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Perforce Acana vs Postman Enterprise comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Feb 8, 2026

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Perforce Acana
Ranking in API Management
34th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Postman Enterprise
Ranking in API Management
4th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
72
Ranking in other categories
API Monitoring Software (1st), API Testing Tools (1st), AI Software Development (5th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the API Management category, the mindshare of Perforce Acana is 1.0%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Postman Enterprise is 1.9%, up from 0.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
API Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Postman Enterprise1.9%
Perforce Acana1.0%
Other97.1%
API Management
 

Featured Reviews

Saurav Krishna - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Engineering and AI Intern at .3Lines Venture Capital
Authentication mechanism is easy to implement but improvement is needed in documentation
For API security purposes, we use the tool to host all our APIs. This allows us to take advantage of the security features provided by the platform. With the solution, we can implement rules such as rate limiting and restricting the number of API calls for each user. It acts as a secure gateway…
RituRaj - PeerSpot reviewer
SDE 2 at Virtusa
Centralized collaboration has transformed API testing and documentation across multiple teams
In terms of improvement, the UI can sometimes feel heavy for larger collections in the workspaces. Additionally, performance may slow down with complex API projects, and pricing can be expensive for smaller teams. However, it is quite suitable for bigger teams. Other areas for improvement include better reporting and analytics dashboards, and more advanced native test environment features could enhance workflow, with smoother offline support and sync handling. Additionally, better performance for very large collections would be helpful, along with more intuitive navigation for enterprise-scale workspaces, stronger reporting analytics, easier management of permissions across large teams, and more flexible automation and testing report options would be beneficial. Small usability and performance improvements would make Postman Enterprise even more efficient for larger organizations. Postman Enterprise needs better performance optimization for large enterprises, more detailed analytics user reporting, improved API governance and audit visibility, simpler permissions and access control management, faster sync and loading times for larger collections, and more advanced built-in testing and reporting capabilities.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The interface is good, and the policies that it uses as opposed to the features that it has in terms of security and the throughput management and those aspects are intuitive."
"The tool's authentication mechanism is easy to implement. We had to define a few parameters."
"Good interface, intuitive solution."
"Its completeness feature for the large enterprises, in my case for the government, is the most valuable feature of this product."
"It allowed us to publish and replace pre-essential transactions in one place, with a uniformity in terms of control and policies."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of Postman is the large libraries."
"It is stable and reliable."
"It is easy and simple to use and install. It is compatible with Linux, Mac or Windows."
"The API testing features are valuable."
"As a standalone option, it's a fantastic tool, but it's very hard for us to collaborate using the solution."
"It's user-friendly and free, and anybody can learn it within five to seven minutes."
"We can also submit requests multiple times and it allows us to capture the response each time by using utility scripts."
 

Cons

"Akana API Management needs to improve its documentation."
"The product has new features that we are going to implement in the next few months, such as API management and analytic reporting."
"The version that we have is very old."
"Lacks an integrated billing feature."
"We actually did reach out to the technical support and it was all right, not great. We didn't get the answers we needed."
"Postman does not have a check-in balance. Essentially what I mean by that is if there is something that is already configured on a particular device, it just overrides it without checking whether you really want to override it or not."
"The pricing should be adjusted for the Pro plan."
"Could be more user friendly."
"One potential improvement for Postman Enterprise could be incorporating AI features into its advanced options."
"Scalability-wise, it can be improved a little bit. They can include more options to do the performance testing or rate testing so that we can query or push a lot of requests to our APIs."
"Multi-part requests should be handled in the octet-stream subtype which provides responses in chunks for files that can be downloaded and viewed."
"Postman is a bit more of a complex tool, making it an area where improvements can be made."
"The solution is quite complex and not so easy to understand at first glance."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"For us, the pricing and licensing policies were for an on-premise installation with a fixed cost structure, that matched our budgeting policies."
"This solution offers a free version."
"Unlike APIs, the solution does not require a license."
"We are using the free version that is available."
"The solution is free for individuals, but for companies that use it across the organization, you have to pay per user."
"Postman is a free service."
"We do not pay any money for Postman."
"The solution has moderate pricing."
"I rate the price of Postman a four out of five."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Manufacturing Company
17%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Computer Software Company
11%
Healthcare Company
7%
Financial Services Firm
14%
Insurance Company
8%
Construction Company
7%
Computer Software Company
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business18
Midsize Enterprise14
Large Enterprise45
 

Questions from the Community

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How does Postman compare with Apache JMeter?
Postman lets you easily define variables, which then get updated automatically. This is a huge time-saver and makes processes very efficient. We can also export the test cases we create and share t...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Postman?
Almost 30% of our time has been saved when it comes to complete regression testing of one feature. That is the rough estimate I can provide.
What needs improvement with Postman?
One area for improvement is that sometimes performance is slightly slow when we are handling large collections. Also, we need better integrations with CI/CD tools so that automation would be smooth...
 

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Sample Customers

British American Tobacco, Credit Suisse, Daimler, eBay, FOX, Liberty Mutual, Marriott, Mayo Clinic, Skandia, Tata communications
PayPal, Shopify, Microsoft, Adobe, Atlassian, Twitter, BestBuy, Coursera
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