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toran vs Postman
Postman is a manual API client used to send handcrafted requests and inspect responses. Developers commonly use it to explore APIs, reproduce issues, and collaborate on request collections.
What Postman is good at
- ✓Manually constructing and sending API requests
- ✓Exploring and learning unfamiliar APIs
- ✓Reproducing issues with controlled, repeatable inputs
- ✓Sharing example requests and collections with a team
Where it falls short
- △Does not show what your application or agent actually sent on the wire
- △Manual requests often differ from real production requests
- △Limited visibility into timing, retries, and real execution paths
How toran is different
- →toran observes real outbound API requests without requiring code changes
- →Shows the exact requests and responses generated by your app or agent
- →Captures practical timing breakdowns (upstream TTFB, transfers, and toran overhead)
- →Read-only by design: no mutation, retries, or request shaping
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Quick decision rule
Use Postman to manually explore or reproduce API behavior. Use toran to understand what your application or agent actually did in real execution.
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