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IBM - API Connect vs Insomnia REST Client: What are the differences?
IBM - API Connect: A comprehensive API management solution for your entire API lifecycle from creation to management. A comprehensive API management solution for your entire API lifecycle from creation to management; Insomnia REST Client: The most intuitive cross-platform REST API Client 😴. Insomnia is a powerful REST API Client with cookie management, environment variables, code generation, and authentication for Mac, Window, and Linux.
IBM - API Connect and Insomnia REST Client can be primarily classified as "API" tools.
Some of the features offered by IBM - API Connect are:
- Create scalable and secure APIs for application servers, databases, enterprise service buses (ESB) and mainframes
- Manage—create and manage portals that allow developers to quickly discover and consume APIs and securely access enterprise data, and monitor APIs to improve performance.
- Secure—Administrators can manage security and governance over APIs and the microservices. IT can set and enforce API policies to secure back-end information assets and comply with governance and regulatory mandates.
On the other hand, Insomnia REST Client provides the following key features:
- Mac, Windows and Linux
- Data import/export
- SSL client certificates
"Innovated Approach, Super customer support" is the primary reason why developers consider IBM - API Connect over the competitors, whereas "Easy to work with" was stated as the key factor in picking Insomnia REST Client.
Insomnia REST Client is an open source tool with 10.2K GitHub stars and 590 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Insomnia REST Client's open source repository on GitHub.
Postman supports automation and organization in a way that Insomnia just doesn't. Admittedly, Insomnia makes it slightly easy to query the data that you get back (in a very MongoDB-esque query language) but Postman sets you up to develop the code that you would use in development/testing right in the editor.
Pros of IBM API Connect
- Innovated Approach, Super customer support6
- Secure API Management2
Pros of Insomnia REST Client
- Easy to work with16
- Great user interface11
- Works with GraphQL6
- Cross platform, available for Mac, Windows, and Linux4
- Opensource3
- Vim and Emacs key map2
- Preserves request templates2
- Does not have history feature0
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Cons of IBM API Connect
- Not open, no community research. No Trial download2
Cons of Insomnia REST Client
- Do not have team sharing options4
- Do not store credentials in HTTP2
