Postman vs Apidog
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 $9 per user/month (Solo, billed annually)
Free tierFrom $9 per user/month (Basic, billed annually; Professional $18, Enterprise $27)
Free tierWhat drives the bill
The metric that actually scales your invoice.
Postman reorganised its plans: Solo $9, Team $19 and Enterprise $49 per user/month billed annually — the old Basic tier is gone. The free tier is generous for individuals; costs come from collaborator seats and monitoring/mock-call volume.
Priced noticeably below Postman for comparable team functionality.
Free tier
Free plan for individuals and small teams with limited collection runs, mock calls and monitors.
Free plan for small teams with core design, mock and test features.
Open source
Self-hostable
No-code authoring
Languages
Platforms
Fits teams
Adoption
Category standard
Postman, Inc. · since 2012
Established
Apidog · since 2022
Strengths
- 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.
- Schema-driven mocks and assertions stay correct as the API definition changes.
- Meaningfully cheaper than Postman for equivalent team features.
- One tool instead of three for design, mocking and documentation.
Limitations
- 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.
- Younger vendor with a smaller community and fewer third-party integrations.
- Data residency and cloud storage need checking for regulated environments.
- Documentation quality is uneven in places.
Best for
Teams that want one tool covering the whole API lifecycle and value ecosystem ubiquity.
Teams doing design-first API development who want mocks and docs generated from the spec.
All of these integrate with: GitHub, Jenkins, OpenAPI.
Pricing last reviewed August 2026 and is indicative only — confirm on each vendor’s own page.