Compare Postman vs. Read the Docs

Postman serves as a collaborative platform for developing APIs, designed to simplify the entire process of API creation and enhance teamwork, enabling the rapid development of superior APIs. The platform's features facilitate each phase of API construction, making it easier to collaborate and accelerate the creation of high-quality APIs. Users can quickly and effortlessly send requests for REST, SOAP, and GraphQL directly within Postman, optimizing their workflow. Additionally, it allows for the automation of manual tests, seamlessly integrating them into your CI/CD pipeline to safeguard against potential issues when code changes are deployed to production. API behavior can be communicated effectively by simulating endpoints and their respective responses without the need for a backend server setup. You can also generate and publish visually appealing, machine-readable documentation, which helps in making your API more accessible for users. Regular performance and response time checks ensure you stay informed about your API's health, allowing for proactive management. Lastly, Postman fosters a shared environment for API creation and consumption, enabling real-time collaboration among team members. Postman’s AI Agent Builder revolutionizes the development of AI agents with its no-code platform, enabling users to build, test, and deploy powerful agents without coding expertise. It provides access to a vast library of over 100,000 APIs and a variety of LLMs, offering tools to compare their performance, cost, and response quality. The visual workflow builder simplifies creating multi-step agent interactions, and its testing tools ensure reliability before deployment.

Focus your efforts on creating exceptional documentation instead of getting bogged down with the tools needed to manage it. Read the Docs streamlines the documentation process by taking care of building, versioning, and hosting your documentation automatically. We offer free and permanent hosting for your documentation with no hidden fees. Our platform supports over 100,000 open source projects in sharing their documentation, complete with options for custom domains and themes. Each time you update your code in popular version control systems like GitHub, BitBucket, or GitLab, we automatically build your documentation, ensuring that it remains synchronized with your code. While we prepare your documentation for the web, you can also access it as PDFs, single-page HTML, and formats suitable for eReaders. There’s no need for complex configurations, making the process seamless. Additionally, we can manage and host various versions of your documentation effortlessly, allowing you to maintain both 1.0 and 2.0 versions simply by using separate branches or tags in your version control setup. With Read the Docs, you can concentrate on content while we handle the technical aspects of documentation management.