Insomnia vs Apidog

From $12 per user/month (indicative)

From $9 per user/month (indicative)

Free for solo use; paid tiers add collaboration, cloud sync and enterprise controls.

Priced noticeably below Postman for comparable team functionality.

Free plan for individuals with local storage.

Free plan for small teams with core design, mock and test features.

Widely used

Kong · since 2016

Established

Apidog · since 2022

• Noticeably faster and lighter than Postman for everyday request work.
• Best-in-class GraphQL and gRPC ergonomics.
• Design-first OpenAPI workflow with linting built in.

• Schema-driven mocks and assertions stay correct as the API definition changes.
• Meaningfully cheaper than Postman for equivalent team features.
• One tool instead of three for design, mocking and documentation.

• A forced-account change in 2023 damaged trust; check the current model before standardising on it.
• Test scripting is less capable than Postman's.
• Smaller ecosystem of shared collections.

• Younger vendor with a smaller community and fewer third-party integrations.
• Data residency and cloud storage need checking for regulated environments.
• Documentation quality is uneven in places.

Developers who mainly want a fast client with excellent GraphQL support.

Teams doing design-first API development who want mocks and docs generated from the spec.