Bruno vs REST Assured

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

Free and open source

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

Free and open source. You pay in engineering time and CI minutes.

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

Everything, self-hosted

Widely used

Bruno Software · since 2023

Widely used

OSS community · since 2010

• 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.

• API tests live in the codebase, versioned and reviewed with the service.
• Readable given/when/then chains that map directly onto HTTP semantics.
• Full access to Java for setup, data and assertions.

• 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.

• Java only, and requires developers rather than manual testers.
• No GUI, so exploratory request work needs a separate client.
• Verbose for very large payload assertions.

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

JVM teams that want API tests in the same repository as the service.