Insomnia vs Apidog
Feature checklists rarely decide anything. What decides it is the pricing metric, who has to write the tests, and which limitation you can live with.
Entry price
From $12 per user/month (Pro; ~17% off billed annually)
Free tierFrom $9 per user/month (Basic, billed annually; Professional $18, Enterprise $27)
Free tierWhat drives the bill
The metric that actually scales your invoice.
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.
Priced noticeably below Postman for comparable team functionality.
Free tier
Essentials is free for up to 3 users, including local and cloud projects, CLI and 1,000 mock requests a month.
Free plan for small teams with core design, mock and test features.
Open source
Apache-2.0
Self-hostable
No-code authoring
Languages
Platforms
Fits teams
Adoption
Widely used
Kong · since 2016
Established
Apidog · since 2022
Strengths
- 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.
Limitations
- 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.
Best for
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.
All of these integrate with: OpenAPI.
Pricing last reviewed August 2026 and is indicative only — confirm on each vendor’s own page.