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Cypress vs Postman

Our take

Pick Cypress if teams who will stay on the MIT App + Cloud Starter (500 results / month) while they Replay a first failed heroes.cy.ts, then Team at $67/month ($799/year) when they need flake analytics — not Business $267 first unless they need SSO and spec prioritization. Pick Postman if solo developers who will stay on Free while they open a first collection, then Solo at $9/month yearly ($12 monthly) when they

Cypress

Cypress

open-source E2E runner plus Cypress Cloud

Postman

Postman

hosted API platform

Best for

Cypress Browser tests you start at a public $

Postman A catalog + client you start at a public $

Free plan

Cypress $0 · ), MIT. Local / CI without --record

Postman $0 · limited AI, 1,000 Context Graph queries then $0.01/query, up to 5 integrations

Lowest paid

Cypress Cloud Team $67/mo

Postman Solo $9/mo yearly

Next step up

Cypress Cloud Business $267/mo

Postman

Runs where

Cypress

Postman Hosted

Watch out

Cypress Cloud Starter caps recorded results at 500 / month

Postman Team is the collaboration SKU

Last checked

Cypress 2026-10-23 · cypress.io/pricing

Postman 2026-10-23 · postman.com/pricing

Which one, then?

Pick Cypress if

teams who will stay on the MIT App + Cloud Starter (500 results / month) while they Replay a first failed heroes.cy.ts, then Team at $67/month ($799/year) when they need flake analytics — not Business $267 first unless they need SSO and spec prioritization.

Read the Cypress page

Pick Postman if

solo developers who will stay on Free while they open a first collection, then Solo at $9/month yearly ($12 monthly) when they need higher AI / automation limits — not Team $19/user yearly first unless they need collaboration, and not Enterprise unless they need a custom quote.

Read the Postman page

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