APImetrics vs. Postman vs. Python vs. Salt Comparison Chart

The collaboration platform for API development. Simplify each step of building an API and streamline collaboration so you can create better APIs—faster. Postman is a collaboration platform for API development. Postman's features simplify each step of building an API and streamline collaboration so you can create better APIs—faster. Quickly and easily send REST, SOAP, and GraphQL requests directly within Postman. Automate manual tests and integrate them into your CI/CD pipeline to ensure that any code changes won't break the API in production. Communicate the expected behavior of an API by simulating endpoints and their responses without having to set up a backend server. Generate and publish beautiful, machine-readable documentation to make your API easier to consume. Stay up-to-date on the health of your API by checking performance and response times at scheduled intervals. Provide a shared context for building and consuming APIs, and collaborate in real-time.

The Salt Security API Security Platform protects APIs across their full lifecycle – build, deploy and runtime phases. Only Salt can capture and baseline all API traffic -- all calls and responses -- over days, weeks, even months. Salt uses this rich context to detect the reconnaissance activity of bad actors and block them before they can reach their objective. The Salt API Context Engine (ACE) architecture discovers all APIs, pinpoints and stops API attackers, and provides remediation insights learned during runtime to harden APIs. Only Salt applies cloud-scale big data to address API security challenges. Salt applies its AI and ML algorithms, which have been in the market for more than four years, to provide real-time analysis and correlation across billions of API calls. That level of context is essential for rich discovery, accurate data classification, and the ability to identify and stop “low and slow” API attacks, which occur over time. On prem solutions simply lack the data.