Postman Pricing 2026: API Testing Plans and Cost

Postman pricing in 2026 is per-seat on paid tiers. Solo is $9/month annual ($12/month monthly) for 1 user. Team is $19/user/month annual ($23/user/month monthly) for unlimited users. Enterprise is $49/user/month annual ($59/user/month monthly) for unlimited users with SSO/SAML included and advanced security features. Free tier is $0 with 1 user, 10,000 API calls per month, and 1,000 monitoring requests per month.

Postman AI credits are tier-based: Free 50/month (no overage), Solo 400/month at $0.05/credit overage, Team 400/user/month pooled at $0.04/credit overage, Enterprise 800/user/month pooled at $0.035/credit overage. Cloud Performance Testing is $0.04/Virtual User Hour across all paid plans. API Monitoring is 10,000 requests per team per month on paid plans; 1,000 on Free. SSO/SAML on Enterprise is included; Team has Simple Security as a paid add-on. SCIM user provisioning, audit logs, and EU data residency are Enterprise-only.

Last verified: September 17, 2026. Postman pricing reflects the per-seat model and AI credit overage structure that have been in place since 2024; the rate of $0.035-$0.05 per AI credit overage was unchanged in 2026 (Postman pricing, September 2026).

• Free: $0 - 1 user, 10K API calls/mo, 1K monitoring, 50 AI credits/mo.
• Solo: $9/mo annual ($12 monthly) - 1 user, 100K API calls, 400 AI credits at $0.05 overage.
• Team: $19/user/mo annual ($23 monthly) - unlimited users, 1M API calls, 400 AI credits/user pooled.
• Enterprise: $49/user/mo annual ($59 monthly) - SSO included, 10M API calls, 800 AI credits/user.
• Cloud Performance Testing: $0.04/VuH all paid plans.
• SSO/SAML: Enterprise included; Team Simple Security add-on.
• SCIM, audit logs, data residency: Enterprise only.
• Monitoring requests: 10K/team/mo paid plans; 1K/team/mo Free.

Plan-by-plan breakdown

Postman sells four tiers with a per-seat pricing model on paid tiers. Free is for individuals learning the platform; Solo is for individual contributors who need AI and automation features; Team is for collaborative development teams; Enterprise is for regulated organizations that need SSO, SCIM, and data residency.

Free includes the multi-protocol API client (HTTP, GraphQL, gRPC, WebSocket, MQTT), MCP Client, Collections and environments, API specs with native Git integration, unlimited mock servers, unlimited Manual Flows, Postman CLI, 10,000 API calls per month, 1,000 monitoring requests per team per month, 50 Postman AI credits per month (no overage), 25 Automation Flows credits per month, public workspaces, public API Network access, 5 integrations, and 1-day collection recovery. Free is the right entry point for solo developers and learning use cases.

Solo at $9/month annual includes everything in Free plus 100,000 API calls per month, 10,000 monitoring requests per team per month, 400 Postman AI credits per month at $0.05/credit overage, custom domains, Postman Shared Vault, shared package library, Private NPM packages, and unlimited integrations (up to 10 practical). Solo is for individual contributors who need AI and automation features at a low cost.

Team at $19/user/month annual includes everything in Solo plus unlimited users, unlimited workspaces, basic RBAC, Simple Security add-on for SSO/SAML, up to 50 integrations, 1 million API calls per month, 100 Automation Flows credits per team per month, SDK generation for 10+ languages, custom test data support, Playwright integration, and public workspace viewers. AI credits are 400/user/month pooled at $0.04/credit overage. Team is the right entry for development teams collaborating on API testing.

Enterprise at $49/user/month annual includes everything in Team plus advanced RBAC, SSO/SAML (included, no add-on), advanced security add-on for domain capture and vault integrations, SCIM user provisioning, user groups, organizations, private workspaces, external/partner workspaces, workspace archival, audit logs and compliance reporting, deployment control, API and package library governance, AI input guardrails, data residency (EU-only), domain verification, up to 100 integrations, 10 million API calls per month, 800 AI credits/user/month pooled at $0.035/credit overage, and 500 Automation Flows credits per team per month (Postman pricing, September 2026).

Postman AI credits and overage

Postman AI credits are consumed by AI-powered features across the platform including Postman Assistant, API generation, test generation, and Insights. Credit allocations and overage rates vary by tier: Free 50 credits per month with no overage, Solo 400 credits per month at $0.05 per credit overage, Team 400 credits per user per month pooled across team at $0.04 per credit overage, Enterprise 800 credits per user per month pooled across organization at $0.035 per credit overage.

The credit model means cost scales with AI feature usage rather than seats. For teams that use AI features heavily, the overage costs can exceed the base subscription. For example, a Team customer using 2,000 additional AI credits per month at $0.04 would pay $80/month extra. For most teams, the AI credit allocations are sufficient.

Cloud Performance Testing and Monitoring

Cloud Performance Testing on Postman is $0.04 per Virtual User Hour (VuH) across all paid plans (Solo, Team, Enterprise). The rate is the same on every tier, so usage-based load testing is priced separately from the per-seat license. For a typical load test running 100 VUs for 1 hour, cost is $4. For a production load test running 1,000 VUs for 24 hours, cost is $960.

API Monitoring is included in paid plans at 10,000 requests per team per month. Free includes 1,000 monitoring requests per team per month. Monitor reports and public status pages are available on Solo and above. Insights (production visibility, traffic analysis) are Enterprise only. The combination of Cloud Performance Testing and API Monitoring covers most production testing scenarios without separate vendor contracts (Postman pricing, September 2026).

How Postman compares to TestRail and k6 Cloud

Versus TestRail, Postman is positioned for API testing and development collaboration while TestRail is positioned for test case management. The two are complementary rather than competing: API-focused teams use Postman as primary and TestRail as a complementary tool for traditional QA; QA-led testing organizations use TestRail as primary and Postman as a developer-side tool. Pricing is comparable on a per-seat basis: Postman Team at $19/user/month annual is cheaper than TestRail Professional at $37/seat/month yearly (Postman pricing + TestRail pricing, September 2026).

Versus k6 Cloud (now Grafana Cloud k6), Postman is positioned for API functional testing and collaboration while k6 is positioned for performance and load testing. k6 Cloud Free is $0 with 500 VU-hours per month; Pro is $19/month plus $0.15 per additional VU-hour. For pure load testing, k6 is more cost-effective; for combined API functional + load testing, Postman's bundled Cloud Performance Testing at $0.04/VuH is competitive (Postman pricing + Grafana Cloud k6 pricing, September 2026).

What enterprise buyers should do next

1. Estimate AI credit consumption before choosing a tier. The credit model means heavy AI users can quickly exceed the per-tier allocation; budget for $0.035-$0.05 per credit overage above the included credits.
2. For regulated industries (finance, healthcare, government), Enterprise at $49/user/month is required to get SSO/SAML, SCIM, audit logs, and EU data residency. Team's Simple Security add-on is not a substitute for Enterprise-grade compliance features.
3. For API-focused teams doing functional + load testing, Postman's bundled Cloud Performance Testing at $0.04/VuH replaces separate k6 Cloud or JMeter contracts; consolidate vendor relationships for cost savings.

What to watch next

• Postman AI credit overage rates ($0.035-$0.05) have been stable since 2024; expect a tiered AI credit pool by late 2026 to better serve teams with variable AI usage.
• Cloud Performance Testing at $0.04/VuH undercuts most dedicated load testing vendors; expect competitive pressure on k6 Cloud ($0.15/VuH) and JMeter enterprise contracts through 2026-2027.