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Budget-conscious teams that want a fast, clean API client with shared workspaces, and organizations that want to self-host an open-source client on their own servers.

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Quick overview

Pricing
Free; Business $6/user/month (annual)
Plans
Cloud Free: $0 forever, REST/GraphQL/realtime testing, personal workspace, collections, environments, runner. Cloud Business: $6/user/month billed annually (team workspaces, real-time collaboration, published docs, API mocking, admin dashboard). Cloud Enterprise: $11/user/month billed annually (RBAC, SAML/OIDC SSO, SCIM, audit logs). Self-hosted Community Edition: free (MIT). Self-hosted Enterprise Edition: $19/user/month billed monthly, per Hoppscotch's self-hosting docs.
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Key features

  • Browser, desktop (Windows, macOS, Linux) and self-hosted deployments
  • HTTP, GraphQL, WebSocket, SSE, Socket.IO and MQTT
  • Collections, environments, scripts and collection runner
  • Hoppscotch CLI with JUnit reports for CI
  • Team workspaces, published docs and mocking on Business

Pros

  • Lowest team price here, tied with Bruno ($6/user/month annual)
  • Runs in a browser tab with no install
  • Free MIT-licensed self-hosted Community Edition
  • Strong realtime protocol support

Cons

  • No built-in scheduled monitoring or Flows-style automation
  • Browser version needs the extension or a proxy for localhost and CORS-restricted requests
  • Self-hosting means you own upgrades, backups and auth
  • Smaller integration ecosystem than Postman

Hoppscotch in our comparisons

Automation & Integration

Best API Testing and Management Tools

For API testing, pick Postman if your team collaborates heavily and wants monitoring built in, or Bruno if collections should live in Git. Add Stoplight for design-first API programs and Kong only when you need a production gateway.

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Sarah ChenUpdated October 2026
Automation & Integration

Postman alternatives

If you only use Postman to send requests and run tests, switch to Bruno for a free, Git-first setup, or Insomnia for the closest like-for-like tool. Stay on Postman if you rely on its monitors, governance or API catalog.

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Sarah ChenUpdated October 2026