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API development and testing platform for building, testing, documenting, and collaborating on APIs.
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FindThatSoftware verdictEditorial ruling
The de facto standard for API development and testing, useful for any team building or integrating APIs, with a strong free tier. Larger teams pay per seat and may need governance in higher plans. Verify current per-user pricing if you need team collaboration and enterprise controls.
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Should you use Postman?
Use it if developers building and testing APIs. Avoid it if regulated Indian firms that need a specific data residency region, because residency is Enterprise only and sits behind a sales conversation.
Spec sheet
- Starting price
- ₹893/mo$9/user/mo sticker
- Free plan
- Available
- Free trial
- Available
- Status
- Source checked 29 Jul 2026
- Source trail
- 2 public sources
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Postman is a developer & data / developer tools for Indian buyers. All-in it runs about ₹893/mo for a GST-registered business ($9/user/mo sticker plus about 3.5% card forex). It does not issue an India GST invoice, so a registered business reclaims the GST via reverse charge. FindThatSoftware rates it best for developers building and testing APIs, and a poor fit if regulated Indian firms that need a specific data residency region, because residency is Enterprise only and sits behind a sales conversation.
The trade-off, weighed
What you gain, and what you give up.
The case for
- The free tier stays usable for one person, with unlimited mock servers, 10,000 Postman API calls and 1,000 monitoring requests a month.
- Team pricing is published at 19 dollars per user a month on annual billing, so a small team costs the tool out without a sales call.
- AI credit overage is priced openly at 5 cents on Solo down to 3.5 cents on Enterprise rather than arriving as a surprise line item.
The catch
- The free plan is one user only, so the moment a second engineer needs the same collection you move to Solo or Team.
- Monthly billing costs 26 dollars per user against 19 on annual, so paying month to month carries a 37 percent premium.
- Deleted collections are recoverable for only one day on the free plan, which is thin protection for work that lives in the cloud.
- SSO, audit logs, EU data residency and the security administration add-on sit in Enterprise at 49 dollars per user or behind a sales call.
True India price
Registered business, per month
₹893
Postman advertises $9/mo. A GST-registered business in India pays about ₹893 a month (₹10,717/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 ₹1,054 a month.
- Sticker price
- $9/mo
- Card forex markup
- about 3.5% over mid-market
- GST
- 18%, reclaimable if registered
- Registered per month
- ₹893
- Registered per year
- ₹10,717
- If you can't reclaim GST
- ₹1,054
- Try first
- Has a free plan, so you can start without a card.
- Watch for
- Free (1 user). Paid from $9/user/mo, scaling to higher tiers (billed annually). USD. Confirm on vendor site.
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 Postman fits an Indian business operationally, from the verified pricing and company facts we hold.
- ✗GST invoice
No Indian GST invoice, so a registered business cannot claim input tax credit on the bill.
- ✗Bills in INR
Priced in a foreign currency, so your card or bank adds forex conversion on top.
- ✗India HQ
Headquartered outside India, so check support hours and India-specific features.
How Postman compares
Against the 2 other api development toolswe list, from what we verified on each vendor’s own pages.
Also in most alternatives
Recorded for at least half of the 2 others, and for Postman.
- Audit log
- Sso saml
- API documentation
- Data driven testing
- Native git integration
- Scim provisioning
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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Audit my stackOverview
What is Postman?
Postman is a widely used API platform (founded in India) for designing, testing, documenting, and monitoring APIs, with collaborative workspaces, mock servers, and automated test runs. It is a default tool for developers and QA teams working with REST, GraphQL, and other APIs.
Best for
- Developers building and testing APIs
- QA teams validating endpoints
- Teams collaborating on API design
Who should avoid it
- Regulated Indian firms that need a specific data residency region, because residency is Enterprise only and sits behind a sales conversation.
- A five person team that needs SSO for compliance, because SSO lives in Enterprise at 49 dollars per user, well over double Team.
What Postman does
What we verified about Postman
Read from Postman’s own pages. Each line is a finding and what it was based on, so you can check any of it yourself.
