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Mockoon vs Snaplet Seed

Feature checklists rarely decide anything. What decides it is the pricing metric, who has to write the tests, and which limitation you can live with.

Entry price

From $100 per month (Team, billed annually, up to 5 members)

Free tier

Free and open source

Open source

What drives the bill

The metric that actually scales your invoice.

Free locally and forever; the paid cloud tier adds hosted mocks and team sync. Team covers 5 members, 3 cloud-deployed mocks and 100k calls a month, with Enterprise on a quote. Work emails get a 14-day trial, others 7 days with a card.

Free and MIT-licensed. Snaplet the company shut down in August 2024 and snaplet.dev no longer resolves; this is a community-held library, not a service.

Free tier

The desktop app and CLI are free and open source.

Everything, self-hosted

Open source

MIT

MIT

Self-hostable

No-code authoring

Languages

JavaScriptCodeless
TypeScriptJavaScript

Platforms

API
API

Fits teams

Solo / side projectStartupScale-up / mid-market
Solo / side projectStartupScale-up / mid-market

Adoption

Widely used

Mockoon · since 2017

Emerging

Supabase community (formerly Snaplet) · since 2021

Strengths

  • Genuinely a minute from download to a working mock API.
  • Dynamic templating with faker-style helpers produces realistic responses.
  • Proxy mode mocks only the routes you need and passes the rest through.
  • Schema-aware generation means the data actually inserts and the app actually works.
  • Deterministic seeds make failing tests reproducible.
  • Good TypeScript ergonomics with Prisma and Drizzle.

Limitations

  • Desktop-first; sharing mocks across a team needs the paid cloud or a committed config file.
  • HTTP only.
  • Less suited to complex stateful behaviour than WireMock.
  • Effectively unmaintained: the last npm release (0.98.0) was July 2024 and the last commit to the default branch was August 2024, though the repo is not archived.
  • PostgreSQL-centric.
  • TypeScript ecosystem only.

Best for

Front-end developers unblocking themselves while a backend is still being built.

TypeScript teams that want each developer and CI run to start from a clean, coherent database.

All of these integrate with: GitHub Actions.

Pricing last reviewed August 2026 and is indicative only — confirm on each vendor’s own page.