# SoapUI Reviews 2026. Verified Reviews, Pros & Cons | Capterra > Is SoapUI the right Automated Testing solution for you? Explore 168 verified user reviews from people in industries like yours to make a confident choice. Source: https://www.capterra.com/p/170648/SoapUI/reviews --- SoapUI 4.5 (168) [View alternatives](https://www.capterra.com/p/170648/SoapUI/alternatives/) Provider data verified by our Software Research team, and reviews moderated by our Reviews Verification team. [Learn more](https://www.capterra.com/our-story/) * * * Last updated December 14th, 2025 # Reviews of SoapUI Ease of use 4.3 Customer Service 4.2 ## Pros and Cons in Reviews Parth S QA engineerInformation Technology and Services, 10,001+ employeesUsed the software for: More than 2 years. “I like the way it has all the features to handle different types of testing, such as API testing and load testing, and it allows the automation of the test cases.“ December 8, 2024 SJ Sebastian J Sr. QA Automation EngineerInformation Technology and Services, 1,001 - 5,000 employeesUsed the software for: 6-12 months. “It becomes tricky to create new APIs and collections“ November 2, 2024 Parth S QA engineerInformation Technology and Services, 10,001+ employeesUsed the software for: More than 2 years. “Also, it can support the automation of the test cases using the script making it more powerful software.“ December 8, 2024 AM Ashok M Software engineer Information Technology and Services, 5,001 - 10,000 employeesUsed the software for: 1-2 years. “Multiple tabs sometimes is a trouble and code or file deleted is hard to retrieve“ May 25, 2023 vn vignesh n Executive ArchitectComputer Software, 11 - 50 employeesUsed the software for: 6-12 months. “love the UI part of Soapui and to write direct soap Put,delete,Post calls easily“ January 17, 2025 Mandar B QA EngineerInformation Technology and Services, 201 - 500 employeesUsed the software for: More than 2 years. “It is hard to see the text in xml request as the display tends to get smaller. If there's error in response, sometimes it just keep loading before displaying the request timed out.“ October 19, 2022 PG Paulo Cesar G Sr. QA Automation EngineerInsurance, 1,001 - 5,000 employeesUsed the software for: 1-2 years. “it allows to easily generate an API request for functional test“ November 20, 2024 At Akash t Quality Assurance AnalystInformation Technology and Services, 51 - 200 employeesUsed the software for: Less than 6 months. “Limited support for virtual services - The paid subscription may not be affordable for individuals, although it is reasonably priced for company use.“ April 7, 2023 ## Showing most helpful reviews Showing 1-25 of 168 Reviews Sort by: Most Helpful Rating Company Size Reviewer's Role Length of Use Frequency of Use Parth S. QA engineer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Great tool for API testing" December 8, 2024 4.0 Overall I like to work with SoapUI as it can handle both SOAP and REST request type testing. Also, it can support the automation of the test cases using the script making it more powerful software. Pros I like the way it has all the features to handle different types of testing, such as API testing and load testing, and it allows the automation of the test cases. Cons The design is not easy to understand for beginners. Switched from [Postman](https://www.capterra.com/p/188497/Postman/) Easy to implement automation using SOAPUI. Review Source RB Rimjhim B. Software Developer Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "One of the best tool for API request" April 26, 2021 5.0 Overall I have very good experience with SOAPUI. No least things to comment. Pros I have used SoapUi for more than 5 years and its been highly useful interms of running jobs, API requests and creating our own automated script runner for SOAP requests Cons I dont have any least things to say about this software as I used it on daily basis to regularly check request/response with the backend system Switched from [Postman](https://www.capterra.com/p/188497/Postman/) Since I am used to SOAP UI than postman and it was my wish to use any software ;) Review Source Darian P. Team Lead of Internal Tools Insurance Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Review of SoapUI from Smartbear" August 25, 2021 3.0 SoapUI does the majority of what we need fine. We like that it loads sample requests from the service you attach to it, it is useful for cases like ours where you are not provided documentation on the request format. However, our biggest issue came from this feature being unable to be used for any large service, which unfortunately for us means we cannot load requests for several of our more important services. Pros We use an antiquated / custom Soap service which we found was unable to be read by some other SOAP parsers. This software was the only one we found that was able to do the job. Cons I believe the program was written in Java and has a huge fault when we use it. One of our SOAP services has 100+ endpoints, so much so that SoapUI can't handle loading sample requests for the entire endpoint and will freeze the computer. We have never been able to find a workaround for this. It works fine for our smaller services but once the services get big with large requests, it will crash 1/4 or 1/3 of the way through its loading. Review Source vN vignesh N. Executive Architect Computer Software Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Great api automation tools" January 17, 2025 4.0 love the UI part of Soapui and to write direct soap Put,delete,Post calls easily Pros The SOAP WEebservices testing and automated testing of soap webservices Cons The grrovy integration for writing the integration level api tests like people need to know some level programming language for integration level api tests using SoapUI Review Source Hasitha W. Software QA Intern Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "As a QA Engineer "Soap-UI" is my day maker. It's very easy to test API's with this product." July 16, 2018 5.0 It helps to complete my day to day testing tasks with more efficiently. It saves my time. Pros 01 . Any type of users (Beginners or Experts for API testing) can easily adopt to the user-interface and testing process by using "soap-UI" for couple of hours. And now i'm expert at this software. 