HTTPie vs SoapUI
HTTPie
httpie.io
SoapUI
soapui.orgSide by side
| Figure | HTTPie | SoapUI |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $10/mo | $89.08/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | Yes |
| Open source | Yes | Yes |
| Web | Yes | — |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| API | — | Yes |
| Self-hosted | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 5 | 5 |
| Spec score · API Testing Tools | 9.1 (#3) | 8.8 (#8) |
| Spec score · API Development Tools | 9.2 (#4) | 8.9 (#8) |
| Spec score · API clients | 9.2 (#5) | 9.5 (#1) |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| GraphQL support | Yes | Yes |
| Purpose | HTTPie is an API testing client designed to make API interactions simple and intuitive. | SoapUI is an open source API testing tool for testing REST, SOAP, and GraphQL web services. |
| What it does | HTTPie provides API testing clients for the web, desktop and terminal, intended to make API work simpler and more intuitive. | SoapUI is a desktop tool for interactive and automated testing of SOAP, REST and HTTP web services. |
Plans
HTTPie
- HTTPie for TerminalFree
- HTTPie for TerminalFree
- HTTPie for Web & DesktopFree
- Open SourceFree
- HTTPie for Web$10 a month
SoapUI
- ReadyAPI trialFree
- SoapUI Open SourceFree
- ReadyAPI API Functional & Security Testing$1,069 a year
- ReadyAPI API & Service Virtualization$1,415 a year
- ReadyAPI Performance Small$7,389 a year
In their own words
HTTPie
HTTPie is an API testing client with a command-line tool and a graphical app for desktop and web. HTTPie for Terminal helps test and debug APIs, HTTP servers, and web services. Its features include expressive syntax, JSON, formatted and colorized output, persistent sessions, forms, file uploads and downloads, HTTPS, proxies, authentication, and custom request data and headers. GraphQL is supported. The Desktop and Web app includes AI-assisted work, spaces, collections, tabs, variables, environments, request previews, and autosave with realtime sync across devices. It can be used offline without an account, so requests can be prepared and previewed without sending them. Dedicated desktop versions are available for Mac, Windows, and Linux; Mac downloads cover Intel and Apple Silicon. The maker lists CLI installation options for any operating system. HTTPie for Web & Desktop is in public beta, and HTTPie for Terminal is an open-source CLI client. Both plans are listed at free.
SoapUI
SoapUI is an open-source tool for testing REST, SOAP, and GraphQL web services. It supports drag-and-drop creation of functional and regression tests, assertions, and data-driven tests, and can create service mocks from WSDL. The listed protocols also include JMS and SOAP/WSDL. Functional tests can be extended into load testing, including runs from command-line tools. Named automation integrations include Maven, Hudson, Bamboo, JUnit, and Ant, and SoapUI can run from other CI tools. It can configure incoming and outgoing WS-Security, including encryption, signatures, SAML, keystores, and truststores. SoapUI is described as cross-platform for Windows, Mac, and Linux/Unix. The open-source edition is listed for basic functional and performance testing; security testing appears among expanded capabilities associated with ReadyAPI. The listed SoapUI Open Source plan is free and includes API testing, mocking, and command-line automation. SmartBear describes it as a starting point for developers and testers, with support and a community forum linked on the site.