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Pick up to four tools and compare adoption, momentum and maintenance at a glance. The crown marks the leader in each row.

HTTP assertion library for testing Node.js servers (Express, Fastify, Koa) without opening ports.

Java DSL for testing REST services with given/when/then syntax, standard in JVM API test suites.

Command-line collection runner for Postman, used to execute API test collections in CI.

Unified API, performance and UI test automation with a readable Gherkin-like DSL, no Java coding needed.

Head to head

Metric	SuperTest	REST Assured	Newman	Karate
Stars	14.4k	7.1k	7.3k	9k
Weekly downloads	25.2M	n/a	819k	n/a
Download growth	+24%	n/a	-3%	n/a
Popularity score	84/100	70/100	72/100	72/100
Forks	788	1.9k	1.2k	2k
Open issues	2	550	349	12
Last commit	4d ago	6d ago	4w ago	2d ago
Latest version	7.3.2	n/a	6.2.3	n/a
License	MIT	Apache-2.0	Apache-2.0	MIT
First released	2012	2010	2014	2017
Signals	Popular	Popular	None	None
Listed in	Testing & QA › API & Contract Testing	Testing & QA › API & Contract Testing	Testing & QA › API & Contract Testing	Testing & QA › API & Contract Testing

Hover for exact values; switch to log scale for tools of very different sizes. Not shown (no comparable download data): REST Assured, Karate.

HTTP assertion library for testing Node.js servers (Express, Fastify, Koa) without opening ports.

Java DSL for testing REST services with given/when/then syntax, standard in JVM API test suites.

Command-line collection runner for Postman, used to execute API test collections in CI.

Unified API, performance and UI test automation with a readable Gherkin-like DSL, no Java coding needed.

Metric	SuperTest	REST Assured	Newman	Karate
Stars	14.4k	7.1k	7.3k	9k
Weekly downloads	25.2M	n/a	819k	n/a
Download growth	+24%	n/a	-3%	n/a
Popularity score	84/100	70/100	72/100	72/100
Forks	788	1.9k	1.2k	2k
Open issues	2	550	349	12
Last commit	4d ago	6d ago	4w ago	2d ago
Latest version	7.3.2	n/a	6.2.3	n/a
License	MIT	Apache-2.0	Apache-2.0	MIT
First released	2012	2010	2014	2017
Signals	Popular	Popular	None	None
Listed in	Testing & QA › API & Contract Testing	Testing & QA › API & Contract Testing	Testing & QA › API & Contract Testing	Testing & QA › API & Contract Testing

Hover for exact values; switch to log scale for tools of very different sizes. Not shown (no comparable download data): REST Assured, Karate.