SuperTest vs Hoppscotch

Free and open source

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

Free and open source. You pay in engineering time and CI minutes.

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

Everything, self-hosted

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

Widely used

OSS community · since 2014

Established

Hoppscotch · since 2019

• Fast: no network, no separate server process, no port conflicts in CI.
• Tiny API you can learn in ten minutes.
• Works with whichever runner you already use.

• 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.

• Node.js only, and only for services you host yourself.
• In-process testing skips the real network stack, proxies and load balancer.
• No environment management or collection concept for cross-service flows.

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

Node.js API projects testing their own routes in the unit/integration layer.

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