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Postman vs Restish

Postman

postman.com

Restish

rest.sh

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FigurePostmanRestish
Price from$9/moFree
Free planYesYes
Free trialYes—
Open source——
WebYes—
WindowsYesYes
macOSYesYes
LinuxYesYes
Self-hosted—Yes
Plans published41
Spec score · API clients9.0 (#7)7.5 (#33)
Free planYesYes
PlatformsPostman offers a web version and desktop downloads for Windows, macOS, and Linux, plus a VS Code extension and browser extensions for Chrome, Safari, Edge, and Firefox.desktop

Plans

Postman

  • FreeFree
  • Solo$9 a month
  • Team$19 a month
  • EnterprisePriced on request

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Restish

  • Free and open sourceFree

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In their own words

Postman

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.

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Restish

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