APIDistributed vs Postman

APIDistributed is a public, cloud-deployed marketplace for production APIs. It lets one API key reach APIs from multiple providers through a gateway that identifies the provider, checks plans, applies quotas, measures requests, and combines provider charges on one invoice. The homepage lists more than 4,200 APIs spanning AI and machine learning, data, payments, communications, maps, media, and finance. A single Bearer token works across marketplace endpoints. Typed clients are listed for Node, Python, Go, and Rust, with a cURL example. Per-call telemetry reports latency, cost, and status. Pay-as-you-go pricing starts at $0.0002 per call, and the first 100,000 calls each month are free forever; volume discounts apply. Spend caps and per-key budgets are available, with no minimums, seats, or idle fees. API publishing, subscriber billing, and marketplace analytics are supported. The service is in private beta and invites early-access requests.

Postman is a platform for building, exercising, sharing, documenting, and monitoring APIs. Its API client handles multiple protocols and includes authentication, response inspection and visualization, variables, environments, and request history. For API design, it supports specifications, mock servers, importing definitions, multiple definition formats, and third-party integrations. Testing options include collection runs and automated, integration, performance, regression, and end-to-end testing, with Postman CLI also available. Listed integrations include Jira, Slack, GitHub, GitLab, Microsoft Teams, VS Code, Amazon API Gateway, AWS Secrets Manager, and 1Password Vault. Postman describes local secret protection, cloud detection, runtime resolution, and connections to secret-management services. Its stated compliance credentials include SOC 2 Type II, PCI DSS, HIPAA, GDPR, and others. It says customer data is not used to train its models and Enterprise teams control AI access and usage. The Free plan includes 50 AI credits. Solo is $9 a month, billed annually. Basic and Professional plans are closed to new customers; existing Professional customers retain their current plan and pricing.