Postman vs Zuplo
Postman
postman.com
Zuplo
zuplo.comSide by side
| Figure | Postman | Zuplo |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $9/mo | $25/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | — |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| API | — | Yes |
| Self-hosted | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 4 | 4 |
| Spec score · API Marketplace Software | 8.4 (#6) | 8.5 (#4) |
| Integrations | Listed integrations include Jira, Slack, 1Password Vault, Amazon API Gateway, AWS Secrets Manager, GitHub, GitLab, Microsoft Teams, and VS Code. | Documented integrations include GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Azure DevOps, Stripe, Auth0, Cognito, Okta, Datadog, New Relic, Splunk, Grafana, Cloudflare and AWS Lambda. |
| Security and compliance | Postman lists SOC 2 Type II, PCI DSS, HIPAA, GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, CSA STAR, TX-RAMP, ISO 27001, and ISO 42001 among its compliance credentials. | Zuplo's security page states that SOC 2 Type II, audit logs, and policy enforcement evidence are built into the platform. |
| Support | Premium Support is an Enterprise-only add-on with contractual SLAs, 24/7 global coverage, a priority queue, and premium phone, screen-sharing, and chat channels. | The pricing page lists community support and chat, email and ticketed support, and 24x7x365 premium support as an add-on. |
| What it does | Postman is a unified platform for designing, testing, distributing, documenting, and monitoring APIs. | Zuplo is a managed API, AI and MCP gateway for securing, governing, deploying and documenting APIs. |
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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.
Zuplo
Zuplo is an API management platform with API Gateway, AI Gateway, and MCP Gateway products. API protections include API keys, JWT, Basic Auth, mTLS, bot detection, rate limiting, and schema validation. OpenAPI supports documentation and cataloging, and every plan includes a hosted developer portal that can use a customer domain. The AI Gateway routes requests among OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Mistral, and offers semantic caching, prompt injection protection, secret masking, and spending budgets. MCP Gateway is included on every plan for authenticating, routing, and governing MCP servers. Documented logging integrations include AWS CloudWatch, Datadog, Dynatrace, New Relic, Google Cloud Logging, Loki, Splunk, Sumo Logic, and VMware Log Insight. Zuplo says its gateways deploy to more than 300 edge locations; self-hosted or dedicated deployment is available. GitHub GitOps is supported on Free and Builder, while Enterprise lists GitHub, Bitbucket, GitLab, and Azure DevOps. Free costs nothing and includes up to 100K monthly requests. Builder costs $25 a month, with additional requests charged at $100 per 100K.