We performed a comparison between IBM API Connect and Postman based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two API Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."WSRR is a powerful component for getting the endpoints."
"The product gathers data to measure API performance."
"The most valuable feature for me is the ability to distribute work among our API developers, so we don't have to do all the work as IBM API Connect administrators and IBM DataPower administrators."
"It is easy to use and stable."
"API Connect is a very good platform for the development of APIs."
"IBM API Connect is a good product, and their technical support is excellent."
"The most valuable features are stability and security."
"This product is well integrated with other products. Its ability to interact with IBM Secure Gateway and other integration products is the core feature. Also, the lead time to put it into production is relatively short ."
"Postman helps us to automate the API testing in the team."
"The environment variables are a valuable feature because I can easily switch them and see all the developments in different cycles and stages."
"It is a stable solution."
"One of the most valuable aspects of Postman is scalability. We can scale the collection and for the multiple repositories of the collections."
"We use it for REST API testing. Feature-wise, it is pretty lightweight. It is pretty fast, and we don't have to do a lot of things. We can just simply go and post our endpoint, and it gives different kinds of authorizations. We usually use authentication 2.0, which is the most common industry practice. So, it has the support for authorization through 2.0."
"We are using the automation and performance testing tools."
"In Postman, we have an option to directly import a call, make it a Postman collection, and execute it in a batch. This feature is very useful. It saves a lot of time. The manual effort is also reduced when we can just pick it in a Postman collection and then run and execute it to get the results."
"It is easy and simple to use and install. It is compatible with Linux, Mac or Windows."
"IBM info-center help documentation also needs improvement. Competitive product like Apigee provide out of the box policies to run Javascript, JAVA and better/flexible logging policies."
"Due to bugs in integration, we have to look for workaround on fixing and using DataPower as gateway."
"I would like to see automation of the installation. If there could be a single-click function where you could automate everything, that would be helpful."
"The integration of cloud-based services is where we're looking for improvement in this platform."
"Firstly, the pricing model, when compared to other open sources, is high. Secondly, the availability of resources in the market, specifically the developers available in the market, is not so much."
"In the next version, I don't know if they've already been included it or not, but the designer and all the tools should be on the cloud. I don't want any external installation or local installation."
"The developmental process is not quite user-friendly."
"The solution is overly complex."
"I would like to have a code snippet where I can write a code and for the responses of the endpoints to be validated using my custom business conditions."
"There is no support for the testing of the SOAP APIs."
"The scalability of the solution can be improved."
"The solution could be more user-friendly."
"The tool needs to have a reporting feature."
"The request encryption could be one thing on which they can work a little bit. If we don't want to expose our production data but we still want to test our APIs on the production data, there should be a way to do that. It is not only with Postman. I think no tool in the market is doing that right now."
"Should have a more improved easy-to-use interface."
"I have display issues in my Windows that need to be fixed."
IBM API Connect is ranked 5th in API Management with 73 reviews while Postman is ranked 9th in API Management with 52 reviews. IBM API Connect is rated 8.0, while Postman is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of IBM API Connect writes "Good speed and performance, but it's based on a bit dated architecture". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Postman writes "Reliable and easy to expand with a helpful API network". IBM API Connect is most compared with Apigee, IBM DataPower Gateway, Microsoft Azure API Management, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager and Amazon API Gateway, whereas Postman is most compared with Apache JMeter, ReadyAPI Test, Tricentis Tosca, Katalon Studio and Apigee. See our IBM API Connect vs. Postman report.
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