Grapity vs Postman

Grapity is an open-source API governance platform for teams coordinating API contracts and their consumers. Its Registry compares each pushed specification with the previous version and blocks breaking changes with an explanation. It enforces semantic version increments and tracks deprecation lifecycles, including consumers and sunset dates. The Hub offers a searchable API list, endpoint exploration, side-by-side version comparisons, and a version timeline. Grapity governs OpenAPI and AsyncAPI formats, with CI/CD integration and role-based access control. For Kong, Grapity Gateway generates configuration from registered specifications, and the CLI provisions it through decK; Kong can also send access logs to the Registry using its http-log plugin for queries and traffic statistics. The project says it is licensed under Apache 2.0 and has no features locked behind paywalls. Self-hosted use costs nothing, billed forever, with unlimited APIs and team members. Cloud costs $29.95 a month and includes five APIs and five users.

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.