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Runscope vs HTTP Toolkit: What are the differences?
Developers describe Runscope as "API Performance Monitoring". Keep tabs on all aspects of your API's performance with uptime monitoring, integration testing, logging and real-time monitoring. On the other hand, HTTP Toolkit is detailed as "Supercharged debugging for HTTP(S), with one click setup". It is a suite of cross-platform, beautiful & open-source tools for debugging, testing and building with HTTP(S). Intercept & view all your HTTP(S) Mock endpoints or entire servers Rewrite, redirect, or inject errors.
Runscope and HTTP Toolkit belong to "API Tools" category of the tech stack.
Some of the features offered by Runscope are:
- Runscope Radar: Automatically monitor your APIs from around the globe. Integrates with PagerDuty, New Relic Insights, Keen IO, HipChat, Slack and more. Test complete API workflows with powerful assertions and notifications.
- Runscope Metrics: API performance and usage reports.
- Runscope API Traffic Inspector: Log and view API calls from any language or framework to any API to solve integration problems.
On the other hand, HTTP Toolkit provides the following key features:
- HTTPS interception with zero configuration
- Automated interception setup for many clients including Chrome, Firefox & almost all CLI tools
- Full text search of all request & response details
Pros of HTTP Toolkit
Pros of Runscope
- Great features17
- Easy to use15
- Nicely priced4
- Free plan4
- No install needed - runs on cloud2
- Decent2
- Collections1
- Dead simple and useful. Excellent1
- Awesome customer support1
- Import scripts from sources including Postman1
- Shareable Collections1
- Global & Collection level variables1
- Graphical view of response times historically1
- Integrations - StatusPage, PagerDuty, HipChat, Victorop1
- Run tests from multiple locations across globe1
- Schedule test collections to auto-run at intervals1
- Auto Re-run failed scheduled tests before notifying1
- Makes developing REST APIs easy1
- History feature - call history and response history1
- Restrict access by teams1
- Fully featured without looking cluttered1
- Can save and share scripts1