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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.

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01 · 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.

Fewer trackers than InsomniaNo ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree plan

6 of the 60 sites closest to Insomnia match.

  1. 01
    GitHub github.com Top 100 English Free plan 2 trackers

    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.

    Compare GitHub with Insomnia →
  2. 02
    GitLab gitlab.com Top 1K English Free plan 2 trackers

    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.

    Compare GitLab with Insomnia →
  3. 03
    Retool retool.com English Free plan 2 trackers

    Build internal software better, with AI. | Retool

    Build, deploy, and manage internal tools with Retool's unified engine. Connect to any database, API, or LLM. Leverage AI throughout your business.

    Compare Retool with Insomnia →
  4. 04
    Cursor cursor.com Top 10K English Free plan 2 trackers

    AI Coding Agent for Building Ambitious Software | Cursor

    Built to make you extraordinarily productive, agents turn ideas into code. Accelerate development by handing off tasks to Cursor.

    Compare Cursor with Insomnia →
  5. 05
    Ably ably.com English Free plan 2 trackers

    Ably | Realtime platform for chat, AI and live apps at scale

    Ably is the realtime platform built for scale and reliability. Power live chat, messaging, collaborative apps, and AI experiences that never drop.

    Compare Ably with Insomnia →
  6. 06
    Netlify netlify.com Top 10K English Free plan 2 trackers

    Push your ideas to the web | Netlify

    Create with AI or code, deploy instantly on production infrastructure. One platform to build and ship.

    Compare Netlify with Insomnia →

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 = 60
Sites searched
9,216
Vector
384-d
Query
92 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.

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JavaScript frameworks
  • Next.js page source: /_next/static/
  • React implied by Next.js (page source: /_next/static/)
CSS & UI
Fonts
Analytics
  • Segment page source: cdn.segment.com/analytics.js
Tag managers
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
Email delivery
  • Mailgun TXT v=spf1 a mx include:helpscoutemail.com include:mailgun.org include:_s…
DNS hosting
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…