Postman vs. Kong
Learn how Kong's patchwork approach stacks up against Postman's unified platform for collaborative API development.
Why Postman?
Postman was built with a unified vision: to serve every stage of the API lifecycle within a single platform. In contrast, Kong has taken a modular approach, assembling its portfolio through a combination of in-house development and acquisition of point solutions. The result is a collection of loosely connected tools that are billed separately and have varying levels of integration.
Postman
Free for 3 users; paid plans start at $14 / month
Insomnia
Starts at $12 per user / month
Kong Gateway
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Kong Konnect
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Kong Mesh
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API client
API design
API documentation
API collaboration
API Testing
Integrations and ecosystem
API monitoring
API security and governance
Postman is trusted by over 500,000 companies, 40 million users, and 98% of the Fortune 500
Pricing
Postman's unified platform means transparent and straightforward per user pricing. With the exception of Insomnia, Kong's tools require custom pricing negotiated through each tool's respective sales team.
Estimated annual cost for 3 users
Free
Custom pricing - contact sales
Estimated annual cost for 25 users
$4,200
Custom pricing - contact sales
Industry recognition
Don't just take our word for it—learn why G2 recognized Postman as the #1 API platform in 2024.
APIs are a core strength for PayPal moving billions of dollars globally. Thanks to Postman it's possible to explore and invoke APIs in minutes. Postman creates an extremely seamless experience"Swapnil Sapar, Principal Engineer, PayPal
Postman is the complete platform that gives us the flexibility. It supports all the different technologies that our teams might use."Mili Orucevic, Chief Software Quality Engineer, Visma
The Postman API Platform is highly collaborative. Team workspaces enable our developer community to work effectively when designing and building APIs."Amin Aissous, Head of API Engineering,TDF, TotalEnergies
Prior to Postman, a developer learning one of our APIs would need to spend time reading code to figure it out. Today, they can browse and experiment directly in Postman, meaning they are productive much sooner."Brent Ryan, VP of Engineering, Cvent
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