Beeceptor is a free alternative to WireMock and mocklab server to build mock APIs.
Best Alternative To WireMock
Beeceptor is a no-code solution for building and deploying mock servers instantly!
A mock server that never sleeps!
WireMock Cloud is a managed API mocking platform that builds upon WireMock, an open-source API mocking framework. Formerly known as Mocklab.io, it underwent re-branding as WireMock Cloud in December 2022. WireMock Cloud comes with free and enterprise plans.
Beeceptor and WireMock Cloud are both powerful tools for creating and deploying mock servers and service virtualization. While they share several similar features such as cloud/hosted services, endpoint naming, forward proxy for call recording, simulating failures, HTTP delays, request history, and handlebar templates, Beeceptor offers distinct advantages over WireMock Cloud. Below is a comparison table that highlights the major benefits of using Beeceptor over WireMock Cloud.
Beeceptor
WireMock Cloud
Category
Beeceptor gives you managed mock servers.
It goes beyond API Mocking and supports all kind of HTTP debugging. It gives you a server endpoint to accept HTTP requests, inspect payloads, route the requests to localhost, or a forward proxy.
It goes beyond API Mocking and supports all kind of HTTP debugging. It gives you a server endpoint to accept HTTP requests, inspect payloads, route the requests to localhost, or a forward proxy.
WireMock Cloud is a managed version of WireMock open-source.
It uses the same open source WireMock package and hosts the exact same features. It is developed by the same team. (The open-source WireMock.org is written in Java.)
It uses the same open source WireMock package and hosts the exact same features. It is developed by the same team. (The open-source WireMock.org is written in Java.)
Pricing
Free for 1500 requests/month (50 requests/day)
(Beeceptor offers almost all features in the Free plan.)
Individual: $10 for 15,000 requests/month
Team: $25 for 100,000 requests/month
(Beeceptor offers almost all features in the Free plan.)
Individual: $10 for 15,000 requests/month
Team: $25 for 100,000 requests/month
Unit: Pricing per mock-server (subdomain). Unlimited users and sharing.
WireMock Cloud is free for 1,000 requests/month
(Wiremock's Free plan is basic and not designed for complex needs.)
Team: $47 for 10,000 requests/month
Expensive Enterprise Plans
(Wiremock's Free plan is basic and not designed for complex needs.)
Expensive Enterprise Plans
OAS/Swagger Support
Beeceptor lets you upload OpenAPI specifications and instantly create AI powered mock servers with contextual test data. You can upload or import OpenAPI specs any number of times.
WireMock Cloud supports OpenAPI specifications on free and paid plans, but does not provide automated test data generation.
Management of Mocking Rules
Easy to manage mocking rules, priorities, and execution.
- Mocking rules are executed in a top-to-bottom order, where the first matching rule takes precedence.
- Easily modify the priority of rules by dragging them to the desired position.
- Temporarily disable specific rules to control execution flow.
- Audit logs: Enterprise plan comes with audit logs, which track changes made by the team on an endpoint.
In WireMock Cloud, mocking routes are referred to as stubs, serving as the primary matching criteria for incoming requests. The execution of mocking rules depends on the specified priority index for each stub.
- You need to manage priority of each stub (request path or route) from a dropdown of [1-10] values. The listing order of stubs is updated on save.
- You cannot disable a stub temporarily. Instead, you need to delete it.
- Audit logs: Ability to track changes made by the team on an API is not available with WireMock Cloud
Real time
Beeceptor gives you an engaging real time experience. You can view incoming requests and responses in real time as they happen. It uses fanout architecture to push notifications to all the consumers who are currently online.
WireMock Cloud isn't built as realtime platform. E.g. you need to go to request logs and pull updates by clicking the 'Refresh' button.
Forward Proxy
Beeceptor lets you proxy traffic to your original APIs, both at the global level and within individual mock rules.
The global proxy acts as a fallback. If no matching mock rule is found, the request automatically routes to the real API. This setup makes it easy to patch new mocks on top of existing API endpoints, giving you a partial mock experience.
The global proxy acts as a fallback. If no matching mock rule is found, the request automatically routes to the real API. This setup makes it easy to patch new mocks on top of existing API endpoints, giving you a partial mock experience.
