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Google Cloud Endpoints vs Postman: What are the differences?

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Google Cloud Endpoints and Postman are both popular tools used in API development and testing. While they serve similar purposes, there are key differences between the two that make them distinct.

  1. API Management and Deployment: Google Cloud Endpoints offers a comprehensive API management solution that allows you to easily deploy, monitor, and control access to your APIs. It provides features like API key authentication, quota enforcement, and automatic deployment to Google Cloud Platform. On the other hand, Postman primarily focuses on API testing and documentation, providing a user-friendly interface for creating and sending API requests. It does not provide the same level of deployment and management features as Google Cloud Endpoints.

  2. Integration with Google Cloud Platform: Google Cloud Endpoints seamlessly integrates with other services and tools within the Google Cloud Platform ecosystem. It works well with services like Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, and Kubernetes Engine, allowing you to easily expose your APIs as serverless functions or containers. Postman, on the other hand, is a standalone tool that can be used with any API, regardless of the underlying infrastructure or platform.

  3. SDK Generation: Google Cloud Endpoints provides SDK generation capabilities, allowing you to automatically generate client libraries for different programming languages based on your API specification. This makes it easier for developers to consume your APIs and reduces the amount of boilerplate code they need to write. Postman does not offer this feature and requires developers to manually handle API consumption in their chosen programming language.

  4. Collaboration and Team Work: Postman provides a collaborative workspace that allows teams to work together on API development and testing. Teams can easily share collections, environment variables, and tests with each other, promoting collaboration and ensuring consistency in API development. While Google Cloud Endpoints does not offer a dedicated collaboration workspace, it integrates with other collaboration tools like Google Cloud Source Repositories, allowing teams to work together on API codebases.

  5. Pricing Model: Google Cloud Endpoints follows a pricing model based on API call volume and other factors within the Google Cloud Platform pricing structure. The cost varies depending on factors like the number of requests, the amount of data transferred, and any additional services used. Postman, on the other hand, offers flexible pricing plans based on team size and usage requirements, with options for free individual accounts and paid team plans.

  6. Documentation and API Reference: Google Cloud Endpoints automatically generates API documentation and provides an API Explorer to easily test your APIs while working with Google Cloud Platform. Postman also includes features for documenting APIs, generating collections, and sharing them with others. However, the documentation and API reference capabilities of Google Cloud Endpoints are more tightly integrated with the overall Google Cloud Platform ecosystem, making it easier to manage and maintain your API documentation within the platform.

In summary, Google Cloud Endpoints and Postman differ in terms of API management and deployment capabilities, integration with Google Cloud Platform, SDK generation, collaboration features, pricing model, and documentation capabilities.

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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?"

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Jagdeep Singh
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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).

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Jadenko
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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.

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Sadik Ay
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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.

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Insomnia REST ClientInsomnia 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.

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Pros of Google Cloud Endpoints
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    Android Integration
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    Easy to use
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    Great tool
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    Makes developing rest api's easy peasy
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    Easy setup, looks good
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    The best api workflow out there
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    It's the best
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    History feature
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    Adds real value to my workflow
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    Great interface that magically predicts your needs
  • 35
    The best in class app
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    Can save and share script
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    Fully featured without looking cluttered
  • 8
    Collections
  • 8
    Option to run scrips
  • 8
    Global/Environment Variables
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    Shareable Collections
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    Dead simple and useful. Excellent
  • 7
    Dark theme easy on the eyes
  • 6
    Awesome customer support
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    Great integration with newman
  • 5
    Documentation
  • 5
    Simple
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    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
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    Easy as pie
  • 3
    API-network
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    I'd recommend it to everyone who works with apis
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    Mocking API calls with predefined response
  • 2
    Now supports GraphQL
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    Postman Runner CI Integration
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    Easy to setup, test and provides test storage
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    Continuous integration using newman
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    Pre-request Script and Test attributes are invaluable
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    Runner
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    Graph
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Cons of Google Cloud Endpoints
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      Stores credentials in HTTP
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      Bloated features and UI
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      Cumbersome to switch authentication tokens
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      Poor GraphQL support
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      Expensive
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      Not free after 5 users
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      Can't prompt for per-request variables
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      Import swagger
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      Support websocket
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      Import curl

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    What is Google Cloud Endpoints?

    An NGINX-based proxy and distributed architecture give unparalleled performance and scalability. Using an Open API Specification or one of our API frameworks, Cloud Endpoints gives you the tools you need for every phase of API development and provides insight with Google Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Trace, Google Cloud Logging and Cloud Trace.

    What is Postman?

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

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