HTTPie, Inc.
Making APIs simple and intuitive for those building the tools, apps, and technologies of our time. HTTPie aims to create a human-centric yet powerful product that helps developers and teams throughout the API lifecycle.
Founding Story
HTTPie began in 2012 as an open-source CLI tool created by Jakub Roztocil to solve inefficiencies in API testing. The first public release was published on February 25, 2012, from Copenhagen. The CLI tool became one of the top projects on GitHub with over 47,000 stars. In 2020, HTTPie Inc. was founded to build upon this success by creating a collaborative platform for API development that utilizes artificial intelligence, expanding beyond the terminal to web and desktop applications.
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Leadership
Founders
Jakub Roztocil
CTO & Co-founder at Enjoy Prague (2018-2020), CTO & Co-founder at Homewings, Self Employed at Subtle Apps (2005-2020), worked at Opbeat helping transition the core codebase from MVP to production-ready quality. Attended Charles University and Copenhagen University. Based in Prague with 14 years of experience building developer tools and consumer web products.
Executive Team
Jakub Roztocil
Founder & CEO
Software engineer and founder with 14 years of experience building developer tools and consumer web products. Previously CTO & Co-founder at Enjoy Prague and Homewings.
Claudia Delgado
Product Manager
Product management professional who has worked with HTTPie. Previously held product management roles at other companies.
Business Model
Revenue Model
Freemium SaaS model with API usage and subscriptions. Free tier available for HTTPie CLI (open source) and HTTPie Web & Desktop with basic features. Paid plans for teams and enterprises with collaboration features, advanced functionality, and support.
Pricing Tiers
HTTPie CLI is fully open source and free. HTTPie for Web & Desktop offers a free tier for individual use with core features, incognito mode, and AI assistant (during preview).
Paid plans available for teams with collaboration features, real-time sync, spaces, collections, and enhanced support.
Enterprise plan with unlimited private APIs, single sign-on, advanced security, and dedicated customer success.
Target Markets
- Software developers and engineers
- API developers and testers
- DevOps and infrastructure teams
- Backend engineers
- Full-stack developers
- QA and testing professionals
- Testing and debugging REST APIs
- Testing GraphQL APIs
- Interacting with HTTP servers and web services
- API development and prototyping
- Command-line API testing and automation
- Team collaboration on API projects
History & Milestones
Released version 2025.1.0 with UI refresh and IDE-like features
Released version 2025.2.0 with export/import system and path parameters
Launched HTTPie AI assistant as first API testing platform with AI capabilities
Released HTTPie for Terminal 3.0 with nested JSON, plugin manager, and major performance improvements
Lost 54,000 GitHub stars due to accidental repository privacy change, recovered to ~23,000 by August 2022
