Difference between SoapUI and Postman

Both SoapUI and Postman are very famous tools for API testing and API Automation. Below are the major differences between SoapUI and Postman and the criteria for choosing them for REST API.

1. SoapUI covers the testing of all API protocols like Soap, REST and GraphQL whereas Postman supports only REST API Testing

2. SoapUI provides 14 days trial and then you have to pay to get a license whereas Postman is a free Chrome browser extension

3. SoapUI supports customization of Reports in different formats whereas Postman supports reporting only in JSON and HTML formats.

4. SoapUI is one of the most trustworthy tool for API automation testing whereas Postman is a used for REST APIs manual as well as exploratory testing

5. SoapUI is a heavy tool in-comparison to Postman as this is a chrome extension

6. In Soap UI,you can use Groovy or JavaScript for more complicated automation such as validating the results, extracting data, using external Java libraries or running system processes. Groovy IDE is compatible with Java and you can easily write your code in Java with very few modifications.But in Postman there is no concept of groovy.

I hope the above information will clarify your doubts in terms of differences and criteria to select one of them depending upon the requirement.