SuperTest vs Bruno

Free and open source

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

Free and open source. You pay in engineering time and CI minutes.

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.

Everything, self-hosted

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

Widely used

OSS community · since 2014

Widely used

Bruno Software · since 2023

• Fast: no network, no separate server process, no port conflicts in CI.
• Tiny API you can learn in ten minutes.
• Works with whichever runner you already use.

• 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.

• Node.js only, and only for services you host yourself.
• In-process testing skips the real network stack, proxies and load balancer.
• No environment management or collection concept for cross-service flows.

• 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.

Node.js API projects testing their own routes in the unit/integration layer.

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