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24 alternatives to Sandbox – instantly mock REST and SOAP web services

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Sandbox is a tool for creating mock REST and SOAP web services instantly. It allows developers to simulate web service endpoints without building full backend infrastructure, useful for testing and development… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Sandbox – instantly mock REST and SOAP web services launched in 2014; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    I was inspired to make a web based ants simulator after watching this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81GQNPJip2Y Any feedback appreciated. Best viewed on Chromium based browsers. Firefox is slow for some reason and Safari is not tested as I don't have a Mac.

    2022 · ants-sandbox.io · its alternatives →

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    Endpoints.dev is for sale on Spaceship. Secure checkout and quick transfer. See all purchase options. No hidden fees.

    2020 · endpoints.dev · its alternatives →

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    Toolkit for building live coding experiences in browser

    2021 · sandpack.codesandbox.io · its alternatives →

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    I built this because I was always creating machines on GH actions to test builds on different OS, and I wanted a tight CLI that could do it. I always saw Actions as this great resources and ephemeral machines you could do dev work in just were a natural way for me to work, so this grew out of that workflow. I didn't expect it to blow up, so it wasn't 100% finished when I posted it. But it should stabilize pretty quickly. Happy to know what you think and talk about it.

    May 2026 · ghost.charity · its alternatives →

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    Beautiful, cross-platform & open-source tools for debugging, testing and building with HTTP(S), on Windows, Linux & Mac.

    2019 · httptoolkit.tech · its alternatives →

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    Mockoon is the easiest and quickest way to run mock REST API servers. No remote deployment, no account required, free, open source and cross-platform.

    2017 · mockoon.com · its alternatives →

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    WASM sandbox for running LLM-generated code safely. Agents get a bash-like shell and can only call tools you provide, with constraints you define. No Docker, no subprocess, no SaaS — just pip install amla-sandbox

    Jan 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN! Sina here. i wanted to share this open source project (apache 2.0) that i've been working on for the past month or so. it's called hotcell and it lets you create/pause/manage sandboxes on any device (your laptop, linux vm, bare metal). i've tested it against various benchmarks that i found on computesdk (https://www.computesdk.com/benchmarks/sandboxes/) as well as the one shared by dax (cofounder of open code) on twitter recently (link to his original thread and my reply https://x.com/sinasanm/status/2078158598996443346) and…

    Aug 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Decoy▲99

    Decoy lets developers create mock services locally on macOS. Test webhooks, API wrappers, scrapers and more. No Docker, no Electron, just a beautiful 10 MB native app.

    Mar 2026 · decoy-app.com · its alternatives →

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    A HTTP-based API simulator to assist parallel development 🛠️

    2018 · mocklets.com · its alternatives →

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    A self-hostable Wasm sandbox for JavaScript workers.

    Jun 2026 · kyushu.dev · its alternatives →

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    Mockable▲114

    For rapid API prototyping: create REST/SOAP mocks in 3 sec

    2015 · its alternatives →

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    Fake server, Consumer Driven Contracts and help with testing performance from one configuration file with zero system dependencies and no coding whatsoever - quii/mockingjay-server

    2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Spawn sandboxes at the speed of natural language. Pause, resume, and snapshot the full state of an agent’s workspace — filesystem, processes, memory — and pick up later without losing context.

    May 2026 · anyframe.dev · its alternatives →

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    CodeSandbox is a cloud development platform that empowers developers to code, collaborate and ship projects of any size from any device in record time.

    2017 · codesandbox.io · its alternatives →

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    Chunk co-founder here. We spent the last 2 weeks building this to scratch our own itch: As developers, we often have problems that could be solved just by running a few lines of code. Sometimes, running this code on your local machine is fine. But other time, the code need to run automatically reacting to external events or to run continuously, which means, it needs to run on a server somewhere. So now, you have to find a cloud provider, to package or build the code and finally to deploy it. All of that for what could be literally be 4 lines of code. We couldn’t find an easier way to do…

    2022 · chunk.run · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, I built the first version of Mocktail years ago. I recently came back to the project, and after a pretty substantial rebuild, v4 is now out. Mocktail is a free and open-source, self-hosted mock API server with a built-in dashboard and database, packaged as a single ~25 MB binary. You can run it locally or on your own infrastructure — no account or hosted service required. You can define endpoints and responses, generate realistic data per request, customize headers, status codes and latency, and inspect incoming requests in real time. With v4, I also added MCP support, so coding…

    Aug 2026 · getmocktail.com · its alternatives →

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    Mockoon▲89

    Mock servers in seconds

    2017 · mockoon.com · its alternatives →

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    Run and test your HTTP requests. Git friendly, 100% local. - 4lejandrito/fetchbook

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Apidojo▲76

    Effortlessly sandbox any REST API on local dev environment

    2023 · apidojo.com · its alternatives →

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    We’ve been working with automating coding agents in sandboxes as of late. It’s bewildering how poorly standardized and difficult to use each agent varies between each other. We open-sourced the Sandbox Agent SDK based on tools we built internally to solve 3 problems: 1. Universal agent API: interact with any coding agent using the same API 2. Running agents inside the sandbox: Agent Sandbox provides a Rust binary that serves the universal agent API over HTTP, instead of having to futz with undocumented interfaces 3. Universal session schema: persisting sessions is always problematic, since…

    Jan 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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