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Postman Enterprise vs Runscope [EOL] comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 2, 2025

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Categories and Ranking

Postman Enterprise
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
65
Ranking in other categories
API Management (8th), API Monitoring Software (1st), API Testing Tools (1st), AI Software Development (6th)
Runscope [EOL]
Average Rating
8.8
Number of Reviews
11
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Featured Reviews

TS
API Integration Engineer at Airbnb
Automated testing optimizes API workflow and collaboration
Since I am using the free tier, one improvement would be to increase the number of requests you can send in a short time period. Currently, if I send 200-300 requests in a short period, Postman Enterprise requires a 30-second wait before sending another bundle of requests unless you upgrade to a higher tier. Secondly, Postman Enterprise sometimes takes several minutes to load the whole workspace. With 2,000-3,000 requests in a workspace, it can take a minute or two to load all requests. When creating a new workspace and moving requests between workspaces, depending on internet speed, it can take a longer period to copy those requests or workspace from one place to another.
Director5672 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director of Engineering at a consultancy with 1-10 employees
Enables us to monitor API endpoints to ensure everything is running
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. Another thing I have found is that the built-in editor for the scripts can be improved a lot. Instead of making such a basic editor, maybe include a little more so it is easier to look at things and debug. Finally, other than the Runscope documentation, I haven't seen too much elsewhere. I haven't seen a user community.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The data you are sending and fetching from that endpoint is very clean and understandable; anyone can understand it."
"It is simple, easy to use and a good tool."
"We can also submit requests multiple times and it allows us to capture the response each time by using utility scripts."
"It allowed us to understand the working and performance of the APIs."
"It is beneficial to have flexibility, especially with API chaining."
"Simple to use and you can easily store your projects."
"The developers put the API in a common workspace which is a nice feature. It makes things much easier and faster to start testing."
"The API testing features are valuable."
"We utilize modular tests based on environment variables. These have saved QA a lot of time when setting up our back-end automation."
"It helps us verify that production deployments do not break the features our customers use."
"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."
"Tests are per-step configurable with script capabilities and support for token-based authentication using variables. Configurable test frequency and integration with both Slack and PagerDuty for alerting our DevOps team are also important. General use of the dashboard by multiple team members is also valuable."
"When it's a problem on our side, the server is down, or there is a lack of memory, the first thing to break is the API, because the calls can't be processed. So we know exactly at that moment because we receive notifications, and we can take action. It doesn't only notify us of the type problem, but it also links it to our servers."
"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."
"As we have the APIs scheduled, we use the notifications. We know the exact moment it is breaking something that might impact the customer system, that might result in a feature not working. We know "in advance" and we can fix it before the customer notices. It helps us to be more proactive."
"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."
 

Cons

"If there is any way to have a record and playback feature through UI, as we do in Selenium and IDEs such as Eclipse, it would be great."
"Multi-part requests should be handled in the octet-stream."
"Could be more user friendly."
"The solution has some user interface difficulties when conducting environment collections."
"The main improvement needed is better integration with test management and other tools to allow a common dashboard for all testing metrics and details."
"Initially, the setup is a little bit complex"
"There are definitely features that could be improved; for example, if you derive it from Ready API, maybe Postman can be a good contender and replicate some features such as more scripting and control over API calls."
"The management of endpoints' headers sometimes conflicts with APIs that require information in the body, leading to difficulties."
"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."
"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."
"The initial setup included a lot of repetitive manual work."
"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."
"If triggering test bucket via trigger API, there is no option to see if the tests which were triggered passed or failed."
"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."
"It would be nice to be able to generate API documentation."
"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."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Unlike APIs, the solution does not require a license."
"The solution has moderate pricing."
"We do not pay any money for Postman."
"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."
"The solution is open-source and free."
"This solution offers a free version."
"We are using the free version that is available."
"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."
"The price for the product is very reasonable for a team of more than four to five members."
"Pricing is fair."
"Runscope pricing is unbeatable"
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
19%
Computer Software Company
14%
Insurance Company
8%
Manufacturing Company
6%
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Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business17
Midsize Enterprise9
Large Enterprise41
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business6
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise3
 

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