Postman vs Bruno

From $14 per user/month (Basic, billed annually)

From $19 per user (one-time, Golden Edition)

Free tier is generous for individuals. Costs come from collaborator seats and monitoring/mock-call volume, and enterprise plans jump sharply.

The core is free and open source. A small one-time fee unlocks convenience features; an enterprise edition exists separately.

Free plan for individuals and small teams with limited collection runs, mock calls and monitors.

The open-source app and CLI are free and fully functional offline.

Category standard

Postman, Inc. · since 2012

Widely used

Bruno Software · since 2023

• Near-universal adoption — collections are a lingua franca between teams and vendors.
• Covers design, mocking, testing, documentation and monitoring in one place.
• Newman makes any collection runnable in CI without rewriting it.

• Collections live in Git, so they diff, branch and review like any other code.
• Offline-first with no forced account — a genuine compliance advantage.
• Imports Postman and Insomnia collections, making migration realistic.

• Cloud-first sync raised real concerns for teams handling sensitive API credentials; the offline story has been repeatedly reduced.
• Collections stored in the vendor cloud rather than your repo make code review and branching awkward.
• The desktop app has grown heavy, and per-seat costs add up on large teams.

• No built-in mock servers or monitoring; it is a client and runner, not a platform.
• Younger project with a smaller ecosystem and fewer integrations.
• Team collaboration relies on your Git workflow rather than in-app features.

Teams that want one tool covering the whole API lifecycle and value ecosystem ubiquity.

Engineering teams that want API tests versioned alongside the code they test.