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Postman

Postman is the world's leading API platform, used by 35+ million developers to design, build, test, document, mock, monitor, and govern APIs across the entire API lifecycle. The platform spans Collections, Workspaces, the API Client, Spec Hub, Mock Servers, Monitors, the Postman CLI, Newman, Flows, AI Agent Builder, the Postman MCP Server and MCP Generator, API Governance, the Private API Network, Live Collections, Insights, and a public Postman API Network with millions of public workspaces.

agent native

Reference-quality API operations across every facet — a rich contract, published governance, transparent operations, and machine-readable commercial terms.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Postman the way a machine reads it — 208 machine-readable artifacts across 24 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.

Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Postman scores 79.1/100 (exemplar), with a separate agent-readiness read of 69/100 (agent native). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.

Kin Score

This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 79.1/100 · exemplar
Contract Quality 18.9 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 13.9 / 20
Commercial Clarity 20.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 10.3 / 13
Governance 7.3 / 12
Discoverability 8.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 69/100 · agent native
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 12 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 6 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 4 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile Postman

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Postman. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.

APIs 24

Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Postman

Postman is the single platform for collaborative API development used by 35+ million developers. It covers the entire API lifecycle - design, build, test, document, mock, monito...

Postman Collections API

The Collections API lets you programmatically create, read, update, and delete Postman Collections including requests, folders, scripts, and environments. Powers CI/CD integrati...

Postman Workspaces API

Manage personal, team, partner, public, and private workspaces. Control visibility, membership, roles, and the elements (collections, environments, mocks, monitors, APIs) attach...

Postman Environments API

The Environments API enables programmatic management of Postman environments and global variables, including secret variables stored in the Postman Vault, so you can scope work ...

Postman Monitors API

The Monitors API runs Postman Collections on a recurring schedule to validate API health, performance, and contract conformance. Surfaces metrics, test results, and notification...

Postman APIs / Spec Hub API

The APIs endpoints (Spec Hub) manage API definitions, versions, specifications, and linked elements. Supports OpenAPI 3, AsyncAPI, GraphQL, gRPC/Protobuf, RAML, WSDL, and SOAP d...

Postman Private API Network API

The Private API Network API manages your internal API catalog - organizing folders, approving submissions, controlling visibility, and integrating CI/CD pipelines that publish A...

Postman Webhooks API

The Webhooks API creates webhooks that trigger collection runs with custom payloads, integrating Postman with external systems (GitHub, Slack, custom triggers) for event-driven ...

Postman Collection Runs API

The Collection Runs API programmatically launches collection runs, retrieves run results, and powers integration with Newman, the Postman CLI, and CI/CD pipelines for automated ...

Postman Tags API

The Tags API manages tags applied to APIs, collections, and workspaces for organization, governance reporting, and discoverability across the Private and Public API Networks.

Postman Audit Logs API

Enterprise-only Audit Logs API exposing team audit events (user actions, configuration changes, security events) for SIEM ingestion and compliance reporting (SOC 2, GDPR, ISO).

Postman Secret Scanner API

The Secret Scanner API manages detected secrets and resolves leaked credentials found in collections, environments, and other elements - part of Postman's API governance and sec...

Postman Billing API

The Billing API exposes account billing information, seat allocation, and resource usage so finance and FinOps teams can integrate Postman consumption into chargeback / showback...

Postman SCIM API

The SCIM 2.0 API enables Enterprise customers to provision and deprovision users and groups from their identity provider (Okta, OneLogin, Azure AD, Ping) into Postman team accou...

Postman MCP Server

The Postman MCP Server exposes Postman Collections, environments, and workspaces over Anthropic's Model Context Protocol so AI agents (Claude, Cursor, custom LLM clients) can re...

Postman Flows

Postman Flows is a visual workflow builder that chains API calls, transformations, and conditional logic. Flows are executable, debuggable, and cloneable documentation that powe...

Postman API Comments API

Operations for managing comments on APIs.

Postman API Schemas API

Operations for managing API schemas and specifications.

Postman API Versions API

Operations for managing API versions.

Postman Mocks API

Operations for creating and managing mock servers.

Postman Network Elements API

Operations for managing elements (APIs, collections, workspaces) in the network.

Postman Network Folders API

Operations for managing folders in the private API network.

Postman Network Requests API

Operations for managing requests to add elements to the network.

Postman Server Responses API

Operations for managing mock server responses and examples.

