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Postman MCP Server

Postman MCP Server is an MCP server that gives your AI agents trusted access to the full Postman platform. It has 325 GitHub stars, is released under the Apache-2.0 license and runs locally with npx -y @postman/postman-mcp-server. It works with Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code, Claude.ai and ChatGPT and needs an API key.

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Install Postman MCP Server

Generated from the server's MCP registry entry. Replace your-value with your own values.

Claude Desktop

claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "postman-mcp-server": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@postman/postman-mcp-server"
      ],
      "env": {
        "POSTMAN_API_KEY": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

Settings > Developer > Edit Config. macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/, Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\. Restart Claude Desktop afterwards.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --env POSTMAN_API_KEY=your-value --transport stdio postman-mcp-server -- npx -y @postman/postman-mcp-server

Cursor

.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "postman-mcp-server": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@postman/postman-mcp-server"
      ],
      "env": {
        "POSTMAN_API_KEY": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

Project file; use ~/.cursor/mcp.json to enable it in every project.

VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "inputs": [
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "postman_api_key",
      "description": "POSTMAN_API_KEY",
      "password": true
    }
  ],
  "servers": {
    "postman-mcp-server": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@postman/postman-mcp-server"
      ],
      "env": {
        "POSTMAN_API_KEY": "${input:postman_api_key}"
      }
    }
  }
}

Claude Code (remote)

claude mcp add --transport http postman-mcp-server "https://mcp.postman.com/mcp"

The same server is also hosted as a remote MCP endpoint, so nothing runs on your machine.

Config formats checked against the official docs on Oct 7, 2026: modelcontextprotocol.io (opens in a new tab), code.claude.com (opens in a new tab), cursor.com (opens in a new tab), code.visualstudio.com (opens in a new tab).

Environment variables

Variables the server reads at startup.

NameRequiredDescription
POSTMAN_API_KEYsecretYesA valid Postman API key.

About Postman MCP Server

The Postman MCP Server implements the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to connect AI agents and coding assistants — including Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code Copilot, GitHub Copilot CLI, and Gemini CLI — directly to your Postman workspaces, collections, specifications, and environments.

  • ai
  • mcp
  • mcp-server
  • postman
  • agent
  • ai-agents
  • api-testing
  • claude
  • claude-code
  • copilot

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How do I install the Postman MCP Server MCP server?

Add the command npx -y @postman/postman-mcp-server to your MCP client: put it in claude_desktop_config.json for Claude Desktop, run claude mcp add for Claude Code, or add it to .cursor/mcp.json (Cursor) or .vscode/mcp.json (VS Code). The snippets on this page are ready to paste.

Is Postman MCP Server free?

The server is open source under the Apache-2.0 license, so running it is free. It needs credentials (POSTMAN_API_KEY) for the service it connects to, which may require a paid account.

Is Postman MCP Server actively maintained?

The most recent commit was on Oct 16, 2026. The latest release is v2.14.0, published Oct 16, 2026. appsgit only lists MCP servers with a commit in the last six months.