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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 tier

From $9 per user/month (Basic, billed annually; Professional $18, Enterprise $27)

Free tier

What 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

JavaScript
JavaScriptCodeless

Platforms

API
API

Fits teams

Solo / side projectStartupScale-up / mid-market
Solo / side projectStartupScale-up / mid-market

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.