02. By defining variables, you can customize parameter values without hard coding the values in whole test-case. 03. You can also use external data sheets to retrieve data to your executions. 04. You can simply send/receive multiple API calls and responses from different API's by just executing a single test suite. 05. Soap-UI provides very large scale of testing methods. examples : Load testing and Functional testing methods including security tests's. 06. SoapUI Open Source product is totally free for anyone who interested in web-service testing and also SoapUI Pro version gives you three types of reporting methods (Printable , Data Export , HTML Reports). I have used all of these versions personally. It's amazing. Cons 01\. Some times it's little bit slow when you work with large test cases. 02. When generating test results, soap ui open source doesn't give you much options comparing to pro version. 03. you need to know about "Groovy Scripts" If you want to create automated test plans in SoapUI open source version. 04. Subscription plan prices are bit high if you planned to go through Pro versions. Other than that there are no any cons to mention about this product. Review Source Abhinav K. Sr Software Integrator Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "SoapUI: A swiss Army Knife for Automation testing with an user friendly platform." March 24, 2019 5.0 We have integrated the SoapUI with our project to achieve continuous delivery of the project. The security test feature is really helpful in checking the SQL injection and malicious code attachment with just few clicks. SoapUI is helping us to deploy the code to cloud with help of containers, as all this possible because of the robust integration of SoapUI with the other third part tools like Bamboo. Pros SoapUI is a swiss army knife for automation testing with user friendly user interface as it provides the wide range of testing features in a single pack. API functional testing allows us to add the test form which also scrutinize the third party API for vulnerability. While creating the test form we can also add and integrate it with the mock data to check the result for bulk raw or real data. Groovy code templates allow us to add the macros. The real time statistics show the detail view for running test. SoapUI by SMARTBEAR support is really impressive as you can get the help from experts when we are stuck some area in it. Cons MockResponse module should be more enhanced and simplified. Script libraries should be also in Open-Source version. Fuzzing Scan module for testing vulnerability is complex as a beginner. Learning curves are sharp but the proper documentation by SoapUI is covering it. Review Source vikram S. Associate Banking Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Best tool for API testing " February 23, 2023 5.0 I found it very useful for API automation testing . It is easy-to-use interface will enhance your productivity . I prefer soap ui over postman due to it's security feature and easy accessibility. It is best tool for asynchronous testing. Pros Soap UI is best java based application for API testing . It provides soap as well as rest API testing .We can do data driven testing using Soap UI. It supports multiple customizable format and also provide automatic testing through command-line interface. It provides an easy-to-use interface and user can import WSDL file for project setup. Cons I haven't found any issue yet but some time it take lots memory in background. Review Source Rob B. WSO2 Trainer & Integration Consultant Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "SoapUI to send Soap and REST calls" December 7, 2019 4.0 In general, SoapUI is my preferred tool to use as a client since it supports Soap and REST. It is simple to download and free to use. I work with it on Linux as well as Windows. The fact that it uses both and is simple to use is a winner in my perspective. Pros SoapUI is a piece of handy software to send soap and rest messages to backends. It allows you to import a WSDL and it builds the soap message (envelope, header and body) from there. It also supports REST invocations so if you also want to send REST that is possible too. The version i am using is the free version of the software, it has limited capabilities compared to the pro version but for training purposes it is more than enough. Even for simple development you have a tool that will work. Cons I find that with two screens (one 4K and one FULL HD) the window tends to show in 4K resolution even when the screen is not on 4K. That is about the annoying thing about the product. I use the software in a limited way, so I have not looked at the feature like testing and so on. It might be that in order to use them, a paid license might be needed. The testing elements do quickly need a license although basic scenarios are supported. Review Source ravi R. Associate Software Developer Computer Software Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Testing webservices are easy with soapUI" December 24, 2018 4.0 When we develop any webservices it can be easily tested on soapui rather than actually testing it on ui. It makes the complex task easier and reduces the time for testing the services and find errors if any. It also helps in resolving the errors by pinpointing to the issue. We will keep using SoapUI for our service related tests. Pros Be it soap or rest services it makes only the messages we need visible to us. The UI is very informative for our calls. We just put our address url and we get access to all our methods. We can define our own test cases and generate files for the response we got. We can add many end points for our service calls. The webservices are easy to debug for any error with soapui. Pfx certificates can be added to services which help us with our authentication needs. Cons It has a complex UI for finding all features but it might be necessary to include everything. We sometimes have difficulty to find particular feature and have to go through menus to search for