Bruno vs Insomnia

From $6 per user/month (Pro, billed annually)

From $12 per user/month (Pro; ~17% off billed annually)

Bruno has moved off the old one-time Golden Edition to subscriptions: Pro $6 and Ultimate $11 per user/month billed annually, with a 14-day Ultimate trial. The open-source core remains free and fully functional offline.

Free for small teams; Pro lifts the user cap and adds RBAC, and Enterprise at $45 per user/month adds SSO/SCIM and Kong Konnect integration.

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

Essentials is free for up to 3 users, including local and cloud projects, CLI and 1,000 mock requests a month.

Widely used

Bruno Software · since 2023

Widely used

Kong · since 2016

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

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

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