We performed a comparison between Katalon Studio and Postman based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two API Testing Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The automation is very fast and you don't need to be overly proficient in coding."
"The most valuable feature is that the browser and the API testing is available in a single tool, and I don't have to look at other options."
"The most valuable feature of Katalon Studio is that everything can be managed from one platform."
"The recording feature of this product is very valuable for our testing purposes."
"It is a good tool and provides all the essential features for our business requirements."
"The initial setup of Katalon Studio was easy."
"User-friendly and a good solution."
"We can write code in Java and it is easy to link to other JARs that we find on the internet, which is very handy."
"The scalability is good."
"In Postman, we have an option to directly import a call, make it a Postman collection, and execute it in a batch. This feature is very useful. It saves a lot of time. The manual effort is also reduced when we can just pick it in a Postman collection and then run and execute it to get the results."
"I like that it is very easy to use. I also like the automation feature."
"This solution offers a free version."
"The most valuable feature is the user interface because it provides a clear space for the URL, headers, body, prerequisites, and tests."
"The initial setup is simple."
"It is nice to have different workspaces. You have your personal workspace, and then you have a team workspace. In general, I like its UI. It is quite cool."
"The most valuable feature of Postman is the large libraries."
"Katalon lacks integration with other software, including integrating other languages like .NET and PHP."
"We have been seeing some error pop-ups that are difficult to understand why they were triggered."
"Currently, I'm the only one who can use it because I have a Mac. It is giving a hard time to my team members who are on Linux. My team members are using Linux, and Katalon doesn't support Linux very well. It keeps on crashing. It crashes and shuts down almost every time they save their work, so they are not able to use it. It should have good support for Linux. We don't know what the problem is. If the Katalon team can pick up this issue, it will be very helpful."
"The product is comparatively slow."
"The price of the solution is a bit high. It's one of the reasons we decided not to continue using the product."
"The price of Katalon Studio is an area of concern where improvement is required."
"Katalon Studio's pricing is expensive."
"The solution can be further improved with better loading time."
"The solution could be more user-friendly."
"I would like to see advanced automation in reference to Postman."
"The solution has some user interface difficulties when conducting environment collections."
"If they could implement auto-validations and assertions from SoapUI, that would be a very good feature."
"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."
"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."
"If you have knowledge of JavaScript, the initial setup is easy and straightforward. If not, it may take some time to learn about JavaScript before starting the implementation."
"I have recently noticed that, for some reason, I am not able to import collections in JSON. It is weird because I was able to do it before. When you create a new collection and documentation, in tests, you usually have to click Save. If you don't click Save, your collections don't sync with other devices, which is something I don't like. It is not clear for the users in a shared workspace, and I usually forget to click Save and end up losing all the collections that I created. I create a lot of routes, and clicking Save all the time isn't efficient. Instead of clicking Save all the time, there should be an option to save everything in one go."
Katalon Studio is ranked 5th in API Testing Tools with 41 reviews while Postman is ranked 1st in API Testing Tools with 52 reviews. Katalon Studio is rated 7.8, while Postman is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Katalon Studio writes "Useful multiple technology platform, scalable, but usability could improve". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Postman writes "Reliable and easy to expand with a helpful API network". Katalon Studio is most compared with Tricentis Tosca, OpenText UFT One, Testim, Appium and Ranorex Studio, whereas Postman is most compared with Apache JMeter, ReadyAPI Test, Tricentis Tosca, Apigee and Parasoft SOAtest. See our Katalon Studio vs. Postman report.
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