# Postman Alternatives for Testing an API

**URL:** <https://community.rapyd.net/t/postman-alternatives-for-testing-an-api/17330>\
**Category:** ⚙️ API\
**Tags:** postman\
**Created:** [July 7, 2022, 12:03am UTC](https://community.rapyd.net/t/postman-alternatives-for-testing-an-api/17330 "2022-07-07T00:03:09Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 7, 2022, 12:03am UTC](https://community.rapyd.net/t/postman-alternatives-for-testing-an-api/17330/1 "2022-07-07T00:03:09Z")

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A discussion came up in our Hack the Galaxy Tech Talks about any alternatives to Postman for testing APIs.

Here’s some alternatives that one of our team members also posted.

- [Testfully](https://testfully.io/)
- [Insomnia](https://insomnia.rest/)
- [Hoppscotch](https://hoppscotch.io/)
- [Paw](https://paw.cloud/)
- [Thunder Client](https://www.thunderclient.com/)
- [Firecamp](https://firecamp.io/)
- [TestMace](https://testmace.com/)
- [Nightingale](https://nightingale.rest/)

Have you used any of these? What are some other alternatives you can think of?

There’s also a helpful [Comparison table](https://testfully.io/blog/top-5-postman-alternatives/#comparison-table) included on this post.

We do have a [Postman collection here](https://app.getpostman.com/run-collection/da7a791364dd5ca5520a#?env%5BRapyd%20Sandbox%20Environment%5D=W3sia2V5IjoicmFweWRfYWNjZXNzX2tleSIsInZhbHVlIjoiPGVudGVyIGFjY2VzcyBrZXkgaGVyZT4iLCJlbmFibGVkIjp0cnVlfSx7ImtleSI6InJhcHlkX3NlY3JldF9rZXkiLCJ2YWx1ZSI6IjxlbnRlciBzZWNyZXQga2V5IGhlcmU+IiwiZW5hYmxlZCI6dHJ1ZX0seyJrZXkiOiJiYXNlX3VyaSIsInZhbHVlIjoiaHR0cHM6Ly9zYW5kYm94YXBpLnJhcHlkLm5ldC92MSIsImVuYWJsZWQiOnRydWV9XQ==) if you want to get started to make your first API with Rapyd.

Source: https://testfully.io/blog/top-5-postman-alternatives

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**Post date:** [July 7, 2022, 12:08am UTC](https://community.rapyd.net/t/postman-alternatives-for-testing-an-api/17330/2 "2022-07-07T00:08:12Z")

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I haven’t used any besides Postman, but I have planned to try Thunder Client, a plugin extension in Visual Studio Code.  
 ![Screen Shot 2022-07-06 at 5.07.51 PM](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/rapyd/original/2X/c/ce21bcf3f50802a4c294444a4fdc6c27eaa310c5.png)

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**Author:** ![a\_shokn](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.rapyd.net/a_shokn/32/7650_2.png) [@a\_shokn](https://community.rapyd.net/u/a_shokn)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2022, 4:58am UTC](https://community.rapyd.net/t/postman-alternatives-for-testing-an-api/17330/3 "2022-07-07T04:58:48Z")

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Have you tried out Swagger or LoopBack for testing ?

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**Post date:** [July 7, 2022, 4:29pm UTC](https://community.rapyd.net/t/postman-alternatives-for-testing-an-api/17330/4 "2022-07-07T16:29:22Z")

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thanks, I’ve played around with Swagger’s resources, they’re great for API mocks. Loopback I have not yet.

I’ve seen more docs with a API testing function on their API refs. Like a [“try it” function](https://crossbrowsertesting.com/apidocs/v3/livetests.html#!/default/get_livetests_browsers). What do you think of this?