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Postman Enterprise vs Runscope [EOL] comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 2, 2025

Review summaries and opinions

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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 (7th), API Monitoring Software (1st), API Testing Tools (1st), AI Software Development (7th)
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

"It is stable and reliable."
"It is stable and does not lag."
"What is most valuable for me is that we can create and share collections between the team members."
"It's user-friendly. Anybody can learn it within five to seven minutes."
"The scalability is good."
"The developers put the API in a common workspace which is a nice feature. It makes things much easier and faster to start testing."
"Postman is open-source and free to use."
"The solution is stable."
"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."
"Environment initial variables allow our team to run tests against multiple environments on the fly."
"We can receive an email and slack notifications if tests are failing/passing."
"It helps us verify that production deployments do not break the features our customers use."
"The feature of automatically executing tests at a predefined time interval is great as we can be continuously testing our end-points before and after builds are deployed."
"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."
 

Cons

"Reporting can be better. If you have bigger APIs, it takes time."
"During the development phase, you will face issues, but once it goes to production, you won't face such issues."
"The tool needs to have a reporting feature."
"I have display issues in my Windows that need to be fixed."
"Integration should be improved with our continuation system because we use Azure DevOps separately."
"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. Whenever a user comes to Postman for the first time, it is just a bit complex since they do not know where to start and what is the structure."
"Integration of the solution towards Bitbucket, BitHub, and CI pipelines is difficult."
"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."
"We would like to have an improved ability to share a set of tests across different environments (e.g., dev, stage, and prod)."
"Needs the ability to create code which runs before and after API tests."
"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."
"File upload is a big part of the products that we test. The lack of file upload in Runscope requires us to still use UI (Selenium) automated tests for these scenarios."
"It would be nice to be able to generate API documentation."
"Reliability. I would like to see more money invested in disaster recovery testing of the application. The product should be hosted across several AWS regions so if there are issues with an EC2 instance in a particular region, the whole application won't be affected. Once or twice a year there are issues with AWS that causes the reliability of the application to suffer."
"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."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"We are currently using the free version, but we have plans to buy a license."
"Postman is a free service."
"I rate the product's price a nine or ten on a scale of one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is very expensive. Postman is an expensive tool for Turkey."
"This is an open source solution."
"This solution offers a free version."
"The solution has a licensing fee which might be prohibitive."
"I am using the free option."
"The solution is open-source and free."
"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."
"Pricing is fair."
"Runscope pricing is unbeatable"
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
19%
Computer Software Company
12%
Insurance Company
8%
Manufacturing Company
5%
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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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Sample Customers

PayPal, Shopify, Microsoft, Adobe, Atlassian, Twitter, BestBuy, Coursera
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