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Hoppscotch

Open-source API development ecosystem with web-based REST client

Overview

What Hoppscotch does

Hoppscotch is a lightweight, open-source API development ecosystem that provides REST client, WebSocket support, gRPC client, and API testing capabilities. It's fully self-hosted and privacy-focused.

What people use it for

  • API Development
  • API Gateway
  • API Testing
  • API Documentation
  • Microservices

The honest half

Where it falls short

Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about Hoppscotch.

  • Hoppscotch's core client is MIT licensed, but hoppscotch.io/pricing (per prior and repeated fetch) renders no server-side pricing content, meaning any hosted Team/Enterprise tier pricing is not readable without a JavaScript-executing browser

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Pricing

What Hoppscotch costs

Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.

Open Source

Free

  • Full REST client
  • WebSocket support
  • Community

Teams

$8 /mo

  • Team collaboration
  • Cloud sync
  • Priority support

Capabilities

Features

  • REST Client

    REST Client capability

  • WebSocket

    WebSocket capability

  • gRPC Client

    gRPC Client capability

  • GitHub

    Integration with GitHub

  • Documentation tools

    Integration with Documentation tools

  • CI/CD

    Integration with CI/CD

  • Web support

    Available on Web

  • Desktop support

    Available on Desktop

  • Self-hosted support

    Available on Self-hosted

Behind it

Who makes Hoppscotch

Company
Hoppscotch
Based in
Global

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