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Hoppscotch
Open-source, browser-based API development ecosystem for building, testing and sharing REST, GraphQL and real-time APIs.
FindThatSoftware verdictEditorial ruling
Hoppscotch is a strong India-origin, open-source choice for developers who want a fast, no-friction API client without Postman's account and bloat, and it self-hosts freely for privacy-conscious teams. It is less mature than Postman for heavyweight enterprise collaboration and automation, so evaluate the Organization tier against your workflow needs. Verify current pricing on the vendor site before committing.
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Should you use Hoppscotch?
Use it if individual developers wanting a fast, lightweight browser or desktop API client. Avoid it if large enterprises needing deep mock servers, monitoring and API governance depth.
Spec sheet
- Starting price
- ₹595/mo$6/user/mo sticker
- Free plan
- Available
- Free trial
- Not listed
- Status
- Curated 28 Jul 2026
- Source trail
- 3 public sources
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Hoppscotch is a developer & data / developer tools for Indian buyers. All-in it runs about ₹595/mo for a GST-registered business ($6/user/mo sticker plus about 3.5% card forex). FindThatSoftware rates it best for individual developers wanting a fast, lightweight browser or desktop API client, and a poor fit if large enterprises needing deep mock servers, monitoring and API governance depth.
The trade-off, weighed
What you gain, and what you give up.
The case for
- Genuinely free and open-source core, self-hostable at no license cost
- Supports REST, GraphQL and real-time protocols (WebSocket, SSE, Socket.IO, MQTT)
- Lightweight and fast, works in the browser with no forced account
- India-origin project with a large active community and GitHub following
The catch
- Smaller ecosystem and fewer advanced/enterprise features than Postman
- Paid Organization tier is required for admin dashboard and dedicated support
True India price
Registered business, per month
₹595
Hoppscotch advertises $6/mo. A GST-registered business in India pays about ₹595 a month (₹7,145/yr) once the roughly 3.5% card forex markup is added, with GST reclaimed as input credit. If you cannot reclaim GST, it is about ₹703 a month.
- Sticker price
- $6/mo
- Card forex markup
- about 3.5% over mid-market
- GST
- 18%, reclaimable if registered
- Registered per month
- ₹595
- Registered per year
- ₹7,145
- If you can't reclaim GST
- ₹703
- Try first
- Has a free plan, so you can start without a card.
Indicative, not a bill. The exchange rate is a single mid-market reference, not a live feed, and GST-registered businesses may reclaim input credit. Confirm current pricing on the vendor site.
Full India pricing breakdownIndia readiness
How well Hoppscotch fits an Indian business operationally, from the verified pricing and company facts we hold.
- –GST invoice
Not verified yet.
- ✗Bills in INR
Priced in a foreign currency, so your card or bank adds forex conversion on top.
- ✓India HQ
India-headquartered, so support, timezone, and context are local.
How Hoppscotch compares
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This compares only the capabilities enough rival tools share for a comparison to mean anything — roughly a quarter of what we verified. The full list is under “What we verified” below, and anything absent from both is something we did not record rather than something the product lacks.
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What is Hoppscotch?
Hoppscotch is an open-source API development platform originally launched as Postwoman, offering a lightweight browser-based and desktop client for building, testing and sharing API requests across REST, GraphQL, WebSocket, SSE, Socket.IO and MQTT. Founded in 2019 by Liyas Thomas and Andrew Bastin in Kochi, India, it has grown to millions of monthly developers and is a widely used open-source alternative to Postman. It can be used free in the cloud or self-hosted, with a paid Organization tier for team administration.
Best for
- Individual developers wanting a fast, lightweight browser or desktop API client
- Teams that want to self-host their API tooling for privacy or compliance
- Developers seeking a free, open-source alternative to Postman
Who should avoid it
- Large enterprises needing deep mock servers, monitoring and API governance depth
- Non-technical users who want a fully managed, hand-held onboarding
What Hoppscotch does
What we verified about Hoppscotch
Read from Hoppscotch’s own pages. Each line is a finding and what it was based on, so you can check any of it yourself.
