JSONPlaceholder Alternative — Free Fake REST API | Send Web Request

JSONPlaceholder is the go-to fake REST API for prototyping — users, posts, todos, and comments you can fetch without a backend. Send Web Request offers the same kind of sample resources, plus echo, status, and delay endpoints, and a browser-based client so you can test any of them in one click. Free, CORS-open, no signup.

What is JSONPlaceholder used for?

JSONPlaceholder gives developers realistic fake data to build against before a real API exists — great for tutorials, demos, and testing fetch or axios. You GET a collection or a single record, and POST/PUT/DELETE return faked responses without persisting anything. These /mock endpoints work the same way.

Drop-in sample resources

Fetch users, posts, or todos as a collection or by id:

GET https://sendwebrequest.com/mock/users
GET https://sendwebrequest.com/mock/posts/1
GET https://sendwebrequest.com/mock/todos

Try GET /mock/posts →

Fetch posts and users

The same fetch code you'd write against JSONPlaceholder works here — just change the host:

const posts = await fetch(
  "https://sendwebrequest.com/mock/posts"
).then((r) => r.json());

const post = await fetch(
  "https://sendwebrequest.com/mock/posts/1"
).then((r) => r.json());

Try GET /mock/posts/1 →

POST, PUT, PATCH, and DELETE

Write operations return realistic responses without changing any data. POST returns your body with a new id and a 201; PUT/PATCH return a merged record; DELETE returns 200. The data resets on every request because nothing is stored.

PATCH https://sendwebrequest.com/mock/posts/1
Content-Type: application/json

{ "title": "Updated title" }

The difference: a client built in

Unlike a bare fake API, this one is paired with Send Web Request. Every endpoint has a "Try it" button that opens the request pre-filled, so you can inspect the JSON response — status, headers, and body — before writing any code, then point the same client at your real API.

Try GET /mock/users/1 →

Echo, status, and delay too

Beyond sample data, you also get an /echo endpoint that reflects your request, /status/:code to force any HTTP status, and /delay/:seconds to test loading states — the httpbin-style tools JSONPlaceholder doesn't include.

Try GET /status/404 →

Try it now

Open Send Web Request with a sample endpoint pre-filled, hit Send, and see the response instantly.

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