it. Review Source Charan Raj Y. Sr Analyst Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Soap UI is best for Services testing " June 4, 2021 4.0 Overall experience is good. Since most of the my projects used this tool and identified security related bugs as well Easy to integrate with Burp Suite Pros Easy of use when compared to others Open source tool also supports all functionalities in the application It support XML files and can be add Assertions for validations Cons It doesn't support Json files It allsow only XML based files Less support rarely used software Review Source SJ Sebastian J. Sr. QA Automation Engineer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "A good experience, facing some issues to work smooth" November 2, 2024 4.0 A good experience, facing some issues to work smooth Pros It works fine for API functional testing Cons It becomes tricky to create new APIs and collections Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Senior Consultant Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Perfect little package to get a lot done!" April 20, 2019 4.0 Overall I recommend SOAP UI to just about everyone when in the context of this type of testing. Seven out of ten times the other person is already aware of the software or has used it in the past. It is truly one of the better-made software, and even though I know a great deal of how to use its features, I know that there is still a lot I don't even know about packed away within the menus. I look forward to mastering this piece of software soon. Pros Once you understand how to execute a Soap service through the user-friendly UI, it is perfect for running through an extensive suite of tests and validations. With on-the-fly edits that you can make in-between cases, you can ensure that you're meeting full coverage results. Cons Sometimes when importing a WSDL, you may only need to pass a request which includes ONLY required fields. I wish SOAP UI would allow you to make a sample request which only consists of the required fields and leaves the optional fields out of the sample. This would make things faster when I need to work through a heavy workload, but it's still not a huge downside, just one of those nice to have features. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Senior Analyst Used the software for: 2+ years ### "A must-have tool to test any kind of web services" April 19, 2018 5.0 The testing has been made really easy and quality have been improved manifold. The code coverage has also been increased thus improving overall customer satisfaction. Pros The SoapUI tool is the best out there when you need to test a Webservice with ease. The usability and ease of setup make this the best tool out there. It has all the best feature which are practically needed on the ground. One of the major add-on features is it's LoadTest wherein you can easily create a LoadTest from existing test and get an idea of the service performance Cons Yes, the UI can be made much better to make it more useful and the load time and start-up time can be reduced manifold because its very heavy and take a lot of time to start-up and makes the system slow. Review Source SM Srikar M. Software engineer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Uat and straight through rest runs made easy" February 26, 2023 4.0 Very helpful for testing the templates developed throught doc automation tool with custom answer file everytime. Have bee helpful with unit testing for various usecases from image insertion to qr development Pros Easy to use interface and scripting abilities help create codes to call various rest commands with custom parameter datas to be able to test or run various business requirements directly. Multiple consoles can be run at a time and the ability to download or get generated output as files is very helpful to debug or verify the api developed Cons Autosave feature isn't available. Also user interface could be improvised for better aid and script review. Though test results are great, they are shown in cumbersome way. Review Source sV shashank V. Software Trainee Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Best Testing tool for Web Services" March 27, 2019 5.0 My overall experience using this software is very good as I am highly satisfied with the features that this tool provides while testing any backend application. We can deploy the application in the form of WAR(Web Application archive) format which is mainly used for easy importing of files in tools like JavaEE, JavaSE. We can view the response files in HTML, XML, JSON formats. We can import tools from other softwares like JAX-B, JBoss, Oracle, Apache and implement that working architecture in SoapUI. While testing any backend software, we can define our own properties that the request should contaim while testing. We can customise our own User interface. We can import WSDL, WADL, Swagger. We can create our own workspace to personalise our own test cases and our own projects. Pros 1) We can send other file attachments along with URL we are sending 2) Can perform load testing to check the performance of the software we are testing under load. 3) Can create REST and SOAP projects. 4) We can save the test cases we use frequently to test the same software application. 5) We can define custom properties while testing an application. 6) We can store the keystore we created. 