Bump.sh vs Hoppscotch

Bump.sh is a hosted API documentation platform built by a small, fully remote French team led by CEO Sébastien Charrier. It takes OpenAPI and AsyncAPI definitions from your repository, turns them into fast reference docs, and diffs every new version so breaking changes are flagged and a changelog is generated automatically. It is docs-as-code for teams that treat the API contract as the source of truth.

Every commit or pull request can deploy or preview docs through the CLI or GitHub Action, and API hubs group many APIs into one portal with a custom domain. Pro adds branch management, an API Explorer, release rollback and the automatic changelog. There is no free plan: Basic costs $50 per month for 10 API docs, Pro $120 per month for 30 docs with a 14-day trial, and Custom adds SSO, embed mode and a 99.99% SLA. Open source projects can request free Pro access.

Bump.sh suits platform teams publishing many internal or public APIs, especially event-driven ones, since AsyncAPI support is first class. It is weaker for long guides and marketing-style portals. ReadMe and Mintlify are stronger for narrative docs, Redocly offers similar OpenAPI tooling with more linting and self-hosting, and Stoplight focuses on design-first editing.

The biggest recent change is its new managed MCP platform: Bump.sh generates and hosts MCP servers from API definitions and Arazzo workflow files, with auth and observability, so AI agents can call your API safely. Note that Basic includes only five MCP tools.

Hoppscotch is an open-source API platform and a popular Postman alternative. Liyas Thomas started it in 2019 as a lightweight browser-based project called Postwoman, and it grew into Hoppscotch, now with more than 80,000 GitHub stars under the MIT license. It raised a $3 million seed round led by OSS Capital, with Automattic participating. Its core job is letting developers send and test API requests quickly in the browser, on the desktop or self-hosted.

Hoppscotch supports REST, GraphQL, WebSocket, Server-Sent Events, Socket.IO and MQTT. Requests live in nested collections with environments, pre-request scripts and tests, and a collection runner and CLI run them in CI. Desktop apps cover macOS, Windows and Linux. The free plan includes personal workspaces; Business adds team workspaces, real-time collaboration, published API docs, mocking and MCP server support, and Enterprise adds SSO, SCIM, role-based access and audit logs. A self-hosted Community edition is free.

Hoppscotch fits developers and teams who want a fast, clean API client without Postman's weight, and companies that must keep API data on their own servers. It has a smaller integration ecosystem than Postman, fewer governance features for large API programs, and advanced mocking and docs need a paid plan. Postman remains the broadest platform, Apidog bundles design and testing, and Scalar is stronger for reference docs.

Version 2026.9.0, released in September 2026, introduced the Enterprise Cloud tier and, for Enterprise Self-Host, an AI Assistant that edits and runs requests and manages collections.