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Postman Enterprise vs Windsurf comparison

 

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Executive Summary

Review summaries and opinions

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

ROI

Sentiment score
4.1
Postman's streamlined API workflows enhance collaboration, reduce manual testing time, minimize errors, and improve productivity, leading to cost savings.
Sentiment score
5.4
Organizations achieve high ROI with Windsurf, enhancing efficiency, productivity, and code quality, reducing costs and time significantly.
A minimum of 50% time is saved when comparing manual to automation.
Senior QA Manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
My clients save time and money, and we are generally about twice as fast with AI-enabled software development.
Principal Consultant at a outsourcing company with 1-10 employees
The scope of work has increased a lot, but we managed to keep up without hiring due to the power of these AI-powered coding agents like Windsurf and Cursor.
Automation Engineer at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
It has saved a substantial amount of time compared to previous methods, with a 25% time reduction in code generation and completion of projects.
Software Engineer at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
5.7
Postman's documentation and forums effectively resolve most issues, though some users desire improved support responsiveness and enhanced technical support.
Sentiment score
6.7
Windsurf customer service is generally seen as effective, though some experience difficulties with contact and response times.
I appreciate the ease of using Postman, especially its desktop version, due to the features it offers such as cookie management and environment synchronization.
Senior developer at Digital world advisory
There is a lot of support available through forums and user groups, which has been sufficient for me.
Automation Architect at Cognizant
Technical issues are handled very well when they arise.
Software Engineer at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees
The release notes are really helpful.
Principal Consultant at a outsourcing company with 1-10 employees
It is mentioned on their website that you need to mail customer support to contact them.
AI Engineer at Walkover Web Solutions
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.2
Postman Enterprise excels in scalability and adaptability for various teams, despite noted areas for performance improvement.
Sentiment score
5.6
Windsurf effectively manages growth and larger projects but may struggle with very complex repositories; scalability could be improved.
Postman does not have database validation available, which affects its scalability.
Automation Architect at Cognizant
This solution is scalable.
Erp Lead at a university with 5,001-10,000 employees
Windsurf can ensure that multiple users can work simultaneously on a single product.
AI Engineer at Walkover Web Solutions
I believe it can handle growth effectively as our team expands or projects get bigger because it keeps the context of the codebase in a specialized, cached way.
Automation Engineer at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
Windsurf's scalability is good, as it can handle larger projects or more users if needed.
Student at a university with 501-1,000 employees
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.0
Postman Enterprise is highly reliable, stable, and handles daily use well, with minimal issues and rare glitches.
Sentiment score
7.6
Windsurf is widely stable and reliable, with minor latency issues and past problems resolved, enhancing user experience.
I rate it ten out of ten for stability.
Erp Lead at a university with 5,001-10,000 employees
I have not experienced any issues or downtimes.
Full Stack JS(ReactJS/NodeJS) & IBM Integration Bus(IIB) Developer at Eviden France
During the development phase, you will face issues, but once it goes to production, you won't face such issues.
Software engineer 2 at Quantiphi
Windsurf is currently stable for me; I have not experienced any crashes or issues.
Angular Developer at a computer retailer with 51-200 employees
I have not encountered any crashes or reliability issues.
Student at a university with 501-1,000 employees
It is highly reliable.
Founding BackEnd Engineer
 

Room For Improvement

Postman Enterprise users request improved documentation, UI, integrations, automation, and pricing, while addressing compatibility, speed, and testing challenges.
Users suggest enhancing Windsurf's trial performance, command-line integration, and improving AI accuracy, feature handling, and platform integration.
If that integrates with an IDE, it will be a game changer.
Senior Associate at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
One of the primary challenges with Postman is handling authentication issues, especially relating to tokens and passwords.
Senior developer at Digital world advisory
If they can enhance it to have a database kind of validation like we have in ReadyAPI, it would be better.
Automation Architect at Cognizant
Enhancing the reliability of the cascade agent for large and complex codebases, ensuring it understands projects thoroughly, and providing safer multi-file edits would make Windsurf a significantly stronger tool.
Angular Developer at a computer retailer with 51-200 employees
I would rather look for the inclusion of pull request reviews or a kind of a TRD or technical requirement general documentation generation, or system diagram generation directly from the codebase in Windsurf itself.
Founding BackEnd Engineer
There needs to be a better way to find new models instead of going to the release notes; the model picker should highlight the newer beta or free models more prominently.
Principal Consultant at a outsourcing company with 1-10 employees
 

