MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager vs Postman comparison

 

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Executive Summary
 

Categories and Ranking

MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager
Ranking in API Management
4th
Average Rating
8.2
Number of Reviews
49
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Postman
Ranking in API Management
9th
Average Rating
8.2
Number of Reviews
52
Ranking in other categories
API Monitoring Software (1st), API Testing Tools (1st)
 

Market share comparison

As of June 2024, in the API Management category, the market share of MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager is 5.7% and it decreased by 32.8% compared to the previous year. The market share of Postman is 0.6% and it increased by 44.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
API Management
Unique Categories:
No other categories found
API Monitoring Software
50.0%
API Testing Tools
18.9%
 

Featured Reviews

AK
Mar 9, 2023
We use it heavily because it is cheaper than competitors; provides a lot of visualization
I can explain how this solution helped our organization through an example. Let's say, I want to buy my home insurance. I'd go to the market for the digital product and get a quote. Upon accepting the offer, I'll go through payment and then a three-step process for binding. After that, documents will be released to me in a multi-step process. MuleSoft provides a lot of the visualization and you are able to do the mapping and confirmations. It powers some of the connectors out of the box and you're able to connect to the different endpoints. You do not need to write many core basis and this is a great advantage.
Riya Jaiswal - PeerSpot reviewer
Apr 23, 2023
Easy API development and testing that's fast and user-friendly
We used the solution in multiple ways, including: 1. We create Rest APIs for the communication of the front end to the backend. For the testing of those Rest APIs, we use Postman. It provides a user-friendly platform for API testing with all the request methods like GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, PATCH…

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"It provides all of the robust platform-enabled features."
"I believe the API connectivity within the cloud marketplace is most valuable."
"The security features are good. It's easy to configure the end-to-end integration with existing applications."
"We use it heavily because Azure offers better pricing than its competitors."
"One of the more valuable features is the stability of the platform."
"MuleSoft has given the API solution a 3-tiered architecture. This means that there are multiple channels available in one application. The usability is very high."
"The most effective features of Anypoint API Manager for policy enforcement include security enforcement, rate limiting, client enforcement, traffic control, service level agreement policies, and caching policies."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"Postman is open-source and free to use."
"It is stable and does not lag."
"The most valuable feature is the user interface because it provides a clear space for the URL, headers, body, prerequisites, and tests."
"Simple to use and you can easily store your projects."
"Postman uses the DRY framework of JavaScript and that framework is easy and a good way to put assertions on responses."
"The variables part is good. We can easily define the variables and we don't have to manually do a change every time, it gets automatically updated."
"It helps me to test APIs independently. It also supports hosting."
"Postman helps us to automate the API testing in the team."
 

Cons

"I would like to see MuleSoft expand the range of APIs you can manage with it beyond HTTP, GIPC, and others."
"One improvement is maybe to add a plugin in the API manager. Let's say an organisation is using SOAP services or legacy APIs. Maybe I don't want to migrate it to rest API, but my plugin should be able to convert Jason to XML. Basically, protocol transformation features in API Manager."
"The solution is expensive."
"The solution is missing a monetization module."
"It is not a very scalable solution."
"Their studio performance is very slow, it requires a lot of memory, and should be improved."
"Not many stand-out features."
"The most important thing that should be improved is that it is too heavy."
"The scalability of the solution can be improved."
"The pricing should be adjusted for the Pro plan."
"UI testing needs to be added to the solution."
"Multi-part requests should be handled in the octet-stream."
"If we have a certain build on one machine it won't work with another build even if we are using the same URL. It would give us a connection refuse. So developing environment compatibility would make it better."
"I would like to see advanced automation in reference to Postman."
"I would like to see more integrations with other platforms."
"If they could implement auto-validations and assertions from SoapUI, that would be a very good feature."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The product is expensive."
"The pricing is very expensive, although you get a lot of power from the product."
"It is really expensive from a Zimbabwean perspective."
"The pricing is quite reasonable and affordable."
"I'm unsure about licensing costs because I'm not the person who handles this. But, ballpark, it's probably somewhere around $300,000-$400,000 or something like that."
"The pricing for this solution is cheaper than GCP and Bluemix."
"The licensing model is based on how many cores are used. It is a very simple licensing scheme."
"The product is highly priced compared to other advanced software. It is affordable only for tier-one customers."
"The solution has moderate pricing."
"Postman is a free service."
"It is free."
"Its price is moderate as compared to other competitors. The version that we are using is not open source, so it is not free."
"We use the open-source version. They introduced a new licensing model where your company must subscribe to their services if you're using it for business purposes. However, I think they charge too much if you're only using the basic features. It limits what your organization can do if you're not a paying customer."
"The solution has a licensing fee which might be prohibitive."
"This solution offers a free version."
"I rate the price of Postman a four out of five."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
17%
Computer Software Company
15%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Insurance Company
7%
Financial Services Firm
20%
Computer Software Company
15%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Insurance Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

How does Kong Enterprise compare with Mulesoft Anypoint API Manager?
The Mulesoft Anypoint API Manager was designed with its users in mind. Though it is a reasonably complex piece of software, it is easy to install and upgrade. While there are different things that ...
How does Mulesoft Anypoint API Manager compare with Amazon API Gateway?
I have found that Mulesoft Anypoint API Manager is the best integration tool out there for API management. It is easy to implement and learn; it provides several options for deployment, (including ...
What do you like most about Mulesoft Anypoint API Manager?
The most valuable features of the solution for securing APIs stem from the tool's ability to allow users to deploy policies.
How does Postman compare with Apache JMeter?
Postman lets you easily define variables, which then get updated automatically. This is a huge time-saver and makes processes very efficient. We can also export the test cases we create and share t...
What do you like most about Postman?
The product is easy to implement.
 

Also Known As

Anypoint API Manager
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Sample Customers

Coca-Cola, Splunk, Citrix, UCSF, Vertu, State of Colorado, National Post, TiVo, Deakin, LLS, Oldcastle Precast, ParcelPoint, Justice Systems, Ube, Sumitomo Corporation, PacificComp, University of Witwatersrand, Groupe Initiatives, Camelot, Panviva
PayPal, Shopify, Microsoft, Adobe, Atlassian, Twitter, BestBuy, Coursera
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