Compare 5 free alternatives to Postman for Testing. Every one of their free tier limits side by side, with the read and catalogue dates we hold.

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Best Postman Alternatives with Free Tiers (2026)

5 free alternatives in Testing. Sorted by pricing stability.

Current Postman Situation

Risk Level: caution
Why: effective 2026-09-18 — Postman's Free plan no longer includes cloud performance testing. Its pricing table gave Free "Performance testing (unlimited runs)" on the Internet Archive's capture of 2026-08-20, cloud runs at $0.04 per virtual-user hour on 2026-09-09, and marks cloud performance testing unavailable on Free from the capture of 2026-09-18; local performance testing stays unlimited. In the same window the table stopped calling Free's mock servers unlimited, and it states no limit for them. Source ↗
Category: Testing
Pricing Page: www.postman.com/pricing/

Recent Pricing Changes (2)

reduced effective 2026-09-18 medium impact
Postman's Free plan no longer includes cloud performance testing. Its pricing table gave Free "Performance testing (unlimited runs)" on the Internet Archive's capture of 2026-08-20, cloud runs at $0.04 per virtual-user hour on 2026-09-09, and marks cloud performance testing unavailable on Free from the capture of 2026-09-18; local performance testing stays unlimited. In the same window the table stopped calling Free's mock servers unlimited, and it states no limit for them. Source ↗
restricted effective 2026-03-01 high impact
Free plan now single-user only. Team collaboration (shared workspaces, collection sharing) requires paid plan at $19/user/month Source ↗

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Read our detailed API Development Tools Free Tier Comparison 2026 guide with curated recommendations and service comparison.

Recommended Migration Targets

These alternatives were identified from Postman’s pricing changes as recommended replacements.

Bruno stable recommended
Free OSS
Free OSS (MIT). Git-based offline API client — REST, GraphQL, collections stored as files in your repo.
API Development Read and confirmed 2026-10-30
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Insomnia stable recommended
Free
Open-source API client for designing and testing REST, GraphQL, gRPC, WebSocket, and SSE APIs. Local-first with Git sync and optional cloud storage.
API Development Read and confirmed 2026-11-10
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Thunder Client stable recommended
Free
Thunder Client is a lightweight REST API client. The Free plan is $0 per user/month, no credit card required.
API Development Read 2026-11-03 · catalogue date 2026-08-28
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Hoppscotch recommended
Free OSS
Free OSS (MIT). API development ecosystem — REST, GraphQL, WebSocket, SSE, Socket.IO, MQTT testing.
API Development Read 2026-10-25 · catalogue date 2026-07-29
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−1 stale_verification Our last read of the vendor's pricing page, on 2026-10-25, could read no amount, tier or rate on the page. This is our confidence in the record, not a change by the vendor.
Apidog stable recommended
Free
API design, debugging, testing, and documentation platform — free tier: up to 4 users, unlimited projects, unlimited APIs, unlimited requests. API mocking included.
API Development Read 2026-10-29 · catalogue date 2026-07-31
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−1 stale_verification Our last read of the vendor's pricing page, on 2026-10-29, found the page different from the terms we hold. This is our confidence in the record, not a change by the vendor.

All Free Alternatives (5)

3 of these carry no recorded demerit and are indistinguishable under every signal we hold; their order rotates daily. 2 are demoted with the reason named, and 0 are listed last because they are not generally available or are not a free offer. How we rank.

Bruno stable
Free OSS
Free OSS (MIT). Git-based offline API client — REST, GraphQL, collections stored as files in your repo.
API Development Read and confirmed 2026-10-30
Profile
Insomnia stable
Free
Open-source API client for designing and testing REST, GraphQL, gRPC, WebSocket, and SSE APIs. Local-first with Git sync and optional cloud storage.
API Development Read and confirmed 2026-11-10
Profile
Thunder Client stable
Free
Thunder Client is a lightweight REST API client. The Free plan is $0 per user/month, no credit card required.
API Development Read 2026-11-03 · catalogue date 2026-08-28
Profile
Hoppscotch
Free OSS
Free OSS (MIT). API development ecosystem — REST, GraphQL, WebSocket, SSE, Socket.IO, MQTT testing.
API Development Read 2026-10-25 · catalogue date 2026-07-29
Profile
−1 stale_verification Our last read of the vendor's pricing page, on 2026-10-25, could read no amount, tier or rate on the page. This is our confidence in the record, not a change by the vendor.
Apidog stable
Free
API design, debugging, testing, and documentation platform — free tier: up to 4 users, unlimited projects, unlimited APIs, unlimited requests. API mocking included.
API Development Read 2026-10-29 · catalogue date 2026-07-31
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−1 stale_verification Our last read of the vendor's pricing page, on 2026-10-29, found the page different from the terms we hold. This is our confidence in the record, not a change by the vendor.
Recompute today's order yourself. The order above is a permutation seeded only on the UTC date and the query key — no vendor name, slug, id or offer field is an input. The algorithm is published, so anyone can reproduce this page's order without asking us.
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2026-11-14
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alternative-to:Postman
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3

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Frequently Asked Questions

What are the best free alternatives to Postman?
We publish no ranking of these. Nothing we record measures popularity or generosity, so naming a best or a top few would be our preference rather than our data. We hold 5 free alternatives to Postman, each listed below with its tier, category and the read and catalogue dates we hold. Of those, 3 carry no recorded demerit and are indistinguishable under every signal we hold, so they are listed in an order that rotates daily, 2 are demoted with the reason named. Our ranking rule is published at /criteria.
Is Postman's free tier still available?
Postman has a free tier (Free), but it's flagged as "caution" because of one specific recorded change, on 2026-09-18: Postman's Free plan no longer includes cloud performance testing. Its pricing table gave Free "Performance testing (unlimited runs)" on the Internet Archive's capture of 2026-08-20, cloud runs at $0.04 per virtual-user hour on 2026-09-09, and marks cloud performance testing unavailable on Free from the capture of 2026-09-18; local performance testing stays unlimited. In the same window the table stopped calling Free's mock servers unlimited, and it states no limit for them. Source: http://web.archive.org/web/20260918150023/https://www.postman.com/pricing/
How many free alternatives to Postman exist?
There are 5 free alternatives to Postman tracked on AgentDeals across the Testing, API Development categories.
Has Postman changed their pricing?
Postman has 2 recorded pricing changes. The most recent was on 2026-09-18: Postman's Free plan no longer includes cloud performance testing. Its pricing table gave Free "Performance testing (unlimited runs)" on the Internet Archive's capture of 2026-08-20, cloud runs at $0.04 per virtual-user hour on 2026-09-09, and marks cloud performance testing unavailable on Free from the capture of 2026-09-18; local performance testing stays unlimited. In the same window the table stopped calling Free's mock servers unlimited, and it states no limit for them. Source: http://web.archive.org/web/20260918150023/https://www.postman.com/pricing/