Setup Cost

Postman Enterprise offers competitive pricing with free and paid plans for various team sizes, balancing cost with features.
Windsurf offers affordable pricing and seamless licensing, providing good value, especially to enterprises, though startups desire slightly lower costs.
Postman's pricing model includes a basic free version, which is favorable given the Professional enterprise options offered.
Senior developer at Digital world advisory
Postman is open-source, so the cost is minimal compared to commercial platforms.
Automation Architect at Cognizant
Postman is much cheaper than the other tools.
Senior QA Manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
It is very cheap compared to other tools in the market because 80% of the time, we are happy with their free model capabilities.
Founding BackEnd Engineer
If it were a bit less, it would be more useful for us to save money since we are a startup.
Software Engineer at Collecto Fintech Solutions Pvt Ltd
I did not incur setup costs.
Student at a university with 501-1,000 employees
 

Valuable Features

Postman Enterprise offers user-friendly API testing with automation, collaboration, and integration features for streamlined team workflows and validation.
Windsurf boosts developer productivity with AI code generation, real-time suggestions, and seamless integration across languages and frameworks.
The desktop version's features like cookie management, environment compatibility, security settings, proxy integration, and data synchronization add significant value.
Senior developer at Digital world advisory
It's easy to navigate because tons of documentation and examples are available.
Senior QA Manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Postman's collaboration tools, such as version control and team workspaces, are particularly useful when working with teams of three to four people.
Programmeur-Analyste Research and Development at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees
We were able to build a product from scratch, which would have taken at least two to three weeks. With Windsurf helping me build it in a week, the time savings are substantial.
Lead Software Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Windsurf's understanding of my Angular project context is better than basic auto-complete and less IntelliSense options because it understands what version of Angular I am using and what features I require.
Angular Developer at a computer retailer with 51-200 employees
If there are any exceptions, it automatically finds out what the exact issue is and provides the solution and fixes it.
Software Engineer at Collecto Fintech Solutions Pvt Ltd
 

Categories and Ranking

Postman Enterprise
Ranking in AI Software Development
6th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
66
Ranking in other categories
API Management (7th), API Monitoring Software (1st), API Testing Tools (1st)
Windsurf
Ranking in AI Software Development
5th
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
5.7
Number of Reviews
19
Ranking in other categories
IDE (2nd), AI Code Assistants (4th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the AI Software Development category, the mindshare of Postman Enterprise is 0.5%. The mindshare of Windsurf is 1.8%, down from 22.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
AI Software Development Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Windsurf1.8%
Postman Enterprise0.5%
Other97.7%
AI Software Development
 

Featured Reviews

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API Integration Engineer at Airbnb
Automated testing optimizes API workflow and collaboration
Since I am using the free tier, one improvement would be to increase the number of requests you can send in a short time period. Currently, if I send 200-300 requests in a short period, Postman Enterprise requires a 30-second wait before sending another bundle of requests unless you upgrade to a higher tier. Secondly, Postman Enterprise sometimes takes several minutes to load the whole workspace. With 2,000-3,000 requests in a workspace, it can take a minute or two to load all requests. When creating a new workspace and moving requests between workspaces, depending on internet speed, it can take a longer period to copy those requests or workspace from one place to another.
Rusira Sathnindu - PeerSpot reviewer
Automation Engineer at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
AI coding agent has boosted daily commits and now speeds up complex feature delivery
Even though Windsurf has a good understanding of the codebase, sometimes when you ask it to do a complex task, it may complete it in the first try but may need improvements. When you prompt it again repeatedly, after the sixth or seventh prompt, it may start performing poorly. That is one of the key things I have noticed—its performance is not very consistent with continued prompts. Additionally, it sometimes hallucinates things. Although this previously happened a lot, it has improved, and now these checkers and linter functions ensure the code it writes is correct, reducing those hallucinations, but the performance inconsistency is still something I have noticed. The UI is good as it is basically a Visual Studio fork, so it has a good user interface. Moreover, every Visual Studio integration works here, so all of those are good. One of the main issues is the agent hallucinating and the generations not being good; those are two main points.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
19%
Computer Software Company
11%
Insurance Company
8%
Manufacturing Company
5%
Comms Service Provider
10%
Computer Software Company
10%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Manufacturing Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business17
Midsize Enterprise9
Large Enterprise42
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business13
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise6
 

Questions from the Community

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 do you like most about Postman?
The product is easy to implement.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Postman?
Postman is much cheaper than the other tools. I am not aware of the current pricing for Postman because that's taken care of by the client; we just pay and they simply create options. On a per-pers...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Windsurf?
I did not have to give any money for it, so it is fully free, which is the best. I did not incur setup costs.
What needs improvement with Windsurf?
Windsurf can be improved in several ways, such as enhancing response times and better handling of massive codebases when dealing with over 100K plus files, along with improved security controls. AI...
What is your primary use case for Windsurf?
My main use case for Windsurf is writing code with AI solutions and refactoring existing code. A quick specific example of a task or project where I have used Windsurf for writing or refactoring co...
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

PayPal, Shopify, Microsoft, Adobe, Atlassian, Twitter, BestBuy, Coursera
Dell, Anduril, MongoDB, Zillow, Atlassian
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