WireMock Cloud lets you proxy traffic to the original APIs. The proxy is available at the stub level (route or mock rule).
If you want a fallback, you need to create a proxy stub with the lowest priority value and generic match.
If you want a fallback, you need to create a proxy stub with the lowest priority value and generic match.
Dynamic Mock Responses
Beeceptor supports Handlebar styled syntax for picking a request's body, headers, query parameters, etc.
Beeceptor supports the following.
- Supports parameter extraction from JSON, XML, and Form URL Encoded request payloads.
- Use FakerJS compatible syntax to generate realistic dummy data like person names, products, cities, dates, numbers, and more.
- Includes advanced features like XML payload extraction and conditional logic (
if...else,each) - Full support for string, date, math, comparison, array, and encoding operators to craft dynamic, real-world API responses.
WireMock Cloud supports Handlebar styled syntax for picking request's body, headers, query parameters, etc.
WireMock Cloud supports the following.
- Supports parameter extraction from JSON, XML and JWT payloads.
- Supports additional helpers like Base64 encode/decode, string manipulation, etc.
- Supports conditional logic helpers.
Stateful mocks
- Beeceptor maintains global state across all endpoints by default, and lets you scope data per user, session, or rule using context identifiers in the key names.
- A dedicated state management UI to easily search, debug, and edit state values in real time.
- Has REST APIs to set, reset, and bulk update state variables programmatically (ideal for CI pipelines).
- Rich Data Structures: Supports lists, objects, numbers, and strings, along with atomic numeric counters for stepwise or incremental state updates.
- WireMock isolates states by context, where each request context maintains its own instance of state values. The default context is the current rule/route.
- It manages state inside individual stubs. There is no global view or UI to inspect or modify values. You need to update via stub configuration.
- There is no API to preset, update, or manage state data externally.
- WireMock stores values as literal strings. Lacks true lists, sets or atomic counters.
CRUD Mock APIs
Beeceptor supports CRUD routes as pure REST APIs, designed with best practices. Simply define a base path like
Read the docs
/api/users, and you can push JSON objects, retrieve them, and use stateful operations with built-in sorting, filtering, and pagination.Read the docs
WireMock Cloud requires a manual and complex setup to simulate CRUD behavior. It lacks native support for filtering, sorting, or pagination, making data simulation harder to maintain.
Binary Response (File Serving)
Beeceptor supports the uploading of binary files like GZIP, PDF, MP4, etc., to mock binary API responses, facilitating effective simulation and testing of how applications process different file formats.
WireMock Cloud allows for binary content via Base64 encoding, but it requires manual conversion of the file to Base64. This encoded data must then be pasted into the mock configuration, a process that may not be intuitive.
Request Log/History
The call logs (referred as Request History) are available for 15 days with the Team plan and above.
- You can search and filter history using facets. E.g. request path, HTTP status code, text inside the request or response body, etc.
- You can download all the requests as a HAR file to visualize locally.
WireMock Cloud call logs (referred as Request Log) are available only for the recent 200 requests with all plans.
- The search and filter are basic and only work on the request path.
- You cannot download the request logs. You can review only the recent 200 requests.
Local Tunnel
Beeceptor supports local tunneling. As a developer, you can route all the incoming requests to an API service running locally on your development machine.
Read more about Local Tunnel setup.
Read more about Local Tunnel setup.
WireMock Cloud doesn't support local tunnels.
Support for HTTP/2
Beeceptor supports HTTP/2.
WireMock Cloud doesn't support HTTP/2.
White Label
Domain white labeling allows you to use your own domain while concealing Beeceptor's sub-domain/endpoint.
White Labeling is not available with Wiremock. You cannot bring your own domains with WireMock Cloud.
Support
Beeceptor provides email support with paid plans.
(Priority email support with Enterprise plan.)
(Priority email support with Enterprise plan.)
WireMock Cloud provides community support with paid plans.
(Priority email support with Enterprise plan.)
(Priority email support with Enterprise plan.)
*This comparison report evaluates the API Mocking capabilities of various services based solely on publicly available documentation. If you come across any discrepancy, please contact us at support@.
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