC, United States

View Job Details

Senior Engineer (Backend), Collections

Postman

Bangalore, India

View Job Details

+10

See jobs for API Blueprint

See jobs for Postman

What companies use API Blueprint?

What companies use Postman?

Manage your open source components, licenses, and vulnerabilities

Learn More

Sign up to get full access to all the companiesMake informed product decisions

What tools integrate with API Blueprint?

What tools integrate with Postman?

No integrations found

Sign up to get full access to all the tool integrationsMake informed product decisions

What are some alternatives to API Blueprint and Postman?

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.

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.

Stack Overflow

Stack Overflow is a question and answer site for professional and enthusiast programmers. It's built and run by you as part of the Stack Exchange network of Q&A sites. With your help, we're working together to build a library of detailed answers to every question about programming.

Google Maps

Create rich applications and stunning visualisations of your data, leveraging the comprehensiveness, accuracy, and usability of Google Maps and a modern web platform that scales as you grow.

Elasticsearch

Elasticsearch is a distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine capable of storing data and searching it in near real time. Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats and Logstash are the Elastic Stack (sometimes called the ELK Stack).

See all alternatives

API Blueprint vs Postman

Need advice about which tool to choose?Ask the StackShare community!

API Blueprint vs Postman: What are the differences?

Pros of API Blueprint

Pros of Postman

Sign up to add or upvote prosMake informed product decisions

Cons of API Blueprint

Cons of Postman

Sign up to add or upvote consMake informed product decisions

What is API Blueprint?

What is Postman?

Need advice about which tool to choose?Ask the StackShare community!

What companies use API Blueprint?

What companies use Postman?

Sign up to get full access to all the companiesMake informed product decisions

What tools integrate with API Blueprint?

What tools integrate with Postman?

Sign up to get full access to all the tool integrationsMake informed product decisions

Related Comparisons

Trending Comparisons

Top Comparisons