We performed a comparison between MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager and Postman based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two API Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The ease of policy maintenance and API functionality are key features for me. They streamline business processes by allowing configurable control over policies, instead of writing codes and making maintenance more straightforward."
"MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager is a low-code product."
"The scalability is good. It's passable."
"The ESB, the enterprise service bus is what we primarily use. In addition to that, the API management. These are the two tools which we have been using extensively. The enterprise platform."
"It is a good management tool for controlling purposes."
"Both the cloud and on-premises options are available. Customers can leverage the MuleSoft Cloud platform to deploy the applications or set up their own online infrastructure to deploy applications."
"Its best feature is that its plugins are somewhat unique in the market. We have budgets, Prime membership, and pre-plugins available in the marketplace that we can use immediately."
"Anypoint API Manager's most valuable feature is its connectors."
"Postman uses the DRY framework of JavaScript and that framework is easy and a good way to put assertions on responses."
"Simple to use and you can easily store your projects."
"Postman allows you to incorporate and export the test cases we create. It enables me to share the test cases with my colleagues, so I don't have to copy them into an Excel sheet. Postman lets me export the dataset and share it with my team. They can use my test case for their testing."
"This solution offers a free version."
"The initial setup of this solution is straightforward. Postman can be used as an extension in Google Chrome for those who do not wish to install it directly. Deployment took an hour and a half."
"Good at simulating the API code from a fictitious client application to check API behavior."
"The tool is simple and easy."
"The most valuable features of the solution are that it is easy to use and user-friendly."
"Anypoint could be improved by making it more open and configurable for small companies, who tend not to consider the solution as it's expensive and requires a lot of costs upfront."
"We find that the enterprise level is lacking scalability."
"The setup process could be simpler."
"I would like to see MuleSoft expand the range of APIs you can manage with it beyond HTTP, GIPC, and others."
"The solution is missing a monetization module."
"The pricing is quite expensive. It should be adjusted to make it more affordable for users."
"I would like to see more automation. Operations are done manually. It should also automate in the operation."
"Licensing costs should be reduced, it's quite expensive."
"If we have a certain build on one machine it won't work with another build even if we are using the same URL. It would give us a connection refuse. So developing environment compatibility would make it better."
"It should be able to check the records and compare them to the regression testing more on the automation side."
"Reporting can be better. If you have bigger APIs, it takes time."
"Postman does not have a check-in balance. Essentially what I mean by that is if there is something that is already configured on a particular device, it just overrides it without checking whether you really want to override it or not."
"I was not even aware that it was possible to automate tasks in Postman...Some features related to the automation of tasks need to be added to the solution."
"The solution can be improved by providing detailed error logs including the line the error took place to make it easier to correct."
"I would like to have a code snippet where I can write a code and for the responses of the endpoints to be validated using my custom business conditions."
"If there is any way to have a record and playback feature through UI, as we do in Selenium and IDEs such as Eclipse, it would be great."
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MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager is ranked 4th in API Management with 49 reviews while Postman is ranked 9th in API Management with 52 reviews. MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager is rated 8.2, while Postman is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager writes "Responsive technical support, low tickets issued showing great stability, and limitless expansion". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Postman writes "Reliable and easy to expand with a helpful API network". MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, Amazon API Gateway, Apigee, IBM API Connect and Kong Gateway Enterprise, whereas Postman is most compared with Apache JMeter, ReadyAPI Test, Tricentis Tosca, Katalon Studio and Runscope. See our MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager vs. Postman report.
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