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Postman Enterprise vs Windsurf comparison

 

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

Categories and Ranking

Postman Enterprise
Ranking in AI Software Development
6th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
65
Ranking in other categories
API Management (8th), API Monitoring Software (1st), API Testing Tools (1st)
Windsurf
Ranking in AI Software Development
9th
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
5.3
Number of Reviews
4
Ranking in other categories
IDE (4th), AI Code Assistants (4th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the AI Software Development category, the mindshare of Postman Enterprise is 0.4%. The mindshare of Windsurf is 3.5%, down from 19.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
AI Software Development Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Postman Enterprise0.4%
Windsurf3.5%
Other96.1%
AI Software Development
 

Featured Reviews

TS
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.
reviewer2748786 - PeerSpot reviewer
Founding BackEnd Engineer
Enhancing productivity with advanced code generation and low-cost accessibility
What they can do further and venture into next is to provide a CLI environment, similar to the command-line interface environment that Cursor offers. It allows for running a cursor agent from the command line to make changes, review pull requests, or access certain other capabilities. These capabilities are currently not in Windsurf. Windsurf focuses on the productivity and the ID/editor part. 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. These should be the next obvious features they launch for developers. In our team, there are certain people who use Windsurf regularly and appreciate using it. However, it is not a collaborative tool where someone is going to use the same tool and interact in the same IDE. Everyone does their local development, pushes it to different Git branches, someone reviews the PR, and then merges the branch. It is very localized in that sense.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"It is nice to have different workspaces. You have your personal workspace, and then you have a team workspace. In general, I like its UI. It is quite cool."
"The solution collects scenarios and allows for testing SOAP API, REST API and API automation at the same time."
"I can use multiple environments, which allows me to create environment variables for each endpoint."
"The user interface is very easy to learn and use, and it is a lightweight application."
"It is beneficial to have flexibility, especially with API chaining."
"One of the most valuable aspects of Postman is scalability. We can scale the collection and for the multiple repositories of the collections."
"It is easy and simple to use and install. It is compatible with Linux, Mac or Windows."
"One of the biggest advantages of Postman is its user-base approach."
"Windsurf has positively impacted my organization by increasing productivity, because during a one-week hackathon we were able to build a product from scratch that would have taken at least two to three weeks, making the time savings substantial."
"I have seen a return on investment with Windsurf because I have saved time and money and needed fewer resources since using it."
"As we're experimenting with different AI IDEs, Windsurf has positively impacted my organization by providing options."
"As we're experimenting with different AI IDEs, Windsurf has positively impacted my organization by providing options."
 

Cons

"The solution has some user interface difficulties when conducting environment collections."
"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."
"One thing which Postman needs to improve is the documentation. The documentation of Postman is not that great when compared to other tools."
"They should integrate the solution with one of the CRM solutions."
"The solution is quite complex partly because the UI needs simplification."
"One area that could be better is collection management."
"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."
"I chose 7 out of 10 because I've used Cursor as well, and sometimes I feel Cursor hallucinates less compared to Windsurf."
"Since using Windsurf, I notice more errors, but we deliver approximately twice as fast."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"This solution offers a free version."
"I use the tool's free version."
"Unlike APIs, the solution does not require a license."
"I rate the product's price a nine or ten on a scale of one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is very expensive. Postman is an expensive tool for Turkey."
"We do not pay any money for Postman."
"This is an open source solution."
"I rate the price of Postman a four out of five."
"Postman is a free service."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
19%
Computer Software Company
14%
Insurance Company
8%
Manufacturing Company
6%
Comms Service Provider
11%
Computer Software Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Outsourcing Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business17
Midsize Enterprise9
Large Enterprise41
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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?
My experience with Windsurf's pricing, setup cost, and licensing was positive. I received a discount because I joined early, so the license cost or monthly rental of Windsurf has been reasonably pr...
What needs improvement with Windsurf?
I have no suggestions at the moment for how Windsurf can be improved. I would not add more about the needed improvements, even small things that could make my experience better.
What is your primary use case for Windsurf?
I have been using Windsurf off and on for the last year. My main use case for Windsurf is for software development. Currently, we're working on an API, and Windsurf will help us develop a particula...
 

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Sample Customers

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