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Postman Enterprise vs SoapUI comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Feb 8, 2026

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Postman Enterprise
Ranking in API Testing Tools
1st
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
71
Ranking in other categories
API Management (5th), API Monitoring Software (1st), AI Software Development (10th)
SoapUI
Ranking in API Testing Tools
10th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
5.5
Number of Reviews
5
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the API Testing Tools category, the mindshare of Postman Enterprise is 6.6%, down from 9.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SoapUI is 2.0%, up from 0.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
API Testing Tools Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Postman Enterprise6.6%
SoapUI2.0%
Other91.4%
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Featured Reviews

RituRaj - PeerSpot reviewer
SDE 2 at Virtusa
Centralized collaboration has transformed API testing and documentation across multiple teams
In terms of improvement, the UI can sometimes feel heavy for larger collections in the workspaces. Additionally, performance may slow down with complex API projects, and pricing can be expensive for smaller teams. However, it is quite suitable for bigger teams. Other areas for improvement include better reporting and analytics dashboards, and more advanced native test environment features could enhance workflow, with smoother offline support and sync handling. Additionally, better performance for very large collections would be helpful, along with more intuitive navigation for enterprise-scale workspaces, stronger reporting analytics, easier management of permissions across large teams, and more flexible automation and testing report options would be beneficial. Small usability and performance improvements would make Postman Enterprise even more efficient for larger organizations. Postman Enterprise needs better performance optimization for large enterprises, more detailed analytics user reporting, improved API governance and audit visibility, simpler permissions and access control management, faster sync and loading times for larger collections, and more advanced built-in testing and reporting capabilities.
PramodChaudharyDarwha - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager at TCS
Organizing and sharing reusable API test suites has improved our team’s regression testing
SoapUI is really great for my team because when we are trying to create test cases and the requests that we are going to send to an API, we can create one SoapUI folder which will be XML and this XML is used by SoapUI itself. If we want to share whatever request we are running on my system with another person, we can export the test suite that we are working on and give it to another person. It is shareable through file upload and download. However, we cannot share it through a link or something implemented on the cloud. The best feature of SoapUI is that we can build a suite in SoapUI. When we build a suite, it creates a kind of directory where we can organize our tests in one place, and then we can share it. Another best feature is that we can execute the tests that we want to do on API level in a sequential fashion or in parallel, through synchronous or asynchronous calls. For the feature where we can organize and share test suites, because we have the test suite now, there are many things that we want to check manually. This suite can be shared with a team, and then the suite can be divided into parts or we can divide the work by sharing the suite. We can update the suite and then we can make a final suite that will be useful for next iterations. This has helped us in creating a very efficient test suite and a way to organize our test cases and regression suite.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The solution is open-source and does the work required for day-to-day API testing activities."
"Postman is a good tool for completing a sanity check or smoke test of REST APIs."
"This is an easy solution to manage."
"The user-interface is very good."
"I like that it is very easy to use, and I also like the automation feature."
"Postman is useful for API testing."
"It is stable and does not lag."
"The variables part is good. We can easily define the variables and we don't have to manually do a change every time, it gets automatically updated."
"SoapUI has really made that possible for us."
"SoapUI is really great for my team because when we are trying to create test cases and the requests that we are going to send to an API, we can create one SoapUI folder which will be XML and this XML is used by SoapUI itself."
"We need to test the APIs as we build them. I use the product for API testing. You can do AWS security in SoapUI. With SoapUI, we can even perform mutual SSL authentication by incorporating certificates into the SoapUI browser. This allows us to send transactions to the backend downstream."
"The solution's most valuable features are the designing of API, Property Transfer feature, and Groovy plugin."
"SoapUI is a pretty simple tool."
 

Cons

"The product lacks a good console."
"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."
"I would like to see advanced automation in reference to Postman."
"The scalability of the solution can be improved."
"Version management could be simplified."
"The pricing should be adjusted for the Pro plan."
"Postman needs more advanced data-driven testing."
"The downside of using this solution is that you need to know JavaScript."
"The product needs to be available as an extension for the Chrome browser."
"The solution should include some plug-ins to share the generated reports over email."
"There are more advanced API testing tools than SoapUI, and SoapUI could be made better."
"If we could have more sharing capability within teams or its own structure, that would help."
"SoapUI is not that scalable."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution's price is reasonable."
"This is an open source solution."
"I rate the product's price a nine or ten on a scale of one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is very expensive. Postman is an expensive tool for Turkey."
"This tool is open-source and free to download and use."
"Postman is a free service."
"We are using its free version."
"I am using the free option."
"We are currently using the free version, but we have plans to buy a license."
"SoapUI is an open-source solution."
"SoapUI is a cheap tool that does not have an expensive license."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Outsourcing Company
11%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Comms Service Provider
7%
Construction Company
7%
Financial Services Firm
29%
Program Development Consultancy
24%
Outsourcing Company
8%
Healthcare Company
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business18
Midsize Enterprise13
Large Enterprise45
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Questions from the Community

How does Postman compare with Apache JMeter?
Postman lets you easily define variables, which then get updated automatically. This is a huge time-saver and makes processes very efficient. We can also export the test cases we create and share t...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Postman?
Almost 30% of our time has been saved when it comes to complete regression testing of one feature. That is the rough estimate I can provide.
What needs improvement with Postman?
One area for improvement is that sometimes performance is slightly slow when we are handling large collections. Also, we need better integrations with CI/CD tools so that automation would be smooth...
What needs improvement with SoapUI?
SoapUI is pretty good overall. If we could have more sharing capability within teams or its own structure, that would help. A workspace where two or three people can join and contribute on a single...
What is your primary use case for SoapUI?
We use SoapUI for testing the API requests and the authentication rules of APIs, and we also check if we are getting the output of the API correctly and if it is not bypassing the test cases. A sce...
What advice do you have for others considering SoapUI?
I would tell others to try to use SoapUI more often so that they will get more familiar with it, and they can surely purchase this product as it is a great tool. I would rate this product an 8 out ...
 

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Sample Customers

PayPal, Shopify, Microsoft, Adobe, Atlassian, Twitter, BestBuy, Coursera
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