SoapUI / ReadyAPI vs Bruno

Free tier available

From $6 per user/month (Pro, billed annually)

SmartBear publishes no ReadyAPI price; the pricing page is a quote request. ReadyAPI is licensed per module — Test, Performance, Virtualization — and buying all three multiplies the cost, with floating licences for CI costing more than fixed seats.

Bruno has moved off the old one-time Golden Edition to subscriptions: Pro $6 and Ultimate $11 per user/month billed annually, with a 14-day Ultimate trial. The open-source core remains free and fully functional offline.

SoapUI open source is free and covers SOAP and REST functional testing.

The open-source app and CLI are free and fully functional offline.

Widely used

SmartBear · since 2005

Widely used

Bruno Software · since 2023

• Unmatched SOAP, WSDL and JMS support for legacy enterprise integration work.
• ReadyAPI bundles functional, security, load and virtualisation in one product family.
• Groovy scripting escape hatch for anything the GUI cannot express.

• Collections live in Git, so they diff, branch and review like any other code.
• Offline-first with no forced account — a genuine compliance advantage.
• Imports Postman and Insomnia collections, making migration realistic.

• Dated Java desktop UI that feels heavy next to modern clients.
• Project files are XML and merge badly in version control.
• Modular licensing gets expensive fast.

• No built-in mock servers or monitoring; it is a client and runner, not a platform.
• Younger project with a smaller ecosystem and fewer integrations.
• Team collaboration relies on your Git workflow rather than in-app features.

Enterprises testing SOAP services, message queues and legacy integration layers.

Engineering teams that want API tests versioned alongside the code they test.