We performed a comparison between NGINX API Gateway and Postman based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two API Monitoring Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We do not face any lags."
"API routing is the most valuable feature."
"It's easy to install, and the performance is good."
"It is stable and reliable."
"The solution has helped us very well in testing endpoint URLs."
"Postman helps us to automate the API testing in the team."
"It is a scalable solution."
"Postman lets you create, manage, and validate a suite of tests. It has several features to help you organize your test suite. You can also automate stuff with a lot of validations and assertions. Postman supports GraphQL, and you can do various kinds of calls."
"It's easy to see different versions of responses."
"The developers put the API in a common workspace which is a nice feature. It makes things much easier and faster to start testing."
"No coding required."
"It could be more secure because security is always a problem."
"The UI could be more attractive."
"The product must improve its security features."
"Postman is a bit more of a complex tool, making it an area where improvements can be made."
"Postman could be improved by providing options for performance testing of APIs."
"If they could implement auto-validations and assertions from SoapUI, that would be a very good feature."
"I would like to see improvements in the maintenance of the scripts and their collections. It is really painful that the user cannot drag and drop. It was also painful to create the standard suite of operations for the product. I am not sure if this is improved in the tool’s latest versions. The maintenance of the complex scenarios prompted us to use the solution only for unit testing. In the future, we may switch to the k6 framework."
"Could be more user friendly."
"The performance needs to be improved."
"There is no support for the testing of the SOAP APIs."
"Multi-part requests should be handled in the octet-stream."
NGINX API Gateway is ranked 2nd in API Monitoring Software with 3 reviews while Postman is ranked 1st in API Monitoring Software with 52 reviews. NGINX API Gateway is rated 8.4, while Postman is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of NGINX API Gateway writes "A scalable and affordable solution that performs well and provides excellent technical support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Postman writes "Reliable and easy to expand with a helpful API network". NGINX API Gateway is most compared with , whereas Postman is most compared with Apache JMeter, ReadyAPI Test, Tricentis Tosca, Katalon Studio and API Fortress. See our NGINX API Gateway vs. Postman report.
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