Postman Free Is One Person Now. Runs Are Unlimited.
Two things changed at once in March 2026: free dropped to one user, and collection runs became unlimited on every tier. Most guides still describe neither.
Postman's free plan costs $0 and is limited to one user, with the full API client, unlimited collection runs, mock servers, native Git and 1,000 monitoring requests a month. Since March 2026 free cannot create a team. Solo is $9, Team $19 per user, and Basic and Professional are closed.1
Two changes landed together on 1 March 2026 and most of the internet has absorbed only one of them. Free went from three users to one, which was widely reported and widely resented.
Collection runs went from a capped allowance to unlimited on every plan, which was barely reported at all. Guides still warn that free is limited to 25 runs a month. That figure has not been right since March.2
What the free plan actually includes
| Free | Team | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0 | $19/user/mo billed annually |
| Users | 1, cannot create a team | Unlimited, per seat |
| Collection runs | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Mock servers | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| API monitoring | 1,000 requests/mo | 10,000 requests/mo |
| AI credits | 50 per month | 400 per user per month |
| Postman API calls | 10,000 per month | 1 million per month |
| Private APIs in Spec Hub | 1 | Higher |
| Team collaboration | No | Yes |
| Cloud performance testing | No, local only | Paid runs |
Postman's own documentation is explicit on the runs: collection runner and performance test runs are unlimited in the 2026 plans. The 25-run cap belongs to the legacy plans and to articles written before the restructure.
Single user is the limit that actually stops people
Before March, a free workspace could hold three people and share collections. That is gone. Two developers sharing a collection now need Team at $19 a seat, which is $456 a year for a pair.
This is a sharper limit than any quota, because it fails at the moment collaboration begins rather than at a usage threshold. A solo developer can stay free indefinitely. A pair cannot stay free for a day.
The workaround most people use is exporting the collection as JSON and committing it to a repository, which gives you shared definitions without shared workspaces. It works, and it means giving up comments, shared environments and the collection history that makes Postman useful in a team.
What is genuinely free now
Unlimited runs is a real improvement and it is not a small one. Running a collection repeatedly is the core automation workflow, and it used to be the thing that pushed individuals toward paid plans.
Mock servers being unlimited matters for front-end work, where you need a fake endpoint before the real one exists. Spec Hub, native Git sync and the full protocol client are all present.
What is missing is anything that touches a second person, plus the monitoring ceiling and the AI credits.
The 1,000 monitor requests are the quiet ceiling
Monitoring is the one metre that behaves like a metre. A thousand requests a month is roughly 33 a day, which covers a single endpoint checked hourly with room to spare, and nothing more.
Cloud performance testing has also left the free plan. Local runs stay unlimited, so load testing against localhost works, but anything that needs Postman's cloud to generate traffic from outside your machine is paid.
When the free plan is enough
One developer testing APIs alone. Exploring a third-party API, building a collection of requests for a project, running a suite locally before shipping. For that person the free plan is close to complete, and unlimited runs makes it more useful than it was in 2025.
It is also fine as a learning tool. Nothing about the client is restricted. For the tracking side of the same project, Linear's free plan makes a similar 2026 concession to individuals and a harder one to teams.
When it stops being enough
The first colleague who needs to see the collection. That is the trigger, and it arrives before any quota does.
The second is monitoring at scale, where 1,000 requests a month stops covering a real service. Team at $19 a seat is the answer to both, and it is priced against Sentry's single-user free tier, which has the same shape: free is excellent for one person and unavailable for two.
Frequently asked questions
Is Postman still free?
Yes, for one person. The free plan costs nothing and includes the full API client, unlimited collection runs and 1,000 monitoring requests a month.
Does Postman Free limit collection runs?
No. Since the March 2026 restructure, collection runner and performance runs are unlimited on every plan. The widely quoted 25-runs-a-month cap belongs to the retired plans.
Can I share a Postman collection on the free plan?
Not through a team workspace, which free cannot create. You can export a collection as JSON and share the file.
What happened to Postman Basic and Professional?
Both closed to new customers in March 2026. The replacements are Solo at $9, Team at $19 per user and Enterprise at $49.
How many AI credits does Postman Free include?
50 a month on Free, 400 on Solo, and 400 per user on Team.
Plan contents, run limits, user limits and pricing verified against Postman's pricing page and its billing documentation on 20 October 2026. Guides quoting a 25-run monthly cap are describing the pre-March 2026 plans.
Sources
- Postman pricing: www.postman.com/pricing. Used for: Plan tiers, the March 2026 single-user change and the unlimited collection runner.
- Postman docs: about plans: learning.postman.com/docs/billing/about-plans.
All sources are the vendor's own plan or documentation pages, checked on 20 October 2026. Plan terms change without notice, so confirm current limits before you rely on them.
