Actually free for teams
Some alternatives are free for individuals but charge once you add teammates or add collaboration features. Confirm the free tier covers your whole team before you invest migration time.
Tiger
Free Postman alternative
The free Postman alternative for teams in 2026
Postman removed collaboration from its free plan in March 2026. Tiger gives every teammate full access with no seat charges, no account required, and collections that live in your Git repository from day one.
Free for any team size
No account or sign-up
Works fully offline
MIT open source
Imports Postman in one step
What changed
Postman's free plan is now a single-user plan
In March 2026 Postman moved team collaboration behind a paid tier. If your team shared workspaces, used collection runners across teammates, or relied on environment sync, you now need a paid seat for each person. For many small and mid-size engineering teams that is a meaningful budget line that did not exist a year ago.
Postman free plan (2026): single user only. Collaboration features including shared workspaces, team collections and environment sync require a paid plan starting at $14 per user per month (billed annually).
That means a 10-person API team now pays at least $1,680 per year for what was free in 2024.
What to look for in a Postman alternative
Not every Postman replacement suits a team environment. Here are the criteria worth checking before you migrate.
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No mandatory account
Account-gated tools introduce a new vendor relationship for each engineer. Look for tools that work without sign-up so onboarding is just an installer, not an invitation workflow.
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Git-native collections
If collections are locked in a proprietary cloud workspace your team cannot diff, review or audit them like code. Plain files in a Git repo mean pull-request review and full history for free.
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Full offline capability
A tool that requires an internet connection to show your own request history or load a collection is a liability on a plane, in a restricted network, or during a vendor outage.
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Import fidelity
Migration is only painless if headers, query parameters, request bodies, environments and variable references come across intact. Test an import before committing the whole team.
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Protocol breadth
Teams increasingly hit GraphQL and SOAP endpoints alongside REST. A tool that handles all three avoids introducing a second client for edge-case protocols.
Why Tiger fits
Free for any team size, with no strings
Tiger meets every criterion above. Here is how each one maps to a concrete feature.
Free for any team
No seat limit, no collaboration paywall
Tiger is free to download and use commercially for any number of teammates today. There is no per-seat price, no workspace tier and no feature gated behind a subscription. If that ever changes, existing users will be given advance notice before anything affects them.
No account
Zero sign-up, zero provisioning
Tiger requires no email address, no account creation and no license key. Download the installer, open the app, make a request. Onboarding a new engineer is the same as installing any other dev tool.
Git-native
Collections are plain text files in your repo
Every request is a .tiger file. Commit them, branch them, diff them and review them in pull requests. New team members get the full collection history with git clone.
Offline
Fully local, no background sync
All collections and request history live on your machine. Tiger makes no background network calls beyond your own API requests. It works on a plane, behind a strict corporate firewall and during vendor outages.
Import
Postman v2.0 and v2.1, Insomnia, Bruno, OpenAPI
Drag your exported Postman collection JSON into Tiger and folders, headers, query parameters, bodies and variable references carry over automatically. Curl paste works too.
Protocols
REST, GraphQL, SOAP and MCP
GraphQL requests include schema introspection. SOAP envelope bodies are supported. Tiger also ships a Model Context Protocol server so AI agents such as Claude can list and run your collections in agentic workflows.
Honest overview
Other free Postman alternatives worth knowing
Tiger is not the only option. Here is a short, honest look at the other tools teams commonly consider, so you can make an informed choice.
Bruno
Open source, Git-native and account-free like Tiger. Collections use a custom .bru text format. Solid for individuals and small teams; lacks built-in performance runs and an MCP server. A strong alternative if you prefer a more minimal feature surface.
Tiger vs Bruno comparison →Insomnia
Relaunched as open source (MIT) after its 2023 cloud pivot drew significant criticism. Desktop-first and supports REST, GraphQL and gRPC. Team sync requires a paid cloud plan; the open-source build is effectively single-user for collaboration purposes.
Hoppscotch
Browser-based and open source. Fast to try with no install required. Team workspaces and sync are behind a self-hosted or paid cloud plan. The browser constraint can be a limitation for requests to internal services or those needing custom TLS certificates.
Side by side
Tiger vs Postman: key differences
A factual comparison for teams evaluating a switch. See the full comparison page for a deeper breakdown.
| Capability | Tiger | Postman |
|---|---|---|
| Price per teammate | $0, any team size | $14/user/mo (free = 1 user only) |
| Account required | Never | Required for most features |
| Collections stored in Git | Yes, plain .tiger files | Cloud workspaces; local collections on paid plan |
| Works fully offline | Yes | Limited without cloud sync |
| GraphQL + SOAP | Yes | Yes |
| MCP server for AI agents | Yes | No |
| Built-in performance runs | Yes | Paid monitors only |
| Import from Postman | v2.0 and v2.1 | n/a (source) |
| Open source | MIT | Proprietary |
Migrate in minutes
Move your Postman collections to Tiger today
The import covers Postman Collection v2.0 and v2.1 JSON. Folders, sub-folders, headers, query parameters, request bodies (JSON, form-data, raw), pre-request scripts where applicable, and variable references like {{baseUrl}} all carry over. Auth settings are re-entered once in Tiger and then live in environment files your team version-controls.
The full step-by-step walkthrough is in the Postman to Tiger migration guide, but the short version is three steps.
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Export your Postman collection Open Postman, right-click the collection, choose Export, and save as Collection v2.1 JSON.
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Import into Tiger In Tiger, click File > Import (or drag the JSON onto the sidebar). Your full folder structure appears immediately.
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Commit the collection to your Git repository Tiger writes each request as a plain file. Add the folder to your repo and push. Every teammate gets the collection with a git pull.
Questions about switching from Postman
01Is Tiger really free for teams, or does it have a per-seat cost?+
Tiger is free to download and use for any team size, with no per-seat charge today. Advanced team features may become paid in a future release; pricing will be announced before anything changes for existing users. Free and open source under the MIT license.
02Do I need to create an account to use Tiger?+
No. Tiger requires no account, no sign-up and no email address. Download it, open it, and start making requests. There is no invitation workflow and no seat provisioning.
03How do I import my Postman collections into Tiger?+
Export each Postman collection as v2.0 or v2.1 JSON from Postman, then drag the file into Tiger or use File > Import. Folders, headers, query parameters, request bodies and variable references carry over automatically. The migration guide has the full walkthrough.
04Does Tiger work offline?+
Yes. Tiger is a local desktop application. All collections live on your machine and in your Git repositories. There is no cloud sync requirement and no background service that needs internet access. It works behind strict corporate firewalls and in air-gapped environments.
05What protocols does Tiger support beyond REST?+
Tiger supports REST, GraphQL (with schema introspection), and SOAP. It also ships a Model Context Protocol server so AI clients such as Claude can list and run your collections in agentic workflows. See the MCP use case page for details.
06How does my team collaborate without a sync server?+
Collections are plain text files. Commit them to your Git repository. Sharing is a push, review is a pull request, and onboarding a new engineer is git clone. No sync subscription is required and there is no proprietary workspace format to deal with.
Stop paying per seat.
Move to Tiger for free.
Import your Postman collections in minutes and put them back in your Git repo where they belong.
Free and open source (MIT). No account required.