Postman pushed everything to the cloud. Your queries, your auth tokens, your team's data — all on their servers, behind a subscription wall. There's a better way.
What started as a lightweight API tool became a cloud-first platform with forced accounts, usage limits, and your data on someone else's infrastructure.
Postman requires a cloud account. Your collections, environments, and API keys are synced to their servers by default. You didn't ask for this. You can't fully opt out.
Free tier limits keep shrinking. Team plans at $19/user/month. Enterprise at $49/user/month. What used to be a free tool now pushes you toward an enterprise subscription for basics like team sharing.
Your API secrets stored on a third-party cloud. One breach, one policy change, one acquisition — and your credentials are someone else's problem. For regulated industries, this is a non-starter.
AI agents can't use Postman. There's no MCP bridge, no programmatic access, no way for your coding assistant to discover and execute queries. In 2026, that's a dead end.
Spürhund is built for developers and AI agents who need a query workbench without the cloud baggage.
Open it. Use it. No sign-up, no cloud sync, no telemetry. Your workspace lives in your browser's local storage. Anonymous mode is free — forever.
Need to bypass CORS or hit internal APIs? The optional local runtime runs on your machine. Your requests never leave your network. No proxy servers, no cloud relay.
Your AI coding agent connects via MCP and gets full access: schema introspection, saved queries, auth configs. No more agents rebuilding context from scratch every session.
Full GraphQL support with schema explorer, query history, and variable management. REST collections import directly from Postman. One workbench for all your API work.
Side by side. No marketing fluff.
| Postman | Spürhund | |
|---|---|---|
| Cloud account required | Yes | No |
| Data stays local | No | Yes |
| Free tier limits | Shrinking | None |
| Anonymous usage | No | Yes, free forever |
| AI agent access (MCP) | No | Yes |
| Local runtime (bypass CORS) | No | Yes |
| GraphQL first-class | Basic | Full |
| Postman collection import | — | Yes |
| Open in browser, start working | Account wall | Instant |
Export your Postman collections and import them into Spürhund. That's it.
In Postman, right-click your collection → Export → choose Collection v2.1 format. Save the JSON file. Repeat for each collection you want to migrate.
Go to app.spuerhund.dev in your browser. No account needed. No sign-up form. The workbench is ready the moment the page loads.
Click Import in the sidebar, select your exported Postman JSON file. Spürhund reads Postman Collection v2.1 format natively — queries, headers, auth settings, and variables come through.
Your queries are now local-first, private, and accessible to AI agents via MCP. No cloud sync, no subscription, no lock-in. You own your workflow again.
If you're migrating from Altair GraphQL Client, the process is the same. Export your queries and environments from Altair, then import them into Spürhund.
Spürhund supports Altair's export format — your queries, variables, and headers transfer directly. You get the same GraphQL experience plus a local runtime, MCP bridge for AI agents, and REST support in one tool.
Open Spürhund in your browser. Free. No account. No install. No excuses.
Config migration
The app is now available at app.spuerhund.dev. If this browser still has your old local workspace, you can export it now and import it there.
Confirming the export will also delete the old local IndexedDB here, so this popup will not show again.