Apidog
All-in-one API platform combining design, mocking, testing and documentation in one desktop app.
why this verdict
Downgrade — pay for the workflow, not the AI
Bruno and Hoppscotch cover the headline feature free, so the $9/mo is now paying for the workflow around it.
- A named launch, not a vibe named, unlinked
- MCP servers letting agents call APIs directly with no GUI request builder. Anthropic, November 25, 2024 — no announcement link recorded yet.
- How much of the job it covers headline only editorial call
- The headline feature, but not the workflow, data or integrations around it.
- Is there a free way to do it? yes
- 3 of 3 listed replacements have a usable free tier: Bruno, Hoppscotch and Scalar.
- What the call is worth $108/yr
- $9/mo at the entry paid tier — $108 a year per seat.
- Threatened by
- Anthropic
- Since
- November 25, 2024
- List price
- $9/mo
- Per year
- $108
The backstory
Apidog grew fast as a cheaper, more integrated answer to Postman, merging spec design, mock servers, automated tests and published docs. Much of that workflow assumes a person clicking through requests. When agents can call tools over MCP and read the responses themselves, the manual request builder gets opened less often. Apidog is still the fastest way for a team to design and publish an API contract, so it is squeezed rather than displaced.
Escape hatches
switching could free up $108/yrOffline, Git-friendly API client with plain-text collections
usebruno.com open_in_newOpen-source browser-based API client, self-hostable
hoppscotch.io open_in_newOpenAPI-first docs and client from a single spec file
scalar.com open_in_new3 of 3 replacements have a usable free tier.
