Hoppscotch vs Bruno

From $6 per user/month (Organization, billed annually; 25% more monthly)

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

Self-hosting the community edition is free. The Organization plan adds an admin dashboard and vendor support; the self-hosted Enterprise edition is quote-based.

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

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

Established

Hoppscotch · since 2019

Widely used

Bruno Software · since 2023

• 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.

• 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.

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

• 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.

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

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