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Postman Enterprise vs Runscope [EOL] comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 2, 2025

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Categories and Ranking

Postman Enterprise
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
65
Ranking in other categories
API Management (7th), API Monitoring Software (1st), API Testing Tools (1st), AI Software Development (6th)
Runscope [EOL]
Average Rating
8.8
Number of Reviews
11
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Featured Reviews

TS
API Integration Engineer at Airbnb
Automated testing optimizes API workflow and collaboration
Since I am using the free tier, one improvement would be to increase the number of requests you can send in a short time period. Currently, if I send 200-300 requests in a short period, Postman Enterprise requires a 30-second wait before sending another bundle of requests unless you upgrade to a higher tier. Secondly, Postman Enterprise sometimes takes several minutes to load the whole workspace. With 2,000-3,000 requests in a workspace, it can take a minute or two to load all requests. When creating a new workspace and moving requests between workspaces, depending on internet speed, it can take a longer period to copy those requests or workspace from one place to another.
Director5672 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director of Engineering at a consultancy with 1-10 employees
Enables us to monitor API endpoints to ensure everything is running
I've noticed, once or twice, when there were some updates pushed by Runscope, at times it didn't refresh the pages. I was running it, there were multiple tests running at the same time, and it didn't update the webpage I was looking at. So I had to refresh it manually. Occasionally, it still happens. Another thing I have found is that the built-in editor for the scripts can be improved a lot. Instead of making such a basic editor, maybe include a little more so it is easier to look at things and debug. Finally, other than the Runscope documentation, I haven't seen too much elsewhere. I haven't seen a user community.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"It's easy to see different versions of responses."
"I like that it is very easy to use. I also like the automation feature."
"It is stable and reliable."
"It is simple, easy to use and a good tool."
"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."
"Postman helps to write pre-request scripts and make a collection out of each request. You don’t have to spend time writing or copying the requests. The solution lets you integrate multiple environments and their features. Either the tool’s pro or premium version lets you do the merge and pull request for the Git directly."
"The scripting capabilities in Postman are excellent."
"Postman is open-source and free to use."
"It is a cloud-based environment for building and executing tests, which allows me to focus on building, running, and reviewing test results."
"It is a relatively reliable tool for running big amounts of API tests, which you can schedule to run periodically, as the product is very good."
"Tests are per-step configurable with script capabilities and support for token-based authentication using variables. Configurable test frequency and integration with both Slack and PagerDuty for alerting our DevOps team are also important. General use of the dashboard by multiple team members is also valuable."
"Environment initial variables allow our team to run tests against multiple environments on the fly."
"It helps us verify that production deployments do not break the features our customers use."
"We love the fact that we can have our API tests run on a schedule as often as we need. We also take advantage of being able to set up different environment settings so that we can use the same test in our production, integration, and QA environments, easily. The ability to string together a number of API tests for a test suite is very important to us as well."
"It has a relatively simple user experience."
"You can run it off the cloud and against different data centers. That's one of the plus points for most people for this product, as opposed to some other solutions."
 

Cons

"There are some limitations regarding large result sets in Postman. When dealing with several hundred records, accessing all the information can be challenging."
"Could be more user friendly."
"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."
"I rate the support for Postman a four out of five."
"The solution has some user interface difficulties when conducting environment collections."
"The solution could be more user-friendly."
"Postman does not have database validation available, which affects its scalability."
"Postman quality assurance could improve when doing tests."
"There are not many options for scalability."
"File upload is a big part of the products that we test. The lack of file upload in Runscope requires us to still use UI (Selenium) automated tests for these scenarios."
"One thing that can be improved is the logging. Sometimes, when we have an error, we don't know how to find more information about the problem that has happened. Sometimes, it just returns something like "that gateway." More information would be a way to improve it."
"We would like to have an improved ability to share a set of tests across different environments (e.g., dev, stage, and prod)."
"The initial setup included a lot of repetitive manual work."
"We definitely make use of historical test results, especially when tracking more difficult issues such as timeouts. Per our test frequency (15 minutes) we often need to go back further than the last 100 test runs. We are aware that results further back in time are available through the Runscope API, however, it would be great if the dashboard allowed easy access to a larger amount of historical data."
"If you forget to set the default environment during test creation, you have to go through every test and make sure that it is set to the environment that you prefer if using shared environments. If there was an option to force all tests within a bucket into a specific environment with one click, this would save a lot of time."
"Currently, we can only schedule to the nearest five minutes, one hour, two hours, etc. If we could set up the exact time that we want it to run, that would be good because sometimes we have one service that crosses another service."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It is free."
"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."
"I rate the price of Postman a four out of five."
"Its price is moderate as compared to other competitors. The version that we are using is not open source, so it is not free."
"We are using the free version that is available."
"This tool is open-source and free to download and use."
"We are using its free version."
"Postman is an open-source product. It is free to download from Google."
"Having the different plans organized by team size, buckets, and requests per billing period works for our needs. Larger companies may need to take a close look at these elements."
"Pricing is fair."
"The price for the product is very reasonable for a team of more than four to five members."
"Runscope pricing is unbeatable"
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
19%
Computer Software Company
14%
Insurance Company
8%
Manufacturing Company
5%
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Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business17
Midsize Enterprise9
Large Enterprise41
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business6
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise3
 

Questions from the Community

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Sample Customers

PayPal, Shopify, Microsoft, Adobe, Atlassian, Twitter, BestBuy, Coursera
Twilio, Microsoft, Adobe, Okta, Tesco, Charter Communications
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