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Intercept.rest vs Runscope: What are the differences?
Developers describe Intercept.rest as "Faster API debugging". Similar to the Network tab in Chrome Dev Tools but works for any API, Mobile apps, web hooks, frontend etc.. On the other hand, Runscope is detailed as "API Performance Monitoring". Keep tabs on all aspects of your API's performance with uptime monitoring, integration testing, logging and real-time monitoring.
Intercept.rest and Runscope can be categorized as "API" tools.
Some of the features offered by Intercept.rest are:
- Realtime logs
- Offline support
- Collaborate better
On the other hand, Runscope provides the following key features:
- 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.
"Super easy to get started, https works out of the box" is the primary reason why developers consider Intercept.rest over the competitors, whereas "Great features" was stated as the key factor in picking Runscope.
Pros of Intercept.rest
- Super easy to get started, https works out of the box3
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