Quick Answer
Beeceptor is a popular mock API tool with a hard limit: 50 requests per day on the free tier. Fine for demos, unusable for any real integration test loop. Requex.me has no request cap on the free tier — mock APIs with unlimited calls, plus auth simulation, conditional responses, and team-shareable URLs.
Beeceptor Alternative — No Request Cap
Beeceptor makes it easy to spin up a mock endpoint. The catch: 50 free requests per day. Integration tests, CI, polling clients — they all blow through that budget in minutes. Here is a version without the cap.
The 50-Request Limit in Practice
A single Playwright end-to-end suite might hit your mock 100+ times. A polling dashboard hitting once per minute uses 1,440 requests per day. Your CI job that ran yesterday already used 40 requests, so today starts at 10 remaining. Free-tier Beeceptor becomes a full-time babysit.
Once you hit the cap, Beeceptor returns 429 on subsequent requests until the daily reset. Tests fail. Team asks why. You upgrade to paid ($10/mo for 5,000 requests) or look for an alternative.
Feature Comparison
| Feature | Beeceptor Free | Requex.me |
|---|---|---|
| Daily request limit | 50 | Unlimited |
| Endpoints | 1 active | Multiple mock servers, multiple routes each |
| Auth simulation | Via rules | Built-in (Bearer, HMAC, API key, Basic) |
| Conditional responses | Rules engine | UI condition builder |
| Retention | Until inactive 14 days | Persistent |
| Paid plan | $10+/mo for real usage | Free |
When Beeceptor Still Wins
- You want a custom subdomain (
mysite.free.beeceptor.com) - You need their proxy / response rewriting features
- You only do 10–20 requests a day and the 50-req limit never triggers
Switching from Beeceptor
- Sign in to Requex.me and create a mock server
- Add routes matching your Beeceptor endpoint paths
- Copy response bodies and status codes from Beeceptor rules
- Update your test config / frontend
API_URLto the Requex mock URL - Run your test suite at full volume — no 429
FAQ
Is Requex really unlimited?
Yes. No daily cap, no per-endpoint cap. Fair-use abuse protection exists but does not affect normal development or CI use.
Will my Requex URL change?
No. Each mock server has a stable ID that persists. Your https://requex.me/mock/{id}/... URL never rotates.
Does Requex support Beeceptor's rules engine?
Requex has a UI condition builder — match on query params, headers, body fields, or path parameters, with operators (equals, contains, regex, exists, etc.). Covers the same use cases without the YAML/JSON rule editor.