insomnia.rest
Insomnia
Who runs Insomnia, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest API development tools alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Hoppscotch
Measured from Insomnia’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Insomnia01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Insomnia
Insomnia insomnia.rest
Leading Open Source API Development Platform for HTTP, REST, GraphQL, gRPC, SOAP, and WebSockets
Wikidata: Open-source desktop application for designing, testing, and debugging APIs.
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
02 · Privacy
What Insomnia tracks
What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.
trackers that follow visitors
18 of the 19 alternatives below have fewer, 1 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 3 tools
Visitor analytics
Counts and follows visits, usually with cookies.
A/B testing
Shows visitors different versions of the page to see which works better.
Tag manager
Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.
Third-party embeds
Videos, maps or fonts from other companies, which receive the visitor’s IP address.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Insomnia
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Insomnia, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
Hoppscotch • Open source API development ecosystem
Helps you create requests faster, saving precious time on development.
Very close - 02
API development platform
Very close - 03
HTTPie – API testing client that flows with you
Making APIs simple and intuitive for those building the tools of our time.
Very close - 04
API Documentation & Design Tools for Teams | Swagger
Simplify API development for users, teams, and enterprises with our open source and professional toolset. Findogut how Swagger can help you and get started today.
Very close - 05
Kong, The AI Connectivity Company | Kong Inc.
From APIs to AI, Kong is the fabric of modern connectivity. Centralize LLM access, automate API workflows, and secure your digital ecosystem at scale.
Very close - 06
Penpot: The open-source design platform for teams.
Penpot is the open-source design platform for teams building digital products at scale, enabling deeper collaboration across design, code, and AI workflows.
Very close - 07
ReadMe · Developer-friendly API documentation
ReadMe helps you create beautiful, interactive API documentation that developers love.
Very close - 08
API Management Platform & API Gateway | Tyk.io
Our API Management platform is fast, scalable, modern. Including an open source API Gateway, Analytics, Dev Portal and Dashboard
Very close - 09
Podman
daemonless OCI-compliant container runtime
Very close - 10
Devin Desktop | Devin
Manage any agent, locally or in the cloud, from one command center. Plan, review, and ship with a team of agents.
Very close - 11
CodeSandbox: Instant Cloud Development Environments
CodeSandbox is a cloud development platform that empowers developers to code, collaborate and ship projects of any size from any device in record time.
Very close - 12
The infrastructure as code platform for the AI era – Pulumi
Pulumi is an open-source infrastructure as code platform that helps humans and agents build and manage cloud infrastructure with real programming languages.
Very close - 13
Aider - AI Pair Programming in Your Terminal
Very close - 14
No-code open source database & application builder | Baserow
Discover Baserow, the open-source no-code platform for building databases and applications. No code or technical skills needed. Start creating for free today!
Very close - 15
GitHub · Change is constant. GitHub keeps you ahead. · GitHub · GitHub
Join the world's most widely adopted, AI-powered developer platform where millions of developers, businesses, and the largest open source community build software that advances humanity.
Very close - 16
GitLab - Speed with control for agentic software engineering
Teams and agents ship trusted software faster with GitLab, the intelligent orchestration platform with context and governance for the entire software lifecycle.
Very close - 17
JetBrains: Essential tools for software developers and teams
JetBrains is a cutting-edge software vendor specializing in the creation of intelligent development tools, including IntelliJ IDEA – the leading Java IDE, and the Kotlin programming language.
Very close - 18
Cline - AI Coding, Open Source and Open Choice
Open-source AI coding agent with Plan/Act modes, MCP integration, and terminal-first workflows. Trusted by 11M+ developers worldwide.
Very close - 19
Unified Control Plane for APIs, Models, and Agents | Traefik Labs
Eliminate fragmentation and unify governance for any workload, anywhere. Traefik is sovereign-by-design, infra-as-code, composable, and memory safe.
Very close - 20
Doxygen homepage
Source code documentation and analysis tool
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Insomnia’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Insomnia uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Insomnia adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 15 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 25 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Insomnia’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- JavaScript frameworks
- CSS & UI
- Tailwind CSS page source: --tw-bg-opacity:
- Fonts
- Google Fonts asset https://fonts.googleapis.com/
- Analytics
- Segment page source: cdn.segment.com/analytics.js
- Tag managers
- Adobe Experience Platform Tags asset https://assets.adobedtm.com/8f6dec44d586/37068a12532a/launch-df697a3d1042.min.js
- A/B testing
- VWO page source: window._vwo_code
- Payments
- Stripe TXT stripe-verification=214c00ac873586bfec05117bd0f24bc544f652918f3e5a744…
- Hosting
- Vercel header x-vercel-id: fra1::rx9x8-1794174708396-b959e7dbcc55
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms56058098
- Email delivery
- Mailgun TXT v=spf1 a mx include:helpscoutemail.com include:mailgun.org include:_s…
- DNS hosting
- Google Cloud DNS NS ns-cloud-e4.googledomains.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=OBANkJdEVZoshfD-9VyRcjRKjzlt6TVeovf2lJH4hsE
- Salesforce TXT v=spf1 a mx include:helpscoutemail.com include:mailgun.org include:_s…
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 18/20
- Google Workspace 15/20
- Microsoft 365 9/20
- Cloudflare · not on insomnia.rest 8/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on insomnia.rest 8/20
- Next.js 8/20
- React 8/20
- Vercel 7/20
- OpenAI · not on insomnia.rest 6/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on insomnia.rest 6/20
- Stripe 6/20
- Zendesk · not on insomnia.rest 6/20
- Apple Business · not on insomnia.rest 5/20
- Atlassian · not on insomnia.rest 5/20
- DocuSign · not on insomnia.rest 5/20
- Mailchimp · not on insomnia.rest 5/20