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Hoppscotch vs Postman: What are the differences?

Hoppscotch: A free, fast and beautiful API request builder. It is a free, fast and beautiful API request builder. It helps you create requests faster, saving precious time on development; Postman: Only complete API development environment. It is the only complete API development environment, used by nearly five million developers and more than 100,000 companies worldwide.

Hoppscotch and Postman belong to "API Tools" category of the tech stack.

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Pros of Hoppscotch
Pros of Postman
  • 4
    Can be self hosted
  • 4
    Open Source
  • 4
    Great UI
  • 3
    Improving Quickly
  • 1
    Good community
  • 488
    Easy to use
  • 368
    Great tool
  • 275
    Makes developing rest api's easy peasy
  • 155
    Easy setup, looks good
  • 143
    The best api workflow out there
  • 53
    History feature
  • 53
    It's the best
  • 44
    Adds real value to my workflow
  • 42
    Great interface that magically predicts your needs
  • 34
    The best in class app
  • 11
    Can save and share script
  • 9
    Fully featured without looking cluttered
  • 7
    Collections
  • 7
    Option to run scrips
  • 7
    Global/Environment Variables
  • 6
    Dead simple and useful. Excellent
  • 6
    Shareable Collections
  • 6
    Dark theme easy on the eyes
  • 5
    Awesome customer support
  • 5
    Great integration with newman
  • 4
    Simple
  • 4
    The test script is useful
  • 4
    Documentation
  • 3
    Easy as pie
  • 3
    Saves responses
  • 3
    Makes testing API's as easy as 1,2,3
  • 3
    This has simplified my testing significantly
  • 2
    API-network
  • 2
    I'd recommend it to everyone who works with apis
  • 2
    Mocking API calls with predefined response
  • 1
    Easy to setup, test and provides test storage
  • 1
    Graph
  • 1
    Postman Runner CI Integration
  • 1
    Now supports GraphQL
  • 1
    Continuous integration using newman
  • 1
    Pre-request Script and Test attributes are invaluable
  • 0
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  • 0
    Runner

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Cons of Hoppscotch
Cons of Postman
  • 1
    Can't set environment vars form post request script
  • 9
    Bloated features and UI
  • 9
    Stores credentials in HTTP
  • 8
    Cumbersome to switch authentication tokens
  • 7
    Poor GraphQL support
  • 5
    Expensive
  • 3
    Can't prompt for per-request variables
  • 3
    Not free after 5 users
  • 1
    Import curl
  • 1
    Import swagger
  • 1
    Support websocket

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What is Hoppscotch?

It is a free, fast and beautiful API request builder. It helps you create requests faster, saving precious time on development

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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