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EchoAPI: Lightweight alternative to Postman

EchoAPI is an all-in-one API development collaboration platform that offers essential features like API debugging, design, automated testing, stress testing, and documentation generation.

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Existing Pain Points

Developers often spend significant time on API tasks like debugging, documentation, automated testing, and stress testing, requiring multiple tools.

Postman:

  • Mandatory login with no Scratch Pad support.
  • High cost.
  • Bulky Electron client that starts slowly and operates with lag.
  • Limited capabilities for API design and automated testing.

Insomnia / Thunder Client / RapidAPI:

  • Incompatibility with Postman’s script syntax.
  • Clunky UI interaction.
  • Single-product format requiring a client download.
  • Limited functionality without logging in.

Product Advantages

  • No login required and Scratch Pad supported.
  • Ultra-lightweight design.
  • Fully compatible with Postman’s script syntax.
  • Affordable price.
  • Free lightweight plugins for various use cases.

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Product Matrix

1. EchoAPI SaaS

Next-gen API development collaboration platform.

Advantages of EchoAPI

  • No login required and Scratch Pad supported.
  • Ultra-lightweight design.
  • Fully compatible with Postman’s script syntax.
  • Free lightweight plugins for various use cases.

Features:

  • API Design
  • API Debugging
  • API Automated Testing
  • API Documentation Generation
  • API Stress Testing

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2. EchoAPI for VSCode

Ultra-lightweight API debugging tool for VS Code.

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Advantages of EchoAPI for VSCode:

  • Free
  • Ultra-lightweight (No app download needed)
  • No login required and Scratch Pad supported
  • Supports collaboration and manual data bidirectional synchronization

Features:

  • API Design
  • API Debugging
  • API Automated Testing
  • API Documentation Generation

3. EchoAPI for IntelliJ IDEA

One-click API documentation, one-click debugging.

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Advantages of EchoAPI for IntelliJ IDEA:

  • Free
  • Ultra-lightweight (No app download needed)
  • Unlike Swagger, no code intrusion
  • No login required and Scratch Pad supported
  • Supports collaboration and manual data bidirectional synchronization

Features:

  • API Design
  • API Debugging
  • API Documentation Generation
  1. EchoAPI Interceptor

One-click API capture, one-click debugging.

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Advantages of EchoAPI Interceptor

  • Free
  • Ultra-lightweight (No app download needed)
  • No login required and Scratch Pad supported
  • Supports collaboration and manual data bidirectional synchronization.

Features:

  • API Request Capturing
  • Fast Debugging

5. EchoAPI AI (Coming Soon)

EchoAPI AI is set to launch soon, bringing cutting-edge artificial intelligence to streamline and automate various aspects of the API development and testing process.

EchoAPI Product matrix API data synchronization mechanism ensures that no matter what work scenario or tools you use, API data can be synchronized seamlessly.

Conclusion

EchoAPI revolutionizes API development with robust, lightweight, and integrated tools designed for seamless collaboration. Offering interface debugging, mock services, and automated testing on a shared data source, it enhances efficiency for backend, frontend developers, and testers. The EchoAPI product matrix ensures continuous management of API documentation and digital assets, with seamless data synchronization across all tools and work scenarios.



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