Postman meters Context Graph queries at $0.01 after free ingestion on all tiers
By Rob Litterst, Co-founder, PricingSaaS
Published
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What changed
Postman added a new Context Graph row to its plan comparison table across all tiers. Ingestion and refresh (24-hour cycle) are free; API queries against it are metered, with 1,000-5,000 included per month depending on plan and a $0.01 overage per query beyond that.
Why it matters
For API tooling, metering the query side of a new feature rather than gating it behind seats signals pricing that can scale with actual platform usage instead of headcount. Watch whether the included query allowance (1,000-5,000/month) stays generous enough to avoid friction, or whether Context Graph follows the same path as Postman's Enterprise plan, which went from public pricing to Contact Sales only two days earlier.
In context
This is Postman's third pricing move built around usage metering in under nine months, following AI Credits added to Professional and Basic plans in January and cloud load testing unbundled into a $0.04/VuH add-on in August. It also lands just two days after Postman pulled its $49/user Enterprise price behind Contact Sales, making this the company's fifth change in 90 days - well above its typical roughly 68-day cadence. Credit and usage-based billing is now one of the index's most common patterns, showing up in 630 of 5,649 tracked changes (11.2%) over the last six months across 348 companies, led by HubSpot and Datadog. Postman's version meters only the query side while keeping ingestion free, a narrower cut than peers like Snyk's move to credit-based Enterprise pricing the same week.