Hoppscotch is an open-source API testing tool and Postman alternative founded by Liyas Thomas. Compare its free, Organization and self-host pricing.
Hoppscotch began in 2019 as Postwoman, a browser-based API request builder created by Kerala-based developer Liyas Thomas. It was rebranded to Hoppscotch in 2020 following a community naming contest, and has since grown into a widely used open-source alternative to commercial tools like Postman, surpassing roughly 80,000 stars on GitHub.
The company behind the project, Hoppscotch Inc, is headquartered in Kochi, India, and raised a 3 million dollar seed round in late 2021 led by OSS Capital with participation from Automattic, the maker of WordPress. It remains a small, largely remote team that leans heavily on its open-source community for contributions and feature development.
Hoppscotch supports building and testing requests across REST, GraphQL, WebSocket, Server-Sent Events, Socket.IO and MQTT, all from a fast, browser-based Progressive Web App that requires no installation, alongside a downloadable desktop app and a CLI for running collections in CI/CD pipelines.
Collections, folders and environment variables keep requests organized across projects and deployment targets, while pre-request and post-request scripting enables automated assertions and dynamic values. Team workspaces add role-based collaboration, and a built-in proxy resolves CORS restrictions when testing APIs directly from the browser.
Hoppscotch's cloud Free plan costs nothing and includes unlimited workspaces, collections, requests and test runners, making the core product free forever for individuals and small teams. The Organization plan adds an admin dashboard and dedicated support for 6 dollars per user per month billed annually.
For organizations that must keep data on their own infrastructure, the Self-Host Community Edition is free and MIT-licensed, while a Self-Host Enterprise Edition costs 19 dollars per user per month and adds SAML SSO, OpenID Connect, audit logs and domain whitelisting for larger, security-conscious teams.
Yes, Hoppscotch's core cloud product is free forever, including unlimited workspaces, collections, requests and test runners, and there is also a free, MIT-licensed self-hosted edition.
Hoppscotch was created by Liyas Thomas in 2019 under the name Postwoman and rebranded to Hoppscotch in 2020. The company, Hoppscotch Inc, is headquartered in Kochi, India.
Yes, the Self-Host Community Edition is free and open source under the MIT license, and a paid Self-Host Enterprise Edition adds SSO, audit logs and domain whitelisting for 19 dollars per user per month.
The Organization plan costs 6 dollars per user per month billed annually and adds an admin dashboard, dedicated support and custom payment options on top of the free tier.
Hoppscotch supports REST, GraphQL, WebSocket, Server-Sent Events, Socket.IO and MQTT, in addition to standard HTTP methods.
Common alternatives include Postman, Insomnia, Thunder Client and Bruno, another open-source, offline-first API client.