We performed a comparison between MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager 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."The stability overall has been pretty great."
"Anypoint API Manager's most valuable feature is its connectors."
"We have all the policies available via drag and drop. It made it very easy."
"Both the cloud and on-premises options are available. Customers can leverage the MuleSoft Cloud platform to deploy the applications or set up their own online infrastructure to deploy applications."
"The security features are good. It's easy to configure the end-to-end integration with existing applications."
"The most valuable features of Mulesoft Anypoint API Manager are the API gateway, rate limiting, and orchestration."
"The auto-creation of the API documentation is useful."
"The entire offering and suite of tools that this solution provides have been very valuable. We are able to manage APIs on runtime on a cloud basis which has been very useful."
"Postman lets you create, manage, and validate a suite of tests. It has several features to help you organize your test suite. You can also automate stuff with a lot of validations and assertions. Postman supports GraphQL, and you can do various kinds of calls."
"We are using the automation and performance testing tools."
"It's easy to see different versions of responses."
"Good at simulating the API code from a fictitious client application to check API behavior."
"I like that it is very easy to use. I also like the automation feature."
"Postman is open-source and free to use."
"With Postman you can do automation. Automation has increased efficiency by more than 30% or 40%. Because the speed has increased, it's also possible for us to do in-sprint automation testing."
"It is stable and reliable."
"The solution is missing a monetization module."
"The pricing is quite expensive. It should be adjusted to make it more affordable for users."
"The solution's price is high."
"They should provide training and development programs to enable the skills and capabilities of users."
"Mulesoft Anypoint API Manager can improve some of the gateway features. We could use some more customization in creating rules. A lot of the policies are related to the APIs rather than the client. If I want to apply a policy based on a client that is not available."
"The cost model could be improved."
"The initial setup is very complex."
"The pricing is a bit expensive."
"Version management could be simplified."
"Postman needs more advanced data-driven testing."
"To get this email reporting function, we have to integrate Postman with Newman. If the two are not integrated, we won't be getting all these things in one group."
"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."
"The solution can be improved by providing detailed error logs including the line the error took place to make it easier to correct."
"Postman is a bit more of a complex tool, making it an area where improvements can be made."
"The performance needs to be improved."
"We'd like to see some better UI in newer versions."
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MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager is ranked 4th in API Management with 47 reviews while Postman is ranked 9th in API Management with 52 reviews. MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager is rated 8.2, while Postman is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager writes "Responsive technical support, low tickets issued showing great stability, and limitless expansion". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Postman writes "Reliable and easy to expand with a helpful API network". MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, Amazon API Gateway, Apigee, Kong Gateway Enterprise and IBM API Connect, whereas Postman is most compared with Apache JMeter, ReadyAPI Test, Tricentis Tosca, Katalon Studio and API Fortress. See our MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager vs. Postman report.
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