"Introduction to the Postman API Network"

The Postman API Network has two parts: a public network and a private network.

• The Postman Public API Network is open to the entire, global API community. Any API collections or templates you share here are available to everyone on the web.

• The Postman Private API Network is for your team only. Any APIs you share here are available to your entire team. The Private API Network acts as a single source of truth for APIs between producers and consumers on your team.

You can find a more detailed comparison in this API Network blog post.

Templates are community-contributed workflows that help you explore new uses of popular APIs. The Postman Public API Network has more than 2,000 public APIs, and it also has more than 5,000 API templates that help you explore many different uses of those APIs.

No. Private APIs are private to your organization and can only be shared with users within your organization.

The Postman API Network helps developers quickly discover, explore, and use your API. Through the network, your API can instantly reach a huge, global audience—Postman has more than 20 million users across 500,000 organizations all over the world.

Click the orange New button at the top left of the app’s interface and then select the API Network tab.

The Postman Learning Center has a step-by-step tutorial on publishing to the API Network.

The Private API Network is available for users on both free and paid plans. See a full comparison on our plans and pricing page.

We recommend starting with the Postman Learning Center, where you’ll find all sorts of resources on everything Postman can do for you.

Yes. Other granular roles can be implemented at a collection, workspace, or API level. Learn more on our documentation page about API roles.

You can document SOAP and REST APIs in Postman and the metadata gets automatically generated, but you can also add markdown descriptions to build API references.