Apidog vs Hoppscotch

From $9 per user/month (indicative)

From $19 per user/month (indicative, team plan)

Priced noticeably below Postman for comparable team functionality.

Self-hosting the community edition is free. Paid plans add team workspaces and enterprise SSO.

Free plan for small teams with core design, mock and test features.

Free cloud tier and a fully functional self-hosted community edition.

Established

Apidog · since 2022

Established

Hoppscotch · since 2019

• Schema-driven mocks and assertions stay correct as the API definition changes.
• Meaningfully cheaper than Postman for equivalent team features.
• One tool instead of three for design, mocking and documentation.

• Nothing to install — genuinely useful for onboarding and for locked-down machines.
• Self-hosting is a single container, so internal deployment is trivial.
• Very light and fast.

• Younger vendor with a smaller community and fewer third-party integrations.
• Data residency and cloud storage need checking for regulated environments.
• Documentation quality is uneven in places.

• Browser CORS restrictions require a proxy or the desktop agent for many real requests.
• Fewer advanced testing and mocking features than Postman.
• Smaller community.

Teams doing design-first API development who want mocks and docs generated from the spec.

Teams that want a self-hosted, no-install internal API client.