Why Blackbird?
While Postman has been a standard for API developers, Ambassador Blackbird is redefining the space with a developer-first, end-to-end API platform, and development environment that’s made with the future in mind. We’re not telling you to ditch Postman altogether, but your development lifecycle deserves a tool that supports the process from spec creation to deployment.
Blackbird is purpose-built for modern API development, offering seamless mocking, robust testing, and easy collaboration in a dedicated, hosted environment. Look, Postman is great for quickly interacting with your APIs, but eventually, you'll have to go outside of the platform to accomplish the rest of your development journey…that's where we can help.
Whether you’re ready to "break up" with Postman or not, check out how Blackbird stacks up.
Feature Comparison: Blackbird vs. Postman
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Why Choose Blackbird?
Dedicated Testing Environments That Keep You in Flow
Unlike Postman, Blackbird handles the infrastructure, allowing developers to stay in their flow state (coding) for longer. Plus, with us managing the hosting costs, you don’t have to worry about environmental costs spinning out of control every month.
Faster Development with API Code Generation & Hosted Mocks
Blackbird automates API client and server code generation, helping developers move faster. Plus, it enables instant, hosted mocks, reducing dependencies and allowing teams to test APIs before building. On the other hand, Postman’s mocking capabilities are shareable, but parts do require manual setup. and local configurations.
Unlimited Purpose-Built API Development
Blackbird isn’t just for testing—it’s built for the entire API lifecycle, from design to deployment, all within a fully hosted environment at no extra cost. Unlike other platforms with restrictions on collections, requests, and collaborators, Blackbird lets you build without limits.
Kubernetes-Friendly for Seamless Integration
Postman fails to offer a deep integration into specific tech stacks or environments, such as those who are Kubernetes fans. Blackbird is a Kubernetes-friendly tool that easily integrates with your tech stack (including other Ambassador products, coming soon).
Easy for Beginners, Powerful for Experts
A common complaint about Postman is its level of complexity. Blackbird is designed to make API creation and editing as simple as a chat request (for real!), and we abstract away the infrastructure complexity so robust testing is not a stretch for anyone getting started.
What our customers said
We choose to use Blackbird since it allows us to build the API in the shortest amount of time possible while also producing a killer API
The Humorie Team
We wanted to leverage Ambassador’s Blackbird tool to showcase the rapid development to save developers time from start to finish
The GroceryGuardian Team
We need to give this huge lift of productivity to each and everyone. With a solution like Blackbird, plus what we are already doing, will help people to adapt their skills and be more innovative…that’s the holy grail
Driss Lamrani, CEO A2IM Robot Advisors
Blackbird makes things very easy to use. Without proper API specs, nothing works well, that's what you need in a tool
Michael Levan, Cloud Native Consultant
Blackbird's actually great, when you have a complex workflow in a dashboard SPA that involves multiple steps, finalized with payment, that ca fail due to connectivity, simulation of error like packet drops or session expiration is highly valuable during aggressive automated testing.
Principal SRE & Infra Architect
Hands down a must have tool for faster, smarter API Development. The tool is a lifesaver in generating clean, server-side, and client-side boilerplate code. This allows me to focus on the unique aspects of my APIs rather than spending time on repetitive coding tasks
Shinghai Zivuku, Tech Writer