Blackbird vs. Postman

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Why choose Blackbird?

Dedicated testing environment

Unlike Postman, Blackbird manages the infrastructure for you, keeping developers focused and costs down.

API code generation & hosted mocks

Blackbird automates API client and server code generation, whereas Postman stops with specs.

Kubernetes-friendly for seamless integration

Blackbird is a Kubernetes-friendly tool that can interact directly with your clusters, whereas Postman does not.

Easy for beginners, powerful for experts

The Blackbird platform makes the most advanced development tools accessible and streamlined for ease and speed.

Why Blackbird?

While Postman has been the standard API platform of developers’ past, Ambassador Blackbird is redefining the space with a developer-first, end-to-end API platform, and development environment that’s made with the future in mind.

Postman is widely known for their API testing and we’re not telling you to ditch it all together– but API development is so much more, and your development lifecycle deserves a tool that equally addresses and supports the process from spec creation to deployment. Blackbird is purpose-built for modern API development, offering seamless mocking, robust testing, and easy collaboration in a dedicated, hosted environment (on us!). Look–Postman's great for quickly interacting with your APIs, but eventually, you'll have to go outside of the Platform to accomplish the rest of your development journey…let us be where you land.

See how Blackbird stacks up against Postman for your API development workflow. Whether you’re ready to break up with Postman, or use us both for the best of both worlds.

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Feature Comparison: Blackbird vs. Postman

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END-TO-END API DEVELOPMENT

✅ Modular platform for API design, mocking, codegen, debugging, and iteration with a dedicated hosted development environment

⚠️ API design and local testing. Complaints of complexity for beginner users

END-TO-END API DEVELOPMENT

✅ Modular platform for API design, mocking, codegen, debugging, and iteration with a dedicated hosted development environment

⚠️ API design and local testing. Complaints of complexity for beginner users

MOCKING

✅ Instant shareable API mocks, the ability to run and debug (with IDE integration), and simple validation and fidelity testing via hosted pre-production deployments with automatically updated responses, operations, and paths

⚠️Manual response, paths, and operations for shared mocks

MOCKING

⚠️Manual response, paths, and operations for shared mocks

Testing

✅ The ability to run and debug code (with IDE integration), and simple validation and fidelity testing via hosted pre-production deployments

⚠️Spec-centric for contract validation with API monitoring features, but you’ll have to seek an external tool to complete your testing afterward

Testing

✅ The ability to run and debug code (with IDE integration), and simple validation and fidelity testing via hosted pre-production deployments

⚠️Spec-centric for contract validation with API monitoring features, but you’ll have to seek an external tool to complete your testing afterward

DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT & EPHEMERAL DEPLOYMENTS

✅ Hosted containerized test environments to deploy ephemerally (for testing) without requiring DevOps

⚠️ No built-in containerized test environments, but they do have a dev environment geared towards enhancing collaboration with your API dev team

DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT & EPHEMERAL DEPLOYMENTS

✅ Hosted containerized test environments to deploy ephemerally (for testing) without requiring DevOps

⚠️ No built-in containerized test environments, but they do have a dev environment geared towards enhancing collaboration with your API dev team

COLLABORATION

✅ Shareable links throughout the API development process with keys for security

✅ API reviews, team collaboration, and versioning

COLLABORATION

✅ Shareable links throughout the API development process with keys for security

✅ API reviews, team collaboration, and versioning

CODE GENERATION

✅ AI assisted client & server-side boilerplate code from specs

✅ Generates code snippets

CODE GENERATION

✅ AI assisted client & server-side boilerplate code from specs

✅ Generates code snippets

INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGEMENT

✅ Managed development environment; no setup required

🚫 Must configure local or remote environments

INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGEMENT

✅ Managed development environment; no setup required

🚫 Must configure local or remote environments

AI INTEGRATION

✅ AI-assisted API design & testing

AI INTEGRATION

✅ AI-assisted API design & testing

THIRD-PARTY API TEMPLATES

✅ Prebuilt integrations for common APIs including Stripe, Github, Shopify, and more

✅ Prebuilt integrations for common APIs GitHub, Slack, CircleCI, Amazon API Gateway, and New Relic

THIRD-PARTY API TEMPLATES

✅ Prebuilt integrations for common APIs including Stripe, Github, Shopify, and more

✅ Prebuilt integrations for common APIs GitHub, Slack, CircleCI, Amazon API Gateway, and New Relic

What our customers said

We choose to use Blackbird since it allows us to build the API in the shortest amount of time possible while also producing a killer API

The Humorie Team

We wanted to leverage Ambassador’s Blackbird tool to showcase the rapid development to save developers time from start to finish

The GroceryGuardian Team

We need to give this huge lift of productivity to each and everyone. With a solution like Blackbird, plus what we are already doing, will help people to adapt their skills and be more innovative…that’s the holy grail

Driss Lamrani, CEO A2IM Robot Advisors

Blackbird makes things very easy to use. Without proper API specs, nothing works well, that's what you need in a tool

Michael Levan, Cloud Native Consultant

Blackbird's actually great, when you have a complex workflow in a dashboard SPA that involves multiple steps, finalized with payment, that ca fail due to connectivity, simulation of error like packet drops or session expiration is highly valuable during aggressive automated testing.

Principal SRE & Infra Architect

Hands down a must have tool for faster, smarter API Development. The tool is a lifesaver in generating clean, server-side, and client-side boilerplate code. This allows me to focus on the unique aspects of my APIs rather than spending time on repetitive coding tasks

Shinghai Zivuku, Tech Writer