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Paw vs Soap UI: What are the differences?

What is Paw? The ultimate REST client for Mac. 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.

What is Soap UI? An open source SOAP and REST API testing tool. It is an open source functional Testing tool for API Testing. It supports multiple protocols such as SOAP, REST, HTTP, JMS, AMF and JDBC. It supports functional tests, security tests, and virtualization.

Paw and Soap UI can be primarily classified as "API" tools.

Swat.io, Pubu, and PlanHW are some of the popular companies that use Paw, whereas Soap UI is used by Fundsflo, Ernit, and GittiGidiyor. Paw has a broader approval, being mentioned in 17 company stacks & 12 developers stacks; compared to Soap UI, which is listed in 11 company stacks and 4 developer stacks.

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Pros of Paw
Pros of Soap UI
  • 46
    Great interface
  • 37
    Easy to use
  • 25
    More stable and performant than the others
  • 16
    Saves endpoints list for testing
  • 13
    Supports environment variables
  • 12
    Integrations
  • 9
    Multi-Dimension Environment Settings
  • 4
    Paste curl commands into Paw
  • 2
    Creates code for any language or framework
  • 3
    Open source

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Cons of Paw
Cons of Soap UI
  • 3
    It's not free
  • 2
    MacOS Only
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    What is 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.

    What is Soap UI?

    It is an open source functional Testing tool for API Testing. It supports multiple protocols such as SOAP, REST, HTTP, JMS, AMF and JDBC. It supports functional tests, security tests, and virtualization.

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