7) We can import other projects and we can use all the eight HTTP methods for testing. We can provide requests to the software in the form of XML, JSON, text, MIME formats. Cons I haven't found any flaws as the working of this tool is smooth and fast. Review Source AM Anusha M. Software engineer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Code testing and rest calls made simple" February 26, 2023 5.0 Very helpful with the overall business requirement to run various unit case uat testing and has found out requirement discrepancies to be adjusted on code many a times Pros Has very good ui to creat rest commands with custom parameter data to run unit tesing of any api deployed. Straight forward procedure to run any grt or post calls. Can be customized to write in scripts to run any basic functions as well. Have been using to convert a type of document date to other effectively Cons Some times it gets delayed when loading heavy code. Also if forgot to save or if working on parallel consoles misplacing the code it is difficult to restore or get back tha unsaved code Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Software Developer Outsourcing/Offshoring Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Help to build rest UI" April 10, 2018 4.0 Tested many web services using this tool and get xml compenent info to build more accurate web service. Pros It is very easy to use. We can make xml request through tool and get response from web service. Easy to pass required paramater in request XML. It also help to integrater to test the web service. Cons Passing credentials are difficult and some time we do not know the actual reason of bad response. It takes time to load the request xml. Review Source kK kalaiselvan K. Integration Engineer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "SOAPUI Review" June 9, 2019 5.0 I am pretty happy with SOAP UI tool. I am an integration engineer and this tool makes my life easier. Pros It makes both Developers and Tester life easier with Webservice(SOAP and REST) Automation. Really helpful in creating Sanity and Function Test suite for SOAP and REST webservices. Supporting Groovy is added features we can make use of it. We can even have JDBC connection to cross check something in the database. It supports Load testing as well which gives extra added features. It validate the SOAP XML request and response along with some assertion. Overall it is good tool for web service testing. Cons We can have some report generation on the test suit results. We can have some configurable email templates , which trigger the test suite results with report. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Test Manager Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Easy Automation by SoapUI" February 6, 2019 5.0 Pros I was new to the coding world, i had spent all my years in testing and that too manual, when i used SoapUI for the first time i thought it would be difficult to understand and those groovy scripting might take all my time. But luckily the test cases creation, and scripting was so easy and good that any lay man can understand that easily and can automate things faster. Cons Need to check the licence version which may cost you a little. Free version does not provide all features Review Source navjot S. Senior Group Lead Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Flexible and easy to use" September 11, 2018 5.0 Good and fast tool for testing webServices, and ececuting test cases. Pros Very easy to configure the webServices both Soap and Rest, and also for testing Mock services. Cons Debugging is not very intutive, as this use groovy script, which is sparely known. Review Source Carolina U. Especialista en Sistemas Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "it's a very helpfull tool to try web services. I always lean on it," April 10, 2018 5.0 It's free and let me do my job, I can save my projects, No objections at all Pros It's easy to use, you can find good documentation on its webpage, it's free, you can run soap, text, ans rest services. Cons I don't have anything bad to say about it, It my everyday tool in my actual job , I've found other ones like postman or google rest, but I always return to SoapUi Review Source GM Gaston M. Technical QA Lead Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Excelent tool for development / testing SOAP and REST apis." July 7, 2022 4.0 It was the first API testing tool I used, like 10 years ago and I am still using SoapUI for a bunch of API testing project, even Soap and Rest. Pros Simplicity and easy-to-use. It is very easy to set up a Soap/Rest project and start working with those APIs. I use SoapUI mostly for testing purpose, it is possible to generate differents request for the same end-point and test different combination of data. Cons The community edition contains some known bugs related to the UI Editor. Sometimes the software crashes and user needs to reset it. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Software Test Engineer Computer Software Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Helpful tool to test APIs" March 3, 2019 3.0 My overall experience is good and I will recommend my friends to test the APIs. Pros — easy to use and open source also. — this software provides ease to generate a project by providing WSDL. — lightweight application. Cons It gets slow for large test cases. It takes more time to startup and make the system slow. Review Source Carlos David M. Sr Software Engineer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Automated UI Testing" July 17, 2021 5.0 In our teams we usually have from 2 to 3 testers fully booked all the time. With the arrival of Soap UI as a tool for a Software Development Life Cycle, we have manage to spent less time on testing, focusing our resources on development good test cases using Soap UI and then just let them run automatically. Pros SOAP UI is a great tool to perform automated UI Testing. It solves a common problem when testing applications and it is that usually they are subject to human factor. In today's standards, everybody knows that you should try to automate as much as possible your testing. A task that it used to be complicated due to the lack of tools. Cons Generally speaking, it is quite good. At the beginning maybe there is a learning curve but once you get used to it, everything runs smoothly. Review Source VK Vevin K. Lead Software Engineer Mining & Metals Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Decent tool - Could be better" September 13, 2022 4.0 I've used SoapUI for testing SOAP endpoints and load testing. Pros Reliable and efficient. Ability to group and categorize requests. Cons The user interface could be improved. Passing files as multipart/form-data is a bit complex and non-intuitive compared to Postman. Alternatives considered [Postman](https://www.capterra.com/p/188497/Postman/) Reason for choosing SoapUI We use both SoapUI and Postman. Review Source Similar Products Featured