HACKER Q&A
📣 hubraumhugo

What's the Best Postman Alternative?


My team is looking to migrate away from Postman as our API client because it has become very bloated and slow.

What alternatives can you recommend?

  👤 geophph Accepted Answer ✓
Bruno for GUI Posting for TUI YMMV depending on how much you need out of the client.

That said, I’ve found Postman extension for VSCode to be preferable to their GUI

👤 tra3
fzf + curl.

- Easy to find things in your shell history with fzf

- curl supports everything you may need HTTP-wise.

One of my favourite curl snippets:

    curl -vvv 'https://google.com' \
    -w "==============\n\n | dnslookup: %{time_namelookup}\n | connect: %{time_connect}\n | appconnect: %{time_appconnect}\n | pretransfer: %{time_pretransfer}\n | starttransfer: %{time_starttransfer}\n | total: %{time_tot
    al}\n | size: %{size_download}\n | HTTPCode=%{http_code}\n\n"
which results in this little table after all the actual HTTP output:

    | dnslookup: 0.033616
    | connect: 0.234668
    | appconnect: 0.512112
    | pretransfer: 0.277686
    | starttransfer: 0.307353
    | total: 0.308548
    | size: 220
I kid, but only a little bit. What does Postman offer?
👤 oulipo
Hurl, httpie, bruno, httpYac

check https://www.google.com/search?q=alternatives+to+postman+site...

👤 _kush
I've been using HTTPie[1] for over a year and it's been great. Super light and does the job really well.

[1]: https://httpie.io/

👤 solardev
Check out usebruno.com, an open core alternative. I like it well enough to have switched from Postman.

Jetbrains also has a HTTP client built in, but it's not as easy to use.

👤 al_borland
I’ve been using Rapid API (formerly Paw).

I switched when Postman was trying to get me to sign up for their cloud in order to migrate to a new laptop.

👤 unsupp0rted
I'm curious too- Postman is so slow and heavy for what it does.
👤 realhanwenbo
Apifox
👤 toomuchtodo
Bruno