Postman vs Runscope comparison

"I rate Postman as a ten out of ten."

"I recommend Postman for all business types."

"The scalability is good."

"This solution offers a free version."

"It is easy and simple to use and install. It is compatible with Linux, Mac or Windows."

"The most valuable feature is the user interface because it provides a clear space for the URL, headers, body, prerequisites, and tests."

"It allowed us to understand the working and performance of the APIs."

"It helps me to test APIs independently. It also supports hosting."

"The schedule is definitely the most valuable. Also, being able to check the JSON attribute values is helpful. We always check the attributes. Finally, the notifications are helpful as well."

"We love the fact that we can have our API tests run on a schedule as often as we need. We also take advantage of being able to set up different environment settings so that we can use the same test in our production, integration, and QA environments, easily. The ability to string together a number of API tests for a test suite is very important to us as well."

"We have the ability to populate environment variables using scripts. This allows us to keep the configuration mostly dynamic and avoid a lot of manual updates when something changes."

"It is a cloud-based environment for building and executing tests, which allows me to focus on building, running, and reviewing test results."

"Valuable features include: Being able to add tests as sub-tests in a parent test for regression testing; notifications for tests that pass/fail; being able to customize expected results with assertions; being able to set tests to run daily."

"It helps us verify that production deployments do not break the features our customers use."

"We can receive an email and slack notifications if tests are failing/passing."

"It has a relatively simple user experience."

"The management of endpoints' headers sometimes conflicts with APIs that require information in the body, leading to difficulties."

"The scalability of the solution can be improved."

"Could be more user friendly."

"We cannot see transaction times in the product."

"One thing which Postman needs to improve is the documentation. The documentation of Postman is not that great when compared to other tools."

"There is no support for the testing of the SOAP APIs."

"I live in Turkey, so for me, the value of dollar currency is high...Postman can change its pricing policy and decrease the prices for Turkey."

"If you have knowledge of JavaScript, the initial setup is easy and straightforward. If not, it may take some time to learn about JavaScript before starting the implementation."

"We would like to be able to select the actual time a test will run automatically. It appears that you can set up the automatic schedule, but the test runs based on the last time it ran and not a time you select. Since we want these tests to run in the middle of the night, it would be nice to be able to select that."

"I've noticed, once or twice, when there were some updates pushed by Runscope, at times it didn't refresh the pages. I was running it, there were multiple tests running at the same time, and it didn't update the webpage I was looking at. So I had to refresh it manually. Occasionally, it still happens."

"We would like the ability to configure Runscope behavior when a given test has its schedule modified. That is, in a non-production environment, we often need to pause a test (either by removing it from the schedule or adjusting its frequency) and this results in the automatic kick-off of this test in all other environments. We would like the ability to simply pause a test for a specific shared environment without causing additional tests to be started."

"Needs the ability to create code which runs before and after API tests."

"It would be nice to be able to generate API documentation."

"We definitely make use of historical test results, especially when tracking more difficult issues such as timeouts. Per our test frequency (15 minutes) we often need to go back further than the last 100 test runs. We are aware that results further back in time are available through the Runscope API, however, it would be great if the dashboard allowed easy access to a larger amount of historical data."

"One thing that can be improved is the logging. Sometimes, when we have an error, we don't know how to find more information about the problem that has happened. Sometimes, it just returns something like "that gateway." More information would be a way to improve it."

"If you forget to set the default environment during test creation, you have to go through every test and make sure that it is set to the environment that you prefer if using shared environments. If there was an option to force all tests within a bucket into a specific environment with one click, this would save a lot of time."

"This is an open source solution."

"The solution is free for individuals, but for companies that use it across the organization, you have to pay per user."

"Postman is a free service."

"The solution is open-source and free."

"The solution's price is reasonable."

"Unlike APIs, the solution does not require a license."

"I am using the free option."

"It is free."

"Runscope pricing is unbeatable"

"Pricing is fair."

"The price for the product is very reasonable for a team of more than four to five members."

"Having the different plans organized by team size, buckets, and requests per billing period works for our needs. Larger companies may need to take a close look at these elements."