In March 2026, Postman restructured its pricing. The free plan dropped from three users to one, and team collaboration now starts at $19 per user per month. A four-person team that collaborated for free now pays about $912 a year.
Haven’t felt it yet? Legacy plans convert to the new pricing at renewal, so the change is arriving one anniversary at a time through 2027.
If your team relies on the platform, mocks, monitors, and cloud workspaces, $19 a seat may be worth it. Keep using Postman.
The one-user plan still works solo, but collection runs are capped and most workflows need an account and a connection. In October 2025 an AWS DNS failure took Postman down for most of a working day. Your API client shouldn’t need someone else’s cloud to hit your own localhost.
This removes the problem instead of re-pricing it. Bruno is popular and file-based. Insomnia is familiar but Kong-owned and enterprise-focused. Yaak is the one I make, so the rest of this post is about that path.
Drop your exported Postman collection, or a URL, into Yaak and it brings over folders, requests, environments, and auth. It also reads OpenAPI, cURL, Insomnia, and Bruno. One gotcha that applies to every migration tool: Postman redacts secret values on export, so have your tokens handy.
Import reads Postman collections and environments, plus OpenAPI, cURL, Insomnia, and Bruno exports
Workspaces are plain text files in a directory you choose. Put it in a repo and your team gets branches, reviews, and merges. Collaboration isn’t a plan tier, and there’s no sync service to pay for or to go down.
Each request is a YAML file in your repo, so changes get commits, blame, and review like the code they test
Yaak is free for personal use. Commercial use is $79 per person per year, or $149 with company-managed licensing and SSO. Stop paying and you keep the version you have, for commercial use, forever.
Postman Team at $19 per user per month versus four Yaak individual licenses. Yaak Business is $149 per user, or $596 for the same team
Nothing to sign into, nothing phoning home. Your requests, secrets, and history live on your machine, with secrets encrypted in the OS keychain.
Postman is a platform; Yaak is deliberately just an API client. Hosted mock servers, scheduled monitors, and public documentation portals aren’t here. Keep a small Postman footprint for those or pick dedicated tools. Yaak replaces what most developers actually use Postman for: building, sending, organizing, and sharing requests.
Download Yaak, import your Postman export, and send a request. It takes about a minute and no account. The 30-day commercial trial starts on first launch, no credit card, so you can evaluate with your real workspaces before the renewal notice forces the decision.
Compare Yaak and Insomnia for API development. Yaak is a local-first, open-source API client with Git-friendly files, encrypted secrets, plugins, and Insomnia imports.
A year ago I had just launched Yaak’s commercial-use license and was sitting at $160 MRR. It was a gamble to choose a…
Compare Yaak and Bruno for API development. Yaak is a polished, secure Bruno alternative with local-first storage, Git-friendly files, encrypted secrets, plugins, and imports.
