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Postman
Build and test APIs collaboratively
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What Postman is
API client with collections, environments, mock servers, monitors and documentation generation, shared across a team workspace.
What Postman has cost
We have read this pricing page 13 times since Jan 2021, including archived copies of it. Each figure below was pulled from the page itself, not from a summary of it.
- $15/moJan 2021 – Jul 2021 · Team · 2 readings · archived page
The entry plan changed name here, from Team to Basic. That is a different plan, so the two prices are not a rise or a cut.
$15/moJan 2022 – Feb 2023 · Basic · 3 readings · archived page- $19/moJul 2024 – Jan 2026 · Basic · 4 readings · archived page
The entry plan changed name here, from Basic to Solo. That is a different plan, so the two prices are not a rise or a cut.
$9/mo*Jul 2026 – Sept 2026 · Solo · 4 readings · archived page
The Basic plan moved from $15 to $19 (+26.7%) somewhere between Feb 2023 and Jul 2024 — we read it at both ends and cannot narrow it further.
* That reading is the effective monthly cost when paying for a year up front, which is what the page published at the time.
Gaps are ours, not the vendor's: where a capture was unreadable, or the price could not be tied to a plan at all, no reading was recorded rather than a guess. See every price change we can stand behind.
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Postman alternatives
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Where Postman sits on price
Entry prices across Developer Tools, cheapest first.
13 of these 13 prices were read from the vendor's own pricing page. The median is taken across the 13 verified prices in Developer Tools. 1 more tool in this category does not publish an entry price and is not plotted. Showing the 10 cheapest.
Postman pricing questions
- How much does Postman cost?
- Postman starts at $9 a month on its Solo plan, billed annually. That figure was read from postman.com's own pricing page on 21 September 2026.
- Does Postman have a free plan?
- Yes. Postman publishes an ongoing free tier — not a countdown trial. Limits vary by plan, so check what the free tier covers before you commit.
- What is Postman used for?
- API client with collections, environments, mock servers, monitors and documentation generation, shared across a team workspace. People mainly use it to test an api, document an api, mock an api.
- What are the best alternatives to Postman?
- The closest alternatives in the same category are GitHub, Vercel, Supabase, Sentry. GitHub starts lower at $4 a month. GitHub, Vercel, Supabase and Sentry publish a free plan.