Public API network
Postman hosts tens of thousands of public collections for popular APIs. If your workflow starts with importing a ready-made vendor collection, Postman's network is much larger than anything Tiger currently offers.
Tiger
Side-by-side comparison
Tiger vs Postman
Postman moved its Free plan to single-user in March 2026. A second teammate now forces a paid subscription. Tiger is free for any team size, stores collections as plain text in Git, and requires no account at all.
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Postman Free plan change, March 2026: Postman limited its Free plan to a single user per workspace. Any second collaborator automatically triggers an upgrade to the Basic paid plan (billed per seat, per month). Tiger places no limit on team size and requires no account for any feature.
Full side-by-side breakdown
Every row reflects the tools' current public plans as of June 2026. Sources: Postman pricing page, Postman docs.
| Feature | Tiger | Postman |
|---|---|---|
| Free for teams | Yes Any team size, no seat limit | No Single user only on Free; teams require a paid plan |
| Account required | Never Zero signup, zero login | Required for most features Account needed for collections, sync, monitors |
| Collections stored as plain text in Git | Yes .tiger files committed directly to your repo | No Cloud workspace by default; local collections on paid plan only |
| Works fully offline | Yes All features available with no network | Limited Cloud sync and several features require connectivity |
| MCP server for AI clients | Yes Built-in Model Context Protocol server; works with Claude and others | No |
| SOAP and GraphQL | Yes SOAP envelope bodies; GraphQL editor with schema introspection | Yes GraphQL and SOAP supported across plans |
| Request chaining (capture blocks) | Yes Response values feed directly into subsequent requests | Paid plan Available via scripting on Basic and above |
| Collection runner with script assertions | Yes Run a collection or folder with live pass/fail from your tests, free | Limited free Collection Runner runs are capped on the free plan |
| Built-in performance runs | Yes p50/p95 latency, bounded concurrency, no extra subscription | Paid monitors Cloud monitors require a paid plan; local Collection Runner is free |
| Client certificates and mTLS | Yes Import client certificates and custom CA bundles | Yes Supported across plans |
| Open source (MIT) | Yes Free and open source; full MIT license | No Proprietary; Electron app is closed-source |
When Postman is still the better pick
Tiger is the right tool for teams that want Git-native, offline, cost-free API development. Postman leads in a few areas worth knowing about.
ECOSYSTEM
CLOUD COLLABORATION
Browser-based workspaces
Postman's web interface lets stakeholders outside the engineering team view and run collections in a browser without installing anything. Tiger currently requires the desktop app, making it less suited to non-developer audiences.
MONITORS
Hosted, scheduled monitoring
Postman's cloud monitors run your collections on a schedule and send alerts without any server you maintain. Tiger's performance runs are manual and local, so continuous monitoring requires your own CI or external tooling.
Common questions
01Why can't two teammates share a free Postman account anymore?+
Postman updated its Free plan in March 2026 to allow only a single user per workspace. A second teammate automatically pushes the team onto a paid plan. Tiger has no equivalent limit: any number of engineers can use the same Git repository without any account or subscription.
02How does Tiger store collections compared to Postman?+
Tiger saves every request as a plain-text .tiger file on disk. You commit those files to your existing Git repository, review changes in pull requests, and onboard new engineers with git clone. Postman stores collections in its cloud by default; offline or local-only storage requires a paid plan.
03Does Tiger work completely offline?+
Yes. Tiger has no cloud backend. All features, including collections, environments, request history and performance runs, are available with no network connection at all. Postman requires connectivity for cloud sync and several paid-tier features.
04When should I still choose Postman over Tiger?+
Postman is the better pick when your team already relies on its large ecosystem of public API collections and third-party integrations, when you need built-in cloud-hosted monitors that alert without any self-hosted infrastructure, or when stakeholders outside the engineering team need access through Postman's browser-based collaboration workspace.
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