Runscope vs Postman vs JSON Server | What are the differences?

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Runscope

Stacks132

Followers173

Votes60

Postman

Stacks96.5K

Followers82.5K

Votes1.8K

Forks0

JSON Server

Stacks135

Followers189

Votes7

GitHub Stars75.3K

Forks7.2K

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Advice on Runscope, Postman, JSON Server

Jagdeep

Tech Lead at Founder and Lightning

May 6, 2019

Reviewon

Postman

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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StackShare

May 1, 2019

Needs advice

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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Stephen

Artificial Intelligence Fellow

Feb 4, 2020

Decided

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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Detailed Comparison

Runscope	Postman	JSON Server
Keep tabs on all aspects of your API's performance with uptime monitoring, integration testing, logging and real-time monitoring.	It is the only complete API development environment, used by nearly five million developers and more than 100,000 companies worldwide.	Created with <3 for front-end developers who need a quick back-end for prototyping and mocking.
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.	Compact layout;HTTP requests with file upload support;Formatted API responses for JSON and XML;Image previews;Request history;Basic Auth, OAuth 1.0, OAuth 2.0, and other common auth helpers;Autocomplete for URL and header values;Key/value editors for adding parameters or header values. Works for URL parameters too.;Use environment variables to easily shift between settings. Great for testing production, staging or local setups.;Keyboard shortcuts to maximize your productivity;Automatically generated web documentation;Mock servers hosted on Postman’s cloud;API monitoring run from Postman cloud	-
Statistics
GitHub Stars -	GitHub Stars -	GitHub Stars 75.3K
GitHub Forks -	GitHub Forks 0	GitHub Forks 7.2K
Stacks 132	Stacks 96.5K	Stacks 135
Followers 173	Followers 82.5K	Followers 189
Votes 60	Votes 1.8K	Votes 7
Pros & Cons
Pros 17 Great features 15 Easy to use 4 Nicely priced 4 Free plan 2 Decent	Pros 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 Cons 10 Stores credentials in HTTP 9 Bloated features and UI 8 Cumbersome to switch authentication tokens 7 Poor GraphQL support 5 Expensive	Pros 7 Stupid simple
Integrations
Keen GitHub New Relic PagerDuty Heroku HipChat CircleCI Zapier Grove VictorOps	HipChat Keen Slack Dropbox Datadog PagerDuty Bigpanda Microsoft Teams Newman VictorOps	No integrations available

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