Bruno vs Hoppscotch

From $19 per user (one-time, Golden Edition)

From $19 per user/month (indicative, team plan)

The core is free and open source. A small one-time fee unlocks convenience features; an enterprise edition exists separately.

Self-hosting the community edition is free. Paid plans add team workspaces and enterprise SSO.

The open-source app and CLI are free and fully functional offline.

Free cloud tier and a fully functional self-hosted community edition.

Widely used

Bruno Software · since 2023

Established

Hoppscotch · since 2019

• Collections live in Git, so they diff, branch and review like any other code.
• Offline-first with no forced account — a genuine compliance advantage.
• Imports Postman and Insomnia collections, making migration realistic.

• Nothing to install — genuinely useful for onboarding and for locked-down machines.
• Self-hosting is a single container, so internal deployment is trivial.
• Very light and fast.

• No built-in mock servers or monitoring; it is a client and runner, not a platform.
• Younger project with a smaller ecosystem and fewer integrations.
• Team collaboration relies on your Git workflow rather than in-app features.

• Browser CORS restrictions require a proxy or the desktop agent for many real requests.
• Fewer advanced testing and mocking features than Postman.
• Smaller community.

Engineering teams that want API tests versioned alongside the code they test.

Teams that want a self-hosted, no-install internal API client.