Postman vs Hoppscotch

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Postman, Inc. · since 2012

Established

Hoppscotch · since 2019

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

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

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