Managed Hoppscotch Hosting — production-ready from $15 a month
Open-source API development ecosystem for REST, GraphQL, and WebSocket testing. Deployed on your own dedicated instance in AWS, Azure, or GCP, kept patched, backed up, and monitored by ManageStacks — standard Hoppscotch, no lock-in.
Hoppscotch is a self-hosted API development platform for building, testing, and documenting REST, GraphQL, WebSocket, and SSE APIs. ManageStacks deploys Hoppscotch with PostgreSQL, the admin dashboard, and managed TLS pre-configured.
What does Hoppscotch do, and why do teams deploy it?
Hoppscotch is an open-source alternative to Postman that provides a fast, lightweight API development environment supporting REST, GraphQL, WebSocket, Server-Sent Events, Socket.IO, and MQTT protocols. The self-hosted edition adds team workspaces, shared collections, environment management, and an admin dashboard for user and team administration.
The platform features a real-time request builder with syntax highlighting, response visualization, code generation in 20+ languages, pre-request scripts, and test assertions. Collections can be organized into folders, shared across teams, and version-controlled. Hoppscotch supports OAuth2, Bearer, Basic, and API key authentication methods, plus client certificates for mTLS endpoints.
ManageStacks deploys Hoppscotch with PostgreSQL for workspace and collection data, the admin dashboard for user management, SMTP for team invitations, and managed TLS. Give your development team a shared API workspace that runs entirely on your infrastructure — no API definitions leaving your network.
- REST, GraphQL, WebSocket, SSE, Socket.IO, and MQTT support
- Team workspaces with shared collections and environments
- Pre-request scripts and test assertions for API validation
- Code generation in 20+ programming languages
- OAuth2, Bearer, Basic, API key, and mTLS authentication
- Admin dashboard for user and team management
Open-source API development ecosystem for REST, GraphQL, and WebSocket testing
Hoppscotch as a self-hosted alternative to Postman and Insomnia
Instead of paying per-seat fees to a SaaS vendor, teams self-host Hoppscotch to keep full control of their data and infrastructure. ManageStacks removes the operational overhead — you get the cost and privacy benefits of open source with the reliability of a managed platform.
What does managed Hoppscotch hosting cost?
Flat per-app pricing, in your chosen AWS, Azure, or GCP region. No per-user pricing — a busy deployment costs the same as a quiet one.
Starter
Staging and internal tools. Dedicated instance, TLS, daily backups, managed upgrades.
Standard
Production workloads. Adds monitoring, staging environment, region choice, priority support.
Business
High-traffic and compliance workloads. Adds a high-availability replica and same-day support.
24×7 SRE retainer
Round-the-clock on-call across every hosted application, for teams that need a pager answered at 3am.
When is self-hosting Hoppscotch the right answer instead?
“Managed hosting is not always the correct call.”
Self-host when a platform team already runs the infrastructure and on-call rotation to operate Hoppscotch at genuinely low marginal cost. Self-host when compliance requires an air-gapped or on-premises deployment that no hosted option can satisfy. And self-host when the deployment depends on heavy customisation with a fast internal build-deploy loop, because an internal release process will beat any managed change process.
For everyone else — teams whose engineers have better things to do than shepherd upgrades — managed hosting is cheaper than the hours it replaces.
Which cloud should Hoppscotch run on — AWS, Azure or GCP?
For most workloads, the choice of cloud matters less than proximity: run Hoppscotch in the same cloud and region as the applications and data it talks to, because every request between them adds a round trip. The underlying compute performs equivalently across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
In practice, an existing cloud footprint decides it. All plans support all three clouds, and moving regions later is a scheduled migration, not a rebuild.
Deepest managed-service catalog, default when there's no existing footprint
Best fit for teams already on Microsoft 365 or Entra ID
Strongest for data/analytics-adjacent workloads
Every plan supports AWS, Azure, and GCP — region choice included.
Common questions about Hoppscotch on ManageStacks
What is Hoppscotch on ManageStacks used for?
Hoppscotch is a self-hosted API development platform for testing REST, GraphQL, and WebSocket APIs. ManageStacks deploys the self-hosted edition with team workspaces so your developers can collaborate on API development without sending requests through third-party servers.
Can Hoppscotch replace Postman for my team?
Yes. Hoppscotch supports collections, environments, pre-request scripts, test assertions, and team workspaces. You can import existing Postman collections directly. The self-hosted edition eliminates per-seat pricing and keeps API definitions on your own infrastructure.
Does Hoppscotch support team collaboration on ManageStacks?
Yes. The self-hosted edition includes team workspaces, shared collections, role-based access control, and an admin dashboard. ManageStacks configures the collaboration backend with PostgreSQL and SMTP for invitations.
Can I import my Postman collections into Hoppscotch?
Yes. Hoppscotch supports direct import from Postman collections, Insomnia workspaces, and OpenAPI/Swagger specifications. Collections, environments, and authentication settings are preserved during import.
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