Need advice about which tool to choose?Ask the StackShare community!
Add tool
Manage your open source components, licenses, and vulnerabilities
Learn MorePros of Postman
Pros of Surge
Pros of Postman
- Easy to use490
- Great tool369
- Makes developing rest api's easy peasy276
- Easy setup, looks good156
- The best api workflow out there144
- It's the best53
- History feature53
- Adds real value to my workflow44
- Great interface that magically predicts your needs43
- The best in class app35
- Can save and share script12
- Fully featured without looking cluttered10
- Collections8
- Option to run scrips8
- Global/Environment Variables8
- Shareable Collections7
- Dead simple and useful. Excellent7
- Dark theme easy on the eyes7
- Awesome customer support6
- Great integration with newman6
- Documentation5
- Simple5
- The test script is useful5
- Saves responses4
- This has simplified my testing significantly4
- Makes testing API's as easy as 1,2,34
- Easy as pie4
- API-network3
- I'd recommend it to everyone who works with apis3
- Mocking API calls with predefined response3
- Now supports GraphQL2
- Postman Runner CI Integration2
- Easy to setup, test and provides test storage2
- Continuous integration using newman2
- Pre-request Script and Test attributes are invaluable2
- Runner2
- Graph2
- <a href="http://fixbit.com/">useful tool</a>1
Pros of Surge
- Free plan18
- Simple13
- Free custom domain support11
- Deployment via command line10
- Smart about urls3
- Fast2
- Automatic urls based on filenames1
- 404 status page based on 404.html1
- Free ssl1
Sign up to add or upvote prosMake informed product decisions
Cons of Postman
Cons of Surge
Cons of Postman
- Stores credentials in HTTP10
- Bloated features and UI9
- Cumbersome to switch authentication tokens8
- Poor GraphQL support7
- Expensive5
- Not free after 5 users3
- Can't prompt for per-request variables3
- Import swagger1
- Support websocket1
- Import curl1
Cons of Surge
- No free redirects1
Sign up to add or upvote consMake informed product decisions
1.3K
854
12.7K
7.9K
What is Postman?
It is the only complete API development environment, used by nearly five million developers and more than 100,000 companies worldwide.
What is Surge?
Surge makes it easy for developers to deploy projects to a production-quality CDN through Grunt, Gulp, npm.
Need advice about which tool to choose?Ask the StackShare community!
What companies use Postman?
What companies use Surge?
What companies use Surge?
Manage your open source components, licenses, and vulnerabilities
Learn MoreSign up to get full access to all the companiesMake informed product decisions
What tools integrate with Postman?
What tools integrate with Surge?
What tools integrate with Surge?
No integrations found
Sign up to get full access to all the tool integrationsMake informed product decisions
What are some alternatives to Postman and Surge?
Swagger UI
Swagger UI is a dependency-free collection of HTML, Javascript, and CSS assets that dynamically generate beautiful documentation and sandbox from a Swagger-compliant API
Insomnia REST Client
Insomnia is a powerful REST API Client with cookie management, environment variables, code generation, and authentication for Mac, Window, and Linux.
Paw
Paw is a full-featured and beautifully designed Mac app that makes interaction with REST services delightful. Either you are an API maker or consumer, Paw helps you build HTTP requests, inspect the server's response and even generate client code.
Apigee
API management, design, analytics, and security are at the heart of modern digital architecture. The Apigee intelligent API platform is a complete solution for moving business to the digital world.
cURL
Used in command lines or scripts to transfer data. It is also used in cars, television sets, routers, printers, audio equipment, mobile phones, tablets, and is the internet transfer backbone for thousands of software applications affecting billions of humans daily.