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Canonic vs Postman: What are the differences?
What is Canonic? A low code platform to craft APIs in minutes. It allows anyone to visually craft APIs in minutes. It is a low-code platform that lets you build, consume, manage, and scale your APIs along with the CMS and complete Documentation tailored for your needs. All without writing a single line of code!.
What is Postman? Only complete API development environment. It is the only complete API development environment, used by nearly five million developers and more than 100,000 companies worldwide.
Canonic belongs to "Low Code Platforms" category of the tech stack, while Postman can be primarily classified under "API Tools".
Some of the features offered by Canonic are:
- A powerful editor to model your content
- A CMS that makes publishing a breeze
- Extensible APIs
On the other hand, Postman provides the following key features:
- Compact layout
- HTTP requests with file upload support
- Formatted API responses for JSON and XML
Pros of Canonic
Pros of Postman
- Easy to use490
- Great tool369
- Makes developing rest api's easy peasy276
- Easy setup, looks good156
- The best api workflow out there144
- It's the best53
- History feature53
- Adds real value to my workflow44
- Great interface that magically predicts your needs43
- The best in class app35
- Can save and share script12
- Fully featured without looking cluttered10
- Collections8
- Option to run scrips8
- Global/Environment Variables8
- Shareable Collections7
- Dead simple and useful. Excellent7
- Dark theme easy on the eyes7
- Awesome customer support6
- Great integration with newman6
- Documentation5
- Simple5
- The test script is useful5
- Saves responses4
- This has simplified my testing significantly4
- Makes testing API's as easy as 1,2,34
- Easy as pie4
- API-network3
- I'd recommend it to everyone who works with apis3
- Mocking API calls with predefined response3
- Now supports GraphQL2
- Postman Runner CI Integration2
- Easy to setup, test and provides test storage2
- Continuous integration using newman2
- Pre-request Script and Test attributes are invaluable2
- Runner2
- Graph2
- <a href="http://fixbit.com/">useful tool</a>1
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Cons of Canonic
Cons of Postman
- Stores credentials in HTTP10
- Bloated features and UI9
- Cumbersome to switch authentication tokens8
- Poor GraphQL support7
- Expensive5
- Not free after 5 users3
- Can't prompt for per-request variables3
- Import swagger1
- Support websocket1
- Import curl1