Features we confirmed25
- Workspaces
- Free plan includes unlimited workspaces for organising work
- Sso saml
- Enterprise Edition adds SAML-based SSO and OpenID Connect
- Self hosting
- Self-host your own instance on your own infrastructure in CE or EE editions
- Request history
- History is a documented core feature of the REST platform
- Offline mode
- Docs state Hoppscotch is available offline, on-prem and on the cloud
- Desktop app
- Cross-platform desktop app for macOS, Windows and Linux
- Collection runner
- Free plan includes unlimited runners for executing collections
- Audit log
- Enterprise Edition includes audit logs among advanced admin tools
- Admin dashboard
- Organization plan adds an admin dashboard on the cloud offering
- Browser based client
- Web client works directly in the browser with no installation required
- Cli test runner
- CLI client runs API tests from your terminal and CI/CD pipelines
- Domain whitelisting
- Enterprise Edition implements domain whitelisting and site protection
- Environment variables
- Environments feature is documented alongside collections and history
- Graphql client
- Supports GraphQL alongside REST in the same client
- Keyboard first shortcuts
- Docs highlight keyboard first design with shortcuts throughout
- Mqtt testing
- MQTT is listed among the supported real-time protocols
- Oauth login providers
- Community Edition configures Email, GitHub, Google and Microsoft auth providers
- Pre request scripts
- REST docs describe adding pre-request scripts to requests
- Request collections
- Collections feature organises saved requests, unlimited on the free plan
- Response tests
- Docs state you can run tests on the responses you receive
- Rest API client
- REST platform lets you define endpoints with all HTTP methods and inspect responses
- Server sent events
- SSE is listed as a supported real-time protocol
- Socket io testing
- Socket.IO is listed as a supported real-time protocol
- Websocket testing
- Meta keywords and docs list WebSocket among supported protocols
- Workspace member roles
- Self-host lets owners invite members, assign roles and remove them
What people use it for2
- Replace postman
- Repository describes itself as an open-source alternative to Postman and Insomnia
- Keep API data in house
- Self-hosting is offered for privacy or compliance-driven teams
Works with4
- Microsoft entra id
- Microsoft is a configurable OAuth authentication provider
- Google workspace
- Google is a configurable OAuth authentication provider
- Github
- GitHub is a configurable OAuth authentication provider
- Docker
- Self-hosting getting started requires installing dependencies for a containerised deploy
Terms, compliance and how you buy28
- Self serve signup
- Free and Organization plans start straight from hoppscotch.io without sales
- Open source
- GitHub repository is published under the MIT licence
- Community support only on free
- Free and CE tiers get community forums rather than vendor support
- Annual billing on cloud tier
- Organization plan is quoted at $6 per user per month billed annually
- Community driven
- Docs describe it as built by the community on open source technologies
- Cross platform
- Works on Web, Mac, Windows, Linux and CLI
- Custom payment options
- Organization plan advertises custom payment options
- Demo required for enterprise trial
- EE free trial requires booking a demo through a cal.com link
- Developer first
- Built for developers with minimalist unobtrusive UI and no hand-holding
- Formerly postwoman
- Site meta keywords still carry the original Postwoman branding
- Free forever tier
- Cloud free plan is $0 forever with unlimited workspaces, collections and requests
- Free self host community edition
- Community Edition self-hosting is free with quarterly releases
- India built
- Founded in 2019 by Liyas Thomas and Andrew Bastin in Kochi, India
- Kochi origin
- Project originated in Kochi, Kerala rather than a metro startup hub
- Large github following
- GitHub repository has around 80,000 stars
- Lightweight
- Docs emphasise performance, instant feel and no installation
- Mit licensed
- GitHub API reports the licence as MIT for hoppscotch/hoppscotch
- No deep mock servers
- notBestFor flags missing mock server, monitoring and governance depth
- No forced account
- Our research notes it works in the browser with no forced account signup
- Not for non technical users
- notBestFor says non-technical users wanting hand-held onboarding should look elsewhere
- No usage caps on free
- Free plan advertises unlimited workspaces, collections, requests and runners
- Open core enterprise
- Docs describe CE as open-source and EE distribution as open-core
- Paid support tier
- Dedicated support is what the Organization and EE tiers actually buy
- Quarterly release cadence
- CE has quarterly releases, EE guarantees quarterly updates
- Self host enterprise costs more
- Self-host Enterprise Edition is $19 per user per month billed monthly
- Smaller ecosystem than postman
- Our cons record a smaller ecosystem and fewer enterprise features than Postman
- Typescript codebase
- GitHub reports TypeScript as the primary language
- Usd billed
- Organization plan is $6 per user per month and self-host EE is $19 per user
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Check the official pricing page before buying.
Hoppscotch official pricing pagehttps://hoppscotch.com/pricingHoppscotch product homepagehttps://hoppscotch.ioVentureBeat: Hoppscotch open-source ecosystem and India originhttps://venturebeat.com/2021/12/13/how-hoppscotch-is-building-an-open-source-api-development-ecosystem/
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Does Hoppscotch give a GST invoice in India?
Whether Hoppscotch issues an India GST invoice is not verified yet. Foreign-billed tools usually don't, in which case a registered business reclaims GST via reverse charge; confirm the vendor's billing before you buy.
Is Hoppscotch good for Indian small businesses?
Hoppscotch can work for Indian buyers, but check currency, tax, billing, support, and whether the workflow justifies foreign-currency pricing.
Does Hoppscotch have a free plan?
Hoppscotch lists a free plan, but check the official pricing page for current usage limits before choosing it.
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