Stormpath vs Postman Comparison | StackShare

Overview

Stormpath

Stacks40

Followers96

Votes146

Postman

Stacks96.5K

Followers82.5K

Votes1.8K

Forks0

Postman vs Stormpath: What are the differences?

Developers describe Postman as "Only complete API development environment". Postman is the only complete API development environment, used by nearly five million developers and more than 100,000 companies worldwide. On the other hand, Stormpath is detailed as "User Management and Authentication for Developers". Stormpath is an authentication and user management service that helps development teams quickly and securely build web and mobile applications and services.

Postman can be classified as a tool in the "API Tools" category, while Stormpath is grouped under "User Management and Authentication".

Some of the features offered by Postman are:

Compact layout
HTTP requests with file upload support
Formatted API responses for JSON and XML

On the other hand, Stormpath provides the following key features:

User Authentication as a Service
Authorization – Easily model and manage your data, including pre-built roles
Flexible User Profiles

"Easy to use" is the top reason why over 464 developers like Postman, while over 26 developers mention "Authentication" as the leading cause for choosing Stormpath.

Typeform, PedidosYa, and Zomato are some of the popular companies that use Postman, whereas Stormpath is used by Stormpath, Forerunner Games, and Notify-e. Postman has a broader approval, being mentioned in 1753 company stacks & 2235 developers stacks; compared to Stormpath, which is listed in 3 company stacks and 4 developer stacks.

Advice on Stormpath, Postman

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

Stormpath	Postman
Stormpath is an authentication and user management service that helps development teams quickly and securely build web and mobile applications and services.	It is the only complete API development environment, used by nearly five million developers and more than 100,000 companies worldwide.
User Authentication as a Service; Authorization – Easily model and manage your data, including pre-built roles; Flexible User Profiles; Single Sign-On Across your Apps; Easy Partitioning for Multi-Tenant SaaS; Pre-built Security Workflows - Password Reset, Email Verification; Hosted Login Portal; Social Login; API Authentication & Key Management; Token-based Authentication; Multi-Factor Authentication; Active Directory & LDAP Integrations; Advanced Password Security; Admin Console; Safe Harbor Compliance; HIPAA Compliance; Private Deployments;	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 Forks -	GitHub Forks 0
Stacks 40	Stacks 96.5K
Followers 96	Followers 82.5K
Votes 146	Votes 1.8K
Pros & Cons
Pros 29 Authentication 22 User Management 19 API Authentication 17 Security Workflows 17 Token Authentication Cons 4 Discontinued	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
Integrations
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