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 tierFree and open source
Open sourceWhat 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
Platforms
Fits teams
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.