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."It is a good management tool for controlling purposes."
"I believe the API connectivity within the cloud marketplace is most valuable."
"The most important features are the API management and API development."
"If you adopt the whole platform, you can build composable applications. This will cut your time creating new applications and updating them – once you have everything running – by up to 50%."
"MuleSoft has given the API solution a 3-tiered architecture. This means that there are multiple channels available in one application. The usability is very high."
"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."
"The solution has been very stable."
"The most valuable features of Mulesoft Anypoint API Manager are the API gateway, rate limiting, and orchestration."
"The solution collects scenarios and allows for testing SOAP API, REST API and API automation at the same time."
"One of the most valuable aspects of Postman is scalability. We can scale the collection and for the multiple repositories of the collections."
"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."
"It is a stable solution."
"It is stable and does not lag."
"The most valuable feature is that JavaScript can be included as tests."
"The developers put the API in a common workspace which is a nice feature. It makes things much easier and faster to start testing."
"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."
"Better documentation to help explain each of the features would be really helpful."
"The pricing is a bit expensive."
"The log management for this solution needs improvement."
"Their studio performance is very slow, it requires a lot of memory, and should be improved."
"Mulesoft Anypoint API Manager could improve the monitoring because it is very poor quality and not user-friendly. It is not as good as other solutions on the market."
"Migrating any existing middleware platform to Mulesoft is difficult because of the transformation, conversion and integration involved. Better tools are needed to achieve quicker time to market."
"Monetization and cataloging can be improved."
"Licensing costs should be reduced, it's quite expensive."
"They should integrate the solution with one of the CRM solutions."
"The solution is quite complex partly because the UI needs simplification."
"One thing which Postman needs to improve is the documentation. The documentation of Postman is not that great when compared to other tools."
"Postman could be improved by providing options for performance testing of APIs."
"I rate the support for Postman a four out of five."
"The performance needs to be improved."
"Integration of the solution towards Bitbucket, BitHub, and CI pipelines is difficult."
"Reporting can be better. If you have bigger APIs, it takes time."
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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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