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Postman Collections 12

A runnable collection turns the contract into something a developer can execute in seconds. We profile them because the fastest way to trust an API is to make a real call against it.

Ready-to-run Postman collections for exercising this provider's APIs.

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Open Collections 12

Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Postman APIs API

OPEN COLLECTION

Postman Audit Logs API

OPEN COLLECTION

Postman Collections API

OPEN COLLECTION

Postman Environments API

OPEN COLLECTION

Postman Mock Servers API

OPEN COLLECTION

Postman Monitors API

OPEN COLLECTION

Postman Tags API

OPEN COLLECTION

Postman Webhooks API

OPEN COLLECTION

Postman Workspaces API

OPEN COLLECTION

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Arazzo Workflows 21

Real integrations are rarely a single call. Arazzo describes the multi-step sequences — auth, then create, then confirm — so both a human and an agent can follow the choreography, not just the endpoints.

Multi-step API workflows described with the Arazzo specification.

Postman Stand Up an API Testing Pipeline

Build a workspace, collection, and environment, then monitor and run the collection.

ARAZZO

Postman Bootstrap a Workspace

Create a workspace, then seed it with a collection and an environment.

ARAZZO

Postman Collection Lifecycle

Create, read, update, and delete a Postman collection end to end.

ARAZZO

Postman Create and Run a Monitor

Create a scheduled monitor for a collection, then trigger and read a run.

ARAZZO

Postman Create an API with a Schema

Create an API in a workspace, add a version, and attach an OpenAPI schema.

ARAZZO

Postman Create a Mock Server from a Collection

Create a collection, stand up a mock server from it, and read the mock back.

ARAZZO

Postman Environment Lifecycle

Create, read, update, and delete a Postman environment with variables.

ARAZZO

Postman Fork and Merge a Collection

Fork a collection into a workspace, then merge the fork back into the source.

ARAZZO

Postman Inspect an API Schema

Read an API, list its schemas, fetch one schema, and read its files.

ARAZZO

Postman Inspect Collection Contents

Read a collection's requests, folders, and saved example responses.

ARAZZO

Postman Audit Mock Server Call Logs

Read a mock server, review its custom responses, and pull its call logs.

ARAZZO

Postman Monitor Lifecycle

Create, update the schedule, run, and delete a Postman monitor.

ARAZZO

Postman Publish a Collection to the Private API Network

Create a collection, organize a network folder, and publish the collection into it.

ARAZZO

Postman Publish a Mock and Add a Custom Response

Publish an existing mock server, add a custom server response, and verify it.

ARAZZO

Postman Remediate a Detected Secret

Find unresolved secrets, inspect one, locate it, and mark it revoked.

ARAZZO

Postman Review the Latest Collection Run

List a collection's run history and pull the latest run's full details.

ARAZZO

Postman Tag a Collection for Governance

Create a collection, apply governance tags to it, and read the tags back.

ARAZZO

Postman Triage a Private API Network Request

List pending network requests, then approve the oldest one and confirm the catalog.

ARAZZO

Postman Webhook Triggers a Collection

Create a collection, then create a webhook that runs it on incoming POSTs.

ARAZZO

Postman Workspace Lifecycle

Create, read, update, and delete a Postman workspace.

ARAZZO

Postman Manage Workspace Global Variables

Create a workspace, then set and verify its global variables.

ARAZZO

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MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers expose these APIs directly to AI agents. We profile them because agent-native access is the fastest-growing way this provider's capabilities actually get used.

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

Postman MCP Server

MCP SERVER

GraphQL 1

Where a provider ships GraphQL, the schema is the contract. We profile it alongside the REST surface so the whole interface is legible in one place.

GraphQL schemas published by this provider.

Postman GraphQL API

The APIs endpoints (Spec Hub) manage API definitions, versions, specifications, and linked elements. Supports OpenAPI 3, AsyncAPI, GraphQL, gRPC/Protobuf, RAML, WSDL, and SOAP d...

GRAPHQL

Pricing Plans 1

Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Postman Plans Pricing

4 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Postman Rate Limits

6 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Features 43

The notable capabilities this provider advertises, captured as structured features so they can be searched and compared instead of read one landing page at a time.

Notable capabilities this provider offers.

