SuperTest vs Hoppscotch
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
Free and open source
Open sourceFrom $6 per user/month (Organization, billed annually; 25% more monthly)
Free tierWhat drives the bill
The metric that actually scales your invoice.
Free and open source. You pay in engineering time and CI minutes.
Self-hosting the community edition is free. The Organization plan adds an admin dashboard and vendor support; the self-hosted Enterprise edition is quote-based.
Free tier
Everything, self-hosted
Free cloud tier and a fully functional self-hosted community edition.
Open source
MIT
MIT
Self-hostable
No-code authoring
Languages
Platforms
Fits teams
Adoption
Widely used
OSS community · since 2014
Established
Hoppscotch · since 2019
Strengths
- Fast: no network, no separate server process, no port conflicts in CI.
- Tiny API you can learn in ten minutes.
- Works with whichever runner you already use.
- 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.
Limitations
- Node.js only, and only for services you host yourself.
- In-process testing skips the real network stack, proxies and load balancer.
- No environment management or collection concept for cross-service flows.
- Browser CORS restrictions require a proxy or the desktop agent for many real requests.
- Fewer advanced testing and mocking features than Postman.
- Smaller community.
Best for
Node.js API projects testing their own routes in the unit/integration layer.
Teams that want a self-hosted, no-install internal API client.
Pricing last reviewed August 2026 and is indicative only — confirm on each vendor’s own page.