Apidog vs Insomnia

From $9 per user/month (indicative)

From $12 per user/month (indicative)

Priced noticeably below Postman for comparable team functionality.

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

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

Free plan for individuals with local storage.

Established

Apidog · since 2022

Widely used

Kong · since 2016

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

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

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