Insomnia

Insomnia

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About

Design, debug, and test APIs like a human, not a robot. Finally, a workflow you'll love. The Collaborative API Design Tool for designing, testing and managing OpenAPI specifications. The Desktop API client for REST and GraphQL. Make requests, inspect responses. Quickly create and group requests, specify environment variables, authentication, generate code snippets, and more. Get all the details on responses. View the whole request timeline, status codes, body, headers, cookies, and more. Create workspaces, folders, environments, drag-and-drop requests, and easily import and export your data. Create, edit, lint, debug, preview, and manage all of your OpenAPI specs in one collaborative API design editor. Generate configuration for common API gateways such as the Kong API Gateway, and Kong for Kubernetes. Sync your API designs with source control such as Github / Gitlab, and deploy directly to API Gateways such as Kong with one click.

About

The collaboration platform for API development. Simplify each step of building an API and streamline collaboration so you can create better APIs—faster. Postman is a collaboration platform for API development. Postman's features simplify each step of building an API and streamline collaboration so you can create better APIs—faster. Quickly and easily send REST, SOAP, and GraphQL requests directly within Postman. Automate manual tests and integrate them into your CI/CD pipeline to ensure that any code changes won't break the API in production. Communicate the expected behavior of an API by simulating endpoints and their responses without having to set up a backend server. Generate and publish beautiful, machine-readable documentation to make your API easier to consume. Stay up-to-date on the health of your API by checking performance and response times at scheduled intervals. Provide a shared context for building and consuming APIs, and collaborate in real-time.

Platforms Supported

Windows Supported
Mac Supported
Linux Supported
Cloud Not Supported
On-Premises Not Supported
iPhone Not Supported
iPad Not Supported
Android Not Supported
Chromebook Not Supported

Platforms Supported

Windows Supported
Mac Supported
Linux Not Supported
Cloud Supported
On-Premises Not Supported
iPhone Not Supported
iPad Not Supported
Android Not Supported
Chromebook Not Supported

Audience

Developers that design, debug, and test APIs

Audience

Organizations of all sizes

Support

Phone Support Not Supported
24/7 Live Support Not Supported
Online Supported

Support

Phone Support Not Supported
24/7 Live Support Supported
Online Supported

API

Offers API Not Supported

API

Offers API Not Supported

Screenshots and Videos

Screenshots and Videos

Pricing

$5 per month
Free Version Supported
Free Trial Not Supported

Pricing

$12 per user per month
Free Version Supported
Free Trial Supported

Reviews/Ratings

Overall 0.0 / 5
ease 0.0 / 5
features 0.0 / 5
design 0.0 / 5
support 0.0 / 5

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Reviews/Ratings

Overall 4.8 / 5
ease 4.9 / 5
features 4.8 / 5
design 4.9 / 5
support 5.0 / 5

Pros & Cons from Real Users

Pros

  • I have used Postman for more than 5 years now and never have i faced any lags or stutters in my usage, even with low end computers. Earlier it was available as only desktop application but now it is also available as web application making it more accessible and easy to use, i can login from anywhere and test my endpoints. It keeps my collection and environments saved so i wont have to worry about that also.
  • 1. The application's user interface is intuitive and easy to learn for a new user. 2. Collection and environment can be easily imported. 3. It gives detailed information about each API call with a brief response body which can also be converted into different formats like raw, text or JSON. 4. It supports dark mode which is very useful for all of us developers who likes to work late nights.
  • This is our go-to solution for API testing. It is easy to set up endpoints and save them to a shared workspace.
  • Postman is an excellent software for running APIs. Usage for me, it excelled at was running quick requests and then being able to transform the call into multiple formats. For example, by running a cURL request, you can get the NodeJS, Python, Axios code quite easily. You can also store requests in folders, something that always came in handy was Postman storing a history of previous made requests, so if you didn't save or lost a request, you could always go back to it.
  • The user interface and experience of the application is simplified and curated in such a way that all the necessary features gets highlighted on the screen. It has all the required tools to test the APIs extensively and further share or collaborate with other team members on a project. It has all the requests options for testing like, GET, POST, PUT, DELETE etc. The load time of the requests are pretty quick. All in all, a great tool to test APIs on a live server as well as in a mocking environment.

Cons

  • If you are using an free account it does not allow collaboration with many people. I can only think of this cons as of now, also, if you have a company or do serious freelance work you would have business account anyways.
  • I have faced a weird problem with Postman, sometimes when I do an API call I modify the request body and does not save it, and if I close the app and reopen it the request body and API endpoint gets replaced with some random endpoint from the collection that I am using.
  • Would like to see a better mock server implementation.
  • There are no real cons to Postman, it does its job exceptionally well with every feature.
  • For testing SOAP APIs, there are still a lot of improvements needed to be done in the application.

Training

Documentation Supported
Webinars Not Supported
Live Online Not Supported
In Person Not Supported

Training

Documentation Supported
Webinars Supported
Live Online Not Supported
In Person Supported

Company Information

Kong
insomnia.rest/

Company Information

Postman
Founded: 2014
United States
www.postman.com

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Categories

API Clients Supported
API Management Supported
API Testing Supported
Load Testing Supported

Categories

Agentic AI Supported
AI Agent Builders Supported
API Clients Supported
API Design Supported
API Documentation Supported
API Management Supported
API Monitoring Supported
API Testing Supported
Microservices Supported
Webhook Supported

API Management Features

Access Control Not Supported
Analytics Not Supported
API Design Supported
API Lifecycle Management Supported
Dashboard Not Supported
Developer Portal Not Supported
Testing Management Not Supported
Threat Protection Not Supported
Traffic Control Not Supported
Version Control Not Supported

Load Testing Features

API Load Testing Supported
Database Load Testing Not Supported
Load Test Performance Reporting Not Supported
Mail Load Testing Not Supported
Multilocation Load Testing Not Supported
Multiple Protocol Support Not Supported
Test Script Customization Not Supported
Web Application Testing Not Supported

API Management Features

Access Control Not Supported
Analytics Not Supported
API Design Supported
API Lifecycle Management Supported
Dashboard Supported
Developer Portal Not Supported
Testing Management Supported
Threat Protection Not Supported
Traffic Control Not Supported
Version Control Supported

Integrations

GitHub Supported
GitLab Supported
Hoppscotch Supported
Kasm Workspaces Supported
OpenCage Geocoding API Supported
Testfully Supported
Yaak Supported
AIMS360 Apparel Software Not Supported
AccessOwl Not Supported
Blink Not Supported
DataImpulse Not Supported
Detectnix Vision Not Supported
FutrOS Not Supported
Katalon Recorder Not Supported
Mimasa AI Not Supported
Parasoft Not Supported
RentCast Not Supported
Testable Not Supported
Wealth Reader Not Supported
Zunoy MockAPI Not Supported

Integrations

GitHub Supported
GitLab Supported
Hoppscotch Supported
Kasm Workspaces Supported
OpenCage Geocoding API Supported
Testfully Supported
Yaak Supported
AIMS360 Apparel Software Supported
AccessOwl Supported
Blink Supported
DataImpulse Supported
Detectnix Vision Supported
FutrOS Supported
Katalon Recorder Supported
Mimasa AI Supported
Parasoft Supported
RentCast Supported
Testable Supported
Wealth Reader Supported
Zunoy MockAPI Supported
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