API Client (HTTP, GraphQL, gRPC, WebSocket, MQTT, Socket.io)

Collections

Workspaces (Personal, Team, Partner, Private, Public)

Environments and Variables

Postman Vault (Encrypted Secret Storage)

Mock Servers

Monitors and Scheduled Collection Runs

Documentation and Custom Domains

Collection Runner

Newman CLI

Postman CLI

Spec Hub (OpenAPI, AsyncAPI, GraphQL, gRPC, RAML, WSDL)

Live Collections

SDK Generator

Postman Flows (Visual Workflow Builder)

Postman AI Agent Builder

Postman MCP Server

Postman MCP Generator

Postman Insights (Production API Observability)

API Governance (Rules, Reports, Linting)

Custom Governance Rules

Secret Scanner

Security Warnings

Audit Logs

Private API Network

Public API Network

API Catalog

Role-Based Access Control (Basic and Advanced)

Element-Level Roles

Single Sign-On (SAML, SSO)

SCIM 2.0 User Provisioning

Postman Interceptor

Postman Proxy

VS Code Extension

Postbot AI Assistant

Partner Workspaces

Reporting and Analytics

Data-Driven Testing

Test Data Storage

Webhooks and Integrations

Multi-Region Monitors

Private Cloud Runners

90-Day Collection Recovery

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Event Specifications 1

Not every API is request/response. AsyncAPI describes the event-driven and streaming side — the webhooks and channels — so the asynchronous half of the interface is documented the same way the synchronous half is.

AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.

Postman Webhooks

Postman Webhooks enable you to receive incoming HTTP POST requests that trigger collection runs. When an external system sends a POST request to a Postman webhook URL, the webho...

ASYNCAPI

Spectral Rules 3

Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.

Postman API Rules

7 rules · 1 errors · 5 warnings

SPECTRAL

Postman API Rules

6 rules · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

Postman API Rules

15 rules · 7 errors · 8 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 3

Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Postman Collection

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Postman Environment

10 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Postman Workspace

14 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JSON Structure 3

JSON Structure captures the data shapes in a form built for tooling — a complement to JSON Schema that keeps the model machine-legible.

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

Postman Collection Structure

6 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Postman Monitor Structure

1 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Postman Workspace Structure

1 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Examples 5

Real request and response payloads are what turn a spec from abstract into obvious — and they're one of the twelve things an agent needs to call an API correctly on the first try.

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Security Posture 4

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Postman Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Postman Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Postman Vulnerability Disclosure

Hackerone · security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Postman Trust Center

SOC 2, ISO 27001, ISO 27017, PCI DSS, HIPAA, GDPR, CSA STAR

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Postman Agentic Access

78 operations · 43 acting

78 operations · 43 acting

AGENTIC

Use Cases 14

What developers actually build with this provider — captured so the catalogue answers 'what is this for', not just 'what does this expose'.

What developers build with this provider.

API-First Development

API Testing and Quality

API Documentation

API Mocking and Simulation

API Monitoring and Observability

API Governance and Compliance

API Discovery and Catalog

Developer Portals

Developer Onboarding

Partner API Programs

CI/CD and Test Automation

AI Agent Development

MCP Server Publishing

API Workflow Orchestration

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Integrations 48

Pre-built integrations with other platforms tell you where this provider already fits in a stack.

Pre-built integrations with other platforms and tools.

1Password Vault

Aikido Security

Amazon API Gateway

Apigee

APIMatic

APIsec

AppMap

AWS API Gateway

AWS Secrets Manager

Azure API Management

Azure DevOps

Azure Key Vault

BigPanda

Bitbucket

Bitbucket Pipelines

CircleCI

Coralogix

Datadog

Dropbox

GitHub

GitHub Actions

GitLab

GitLab CI/CD

HashiCorp Vault

Helios

ilert

Jenkins

Jira

Keen

liblab

Microsoft Power Automate

Microsoft Teams

New Relic

OpenAPI

Opsgenie

PagerDuty

Pynt

ReadMe

Slack

Snyk

Speedscale

Splunk

Splunk On-Call

Stainless

StatusPage

Travis CI

VS Code

Workato

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Solutions 9

Packaged solutions the provider offers on top of the raw API surface.

Packaged solutions this provider offers.

API-First Development

Enterprise API Platform

API Testing at Scale

API Governance and Compliance

Developer Experience

AI Agents and MCP

Partner Integrations

Microservices and Distributed Systems

API Productization

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Resources

Every other property we hold for Postman — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.

Get Started 4

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Learn 2

Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

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