Hoppscotch vs Postman

From $19 per user/month (indicative, team plan)

From $14 per user/month (Basic, billed annually)

Self-hosting the community edition is free. Paid plans add team workspaces and enterprise SSO.

Free tier is generous for individuals. Costs come from collaborator seats and monitoring/mock-call volume, and enterprise plans jump sharply.

Free cloud tier and a fully functional self-hosted community edition.

Free plan for individuals and small teams with limited collection runs, mock calls and monitors.

Established

Hoppscotch · since 2019

Category standard

Postman, Inc. · since 2012

• Nothing to install — genuinely useful for onboarding and for locked-down machines.
• Self-hosting is a single container, so internal deployment is trivial.
• Very light and fast.

• Near-universal adoption — collections are a lingua franca between teams and vendors.
• Covers design, mocking, testing, documentation and monitoring in one place.
• Newman makes any collection runnable in CI without rewriting it.

• Browser CORS restrictions require a proxy or the desktop agent for many real requests.
• Fewer advanced testing and mocking features than Postman.
• Smaller community.

• Cloud-first sync raised real concerns for teams handling sensitive API credentials; the offline story has been repeatedly reduced.
• Collections stored in the vendor cloud rather than your repo make code review and branching awkward.
• The desktop app has grown heavy, and per-seat costs add up on large teams.

Teams that want a self-hosted, no-install internal API client.

Teams that want one tool covering the whole API lifecycle and value ecosystem ubiquity.