Features we confirmed50
- Webhooks
- First-class webhook support is a listed platform feature
- Vs code extension
- An IDE extension for VS Code is listed in the comparison
- Team workspaces
- Workspaces let teams collaborate on shared API assets
- Sso saml
- SSO and SAML come via the Simple Security add-on or Enterprise
- Secrets vault
- Postman Local Vault and Shared Vault store credentials securely
- Secret scanning
- Secret Scanner covers local secret protection and cloud detection
- Scim provisioning
- User provisioning via SCIM is listed under API management
- Rbac
- Basic RBAC on Team and advanced RBAC on Enterprise
- Native git integration
- Native Git is available even on the free plan
- Mcp server
- Postman MCP Server gives API context to AI agents
- Domain capture
- Domain verification and domain capture are Enterprise controls
- Data driven testing
- Data file support in Collection Runner enables data-driven tests
- Custom domain
- Unlimited custom domains are included from Solo
- Audit log
- Audit logs and compliance reporting sit on Enterprise
- API documentation
- Public and private API documentation is generated from collections
- AI agent mode
- Agent Mode automates API workflows with native AI
- AI input guardrails
- AI input guardrails are listed among Enterprise controls
- API catalog
- API Catalog is the Enterprise system of record for APIs
- API governance
- Governance enforces API standards at scale on Enterprise
- API monitoring
- API monitoring runs 1,000 to 10,000 requests per team monthly
- API spec management
- Spec Hub manages OpenAPI and other specifications
- API versioning
- API versioning is included in the development feature set
- Automated API testing
- Unlimited automated testing runs through the Collection Runner
- Automation flows
- Automation Flows run on monthly credits scaled by plan
- Collection recovery
- Deleted collections are recoverable for 1 to 90 days by plan
- Collections and environments
- Collections and environments are core objects on all tiers
- Commenting and annotations
- Commenting and annotations enable review inside collections
- Custom branded documentation
- Custom-branded docs unlock from the Solo plan upward
- Deployment control
- Deployment control is an Enterprise management feature
- External vault integrations
- Postman Vault integrations come with the Advanced Security add-on
- Mcp client
- Model Context Protocol client is listed on every plan
- Mock servers
- Unlimited cloud and local mock servers are on every plan
- Monitor approval workflows
- Enterprise adds monitor reports with approval workflows
- Multi protocol API client
- Comparison table lists a multi-protocol API client on every plan
- Npm package publishing
- Public NPM packages on all plans, private packages from Solo
- Partner workspaces
- External partner and multi-partner workspaces are Enterprise features
- Performance testing
- Performance testing with unlimited runs is included
- Playwright integration
- Playwright integration is listed under testing features
- Postman cli
- Postman CLI runs collections from the command line
- Private API network
- Private API Network is an Enterprise distribution feature
- Private runners
- Private test and Flows runners are an Enterprise feature
- Production API insights
- Insights gives production visibility on every endpoint
- Public API network
- Public API Network publishes collections for discovery
- Reusable requests
- Reusable requests are listed as a development feature
- Sdk auto distribution
- Enterprise adds SDK auto-distribution with an auto PR feature
- Sdk generation
- SDK generation and distribution unlock on the Team plan
- Shared package library
- Shared package library appears in the distribution features
- Test data storage
- Test data storage is a listed development capability
- Test result exports
- Test result exports unlock from the Solo plan
- Visual flows
- Flows creates visual API workflows with unlimited manual flows
What people use it for3
- Monitor API uptime
- Monitors validate performance and availability on a schedule
- Give AI agents API context
- MCP server and catalog exist to feed APIs to AI agents
- Automate API tests in ci
- Postman CLI and Collection Runner slot into delivery pipelines
Works with4
- Vs code
- A VS Code IDE extension is listed in the plan comparison
- Git
- Native Git connects collections to source repositories
- Npm
- Public and private NPM package publishing is supported
- Playwright
- Playwright integration is listed under testing features
Terms, compliance and how you buy24
- Steep monthly premium
- Monthly Team billing costs materially more per seat than annual
- No india data residency
- The only residency option offered is EU, none in India
- India founded
- Postman was founded in India and remains India-linked engineering
- Annual discount
- Pricing toggle advertises saving up to 25 percent annually
- Credit based pricing
- Plans allocate 50 to 800 AI credits per user per month
- 24x5 support on enterprise
- Enterprise adds 24x5 support with a 24 hour SLA
- API call quotas per plan
- Postman API calls range from 10,000 to 10 million monthly
- Community email support on lower tiers
- Free, Solo and Team get only community and email support
- Custom terms on enterprise
- Custom terms of service are available only on Enterprise
- Desktop app
- Site prominently offers a Postman desktop app download
- Discord community
- Community support runs through a public Discord and forums
- Eu only data residency
- Data residency is EU-only and Enterprise-gated
- Free plan single user
- Free and Solo both include only one user
- Generous solo free tier
- Free gives unlimited mock servers and 10,000 monthly API calls
- Industry default tool
- Positioned as the platform powering the world's leading API teams
- Integration count capped per plan
- Integrations cap at 5 on Free rising to 100 on Enterprise
- One day collection recovery on free
- Free plan recovers deleted collections for only one day
- Per seat pricing
- Team and Enterprise are billed per user per month
- Premium support as add on
- Premium Support is an add-on even on Enterprise
- Security features as add ons
- Vault integrations and account control sit in an Advanced Security add-on
- Self serve purchase
- Every tier including Enterprise has a self-serve Get Started button
- Sso behind paid add on
- SSO requires the Simple Security add-on or Enterprise plan
- Transparent AI overage rate
- AI overage is published at 5 cents down to 3.5 cents per credit
- Usd billed
- Prices are quoted in US dollars with no rupee option
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Pricing caveat and source trail
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Free (1 user). Paid from $9/user/mo, scaling to higher tiers (billed annually). USD. Confirm on vendor site.
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Does Postman give a GST invoice in India?
Postman does not issue an India GST invoice. A GST-registered business can still reclaim the 18% through the reverse-charge route by raising a self-invoice, but there is no vendor GST invoice to claim against directly.
Is Postman good for Indian small businesses?
Postman can work for Indian buyers, but check currency, tax, billing, support, and whether the workflow justifies foreign-currency pricing.
Does Postman have a free plan?
Postman lists a free plan, but check the official pricing page for current usage limits before choosing it.
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