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Galileo vs Postman: What are the differences?

# Introduction
Galileo and Postman are two popular tools used for API testing and development. While they both serve similar purposes, there are key differences between them that cater to different needs and preferences.

## 1. Flexibility in API development: 
Galileo allows users to create custom API simulators and virtual services for complex test scenarios, providing a high level of flexibility in API development. On the other hand, Postman focuses more on API testing and collaboration, offering a user-friendly interface for simplifying API testing processes.

## 2. Collaboration features: 
Postman offers extensive collaboration features, such as team workspaces, seamless sharing of collections and environments, and built-in version control, making it ideal for teamwork and sharing API testing resources. In contrast, Galileo may lack advanced collaboration capabilities, focusing more on individual API development needs.

## 3. Advanced testing capabilities:
Galileo offers advanced testing capabilities, such as automated load testing, performance monitoring, and complex response validation, catering to users with more extensive testing requirements. Postman, while comprehensive in its testing features, may not offer the same level of advanced testing capabilities as Galileo.

## 4. Pricing model:
Galileo typically offers a more flexible pricing model, allowing users to choose from various subscription plans based on their specific needs and budget constraints. Postman, although providing a free version for individual users, might have limitations or require paid subscriptions for accessing certain advanced features or increased testing capacities.

## 5. User Interface:
Postman is known for its user-friendly interface, making it easy for users to create and execute API requests, organize test cases, and analyze data efficiently. Galileo, while functional and feature-rich, may have a steeper learning curve due to its more complex interface and advanced capabilities.

## 6. Ecosystem integrations:
Postman offers a wide range of integrations with various tools and services in the API development ecosystem, ensuring seamless workflows and expanded functionality. Galileo, while compatible with popular tools, may have fewer integrations available, limiting its potential for ecosystem connectivity and interoperability.

In Summary, Galileo and Postman differ in terms of flexibility, collaboration features, testing capabilities, pricing models, user interface, and ecosystem integrations, catering to diverse needs in the API development and testing landscape.
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Jagdeep Singh
Tech Lead at ucreate.it · | 8 upvotes · 374.3K views

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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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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Stephen Fox
Artificial Intelligence Fellow · | 1 upvote · 331.3K views

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 Galileo
Pros of Postman
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    • 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
    • 53
      It's the best
    • 53
      History feature
    • 44
      Adds real value to my workflow
    • 43
      Great interface that magically predicts your needs
    • 35
      The best in class app
    • 12
      Can save and share script
    • 10
      Fully featured without looking cluttered
    • 8
      Collections
    • 8
      Option to run scrips
    • 8
      Global/Environment Variables
    • 7
      Shareable Collections
    • 7
      Dead simple and useful. Excellent
    • 7
      Dark theme easy on the eyes
    • 6
      Awesome customer support
    • 6
      Great integration with newman
    • 5
      Documentation
    • 5
      Simple
    • 5
      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
    • 4
      Easy as pie
    • 3
      API-network
    • 3
      I'd recommend it to everyone who works with apis
    • 3
      Mocking API calls with predefined response
    • 2
      Now supports GraphQL
    • 2
      Postman Runner CI Integration
    • 2
      Easy to setup, test and provides test storage
    • 2
      Continuous integration using newman
    • 2
      Pre-request Script and Test attributes are invaluable
    • 2
      Runner
    • 2
      Graph
    • 1
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    Cons of Galileo
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      • 10
        Stores credentials in HTTP
      • 9
        Bloated features and UI
      • 8
        Cumbersome to switch authentication tokens
      • 7
        Poor GraphQL support
      • 5
        Expensive
      • 3
        Not free after 5 users
      • 3
        Can't prompt for per-request variables
      • 1
        Import swagger
      • 1
        Support websocket
      • 1
        Import curl

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      What is Galileo?

      Galileo is an analytics platform for APIs that includes Realtime Logging, Request Replay, and Diff Comparisons.

      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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