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PorticolThe Postman alternative for you and your agents
Porticol is a native API client. It opens in a quarter of a second, works offline with no account, imports your Postman collections and scripts, and lets your coding agents run them over MCP.
Why teams look past Postman
- Postman's free plan is for one user. Source
- Without an account, Postman's lightweight API Client sends requests, but collections and environments need you to sign in. Source
- Postman workspaces live in Postman Cloud. Source
Porticol and Postman side by side
| Porticol | Postman | |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | Free for up to 3 seats1 | Free for one user2 |
| Paid plans | Team $12, Business $24, Enterprise $48 a seat a month1 | Solo $9 a month, Team $19 a user a month, billed annually2 |
| Use it without an account | Yes, the desktop app needs no account and no network3 | Partly: the lightweight API Client sends requests signed out; collections and environments need an account4 |
| Collections kept on your computer | Yes, in one SQLite file on your computer3 | Workspaces live in Postman Cloud; the lightweight client keeps its own work locally4 |
| Collections as files in Git | Yes, linked to a folder in a Git repository as readable files5 | Yes, with Native Git in the desktop app, synced to Postman Cloud6 |
| MCP server for coding agents | Yes, built in, read-only until you allow writes7 | Yes, the Postman MCP Server2 |
| CLI for CI | Yes, porticol-cli with JUnit, JSON and HTML reports8 | Yes, the Postman CLI2 |
Sources
- porticol.app/pricing
- www.postman.com/pricing/
- porticol.app/docs/faq
- learning.postman.com/docs/getting-started/basics/using-api-client/
- porticol.app/docs/api-design
- learning.postman.com/docs/use/native-git/overview
- porticol.app/docs/mcp
- porticol.app/docs/cli
Checked against Postman's own pages on 20 Oct 2026. The full comparison is on Porticol vs Postman.
Moving from Postman
Import Postman collections and environments in one step. Scripts keep Postman's pm object, with variables, pm.test, pm.expect and pm.sendRequest, and porticol-cli runs Postman exports in CI. See Moving from Postman.
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Apidog
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Questions
Is Porticol free?
Yes, for up to 3 seats, with sync and one workspace. Paid plans start at $12 a seat a month.
Can I bring my Postman collections?
Yes. Porticol imports Postman collections and environments, and their scripts keep Postman's pm object: variables, the request and response, pm.test, pm.expect and pm.sendRequest.
Does Porticol need an account?
No. The desktop app works with no account and no network connection. Sign in only to sync and share with a team.
Can AI coding agents use my collections?
Yes. Porticol's MCP server lets Claude Code or any MCP client search the workspace, read requests, send them and run collections, with secrets resolved inside Porticol and masked in every result.
Can I run the same collections in CI?
Yes. porticol-cli runs collections, flows and load tests from a file, a Postman export or a team server, writes JUnit, JSON and HTML reports, and exits with a code a pipeline can act on.