Our take
Pick Hoppscotch if app teams who will stay on Cloud Free $0 (personal workspace, REST / GraphQL / realtime, no card) while they send a first Echo request, then buy Business at $6 per user / month billed annually when they need shared collections and mocks. 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 /
Best for
Hoppscotch Requests you start at $0
Postman A catalog + client you start at a public $
Free plan
Hoppscotch $0 · forever. REST, GraphQL, and realtime. Personal workspace. Collections and environments. Pre-request scripts and tests. Collection runner. Code snippets. Community support
Postman $0 · limited AI, 1,000 Context Graph queries then $0.01/query, up to 5 integrations
Lowest paid
Hoppscotch Business $6/mo yearly
Postman Solo $9/mo yearly
Runs where
Hoppscotch Local; you host it
Postman Hosted
Watch out
Hoppscotch Free is a personal workspace
Postman Team is the collaboration SKU
Last checked
Hoppscotch 2026-10-22 · hoppscotch.com/pricing
Postman 2026-10-23 · postman.com/pricing
app teams who will stay on Cloud Free $0 (personal workspace, REST / GraphQL / realtime, no card) while they send a first Echo request, then buy Business at $6 per user / month billed annually when they need shared collections and mocks.
Read the Hoppscotch pagesolo 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
