# Postman

> Postman is the world's leading API platform, used by more than 35 million developers and 500,000+ organizations to design, build, test, document and monitor APIs. What began in 2012 as a side-project Chrome extension to debug HTTP requests is now an AI-native, end-to-end API workspace - the connective tissue behind a huge chunk of the modern internet.

- **Founded:** 2014
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founders:** Abhinav Asthana (Co-founder & CEO), Ankit Sobti (Co-founder & CTO), Abhijit Kane (Co-founder)
- **Team size:** ~1,300 employees (offices in San Francisco, Bangalore and remote globally)
- **Products:** Postman API Platform, Postbot, Agent Mode / AI Agent Builder, Postman Collections, API Network
- **Notable:** Grew from a free Chrome extension to a $5.6B platform without traditional outbound sales for years., Crossed 35 million registered developers and 500,000 organizations., Reported ~$313M ARR while keeping a generous free tier.

## Products & services

- **Postman API Platform** — End-to-end workspace to design, develop, test, document, monitor and publish APIs across REST, GraphQL, gRPC, SOAP, WebSockets and MQTT.
- **Postbot** — AI assistant trained on billions of API calls that writes tests, generates documentation, debugs requests and explains responses inside Postman.
- **Agent Mode / AI Agent Builder** — Natural-language interface for orchestrating multi-step API workflows and for building AI agents on top of any API.
- **Postman Collections** — Shareable, executable groups of API requests - the unit of collaboration that turned the product into a network.
- **API Network** — Public directory of more than 100,000 published APIs and workspaces from companies including Salesforce, Twilio, PayPal and Notion.
- **Postman Enterprise** — Governance, SSO/SCIM, audit logs, private API network and role-based access control for large organizations.
- **Postman CLI & Newman** — Command-line tooling for running Postman collections in CI/CD pipelines.

## Achievements

- Grew from a free Chrome extension to a $5.6B platform without traditional outbound sales for years.
- Crossed 35 million registered developers and 500,000 organizations.
- Reported ~$313M ARR while keeping a generous free tier.
- Launched Postbot, one of the first AI assistants embedded inside a major developer tool.
- Repeatedly named to Forbes Cloud 100 and CNBC Disruptor 50.

## Latest updates

- **2026-03** — Launched the 'new Postman' with Git-native workspaces, API Catalog, Agent Mode and expanded multi-protocol support; v12 client available to upgrade from March 1.
- **2026-01** — Released AI Agent Builder for designing intelligent agents on top of any API.
- **2025-07** — Shipped AI Agent Templates, real-time monitoring and collaboration upgrades.
- **2025** — POST/CON 2025 in San Francisco - flagship conference for the Postman community.

## Links

- Website: https://www.postman.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/postman-platform
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/postmanclient
- GitHub: https://github.com/postmanlabs
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@postman
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/postmanclient/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/getpostman

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Last updated: 2026-05-30